Meeting Agenda
Wednesday, 22 November 1995
- Location:
- DC 1304
- Time:
- 1:30 PM
- Chair:
- Ian Bell
1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions
2. Coffee Hour
- Coffee hour this week:
- Julie and Andrew
-
- Coffee hour next week:
- ???
3. Next week's meeting
- Date:
- 29 November 1995
- Location:
- DC 1304
- Time:
- 1:30 PM
- Chair:
- Leith Chan
- Technical presentation:
- Richard Bartels
4. Forthcoming
- Chairs:
- Leo Chan
- Stewart Chao
- Wilkin Chau
- Ada Cheung
- Tech Presenters:
- John Beatty
- Ian Bell
- Leith Chan
- Leo Chan
5. Technical Presentation
- Presenter:
- Raymond Yiu
Title:
??? Programming
Abstract:
???
6. General Discussion Items
Anne Jenson:
How about Wed, Dec 6 for the CGL Xmas party?
7. Action List
-
Rob will co-ordinate the next UofT visit (they come here).
A proposal for February visit will be made.
8. Director's Meeting
There was none.
9. Seminars
Gray Matter
by
Chris Gray, President of Gray Matter
Overview
Do you like Video Games? Do you like Pizza? Would you like a
job someday?
Come and learn about Gray Matter, Canada's largest independent video
game software developer. With a staff of over 65 programmers,
producers and artists, Gray Matter has sold over 3 million games
worldwide.
At this presentation, you will meet the president of Gray Matter,
Chris Gray. He'll be talking about his company, and employment
prospects there.
Wed 22nd, 1995
4:30 pm
MC 4058
THE PURE MATH CLUB
presents
PROF. DAVID JACKSON
speaking on
GRAPHS, SURFACES, and PHYSICS
There is an apparently simple question about graphs drawn on a surface
(sphere, torus, double torus, etc.) so that
i) edges meet only at vertices (they do not cross)
ii) deletion of the edges decomposes the surface into discs.
The question is:
How many such structures are there with a given number of
vertices, edges, and faces (the dics in the above deletion)?
This seemingly easy question touches on some nice combinatorial and
algebraic ideas, and is related to the material on strings in the later
part of Hawking's book "A Brief History of Time". Indeed, this is a
question that requires a good deal of classical mathematics and stands
at the meeting point of these areas.
This talk will sketch out how it is that such a structure can lead to
algebraic ideas and to integration over random matrices and will tell
a little bit about how the desired information can be extracted.
ALL ARE WELCOME!
Wednesday, November 22, 4:30 p.m.
MC 2036
The Internet:
A Corporate Approach to a New Medium
by
Klaus Doose and Frank Juhasz
of ROGERS Communications Inc.
Abstract
The Internet has been a hot topic in the media for over a year now.
Come to this talk to hear one view of how a leading communications company
is approaching those new opportunities. This presentation will cover the
three major types of content: providing information, service provision, and
transaction facilitation.
Rogers Communications is a leading information provider in the cable
industry, with over one third of the cable market.
Thursday, November 23, 1995
4:30 pm
MC 4020
The Institute for Computer Research (ICR)
and
The Centre for Advanced Studies in Finance
Present a Colloquium on
"Finance to Physics"
by: Dr. Joseph F. Traub
of: Department of Computer Science
Columbia University
Date: Thursday, November 30, 1995
Time: 3:30 pm.
Place: William G. Davis Computer Research Centre, Room 1302
Abstract:
The talk will consist of three parts. Some recent results and
open problems in information-based complexity will be described.
Some of the results will be applied to the valuation of financial
derivatives, an important topic in mathematical finance. The fi-
nal part of the talk considers whether it is possible to move
from limitative results in formal systems (Goedel, Turing, Cook,
...) to limits in empirical science. Are there provable limits
to what is knowable in physics and, more generally, in science?
_________________
Joseph Traub is the Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer
Science at Columbia University and on the external faculty of the
Santa Fe Institute. Previously, he was Head of the Computer Sci-
ence Department at Carnegie-Mellon University. He started
research in what is now called information-based complexity in
1959.
Everyone is welcome. Refreshments served.
The University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue
Waterloo, Ontario
The Institute for Computer Research (ICR)
Presents an Evening Lecture Series on
"Using the Internet as a Parallel Computer"
by: Dr. Kenneth Salem
of: Department of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Date: Monday, November 27, 1995
Time: 8:00 pm.
Place: William G. Davis Computer Research Centre, Room 1302
Abstract:
The Internet is a vast and powerful collection of resources. It
serves as a communications system and as an information reposito-
ry. It can also be viewed as a computer consisting of millions
of interconnected, autonomous computers capable of operating in
parallel. The question is, can this computer, or a portion of
it, be programmed and used to solve real problems? Can its com-
putational power be tapped?
This talk presents some of the practical problems of computing on
the Internet. It describes some of the existing tools, such as
PVM and Condor, that support computing on clusters of intercon-
nected workstations. For a variety of reasons, such clusters
tend to be relatively small. It also describes the Distributed
Batch Controller (DBC), a tool designed to support data process-
ing on a larger scale. The DBC combines independent clusters
into a loose federation which can then be used as a powerful data
processing engine.
___________
Kenneth Salem is a member of the faculty of the University of
Waterloo in the Department of Computer Science. He joined the
department in 1994, after spending a year there as a visitor. He
has also been a member of the faculty of the University of Mary-
land in its Department of Computer Science, and a staff scientist
at CESDIS, NASA's Center of Excellence in Space Data and Informa-
tion Sciences. His research interests are in the areas of data
management and operating systems. Dr. Salem received his BSc in
electrical engineering and applied mathematics from Carnegie-
Mellon University in 1983, and his PhD in computer science from
Princeton University in 1989.
Everyone is welcome. Refreshments served.
Java, SGML, and the Metamedia Project
by
Prof. Michael McCool
Tuesday, November 28, 1995
4:30 pm
MC 4060
10. Lab Cleanup (until 2:30 or 5 minutes)