Meeting Agenda

Wednesday, April 2^nd, 1997

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

13:30

Chair:

Stephen Mann

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour this week:

Jerry Huang

Coffee hour next week: (4/11)

Volunteers?

3. Next meeting

Date:

April 9^th, 1997

Location:

DC 2303

Time:

13:30

Chair:

Richard Bartels

Technical presentation:

Joshua Lall, Grand River Hospital, Augmentative Alternative Communication Clinic

4. Forthcoming

Chairs:

1. Michael McCool (4/16)
2. Adarsh Mehta (4/23)
3. Ashaf Micheil (4/30)

Tech Presenters:

1. Léo Magalhães (4/16)
2. Michael McCool (4/23)
3. Adarsh Mehta (4/30)
4. Marryat Ma (5/7)

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Stephen Mann, smann@cgl.uwaterloo.ca

Title:

Writing Your Thesis

Abstract:

I will discuss some errors in writing that I commonly find when reading theses and disserations.

6.General Discussion Items

• Duties of the chair:
• See the web page
• Create agenda
• Memberlist for attendence -- now on web page
• Create minutes
• Send email to next chair
• GI '97 will be held in Kelowna, British Columbia from May 21 to May 23.

  Flights:

  • Greyhound from Toronto: May 20, 8 AM (arrive at 10:55 AM)
    Return May 23, 12:45 PM (arrive at 9:05 PM) (you would have to miss the last talk or two to catch this flight).
    Total fare: $340.26
    
  • Greyhound from Hamilton: Same as from Toronto, but only $324.26
  • Standard fare: Depart May 20 return Sunday, May 25: $349+
    Depart May 20 return Friday, May 23: $2134+
  Note on Greyhound fares: These were the prices if booked by March 31. Prices may be higher when booked in April (I think the Hamilton flight will be $360.19).

7. Action List

• CGL Photo
• University of Toronto visit: Navid Sadikali.
The visit will be on Saturday, April 5^th, 1997. Tentative Agenda (talks in DC 1304):
• 12:30 Arrive in CGL (DC 2303)
• 1:00 Elizabeth Olds, Modeling the User: Human information processing and the perception of graphic displays
• 1:30 Michael McCool, Polyhedral Splines and Convolution Surfaces
• 2:00 Wilkin Chau , Interpolation Based Sampling for Printer Calibration
• 2:30 Matthew Davidchuk, A Hybrid Triangular Bezier Patch Scheme
• 3:00 Coffee Break in CGL (DC 2303)
• 3:30 Richard Bartels, Towards a Generic Editor for Subdivision Surfaces
• 4:00 Ryan Gunther, Examining Sound as a Navigational Aid in Virtual Environments
• 4:30 William Cowan, Generating Complicated BRDFs from Models with Simple BRDFs
• 5:15 Walk over to Caravan Cafe for Dinner

8. Director's Meeting

9. Seminars

• Faculty Applicant: Nicholas Graham, Computer Science, York University,
  ``Clock: Software Architecture for Synchronous Groupware Systems'',
  Wednesday, April 2, 1997, 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.; DC1304
• Distributed Systems Seminar: Gerald W. Neufeld, University of B.C.
  ``Sparse Multicast Groups Within the Internet''
  Thursday, April 3, 1997, 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.; DC1304
• Masters Thesis Presentation: Jacky Tang,
  ``Automatic Surface Triangular Mesh Refinement of Composite Polyhedra,''
  Friday, April 4, 1997, 11:00 am - 12:00 noon; DC1304
• Masters Essay Presentation: Jennifer Hamilton,
  ``Montana Smart Pointers: They're Smart and They're Pointers.''
  Friday, April 4, 1997, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.; DC1331
• Database Seminar/Master's Essay Presentation: James Hamilton,
  ``Database Technology Arrives on the Client System''.
  Friday, April 4, 1997, 2:00-3:00 p.m., DC 1331.
• Faculty Applicant: Computer Science Seminar Evgenia Smirni, Computer Science, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  ``Input/Output of Scalable Parallel Applications: Problems and Solutions,''
  Monday, April 7, 1997, 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.; DC1304
• Master's Thesis Presentation Seminar: Anthony (Tony) Cox,
  ``Simulated Overloading Using Generic Functions in Scheme,''
  Wednesday, April 9, 1997, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon, DC 1302.
• Faculty Applicant: Neal Lesh, Computer Science - University of Washington - Seattle,
  ``Scalable and Adaptive Goal Recognition,''
  Monday, April 14, 1997, 10:30 - 11:30 a.m., in DC1304.

10. Lab Cleanup (until 15:30 or 5 minutes)

Also, there should be another cleanup after Coffee Hour on Friday.