CGL Meeting Agenda - 1999.07.21

July 21, 1999


Location:
DC1304
Time:
10:30 a.m.
Chair: Erik Demaine :-)

Member List

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour this week:
Ready volunteers?
Coffee hour next week:
Unready volunteers?

3. Next meeting

Date:
Wednesday, July 28, 1999.
Location:
DC1304
Time:
10:30 a.m. (yes, it's changed)
Chair:
Margaret Dulat :-)
Technical presentation:
Erik Demaine :-)

4. Forthcoming

Chair:
  1. Margaret Dulat (July 28th) :-)
  2. Teresa Ge (August 4th) :-)
  3. Patrick Gilhuly (August 11th) :-)
Tech Presenters:
  1. Erik Demaine (July 28) :-)
  2. Margaret Dulat (August 4th) :-)
  3. Teresa Ge (August 11th) :-)
  4. Patrick Gilhuly (August 19th) :-)

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:
Rojia Dadashzadeh :-)
Title:
The Great Mystery
Abstract:
In this talk, I will describe lots of things that you will find interesting, stimulating, and humorous. But I don't want to spoil the surprise--you'll have to come and see! (Details in the minutes.)

6. General Discussion Items

Viet-Tam Luu:
CGL needs new PC person to keep Intel boxes from falling apart.

Blair Conrad:
http://www.thehungersite.com allows viewers to make a free donation of food to the United Nations World Food Program once per day. The donation is paid for by a sponsor (whose name will be displayed).

Erik Demaine:
Reminder of what's involved as a chair.

7. Action List

8. Director's Meeting

9. Seminars

Wednesday, July 21, 1999

2:00 p.m., DC 1304
Claude-Pierre Jeannerod, "Perturbed matrix polynomials: Application of valuation profile reduced forms"
Symbolic Computation Seminar

Thursday, July 22, 1999

10:30 a.m., MC 5158
Moulay Barkatou, "On the Equivalence of Linear Difference Systems and Factorization of Completely Reducible Systems"
Symbolic Computation Seminar

2:00 p.m., DC 1304
Eugene Zima, "How fast can we compute products?"
Symbolic Computation Seminar

3:30 p.m., MC 5158
Dr. Vern Farewell, "A Study of the Relationship Between Human Factors and Outcome in Cardiac Surgery"
Statistics & Actuarial Science

4:00 p.m., DC 1302
Steven Mann, "Eye am a Camera: Mediated Reality, WearComp, and the EyeTap Camera"
CS grad celebrity series; ICR

Friday, July 23, 1999

10:00 a.m., DC 1304
Igor Benko, "ECF Processes and Asynchronous Circuit Design"
PhD defense (supervisor: Jo Ebergen)

10. Lab Cleanup