Meeting Agenda- 1999.09.29

September 29, 1999

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair: Vincent Ma 

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour this week:

Celine

Coffee hour next week:

??

3. Next meeting

Date:

Wednesday, October 6th, 1999.

Location:

DC1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Michael McCool

Technical presentation:

Vincent Ma

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

1. Joanne McKinley (October 13th)
2. Jasmin Patry (October 20th)
3. Pascale Proulx (October 27th)

Tech Presenters:

1. Michael McCool (October 13th)
2. Joanne McKinley (October 20th)
3. Jasmin Patry (October 27th) 

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Marryat Ma 

Title:

The Digital Michelangelo Project

Abstract:

During the 1998-99 academic year, Dr. Marc Levoy of Stanford University took a team of researchers to Italy. Their purpose was to make 3D laser scans of a collection of Michelangelo's works. I will briefly present the method they used, describe difficulties they encountered, and mention some possible uses for their models.

6. General Discussion Items

• Reminder of lab policy---don't lend out keys, or let others use your account, etc.
• Application forms and instructions for NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships are available on the web at http://www.nserc.ca/
  Departmental Deadline: Wednesday, October 6, 1999
• It's time to apply for OGS scholarships. Jane Prime has the applications (DC2332).
  Departmental deadline: Tuesday, October 26, 1999
  In the past, Jane has taken Tuesdays as a day off, so plan to submit earlier, if possible.

7. Action List

• Blair is going to have the new shelves bolted to the wall.
• The URL of the AAAI spring symposium on 'smart graphics' is: http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~patrick/SG2000/.
  The deadline is October 8th
• GI deadline Nov. 19. This time it will be in Montreal.
• SIGGRAPH 2000 deadline Jan. 12
• John Hart is visiting on October 26th. Details to follow

8. Director's Meeting

9. Seminars

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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
SEMINAR ACTIVITIES

SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR



                    - Wednesday, October 6, 1999

Professor   R.B.   Simpson,   Dept.  Computer  Science,
University  of  Waterloo,  will  speak  on  ``Isolating
Geometry in 2-D Mesh Programming''.


TIME:                10:30-11:30 a.m.

ROOM:                DC 1331

ABSTRACT

We discuss enhancing the generality of 2-D unstructured
mesh    programming   by   isolating   some   geometric
dependencies  so  that  they can be easily changed. The
specific  task discussed is quality mesh generation for
a  2-D  manifold  by  local  refinement  with  Delaunay
insertion.  The geometric dependencies  that we wish to
isolate  are  its  embedded  global  coordinate system,
including  its  dimension  (planar or surface meshing),
and   its   metric,  (curvilinear  coordinate  systems,
anisotropic   meshing).   We  discuss  object  oriented
techniques  and  a  coordinate system local to the mesh
triangles to enhance isolating these geometric features.

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10. Lab Cleanup