Meeting Agenda - 2000.05.31

May 31st, 2000

Location:

DC1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Selina Siu ???

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Jasmin Patry

Coffee hour this week:

Selina Siu

Coffee hour next week:

???

3. Next meeting

Date:

Wednesday, June 7th, 2000

Location:

DC1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Mauro Steigleder

Technical presentation:

Chris O'Sullivan

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

1. Daming Yao (June 14th)
2. Mark Zadel (June 21st)
3. Shalini Aggarwal (June 28st)

Tech Presenters:

1. Selina Siu (June 14th)
2. Mauro Steigleder (June 21st)
3. Daming Yao (June 28th)

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Kevin Moule

Title:

Klee's Measure Problem

Abstract:

In 1977, Victor Klee posed the following problem. Given a set of intervals on the real line compute the length of their union. An optimal solution to this problem was easily constructed. This problem is readily extended into higher dimensions for which tight upper and lower bounds are not known.

I will be giving an overview of the history of the problem, descriptions of the algorithms I implemented for my CS760M project and the results from the project.

6. General Discussion Items

• Lab machines still not feeling well.
  • sendmail processes accumulating on Suns: still investigating cause
  • NFS locking problems: you should probably read mail on mud until further notice.
• Alias is having a Design Group meeting for Studio users to discuss the new features in Studio Tools 9.5. It is at

  Hewlett-Packard
  5150 Spectrum Way
  Mississauga
  Thursday, June 1, 3:00pm
  RSVP Kim Rogers-Rollins, CIMETRIX (905)470-6624
  kim@cimetrix.on.ca

7. Action List

• Grant applications to USENIX conference; see Robyn Landers rblanders@math, and http://www.math/~rblander/usenix.
• SIGGRAPH early registration is June 16th
• CITO conference in Ottawa?
• UW graduate conference -- speakers wanted (June 26)

8. Director's Meeting

9. Seminars