CGL Meeting Agenda - 2000.11.15

November 15th, 2000

Location:
CGL Lab
Time:
1:30 p.m.
Chair:
Chris O' Sullivan:-)
Member List

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:
Patrick Gilhuly
Coffee hour this week:
Eric Hall
Coffee hour next week:
??

3. Next meeting

Date:
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2000
Location:
DC1304
Time:
1:30 p.m.
Chair:
Pascale Proulx (November 22nd) :-)
Technical presentation:
Pascale Proulx (November 22nd) :-)

4. Forthcoming

Chair:
  1. Mauro Steigleder (November 29nd) :-)
  2. Chris Wales (December 6th):-)
  3. Daming Yao(December 13th) :-)

Tech Presenters:
  1. Chris O'Sullivan (November 29th):-)
  2. Selina Siu (December 6th) :-)
  3. Mauro Steigleder (December 13th) :-)

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Jasmin Patry :-)

Title:

Real-time Interactive Physical Simulation of Spheniscus Demersus

Abstract:

In this talk I will describe our method for creating a highly accurate physical simulation of the Jackass Penguin (Spheniscus Demersus). Our model simulates the behaviour of a Jackass Penguin as it propels itself down snow- and ice-covered mountains (a past-time which is, to our surprise, quite common among certain members of this species). Our results were compared against measurements of a (not so) real Jackass Penguin. This comparison confirms that our simulation results are indistinguishable (within statistical error) from measured results. (The measured results were also generated with our simulation, but never mind that.) I will describe the evolution of our model, focusing on the problems encountered in earlier versions and the solutions that we devised for these problems. Finally I will outline areas for future work.

6. General Discussion Items

7. Action List

8. Director's Meeting

9. Seminars

Wednesday, 15 November 2000 at 2:30PM
Combinatorics and Optimization: Seminar

Title:    "Graduate Seminar - Uniquely edge-colourable graphs &
             multigraphs & An introduction to the Riemann zeta function"
Speaker:  Alastair Farrugia & M.K. Low, Dept. of Combinatorics &
             Optimization, University of Waterloo
Location: Math & Computer, Room 5136
Abstract: to be announced.

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Thursday, 16 November 2000 at 3:30PM
Statistics & Actuarial Science: Seminar

Title:    "Testing for randomness using serial versions of Kendall's tau
             and Kendall's process"
Speaker:  Christian Genest, Universite Laval
Location: Math & Computer, Room 5158
Remarks:  Coffee and cookies will be available after the talk in MC 6123.

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Friday, 17 November 2000 at 2:00PM
Computer Science: Master's Thesis Presentation

Title:    "Object  Oriented Framework of Community Information System."
Speaker:  Martin Junfeng Luo, graduate student, Dept. Comp. Sci., Univ.
             Waterloo
Location: DC 1316

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Friday, 17 November 2000 at 3:30PM
Combinatorics and Optimization: Colloquium

Title:    "Tutte Colloquium - Generalizations of the minimum spanning tree
             problem"
Speaker:  Prof. Joseph Cheriyan, Dept. of Combinatorics & Optimization,
             University of Waterloo
Location: Math & Computer, Room 5158

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Friday, 17 November 2000 at 3:30PM
Statistics & Actuarial Science: Seminar

Title:    "Application of Shrinkage Estimation in Analysis of Reliability
             and Life-Testing Models"
Speaker:  S. Ejaz Ahmed, University of Regina
Location: Math & Computer, Room 5158
Remarks:  Coffee and cookies will be a available after the talk in MC 6123.

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Monday, 20 November 2000, 3:30PM 
Combinatorics and Optimization - Cryptography Seminar - 

Title:    The parallelized kangaroo method in real quadratic function fields 
Speaker:  Prof. Edlyn Teske
Location: MC5136

10. Lab Cleanup