Meeting Agenda

March 28, 2001

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

2:30 p.m.

Chair:

Rick Leung 

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour this week:

Erkan Akyuz

Coffee hour next week:

??

3. Next meeting

Date:

Wednesday, April 4th, 2001

Location:

DC1304

Time:

2:30 p.m.

Chair:

Bonny Liu (April 4th) 

Technical presentation:

Tim Lahey (April 4th) 

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

1. Vincent Ma (April 11th) 
2. Tim MacPherson (April 18th) 
3. Joanne McKinley (April 25th) 

Tech Presenters:

1. Josée Lajoie (April 11th) 
2. Celine Latulipe (April 18th) 
3. Rick Leung (April 25th) 

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Daniel Koch (March 28th) 

Title:

Free-Form Deformations

Abstract:

Generating complex models can be time consuming and difficult. Real-life artists often build models by starting with a basic shape, and modifying it. Scuplting clay is an example of this. The field of free-form deformations attempts to give similar flexibility back to computer modelers. This talk will cover some of the techniques that can be used for free-form deformations.

6. General Discussion Items

• Re-cap of DGP visit

7. Action List

8. Conference Deadlines

• Eurographics Rendering Workshop - paper deadline March 30th
• SIGGRAPH Eurographics Graphics Hardware Workshop - paper deadline April 11th
• Eurographics 2001: John Lansdown Multimedia Award for innovative multimedia content
  • Closing date for entries is April 12th 2001
  • Cash Prize
  • Full details at the EG2001 web site: http://www.eg.org/EG 2001
• Pacific Graphics, Japan, Oct 16 - 18, 2001
  • Paper submission deadline: April 30, 2001
• Computer Animation 2001, Seoul, Korea, November 6th-8th, 2001
  • April 30th: Paper submission deadline
  • Conference Hompage - http://www.ca2001.org
• UIST 2001 (November 11-14th, Orlando, Florida)
  • Paper, tech note, and demos submission deadline is May 11th
  • New this year - Interface Design Contest (design unique interface to a real-time game and then play the game against others at the conference)
  • Conference Homepage - http://www.acm.org/uist/

9. Director's Meeting

10. Seminars

Wednesday, March 28, 2001
        Graduate Studies Office Presentation
        Scholarship Information Session: NSERC OGS SSHRC
        Faculty, please bring to the attention of
        3rd Year, 4th Year, and Grad Classes
        3:30 - 4:30 p.m.; MC4020 

Thursday, March 29, 2001
        Department of Fine Arts Exhibitioin
        ``Document 25''
        4th Year Graduating Class of 2001
        Opening Reception - 5:00 - 7:00 pm, East Campus Hall 

Thursday, March 29, 2001
        Computer Science Seminar
        ``New High-Order Strong-Stability-Preserving
        Explicit Runge-Kutta Time-Stepping Algorithms''
        Raymond Spiteri, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS
        10:30 a.m.; DC1302 

Friday, March 30, 2001
        Combinatorics and Optimization Colloquium
        ``Tutte Colloquium - Active Sets in Optimization''
        Adrian Lewis, Dept. of Combinatorics & Optimization, UW
        3:30 pm, MC5158 

11. Lab Cleanup