Meeting Agenda

May 9, 2001

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Joanne McKinley

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour this week:

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Coffee hour next week:

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3. Next meeting

Date:

Wednesday, May 16, 2001

Location:

DC1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Kevin Moule 

Technical presentation:

Tim MacPherson 

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

1. Chris O'Sullivan (May 23) 
2. Wayne Olive (May 30) 
3. Jasmin Patry (June 6) 

Tech Presenters:

1. Michael McCool (May 23) 
2. Joanne McKinley (May 30) 
3. Kevin Moule (June 6) 

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Vincent Ma

Title:

Quicky Survey of Advances in Photon Maps

Abstract:

Since my thesis has a lot to do with Photon Maps, I figured that it'll be nice to make myself read them papers. So, I will give a brief survey of what I've read so far with regards to photon maps, such as what it can do, and what modifications other researchers have made to the idea to make it more effective and feasible.

6. General Discussion Items

7. Action List

• Preparations for renovations continue. Must finalize things by May 11; first renovations are happening after May 12!

8. Conferences

• Graphics Interface: June 7-9, Ottawa, Ontario.
  • Registration deadline: May 15th.
  • Hotel deadline: May 15th
  • University dorm room deadline: May 6th
  • Student volunteers: ASAP, http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/gi2001/call-volunteers.html
  • Videos: ASAP; see web site
• 6th Eurographics Workshop on Multimedia, Manchester, United Kingdom, September 8-9, 2001
  • Paper submission deadline: June 4, 2001
  • Conference Homepage - http://egmm2001.di.fct.unl.pt
• Eurographics Workshop on Animation and Simulation 2001, Manchester, UK, September 2-3, 2001
  • Paper submission deadline: May 5, 2001
  • Conference Homepage - http://ligwww.epfl.ch/~thalmann/cas2001.html
• Pacific Graphics, Japan, Oct 16 - 18, 2001
• Computer Animation 2001, Seoul, Korea, November 6th-8th, 2001
  • 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/
• UW Mathematics Graduate Conference (June 26-27)
  • Research talks by graduate students in the Faculty of Math
  • Abstracts should be emailed to grad_conference@math and should arrive by May 31, 2001

9. Director's Meeting

10. Seminars

Thursday, May 10, 4:00, DC1302

Rayan Yahfoufi
Master's Thesis Presentation
Clustering of Web Documents

Friday, May 11, 2:00, DC1331

Lei Chen
Databases Seminar
Modeling Video Data

Friday, May 11, 3:30, MC5158

Prof. Jim Geelen
Combinatorics and Optimization
Packing odd circuits in Eulerian graphs

Monday, May 14, 4:30, DC1331

Meeting of Health Information Group (HIG)
All CS faculty and grad students are welcome
RSVP Gail Chopiak x2041

Wednesday, May 16, 10:30, DC1331

Christian Cumbaa
Master's Thesis Presentation
Modeling Protein Secondary Structure By Products of Dependent Experts

Thursday, May 24, 1:30, DC1304

Ishfaz Ahmad
The Hong Kong University of Sci. & Tech.
MPEG-4 Based Multimedia: Research Issues and Solutions

Friday, May 11th, 11:00am - 12:00pm

Sandford Fleming Building
10 King's College Road, U of T
Room 1105 (blue room)
Co-sponsored by: KMDI, TorCHI, CS and CITO
Making Machines Fit for Human Consumption
Jef Raskin
User Interface and System Design Consultant
Pacifica, California

12 June 2001, time and room to be determined

Jan Kautz
Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science
To be determined
 

11. Lab Cleanup