Meeting Agenda

May 16, 2001

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Kevin Moule

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 23, 2001

Location:

DC1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Chris O'Sullivan 

Technical presentation:

Michael McCool 

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

1. Wayne Olive (May 30) 
2. Jasmin Patry (June 6) 
3. Pascale Proulx (June 13) 

Tech Presenters:

1. Joanne McKinley (May 30) 
2. Kevin Moule (June 6) 
3. Chirs O'Sullivan (June 13) 

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Tim MacPherson

Title:

Efficient, Fair Interpolation using Catmull-Clark Surfaces

Abstract:

I will present a 1993 paper by Halstead. Kass, and DeRose on efficient and fair interpolation using the Catmull-Clark method of subdivision surfaces. The approach is to compute a control mesh using the Catmull-Clark scheme and then evaluate and minimize the fairness norm of the surface to make it smoother.

6. General Discussion Items

7. Action List

• Preparations for renovations continue. Renovations will start sometime between now and the end of time.

8. Conferences

• Graphics Interface: June 7-9, Ottawa, Ontario.
  • Student volunteers: ASAP, http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/gi2001/call-volunteers.html
• 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
  • 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

Wednesday, May 16th, 2:30, DC1304

Reinhold Burger
Master's Thesis Presentation
Exact Solutions of Linear Differential Equations with Doubly-Periodic Coefficients

Thursday, May 24th, 1:30, DC1304

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

Tuesday, June 12th, 1:30, DC1304

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

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2:30, DC1302

James Miller
Dept. Elec. & Comp. Eng., University of Alberta
Software Inspection Research

11. Lab Cleanup