Meeting Agenda

May 23, 2001

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Chris O' Sullivan

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour this week:

Kevin Moule

Coffee hour next week:

?

3. Next meeting

Date:

Wednesday, May 30, 2001

Location:

DC1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Wayne Olive 

Technical presentation:

Joanne McKinley 

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

1. Jasmin Patry (June 6) 
2. Pascale Proulx (June 13) 
3. Zhen Qin(June 20) 

Tech Presenters:

1. Kevin Moule (June 6) 
2. Wayne Olive(June 13) 
3. Jasmin Patry (June 20) 

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

• Steve would like to discuss arming the machine room alarm
• Wai Min proposes a Shrek outing

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

Thursday, 24 May 2001 at 1:00PM, MC5158

Combinatorics and Optimization Seminar: "Quantum entanglement and unextendible product bases"
Barbara Terhal, IBM Watson Research Center

Friday, 25 May 2001 at 3:30PM, MC5158

Combinatorics and Optimization Colloquium: "Tutte Colloquium - Bounding Independent Sets"
Prof. Chris Godsil, Dept. of Combinatorics & Optimization, University of Waterloo

Monday, May 28, 2001 11:00am, DC1304

Database Seminar: ``Combining Data Independence and Realtime in Media Servers''
Klaus Meyer-Wegener, Database Group, Technical Univ. of Dresden

Wednesday, May 30, 2001 9:30 - 4:30pm, DC1304

ICR Short Course: ``Introduction to XML''
Frank Tompa, Computer Science, U. of Waterloo
Airi Salminen, Comp Sci & Inform Syst, U.of Hyvaskyla, Finland
Register: ICR x4530, carchiba@uwaterloo.ca
cost: $25.00/course day for ICR faculty & grads supervised by them

Tuesday, June 12th, 1:30, DC1304

Jan Kautz
Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science
Image-Based Reconstruction of Spatially Varying Materials

11. Lab Cleanup