Meeting Agenda

October 03, 2001

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Josée Lajoie

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Vince/Selina/Steve

Coffee hour this week:

Tim Lahey

Coffee hour next week:

????

3. Next meeting

Date:

Wednesday, October 10th, 2001

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Celine Latulipe

Technical presentation:

Josée Lajoie

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

1. Rick Leung (October 17)
2. Bonny Liu (October 24)
3. Gladimir Baranoski (October 31) -- in lieu of Vincent Ma

Tech Presenters:

1. Tim Lahey (October 17)
2. Celine Latulipe (October 24)
3. Rick Leung (October 31)

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Daniel Koch

Title: Common OpenGL Pitfalls

Abstract: This talk describes a number of OpenGL programming mistakes that are often made by beginner and intermediate OpenGL programmers, and talks about ways to avoid them. This presentation is based on a paper by Mark J. Kilgard from NVIDIA.

6. General Discussion Items

• Houdini licenses - $165 - cheap - See Selina's post on CGL newsgroup
demos -- Research Demos very outdated

7. Action List

8. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

• UIST 2001 (November 11-14th, Orlando, Florida)
  • 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/
• Graphics Interface 2002
  • paper deadline: November 18, 2001
• CFP: COMPUTER GRAPHICS IN ART HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY
  • Submissions due: January 15, 2002
  • Acceptance notices: April 20, 2002
  • Final Revisions due: June 1, 2002
• Third International Conference -- Virtual Reality and its Application in Industry
  • in cooperation with EUROGRAPHICS
  • Call for papers: ???
  • April 10-12, 2002, Hangzhou, China
  • http://www.hziee.edu.cn/VRAI2002
  • Web Page in Chinese!

9. Director's Meeting

10. Seminars and Events

Thursday, 4 October 2001, 2:00PM - Combinatorics and Optimization, Math & Computer, Room 5136

Prof. Ada Chan: -- Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar - Introduction of Association Schemes
 

Thursday, 4 October 2001, 3:30PM - Statistics & Actuarial Science, Math & Computer, Room 5158

Ricardas Zitikis: -- Econometrics, Lorenz Curves, and Convexifications of Stochastic Processes
 

Friday, 5 October 2001, 2:00PM - Computer Science, DC 1304

Charlie Chung: -- Topic-Oriented Collaborative Web Crawling
 

Friday, 5 October 2001, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization, Math & Computer, Room 5158

Prof. Bruce Richmond: -- Tutte Colloquium - Combinatorial Objects and Prime Factorizations
 

Wednesday, 10 October 2001, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization, Math & Computer, Room 5045

Mark Bauer: -- Restricted Irrationality Measures and the Generalized Ramanujan-Nagell equation
 

11. Lab Cleanup