Meeting Agenda

October 10, 2001

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Celine Latulipe

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Tim Lahey

Coffee hour this week:

Wayne Olive

Coffee hour next week:

??

3. Next meeting

Date:

Wednesday, October 17th, 2001

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Rick Leung

Technical presentation:

Tim Lahey

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

1. Bonny Liu (October 24)
2. Gladimir Baranoski (October 31) -- in lieu of Vincent Ma
3. Tim MacPherson (November 7)

Tech Presenters:

1. Celine Latulipe (October 24)
2. Rick Leung (October 31)
3. Bonny Liu (November 7)

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Josée Lajoie

Title: Informative Art

Abstract: I will present a paper on Informative Art that was published in the proceedings of Designing Augmented Reality Environment 2000.

6. General Discussion Items

• demos -- Research Demos very outdated
  Josee will work with the professors (when the animation studio's recording facilities are set up) to record demos about recent Masters and PhD's theses

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
• Shape Modelling International 2002
  • International Conference on Shape Modelling
  • Banff, Alberta, Canada May 17 - 22, 2002
  • Submission Deadline: 22 October 2001
  • Web: http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/smi2002/
• The 2nd annual Interuniversity Workshop on Human Factors Engineering
• DATE: Saturday, November 3, 2001
• LOCATION: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• The purpose of this workshop is to bring students and researchers together from the local area to share research progress and ideas in human factors engineering. We intend this to be a very positive event that will be fun and constructive for everyone.
• Contact: Olivier St-Cyr (ostcyr@engmail.uwaterloo.ca)

9. Director's Meeting

10. Seminars and Events

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

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

Thursday, October 11, 2001
        Computer Science Seminar
        "Overview of HP's High Performance Computing Strategy"
        Shawn Fuller, Hewlett Packard
        10:00 - 11:00 a.m.; DC1316

Monday, October 15, 2001
        PhD Oral Defence
        "Folding and Unfolding"
        Erik D. Demaine, CS Graduate Student, U. of Waterloo
        10:00 a.m.; DC1331

Wednesday, October 17, 2001
        Networking Seminar
        "Optimal Internet Admission Controls for Multimedia:
        The Best Way to Design an Admission Controller"
        Eric G. Manning, Computer Science & ECE, U. of Victoria
        10:30 - 11:30 a.m.; DC1304

11. Lab Cleanup