Meeting Agenda

October 24th, 2001

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Bonny Liu

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Tim MacPherson

Coffee hour this week:

Daniel Koch

Coffee hour next week:

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3. Next meeting

Date:

Wednesday, October 31st, 2001

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Gladimir Baranoksi

Technical presentation:

Celine Latulipe

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

1. Tim MacPherson (November 7th)
2. Stephen Mann (November 14th)
3. Michael McCool (November 21st)

Tech Presenters:

1. Bonny Liu (November 7th)
2. Gladimir Baranoski (November 14th) -- in lieu of Vincent Ma
3. Tim MacPherson (November 21st)

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Rick Leung

Title: Bubble Model Volume Renderer

Abstract: The bubble model is originally proposed to be a simple and highly interactive volume rendering technique. In the tech presentation, I'll present the original model, along with my simplified implementation (and the consequences).

6. General Discussion Items

7. Action List

• The making of up-to-date demos - Demo group
• UT visit - Kevin

8. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

• Shape Modelling International 2002
  • International Conference on Shape Modelling
  • Submission Deadline: 22 October 2001
  • Banff, Alberta, Canada May 17 - 22, 2002
  • Web: http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/smi2002/
• The 10-th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2002
• Paper submission deadline: October 20, 2001
• General URL: http://wscg.zcu.cz
• Conference URL: http://wscg.zcu.cz/wscg2002/wscg2002.htm
• Venue: February 4 - 8, 2002, Pilsen (close to Prague), Czech Republic
• Contact person: Vaclav Skala - skala@kiv.zcu.cz
  fax +420-19-74 91 188 or +420-19-78 22 578
• 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)
• 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 submission deadline: November 18, 2001
  • General URL: www.graphicsinterface.org
  • Conference URL: www.cs.yorku.ca/~gi2002
  • Venue: May 27-29, 2002, University of Calgary
  • Contact: Michael McCool
• SIGGRAPH 2002
  • Paper submission deadline: 9 January 2002
  • Art gallery deadline: 6 February 2002
  • Computer Animation Festival: 6 March 2002
  • Sketches: 13 March 2002
  • General URL: www.siggraph.org
  • Conference URL: www.siggraph.org/s2002
  • Venue: 21-26 July 2002, San Antonio, TX
• 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
• Graphics Hardware 2002
  • Paper submission deadline: 15 April 2002 (after SIGGRAPH rejections...)
  • General URL: www.graphicshardware.org
  • Venue: Saarbruecken, Germany (hosted by the MPII), right before Eurographics, which will be held in the same place (a two-for-one special).
• Eighth Europgraphics Workshop on Virtual Environments (EGVE) 2002
  • May 30-31, 2001. Bacerlona, Spain
  • Paper submission deadline: December 16, 2001
  • General URL: http://www.lsi.upc.es/ve2002

9. Director's Meeting

10. Seminars and Events

Wednesday, October 24, 2001
   Drawing outer-planar graphs in O(n log n) area
   Therese Biedl, Algorithms and Complexity Group, University of Waterloo
   3:30pm, DC1304

Thursday, October 25, 2001
   Consistency Maintenance in Groupware Systems via Operation Transforms:
   Theory and Programming Language Support in ML
   Brad Lushman, Programming Languages Group, University of Waterloo 
   2:30pm, DC 3548

Friday, October 26, 2001
   A DMBS Perspective on Update of Kernel Data in Linux
   Henry Yu, Database Group, University of Waterloo 
   2:00pm, DC 1331

Friday, October 26, 2001
   Penalty methods for American options
   Peter Forsyth, Scientific Computing Group, University of Waterloo 
   3:00pm, DC 1302

11. Lab Cleanup