Meeting Agenda

November 14th, 2001

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Stephen Mann

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Patrick Gilhuly
Coffee hour this week:: ?
Coffee hour next week:: ?

3. Next meeting

Date:: Wednesday, November 21st, 2001
Location:: DC 1304
Time:: 1:30 p.m.
Chair:: Michael McCool
Technical presentation:: Tim MacPherson

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

Joanne McKinley (November 28th)
Kevin Moule (December 5th)
Wayne Olive (December 12th)

Tech Presenters:

Stephen Mann (November 28th)
Michael McCool (December 5th)
Joanne McKinley (December 12th)

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Vincent Ma

Title: Approximate Nearest Neighbours

Abstract: People have heard enough about the classical nearest neighbour algorithms, where the exact nearest neighbour (or the k nearest ones) are sought. I'll talk about a set of related algorithms that are generally faster if only an approximate answer is required.

6. General Discussion Items

CS 488 T-shirts for sale. A bargain at half the price!

7. Action List

The making of up-to-date demos - Demo group
UT visit - Kevin
- November 24th Saturday
- Volunteers?

8. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

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, 2002. Bacerlona, Spain
Paper submission deadline: December 16, 2001
General URL: http://www.lsi.upc.es/ve2002

Curves and Surfaces

June 27-July 3, 2002. Saint-Malo, France
Abstract submission deadline: February 28, 2002
General URL: http://www-lmc.imag.fr/saint-malo/

9. Director's Meeting

10. Seminars and Events

Wednesday, 14 November 2001, 3:30PM - Computer Science (Algorithms and Complexity Group), DC 1304: Joe Horton: -- Clause Trees: A Tool for Automated Theorem Proving with Resolution
Friday, 16 November 2001, 10:30AM - Computer Science (SE-Software Engineering Group), DC 1331: Maria Nelson: -- Formal Verification of Geographic Requirements