Meeting Agenda

November 28th, 2001

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Joanne McKinley

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Thanks to all who brought food for DGP visit
Coffee hour this week:: ?
Coffee hour next week:: ?

3. Next meeting

Date:: Wednesday, December 5, 2001
Location:: DC 1304
Time:: 1:30 p.m.
Chair:: Kevin Moule
Technical presentation:: Joanne McKinley

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

Wayne Olive (December 12th)
Guillaume Poirier (December 19th)
Zheng Qin (January 2nd, 2002)

Tech Presenters:

Michael McCool (December 12th)
Kevin Moule (December 19th)
Wayne Olive (January 2nd, 2002)

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Stephen Mann

Title: A Geometric Interpretation of Bezier Stability

Abstract: In this talk, I will look at a geometric interpretation of the notion of stability for Bezier curves, looking at when they are and are not numerically stable, and comparing them to monomials and Spaghetti Westerns.

6. General Discussion Items

CS 488 T-shirts for sale. A bargain at half the price! Selina will be collecting $$ after the meeting.
We need to decide on a date/time for the annual Xmas party!

7. Action List

The making of up-to-date demos - Demo group

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. Barcelona, 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

Thursday, 29 November 2001, 10:00AM - Computer Science (Distributed Systems Group), DC 1331

Octavian-Andrei Dragoi: -- Adaptive Infrastructure Architectures for Pervasive Computing

Thursday, 29 November 2001, 3:30PM - Statistics & Actuarial Science , Math & Computer, Room 5158

Dr. Alan George: -- Numerical Solution of Large Sparse Linear Least Squares Problems

Friday, 30 November 2001, 2:30PM - Pure Mathematics , MC 5158A

Mihail Neagu: -- On Longest Increasing Subsequences of Random Permutations

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

Maria Gonzalez-Lima: -- Tutte Colloquium - On Primal-Dual Methods for Linear Programming and a simple algorithm

Monday, 3 December 2001, 9:30AM - Combinatorics and Optimization , Math & Computer, Room 5158

Prof. Nick Wormald: -- Models of random regular graphs

Monday, 3 December 2001, 2:30PM - Computer Science , DC 1304

Mihaela Gheorghiu: -- Circuit Simulation Using a Hazard Algebra

Monday, 3 December 2001, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization , Math & Computer, Room 5136

Tetsuya Izu: -- Cryptography Seminar - Parallel Elliptic Curve Multiplication and its Resistance against Side-Channel Attacks