Meeting Minutes

January 30th, 2002

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

2:30 p.m.

Chair:

Rui Real Xu

0. Attendance

Shalini Aggarwai, Ian Bell, Alex Clarke, Bill Cowan, Patrick Gilhuly, Rafal Jaroszkiewicz, Daniel Kock, Tim Lahey, Jose Lajoie, Celine Latulipe, Rick Leung, Bonny Liu, Tim MacPherson, Stephen Mann, Michael McCool, Joanne McKinley, Wayne Olive, Stuart Pollock, Zheng Qin, Selina Siu, Mauro Steigleder, Stefan Tiberiu, Rui Real Xu, Wai-Min Yee, Michael Piechota.

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour this week:

Stefan Tiberiu

Coffee hour next week:

3. Next meeting

Date:

Wednesday, January 23, 2002

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

2:30 p.m.

Chair:

Wai-Min Yee(February 6th)

Technical presentation:

Mauro Steigleder (February 6th)

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

Daming Yao (February 13th)

Tech Presenters:

Real Xu (February 13th)

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Zheng Qin

Title: Reference Counting and Garbage Collection

Abstract: I will talk about memory management and the common problems
the programmers will face, garbage collection techniques, smart pointers,
and the way using smart pointer to implement a reference counting garbage
collector.

6. General Discussion Items

Wayne's birthday on Friday.???

7. Action List

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

· Third International Conference -- Virtual Reality and its Application in Industry

in cooperation with EUROGRAPHICS
Call for papers: Dec 31th, 2001
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 Eurographics 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/

· SIGCHI 2002

Photo taken by Stephanie Galchutt Siddiqui

Paper submission deadline: 14 September 2001
Short Talks & Interactive Posters submission deadline: 7 December 2001
General URL: http://www.acm.org/sigchi/
Conference URL: http://sigchi.org/sigchi/chi2002/
Venue: April 20-25, 2002, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

· UIST 2002

Photo taken by Jim Tardio

Paper submission deadline: April 5th, 2002-01-30
General URL: http://www.acm.org/uist/
Venue: October 27-30, 2002 Paris, France

· DIS 2002

The inner look of The British Museum

Receipt Papers, Exhibits & Design Cases submission deadline: 14 December, 2001
Tutorials, Master Classes, Workshops & Post-Graduate Symposium proposals submission deadline: 31 January, 2002
Notification to contributors Papers and Exhibits: 8 February, 2002
Other submissions: 1 March, 2002
Final versions submission deadline: 29 March, 2002
Conference URL: http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigchi/dis2002/
Venue: June 25-28, 2002, The British Museum, London, UK.

· CVE 2002

The bronze statue of Beethoven Denkmal

All material submission deadline: May 1st, 2002.
Conference URL: http://www.cve2002.org/cfp.html
Venue: September 30th- October 2nd, 2002, Gustav-Stresemann-Institut, Bonn, Germany.

9. Director's Meeting

10. Seminars and Events

Thursday, 31 January 2002, 2:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization , Math & Computer, Room 5136

Prof. Anthony Bonato: -- Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar - The colouring order and the natural order on retracts

Friday, 1 February 2002, 10:00AM - Computer Science (Databases Group), 1304

Paul Cotton: -- W3C XML Query WG: A Status Report

Friday, 1 February 2002, 12:00PM - Computer Science (LPAIG-Logic Programming and Artifical Intelligence Group), DC 2306C

Michael Fleming: -- A Quantitative Model for Reasoning about Interaction in Mixed-Initiative Artificial Intelligence Systems

Friday, 1 February 2002, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization , Math & Computer, Room 5136

Prof. Bruce Richter: -- Tutte Colloquium - On sequences of graphs having constant crossing number

February 7-8, 2002 DC1304 Doug James, Peter Forsyth Computer Graphics faculty applicants talks

February 14-15, 2002 DC1304 Joanna Mcgrenere , Bill Cowan Computer Graphics faculty applicants talks

For those two applicant talks, all CGL members are expected to attend.