Meeting Agenda

May 8th, 2002

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

 

Josée Lajoie

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Daniel Koch

Coffee hour this week:

Joanne McKinley

Coffee hour next week:

???

3. Next meeting

Date:

Wednesday, May 15th, 2002

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Celine Latulipe

Technical presentation:

Stephen Mann

4. Forthcoming

1. Rick (lil' Ricky) Leung (May 22nd)
2. Bonny Liu (May 29th)
3. Tim MacPherson (June 5th)

1. Josée Lajoie (May 22nd)
2. Celine Latulipe (May 29th)
3. Rick (lil' Ricky) Leung (June 5th)

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Daniel Koch

Title: Point Sprites

Abstract:
 

I will be talking about one of the new NVIDIA OpenGL extensions
and its application to volume rendering using the splatting approach.

6. General Discussion Items

• Celine Latulipe wants to talk about "Volunteers needed"

7. Action List

8. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Graphics Hardware 2002

• Paper submission deadline: 15 April 2002 Closed
• 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
• General URL: http://www.lsi.upc.es/ve2002

Graphics Interface 2002

• Call for POSTERS - Deadline March 22nd Closed
• General URL: www.graphicsinterface.org
• Conference URL: www.cs.yorku.ca/~gi2002
• Venue: May 27-29, 2002, University of Calgary
• Contact: Michael McCool

Curves and Surfaces

• Venue: 27 June - 3 July 2002, Saint-Malo, France.
• General URL: http://www-lmc.imag.fr/saint-malo/

SIGGRAPH 2002

• Computer Animation Festival deadline: 6 March 2002 Closed
• Sketches deadline: 13 March 2002 Closed
• General URL: www.siggraph.org
• Conference URL: www.siggraph.org/s2002
• Venue: 21-26 July 2002, San Antonio, TX

ACM Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA'02), San Antonio, July 21-22

• Deadline March 25th Closed
• General URL: http://sca2002.cs.brown.edu/

CFP: COMPUTER GRAPHICS IN ART HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY

• Acceptance notices: April 20, 2002
• Final Revisions due: June 1, 2002

SIGCHI 2002

• General URL: http://www.acm.org/sigchi/
• Conference URL: http://sigchi.org/sigchi/chi2002/

UIST 2002

• Paper submission deadline: April 5th Closed
• Poster submission deadline: July 8th
• General URL: http://www.acm.org/uist/
• Venue: October 27-30, 2002 Paris, France

CVE 2002

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

IEEE Visualization 2002

• Call for papers - Deadline past
• Call for posters - Deadline June 28th
• Conference URL: Visualization 2002
• Venue: October 27 - November 1, 2002, The Boston Park Plaza Hotel

Eurographics 2002 Conference

• Call for short paper/Poster - Deadline April 26, 2002 Closed
• Conference URL: http://www.eg.org/eg2002
• Venue: Sept. 2 - Sept. 6, 2002 in Saarbr|cken, Germany

ISMAR 2002:The IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality

• Call for papers - Deadline May 15, 2002
• Conference URL: http://www.ismar2002.org/
• Venue: Sept. 30 - Oct. 1, 2002 in Darmstadt, Germany

7th Vision, Modeling, and Visualization Workshop (2002)

• Call for papers - Deadline May 31, 2002
• Conference URL: http://www9.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/vmv2002/
• Venue: November 20 - 22, 2002, Erlangen, Germany

Conference on Computer Graphics and Spatial Information 2002

• Call for papers - Deadline May 30, 2002
• Conference URL: http://www.cgconference2002.com/
• Venue: August 6 - August 8, 2002, Beijing, China

9. Director's Meeting

10. Seminars and Events

Thursday, 8 May 2002, 4:00PM - Computer Science,
Master's Thesis Presentation, DC 1331
Thomas L. Lynam:
Exploitation of Redundant Inverse Term Frequency for Answer Extraction

 
Thursday, 9 May 2002, 2:30PM - Computer Science,
(PLG-Programming Languages Group), DC 3548
Egidio Loch Terra:
Substring Parser-based Error Reporting

 
Thursday, 9 May 2002, 3:30PM - Statistics & Actuarial Science, MC 5158
Debashis Ghosh (University of Michigan):
Accelerated rates regression models for recurrent failure time data

 
Friday, 10 May 2002, 1:30PM - Pure Mathematics, MC5045
Dejan Delic (Ryerson University):
Decidability of locally finite discriminator varieties with group stalks, Part III

 
Friday, 10 May 2002, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization,
Math & Computer, Room 5158
Prof. Andras Sebo (Laboratoire Leibniz, IMAG):
Tutte Colloquium - Some Combinatorial Problems about Numbers

 
Monday, 13 May 2002, 10:30AM - Computer Science, DC 1304
Thomas A. Alspaugh (North Carolina State University:
Strategies for Managing Collections of Scenarios During Requirements Specification

 
Wednesday, 15 May 2002, 3:30PM - Computer Science
(Algorithms and Complexity Group), DC 1304
Sean Hallgrem (CalTech):
Polynomial-Time Quantum Algorithms for Pell's Equation and the Principal Ideal Problem

 
Friday, 17 May 2002, 12:00PM - Computer Science
(Artifical Intelligence Group), DC 2306C
Tony Abou-Assaleh:
Relaxed Unification - Proposal

 

11. Lab Cleanup