Meeting Agenda

June 05, 2002

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

 

Tim MacPherson

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Scoops

Coffee hour this week:

Volunteer?

Coffee hour next week:

Volunteer?

3. Next meeting

Date:

Wednesday, June 12th, 2002

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Steve Mann

Technical presentation:

Rick Leung

4. Forthcoming

1. Michael McCool (June 19th)
2. Joanne McKinley (June 26th)
3. Kevin Moule (July 4th)

1. Tim MacPherson (June 19th)
2. Tim Lahey (June 26th)
3. Michael McCool (July 4th)

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Bonny Liu

Title: Frame Rates Explained

Abstract:

Bonny will try to briefly explain where do all the frame rates come.

6. General Discussion Items

• Volunteers needed for Computer Science Seminar for Women
  
  See Celine or send her email if you are interested. Volunteers
  will likely be rewarded with a trip to Sportsworld or a trip to Stratford.
• The couch is coming...
  Patrick, Celine, Tiberiu and Mike McCool: follow up?

7. Action List

8. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

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

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).

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 Closed
• 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 Closed
• 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 Closed
• Conference URL: http://www.cgconference2002.com/
• Venue: August 6 - August 8, 2002, Beijing, China

9. Director's Meeting

• Anything us peons should know?

10. Seminars and Events

June, 2002
SAW Courses
7 different SAW courses open to faculty, staff and students.
http://www.ist.uwaterloo.ca/cs/courses.html

Wednesday, 5 June 2002
Computer Science (SCG-Symbolic Computation Group)
Mark van Hoeij: -- Hypergeometric Solutions of Recurrence Relations
2:30pm; DC1304

Thursday, 6 June 2002
Computer Science
Koushik Kar: -- Optimization Based Rate Control for Multirate Multicast Traffic
10:30am; DC1304

Thursday, 6 June 2002
Combinatorics and Optimization
Prof. Chris Godsil: -- Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar - Hamming and BCH Code, part II
2:00pm; MC5136

Thursday, 6 June 2002
Statistics & Actuarial Science
Sven Sinclair: -- Optimal Annuitization when Stochastic Consumption Shocks are Correlated with Mortality
3:30pm; MC5158

Friday, 7 June 2002
Computer Science (SE-Software Engineering Group)
Mao Zheng: -- An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
10:30am; DC1304

Friday, 7 June 2002
Computer Science (SCG-Symbolic Computation Group)
Victor Adamchik: -- Contributions to the Theory of the Multiple Gamma Function
1:30pm; MC5158

Friday, 7 June 2002
Combinatorics and Optimization
Prof. Jim Geelen: -- Tutte Colloquium - Branch-width for matroids and graphs
3:30pm; MC5158

11. Lab Cleanup