Meeting Agenda

September 23rd, 2002

Location:: DC 1304
Time:: 1:30 PM
Chair:

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Coffee hour this week:: Fill your name here: _______________________
Coffee hour next week:: Fill your name here: _______________________

3. Next meeting

Date:: Wednesday, October 2nd, 2002
Location:: DC 1304
Time:: 1:30 p.m.
Chair:: Ian Bell
Technical presentation:: Shalini Aggarwal

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

Alex Clarke (9th October)
Bill Cowan (16th October)
Elodie Fourquet (23rd October)

Tech Presenters:

Rick Leung (9th October)
Ian Bell (16th October)
Alex Clarke (23rd October)

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:: Daming Yao
Title: Proposal for PathwayFinder System

Abstract:: The information retrieval (IR) systems are much more popular than information extraction (IE) systems. In my opinion, the difficulties for IE systems are not only on performance and portability, but also on usability. The improvements on usability are proposed in PathwayFinder system.

6. General Discussion Items

7. Action List

8. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

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

CVE 2002

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

SIBGRAPI 2002: XV Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing

General URL: http://www.sbc.org.br/sibgrapi/
Venue: October 07 - 10, 2002 Fortaleza, CE, Brazil

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

IEEE Visualization 2002

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

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

Graphics Interface 2003

Call for papers - Deadline: November 22, 2002
Call for posters - Deadline: March 21, 2003
Conference URL: http://www.graphicsinterface.org/GI2003CFP.html
Venue: June 11-13, 2003, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

SIGGRAPH 2003

Call for papers - Deadline: January 22, 2003
Call for sketches & applications - Deadline: March 12, 2003
Conference URL: http://www.siggraph.org/s2003
Venue: July 27-31, 2003, San Diego, California

EUROGRAPHICS 2003

Call for papers - Deadline: February 3, 2003
Conference URL: http://www.eg.org/eg2003
Venue: September 1-6, 2003, Granada, Spain

9. Director's Meeting

10. Seminars and Events

Wednesday, 25 September 2002, 3:30PM - Computer Science (Algorithms and Complexity Group), DC 1304

Masud Hasan: -- Searching for the center of a circle

Wednesday, 25 September 2002, 3:30PM - Computer Science (CGL-Computer Graphics Laboratory), DC 1331

Mauro Steigleder: -- A Framework for Real-Time Hardware Accelerated Direct Illumination

Thursday, 26 September 2002, 2:30PM - Computer Science , DC1304

Wei Wei Zheng: -- Exploiting Fast Hardware Floating Point in High Precision Computation

Thursday, 26 September 2002, 3:00PM - Computer Science , DC 1331

Mohamed Soliman: -- Management of Service Level Agreements for Next Generation Internet

Friday, 27 September 2002, 10:00AM - Applied Mathematics , Math & Computer, Room 5158

Professor Grafton W.H. Hui: -- Accurate Computation of Tidal Bores in Estuaries

Friday, 27 September 2002, 2:30PM - Applied Mathematics , Math & Computer, Room 5136

Robert Bridson: -- Collisions and Contact for Cloth Simulation in Computer Graphics

Friday, 27 September 2002, 2:30PM - Computer Science (Artifical Intelligence Group), DC 2306

Relu Patrascu: -- Efficient Approximate Solutions for Structured Markov Decision Process (MDP) Problems (Part 1 of 2)