Meeting Agenda

January 29th, 2003

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

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Real

Coffee hour this week:: Guillaume
Coffee hour next week:: Kevin

3. Next meeting

Date:: Wednesday, February 5th, 2003
Location:: DC 1304
Time:: 1:30 p.m.
Chair:
Technical presentation:

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

Guillaume Poirier (February 12th)
Stuart Pollock (February 19th)
Tiberiu Popa (February 26th)

Tech Presenters:

Kevin Moule (February 12th)
Wayne Olive (February 19th)
Guillaume Poirier (February 26th)

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:: Celine Latulipe
Title:: Best of UIST '02

Abstract:: For those of you not fortunate enough to have visited Paris in the fall I will give an overview of UIST '02 in DVD format.

6. General Discussion Items

In addition to Steve's note about locking the machine room, make sure the main lab is not open to the public unnecessarily. The main lab door was found tethered open earlier this week with no one in the lab.

7. Action List

Espresso machine.
A Lab Photo will be taken on friday during Coffee Hour.
UofT visit.

Rafal will organize this.
Contact person at U. of T. is Karan Singh

Lab meeting will be in CGL on March 12th and April 2nd.

8. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Graphics Interface 2003

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 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

Graphics Hardware 2003

Call for papers - Deadline: April 15, 2003
Conference URL: http://www.graphicshardware.org/
Venue: July 26-27, 2003, San Diego, California

Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2003

Call for abstract - Deadline: April 2, 2003
Call for papers - Deadline: April 4, 2003
Conference URL: http://www.egsr2003.org
Venue: June 25-27, 2003, Leuven, Belgium

IV 2003 (7th International Conference on INFORMATION VISUALISATION)

Call for proposal - Deadline: January 17, 2003
Call for papers - Deadline: March 17, 2003
Conference URL: http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV03/
Venue: July 16 - 18, 2003, London, England

GMAG'03 (Geometric Modelling & Graphics)

Call for proposal - Deadline: January 17, 2003
Call for papers - Deadline: March 7, 2003
Conference URL: http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/gmag03/
Venue: July 16 - 18, 2003, London, England

9. Director's Meeting

10. Seminars and Events

Thursday, 30 January 2003, 10:30AM - Computer Science (Artifical Intelligence Group), DC 2306C [Newish]

Craig Boutilier: -- Preference Elicitation as a Partially Observable Decision Process

Thursday, 30 January 2003, 3:30PM - Pure Mathematics , MC 6091A

M. Ram Murty: -- On a conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer

Friday, 31 January 2003, 9:30AM - Faculty of Mathematics , MC 5158 [Newish]

Romy Shioda: -- Integer Optimization for Statistical Applications

Friday, 31 January 2003, 1:00PM - Computer Science , MC 5158 [Newish]

Laurent Mouchard: -- The assembly of the human genome from the computer scientist's viewpoint

Friday, 31 January 2003, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization , MC 5158 [Newish]

Bruce Richter: -- Subsets of the Sphere that Uniquely Embed in the Sphere

Wednesday, 5 February 2003, 10:30AM - Computer Science (SCG-Symbolic Computation Group), DC 1331 [Newish]

Ha Le: -- Efficient Algorithms for Computing Minimal Z-pairs

Thursday, 6 February 2003, 3:30PM - Pure Mathematics , MC 6091A [Newish]

Alina Carmen Cojocaru: -- Reductions of elliptic curves modulo primes

Thursday, 6 February 2003, 3:30PM - Computer Science , DC 1304 [New!]

Professor Thomas L. Casavant: -- TrAPPS: Automated Knowledge Discovery for High-Throughput Disease Gene Mutation Screening