Meeting Agenda

Febuary 19th, 2003

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

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Jo-Jo

Coffee hour this week:: Insert name here

Coffee hour next week:: Insert name here

3. Next meeting

Date:: Wednesday, February 26th, 2003
Location:: DC 1304
Time:: 1:30 p.m.
Chair:
Technical presentation:

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

Tiberiu Popa (March 5th)
Selina Siu (March 12th)
Real Xu(March 19th)

Tech Presenters:

Guillaume Poirier (March 5th)
Tiberiu Popa (March 12th)
Zheng Qin (March 19th)

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:: Wayne Olive
Title:: Hardware Accelerated Volume Sculpting and Force Computations

Abstract:: I will be talking about my thesis work which includes fascinating stuff like vertex arrays, volume slicing, register combiners and how you use them to perform volume sculpting.

6. General Discussion Items

7. Action List

Lab List...

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.
A|W and CGL get-together

Rob's List...

Cron job for notes to chair.
Automated Seminars and Events Program

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

PASSED

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

Sixth IASTED International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging (CGIM 2003)

August 13-15, 2003
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2003/hawaii/cgim.htm

IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Submissions due-------------------------------------------April 15, 2003
Notification of acceptance--------------------------------May 15, 2003
Final manuscript due--------------------------------------June 1, 2003
Registration and full payment due-----------------------June 15, 2003

I E E E V I S U A L I Z A T I O N 2 0 0 3

October 19 - 24, 2003
Seattle, Washington
http://vis.computer.org

Submission Deadlines
March 31, 2003 Conference and Applications Papers, Tutorial and Panel Proposals
June 30, 2003 Workshop Proposals
August 1, 2003 Poster Submissions and Interactive Demos
October 19, 2003 Birds of a Feather Proposals

UIST 2003 will be held November 2-5, 2003 in Vancouver

Paper/Technote deadline: March 31st, 2003
Posters/Demos deadline: June 20th, 2003

SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing

Elliott Grand Hyatt Hotel, Seattle, Washington
November 10-13, 2003 (Short Course: November 9)
Apr 9, 2003 - Submission of minisymposium proposals
May 7, 2003 - Submission of abstracts
Sep 1, 2003 - Authors can make changes to their abstracts until this date
Oct 13, 2003 - Hotel reservation deadline
Oct 13, 2003 - Preregistration deadline
Jan 31, 2004 - Submission of papers to the proceedings

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

Wednesday, 19 February 2003, 2:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization , MC 5158: Dr. Levent Tuncel: -- Lift-and-Project Methods III: Optimization over Lattices
Wednesday, 19 February 2003, 3:30PM - Computer Science (Algorithms and Complexity Group), DC 1304: Alastair Farrugia: -- (P,Q)-colouring is NP-hard, if P and Q are additive induced-hereditary
Thursday, 20 February 2003, 3:30PM - Statistics & Actuarial Science , MC5158: Sheldon Lin: -- The Classical Ruin Model with a Constant Dividend Barrier
Friday, 21 February 2003, 2:30PM - Pure Mathematics, MC 6091A: Michal Wojciechowski: -- Sobolev spaces without local unconditional structure
Friday, 21 February 2003, 3:30PM - Applied Mathematics, Math & Computer, Room 5136: Dr. Kazufumi Ito: -- On Monge-Kantorovich Mass Transfer Problem
Monday, 24 February 2003, 9:30AM - Combinatorics and Optimization , MC 5158: Daniel Gottesman: -- Quantum Error Correction
Monday, 24 February 2003, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization , MC 5158: Dr. Miroslav Kis, CISSP: -- Business Rish Analysis: Link between Information Security Theory and the Practice
Tuesday, 25 February 2003, 10:30AM - Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence Group), DC 1304: Patrick Pantel: -- Clustering by Committee