Meeting Agenda

Febuary 26th, 2003

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

1:30 PM

Chair:

 

Tiberiu Popa

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Bill Cowan

Coffee hour this week:

Rob Kroeger

Coffee hour next week:

Insert name here

3. Next meeting

Date:

Wednesday, February 12th, 2003

Location:

DC 2303

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

  Anis Ahmad

Technical presentation:

  Tiberiu Popa

4. Forthcoming

1.   Selina Siu (March 19th)
2.   Real Xu (March 26th)
3.  Mauro Steigleder (April 2th)

1.   Zheng Qin (March 19th)    
2.    Anis Ahmad (March 26th)
3.   Selina Siu (April 2th)

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

  Guillaume Poirier

Title:

Ramachandran's Neurological Theory of Aesthetic Experience

Abstract:

Our propensity to create and enjoy works of art is probably among the most puzzling aspects of human nature, and yet we can trace back forms of artistic expressions to the very beginning of humanity... Even if what we regard as beautiful might vary according to culture and experience, it doesn't follow that there is no genetically specified mechanism - a common denominator underlying all types of art. I will present in this talk a paper by V.S. Ramachandran and W. Hirstein "The Science of Art : A Neurological Theory of Aesthetic Experiencem" published in Art and the Brain : Controversies in Science & the Humanities (Journal of Consciousness Studies, 6, No. 6-7, 1999, pp. 15-51). R & H try (very ambitiously) to answer some of these questions and present a theory of human artistic experience and the neural mechanisms that mediate it.

6. General Discussion Items

7. Action List

• Lab meeting will be in CGL on March 12th and April 2nd.
• A|W and CGL get-together

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

8. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

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

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

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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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, 5 March 2003, 2:30PM - Pure Mathematics , MC 6091A

David Pitts: -- Automorphisms of Some Triangular Algebras
 

Wednesday, 5 March 2003, 4:00PM - Faculty of Mathematics , MC 5158

Carmeliza Navasca: -- The Travelling Saleswoman Problem
 

Thursday, 6 March 2003, 10:30AM - Computer Science , DC1302

Hagit Shatkay: -- Using Information Retrieval for Large Scale Gene Analysis
 

Thursday, 6 March 2003, 3:30PM - Statistics & Actuarial Science , MC5158

Dr. Lei Sun: -- Statistical Methods for Detection of Pedigree Errors in Genetic Linkage Studies
 

Friday, 7 March 2003, 2:00PM - Computer Science (Databases Group), DC 1331

Lukasz Golab: -- Processing Sliding Window Multi-Joins in Continuous Queries over Data Streams
 

Friday, 7 March 2003, 2:30PM - Pure Mathematics , MC 6091A

Ciprian Pop: -- Crossed products and entropy of automorphisms
 

Tuesday, 11 March 2003, 9:30AM - Combinatorics and Optimization , MC 5136

Tuesday, 11 March 2003, 10:30AM - Computer Science , MC 5158

Tuesday, 11 March 2003, 3:30PM - Statistics & Actuarial Science , MC6007

Friday, 14 March 2003, 9:00AM - Computer Science , DC 1702