Meeting Agenda

Date:	August 27
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	1:30 PM
Chair:	Daming Yao

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Erin Lester

Coffee hour this week:: Selina Siu

Coffee hour next week:: CS Picnic at 4:30

3. Next meeting

Date:	September 3
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	1:30 PM
Chair:	Shalini Aggarwal
Technical presentation:	Selina Siu

4. Forthcoming

Date:	September 10	September 17	September 24
Chair:	Michael McCool	Anis Ahmad	Erkan Akyuz
Technical presentation:	Zheng Qin	Daming Yao	Shalini Aggarwal

5. Technical Presentation

Name:	Mauro Steigleder
Title:	Generalized Stratified Sampling Using The Hilbert Curve
Abstract:	Stratified sampling is a widely used strategy to improve convergence in Monte Carlo techniques. The efficiency of a stratification technique mainly depends on the coherence of the strata. I will present an approach to generate an arbitrary number of coherent strata, independently of the dimensionality of the domain, using the Hilbert space-filling curve. Using this approach, it is possible to draw an arbitrary number of stratified samples from higher dimensional spaces using only one-dimensional stratification. This technique can also be used to generalize non-uniform stratified sampling.

6.General Discussion Items

DC1304 is booked for CGL meeting.
Erin requests for material to demo.
CS888 this term, Monday 10--1 DC3313

7.Action List

U of T visit: Volunteers needed
CGL T-Shirt: Send images, code, whatever to Selina for the T-Shirt

8.Conferences and Special Journal Issues

EUROGRAPHICS 2003

Conference URL: http://www.eg.org/eg2003
Venue: September 1-6, 2003, Granada, Spain

2003 International Ferret Symposium

http://www.ferretcongress.org/
Venue: October 3-5, 2003, Atlanta, Georgia

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
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

SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing

Elliott Grand Hyatt Hotel, Seattle, Washington
November 10-13, 2003 (Short Course: November 9)
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

GMP 2004

Venue: April 13-15, 2004, Beijing, China
Full Paper Submission: September 30, 2003
Notification of acceptance: November 30, 2003

Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering 2004

Venue: June 7-9, 2004, Annecy, France
Paper submission deadline: October 23, 2003
Authors notified of decisions: December 19, 2003
Camera-ready deadline: March 15, 2004

9. Director's Meetings

10. Seminars and Events

Wednesday, 27 August 2003, 3:30PM - Computer Science (Algorithms and Complexity Group), DC 1304: Jinbo Xu: -- Design Optimal Multiple Seeds for Homology Search
PhD thesis oral defence: Jinbo Xu: -- Protein Structure Prediction Using Linear Programming

11. Lab Cleanup