Meeting Agenda

Date:	September 10
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	1:30 PM
Chair:	Michael McCool

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: CS Picnic

Coffee hour this week:: Stuart Pollock

Coffee hour next week:

3. Next meeting

Date:	September 17
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	1:30 PM
Chair:	Alex Clarke
Technical presentation:	Zheng Qin

4. Forthcoming

Date:	September 24	October 1	October 8
Chair:	Bill Cowan	Stefanus Du Toit	Elodie Forquet
Technical presentation:	Daming Yao	Shalini Aggarwal	Alex Clarke

5. Technical Presentation

Name:	Tiberiu Popa
Title: EAGL	I will talk about EAGL, EA's cross-platform shader and data management system, based on their 2002 SIGGRAPH paper, "Shader-Driven Compilation of Rendering Assets", by Paul Lalonde and Eric Schenk.
Abstract:

6.General Discussion Items

CS888 this term, Monday 10--1 DC3313; presenters for next week? http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~smann/cs888-f03/

7.Action List

U of T visit: Oct 4 or Oct 11
CGL T-Shirt: Send images, code, whatever to Selina for the T-Shirt

8.Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Game Design Workshop,
- London at UWO, September 27th.
- Details: http://www.cgt.auc.ca/workshop.php
CITO Innovation Showcase, September 23, Ottawa
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. Directors' Meeting

10. Seminars and Events

SGI Mobile Innovation Centre Visit: Morning of Fri 12th. Register by emailing rbell@sgi.com OR call Rebecca Bell at 514-832-4215 or go to www.sgi.com/go/mic.
Thursday, 11 September 2003, 3:30PM - Pure Mathematics , Math & Computer, Room 6091A: Gary Walsh: -- On the arithmetical structure of terms in Lucas sequences
Thursday, 11 September 2003, 3:30PM - Statistics & Actuarial Science , MC5158: Prof. Granville Tunnicliffe Wilson: -- Turbocharged autoregressions
Friday, 12 September 2003, 2:30PM - Pure Mathematics , MC 5158: Sara Faridi: -- "The theory of facet ideals"
Friday, 12 September 2003, 3:30PM - Computer Science , DC 1302: Anna Lubiw: -- Shortest Paths in 2- and 3-Dimensional Space, and How to Tour a Sequence of Polygons
Friday, 12 September 2003, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization , Math & Computer, Room 5158: Prof. Jacques A. Verstraete: -- Nontrivial Intersecting Families

11. Lab Cleanup