Meeting Agenda

Date:	September 17
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	1:30 PM
Chair:	Alex Clarke

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Stuart Pollock

Coffee hour this week:: ?

Coffee hour next week:: Alma L. Juarez-Dominguez

3. Next meeting

Date:	September 24
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	1:30 PM
Chair:	Bill Cowan
Technical presentation:	Daming Yao

4. Forthcoming

Date:	October 1	October 8	October 15
Chair:	Stefanus Du Toit	Elodie Forquet	Jiwen Hwuo
Technical presentation:	Alex Clarke	Bill Cowan	Stefanus Du Toit

5. Technical Presentation

Name:	Zheng Qin
Title:	Shadow Silhouette Maps
Abstract:	This paper propose a method of silhouette maps, in which a shadow depth map is augmented by storing the location of points on the geometric silhouette. It improves the visual quality over the conventional shadow map.

6.General Discussion Items

CS888 this term, Mondays 10:00-1:00 DC3313; presenters for next week?
http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~smann/cs888-f03/

7.Action List

U of T visit: Oct 18th?
CGL T-Shirt: Finished. Buy it. NOW!

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

Wednesday, 17 September 2003, 10:00AM - Computer Science , DC 3311

Weimin Li: -- Xcomp: An XML Compression Tool

Friday, 19 September 2003, 2:00PM - Computer Science , DC 1331

Catalin Visinescu: -- Incremental Data Distribution on Internet-Based Distributed Systems: A Spring System Approach

Friday, 19 September 2003, 3:30PM - Computer Science , DC 1302

Peter van Beek: -- Constraint Programming for Compiler Optimization

Monday, 22 September 2003, 11:00AM - Computer Science (Databases Group), DC 1304

Divesh Srivastava: -- Phrase Matching in XML

Monday, 22 September 2003, 1:30PM - Computer Science , DC 1331

Yongjuan (Jane) Zou: -- The TPR-Tree and TPR*-Tree: Implementation and Comparison.

Monday, 22 September 2003, 1:30PM - Computer Science , DC 1304

Tianshu Li: -- Pricing and Admission Control for QoS-Enabled Internet

Friday, 26 September 2003, 10:30AM - Computer Science (Artifical Intelligence Group), DC 1304