Meeting Agenda

Date:	October 22, 2003
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	1:30 PM
Chair:	Craig S. Kaplan

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Edwin

Coffee hour this week:

Yours Truly

Coffee hour next week:

??

3. Forthcoming

Date:	October 29	November 5	November 12	November 19
Chair:	Jiwen Huo	Brad Kimmel	Aravind Krishnaswamy	Rob Kroeger
Technical presentation:	Elodie Fourquet	Jiwen Huo	Craig Kaplan	Brad Kimmel

4. Technical Presentation

Stefanus DuToit

Title: Real-Time Graphics Compilers Abstract: Sh is a GPU metaprogramming language developed at the University of Waterloo Computer Graphics Lab. It allows graphics programmers to write programs which run directly on the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) using familiar C++ syntax. Furthermore, it allows metaprogramming of such programs, that is, writing programs which generate other programs, in an easy and natural manner. This talk will give a brief overview of how Sh works, the design of its intermediate representation and the (still somewhat simplistic) optimizer that the current reference implementation has and problems with applying traditional compiler optimizations.

5.General Discussion Items

6.Action List

• U of T visit: Happening Nov 15. DGP requests that we have some talks. If you would like to give a talk, please send details to Mike (mmccool at cgl).
• Nov 5, 4:30-8:30 PM, Grad House: CS Pints With Profs All CS faculty are invited.

7.Conferences and Special Journal Issues

• I E E E V I S U A L I Z A T I O N 2 0 0 3
  • Venue: October 19-24, 2003, Seattle, Washington
  • Conference URL: http://vis.computer.org


• UIST 2003
  • Venue: November 2-5, 2003, Vancouver
  • Conference URL: http://www.acm.org/uist/


• SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing
  • Venue: Elliott Grand Hyatt Hotel, Seattle, Washington
  • November 10-13, 2003 (Short Course: November 9)
  • 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
  • Conference URL: http://www.npar.org/2004/
  • Paper submission deadline: October 23, 2003
  • Authors notified of decisions: December 19, 2003
  • Camera-ready deadline: March 15, 2004


• Graphics Interface 2004
  • Venue: May 17-19, 2004, London, Ontario
  • Conference URL: http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/GI2004/
  • Paper submission deadline: December 5, 2003
  • Notification of acceptance: February 27, 2004
  • Poster Submission: March 26, 2004


• Bridges 2004: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science
  • Venue: July 30 - August 1 2004, Winfield, Kansas
  • Paper submission deadline: February 1, 2004
  • Authors notified of decisions: April 1, 2004
  • Camera-ready deadline: May 1, 2004


• SIGGRAPH 2004
  • Venue: August 8-12, Los Angeles, California
  • Conference URL: http://www.siggraph.org/s2004/
  • Paper submission deadline: January 21, 2004
  • Sketches deadline: 7 April 2004,
  • Poster deadline: 19 May 2004

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

Monday, 20 October 2003, 11:00AM - Computer Science (Databases Group), DC 1304

Louiqa Raschid: -- Efficient Exploration of Links and Paths in Life Sciences Data Sources
 

Tuesday, 21 October 2003, 10:00AM - Pure Mathematics , MC 6091A

Kenley Jung: -- Free entropy, free entropy dimension, and hyperfiniteness
 

Tuesday, 21 October 2003, 4:00PM - Combinatorics and Optimization , MC 6091A

Renata Sotirov: -- How Does The Bundle Method Work?
 

Friday, 24 October 2003, 2:00PM - Computer Science (Databases Group), DC 1331

Heng Yu: -- Investigations in Tree Locking for Compiled Database Applications
 

Friday, 24 October 2003, 3:30PM - Pure Mathematics , MC 5045

John Baker: -- A sum form functional equation and its stability
 

Tuesday, 28 October 2003, 3:30PM - Pure Mathematics , MC 5158

Gregory Freiman: -- The Interface Between Probability Theory and Additive Number Theory (Local Limit Theorems and Structure Theory of Set Addition)
 

Tuesday, 28 October 2003, 4:00PM - Combinatorics and Optimization , Math & Computer, Room 6091A

Kartik Krishnan: -- A non-polyedral primal active set approach for semidefinite programming
 

Wednesday, 29 October 2003, 3:30PM - Pure Mathematics , MC 6091A

Saso Strle: -- Rational homology spheres and 4-ball genus
 

10. Lab Cleanup