Meeting Minutes

Date:	December 03, 2003
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	1:30 PM
Chair:	Erin Lester

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Mike McCool

Coffee hour this week:

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Coffee hour next week:

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3. Forthcoming

Date:	December 10	December 17	January 7	January 14
Chair:	Yi Lin	Robin Liu	Mike McCool	Gabriel Moreno-Fortuny
Technical Presentation:	Celine Latulipe	Erin Lester	Yi Lin	Robin Liu

4. Technical Presentation

Aravind Krishnaswamy

Unfortunately Aravind is too sick to present today.

5. General Discussion Items

• Lab meeting time for next term (Mike)
• In DC 1304 from 2:30 to 3:30 pm
• Can't get the room on January 21st or March 31st

6. Action List

• Christmas Party, December 12th
• Lab Rearrangement
• qMail Conversion

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

• 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 -- PASSED
  • Notification of acceptance: November 30, 2003


• SG04: 4th International Symposium on SMART GRAPHICS
  • Venue: May 22-24, 2004; Banff Centre, Canada
  • Conference URL: http://www.smartgraphics.org
  • Submission deadline: Feb 09, 2004
  • Notification of review results: Feb 23, 2004
  • Camera ready copy due: Mar 01, 2004
  
  
• 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 -- PASSED
  • 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 -- THIS FRIDAY
  • 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


• Eurographics 2004
  • Venue: August 30 - September 3, 2004, Grenoble, France
  • Conference URL: http://eg04.inrialpes.fr/
  • Paper abstracts due: January 28, 2004
  • Paper submission deadline: February 2, 2004
  • Interactive demos: April 23, 2004


• VisSym '04: IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization
  • Venue: May 19-21, 2004, Konstanz - GERMANY
  • Conference URL: http://www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/cgip/VisSym04/index.shtml.en
  • Paper submission deadline: November 24, 2003 -- PASSED


• CHI 2004
  • Venue: April 24-29,2004, Vienna, Austria
  • Conference URL: http://www.chi2004.org/
  • Early submissions: 6 October 2003 -- PASSED
  • Late submissions: 12 January 2004


• CGT 2004: Computer Game Technology Conference 2004
  • Venue: April 8-10 (Toronto Canada)
  • Conference URL: http://www.cgt.auc.ca/
  • Student Game Competition
  • Papers/Posters due 15th November 2003 -- PASSED


• CGI2004: COMPUTER GRAPHICS INTERNATIONAL 2004
  • Venue: June 16 -19, 2004, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece
  • Conference URL: http://www.ics.forth.gr/cgi2004/intro.html
  • Paper Submission Deadline: November 20, 2003 -- PASSED

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

Monday, 1 December 2003, 3:30PM - Pure Mathematics, MC 4060

Razvan Anisca: -- An irregularity in the class of weak Hilbert spaces
 

Monday, 1 December 2003, 3:30PM - Applied Mathematics, Math & Computer, Room 5158

Dr. David Gomez: -- A new vision on super-integrable many-body problems
 

Tuesday, 2 December 2003, 9:00AM - Computer Science , DC 1331

Yinghua (Silvia) Jia: -- Run-time Management for Feature Interaction
 

Tuesday, 2 December 2003, 4:00PM - Combinatorics and Optimization, Math & Computer 6091A

Prof. Hristo S. Sendov: -- Generalized Hadamard Product and the Derivatives of Spectral Functions
 

Thursday, 4 December 2003, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization, Math & Computer, Room 5136

Professor B. Richter: -- Spanning Trees and Cycle Spaces in Topological Spaces
 

Thursday, 4 December 2003, 3:30PM - Pure Mathematics , MC 6091A

Michael Rubinstein: -- Ranks, Random Matrix Theory, and L-function computations
 

Friday, 5 December 2003, 2:30PM - Statistics & Actuarial Science, MC5158

Dr. Peter Song: -- Maximization by Parts in Likelihood Inference
 

Friday, 5 December 2003, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization, Math & Computer, Room 5158

Tom McCormick: -- Better Algorithms for Bisubmodular Function Minimization
 

Thursday, 11 December 2003, 2:00PM - Combinatorics and Optimization, MC 5136

Qing Xiang: -- The invariant factors of the incidence matrix of points and linear subspaces in $PG(n,q)$
 

Friday, 12 December 2003, 2:00PM - Computer Science, DC 1331

Hossein H.S. Attar: -- Alternative Architectures and Protocols for Providing Strong Consistency in Dynamic Web Caching
 

Friday, 12 December 2003, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization, MC 5158

Charles Johnson: -- Eigenvalues, Multiplicities and Graphs
 

10. Lab Cleanup