Meeting Agenda


Date:	December 10, 2003
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	1:30 PM
Chair:	Yi Lin

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Robin Liu
Coffee hour this week:: CGL Christmas Party!
Coffee hour next week:: ??

3. Forthcoming


Date:	December 17	January 7	January 14	January 21
Chair:	Zheng Qin	Mike McCool	Gabriel Moreno-Fortuny	Guillaume Poirier
Technical Presentation:	Erin Lester	Celine Latulipe	Yi Lin	Robin Liu

4. Technical Presentation

Aravind Krishnaswamy

Title: Rayleigh Scattering

Abstract: I will be discussing the effect of Rayleigh scattering which is the scattering of light by particles considerably smaller than the wavelength of light. I will be talking a little bit about its history, some theoretical foundation and then show its application in atmospheric models.

5. General Discussion Items

Lab meeting time for next term (Mike)

Mike had booked the lab meeting in DC 1304 from 1:30 to 2:30 pm?
(Can't get the room on January 21st or March 31st)
This time isn't good for Bill/Celine and Craig/Steve. Will try 12:30-1:30pm instead.

6. Action List

Christmas Party, December 12th

Bill's house, after 7pm, potluck.

Lab Rearrangement

News:

- The (A?) SGI console has been moved out of the animation room and a Sun has been put in its place.

- If you don't like using the sun machines because you dislike the window manager, you can rlogin (set the machine) to snug when logging in and then you will be able to use gnome as your window manager.

- Rob suggests building a room divider in the lab out of toasters -- this will warm up the lab =)

- Please send any suggestions or requests regarding lab arrangement to Bill and Craig -- they want your suggestions

- This will now become an ongoing (weekly) item so we will add it to the lab cleanup section (which is also supposed to be an ongoing thing.. not just on Wednesdays after the lab meeting!)

qMail Conversion

Steve wondered about the director's mailing list (which apparently isn't working since the switch). Rob said he's been working on it and hopefully it should be back up and working.
Bill mentioned that someone had problems sending him mail this past Monday. Rob will look into that too after Bill forwards him the messages.

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

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
Monday, 15 December 2003, 10:30AM - Computer Science , DC 1331