Meeting Minutes


Date:	January 21, 2004
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	1:30 PM
Chair:	Robin

0. Attendance

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Yi Lin
Coffee hour this week:: Stefanus Du Toit
Coffee hour next week:

3. Forthcoming

Date:	January 28	February 4	February 11	February 18
Location:	DC1304	DC1304	DC1304	DC1304
Chair:	Guillaume Poirier	Tiberiu Popa	Zheng Qin	Gabriel Renaud
Technical Presentation:	Michael McCool	Gabo	Kevin Moule	Tiberiu Popa

4. Technical Presentation

Yingbin Liu

Title: Graphics of Chinese New Year

Abstract: Today is the Chinese New Year I will talk about some traditional graphics art in China

5. General Discussion Items

Since SPAM is being sent to chair@cgl, we have set up procmail to only accept mail from uwaterloo.ca accounts or messages with "CGL:" in the subject line.

There is a new machine in the lab: Huey.

6. Action List

Lab Rearrangement: Recent News? On deck: Mud and Spinneret share a console, this causes issues on boot. Seeking an ambitious lab member to cannibalize together a linux machine to act as console. Resolved. Edwin Vane volunteered and Rob Kroeger will be helping him.

Need to set net access for laptops. Net access has been fixed, but it must be made sure that it is compatible with the external university system security measures.

Visitor from York: Need to set up a date to invite William Soukoreff from York to come down and visit on a Friday. Need to find an appropriate date...

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

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 -- PASSED
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

SG04: 4th International Symposium on SMART GRAPHICS

Venue: May 22-24, 2004, Banff Centre, Canada
Submission deadline: Feb 09, 2004
Notification of review results: Feb 23, 2004
Camera ready copy due: Mar 01,2004
Conference URL: http://www.smartgraphics.org
Venue URL: http://www.banffcentre.ca

GRAPHICS HARDWARE 2004

Venue: August 29 - 30, 2004, Grenoble, France
Deadline for abstract submissions: April 8
Deadline for paper submissions: April 15
Notification of acceptance: May 21
Camera-ready papers due: June 10
Deadline for Hot 3D systems abstracts: July 15
Final Hot3D presentations due: August 16
Conference URL: http://www.graphicshardware.org

Symposium on COMPUTER ANIMATION (SCA)

Venue: August 27-29, 2004, Grenoble, France
Deadline for Abstract Submissions: April 9, 2004
Firm Deadline for Paper Submissions: April 16, 2004
Notification to Authors: June 1, 2004
Deadline for Camera Ready Copy and Animation Files: June 18, 2004
Conference URL: http://hms.upenn.edu/SCA04

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

Thursday, 22 January 2004, 10:00AM - Computer Science , MC 5158
Brent Ishibashi: -- Forward Focus: Medium Access Control for Ad hoc Networks

Thursday, 22 January 2004, 10:00AM - Computer Science , MC 5158
Brent Ishibashi: -- Forward Focus: Medium Access Control for Ad hoc Networks

Thursday, 22 January 2004, 10:00AM - Computer Science , MC 5158
Brent Ishibashi: -- Forward Focus: Medium Access Control for Ad hoc Networks

Friday, 23 January 2004, 2:00PM - Computer Science , MC 5158
Lehui Nie: -- Efficient XQuery Processing using B+ Tree Indices

Monday, 26 January 2004, 3:00PM - Computer Science , DC 1304
Mark Cieliebak: -- Efficient Protein Identification Techniques

Thursday, 29 January 2004, 1:00PM - Computer Science , DC 1304
Jack Chi: -- Virtual Frameworks for Source Migration

10. Lab Cleanup