Meeting Agenda


Date:	February 4, 2004
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	1:30 PM
Chair:	Tibi

0. Attendance

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Erin
Coffee hour this week:: Shalini
Coffee hour next week:: Stefanus Du Toit

3. Forthcoming

Date:	February 11	February 18	February 25	March 3
Location:	DC1304	DC1304	DC1304	DC1304
Chair:	Zheng Qin	Gabriel Renaud	Edwin Vane	Michael Wasilewski
Technical Presentation:	Kevin Moule	Tiberiu Popa	Zheng Qin	Gabriel Renaud

4. Technical Presentation

Gabo "blue steel"

Title: Global Illumination using Pre-Filtered Environment Maps

Abstract: It is possible to use an pre-filtered environment map to simulate the incident light that is used in the calculation of a BRDF using a model similar to the generalized Lafortune lobe. In this presentation we will see the mathematics of this method as well as some implementation examples.

5. General Discussion Items

6. Action List

Lab Rearrangement: Erin?

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. Erin and Sandrin found out the requirements: "Each user has to be identifiable when it is logged to the CGL network". Stay tune for the implementation details of this policy.

Back-ups against disaster, recovery plan: even though there are nightly incremental back-ups, each individual is encouraged to save his/her important data on a DVD (Nemesis, when it works, can burn DVDs).

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...

Nemesis: virus + re-installation news... Nemesis will get reinstalled tomorrow;make sure you remove all usefull data from it (especially video footage...)

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 -- PASSED
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 - PASSED
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

UIST 2004:

Venue: October 24-27, 2004, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Deadline for Paper Submissions ans Technotes: June 9, 2004

Demos and Posters: July 14, 2004

Conference URL: http://www.acm.org/uist

Symposium on Point-Based Graphics:

Venue: June 2-4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland

Electronic Abstract Submissions: April 7, 2004

Electronic Paper Submissions: April 9, 2004

Author Notification: May 10, 2004

Camera ready copy: May 17, 2004

Conference URL: http://www.point-graphics.org

The 6th Workshop on High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing (HPSEC-04)

Venue: August 15-18, 2004, Montreal, Canada

Paper Submissions: April 15, 2004

Author Notification: May 21, 2004

Camera ready copy: June 01, 2004

Conference URL: http://juliet.stfx.ca/~lyang/icpp04-hpsec/

IEEE VR 2004 Workshop Beyond Wand and Glove Based Interaction

Venue: March 28, 2004, Chicago, Hotel Intercontinental

Submissions: February 13, 2004

Review Decision: February 18, 2004

Camera ready copy: March 5, 2004

Conference URL: http://www-human.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/vr04w2/

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

Wednesday, 4 February 2004, 5:00PM - Statistics & Actuarial Science , MC5158
Alexander Potapchik: -- Implementation of Niederreiter-Xing Sequences

Thursday, 5 February 2004, 10:30AM - Computer Science , DC1331
Ping Xie: -- Convex-Event Based Offline Event-Predicate Detection

Friday, 6 February 2004, 1:30PM - Pure Mathematics , MC 5045
Remus Floricel: -- On the structure of endomorphisms of von Neumann algebras

Friday, 6 February 2004, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization , MC 5158
Etienne de Klerk: -- Progress on Turan's brick factory problem

Monday, 9 February 2004, 2:00PM - Computer Science , DC 1316
Emily Xu: -- The Use of Internal and External Functional Domains to Improve Transmembrane Protein Topology Prediction

Monday, 9 February 2004, 3:30PM - Computer Science (SE-Software Engineering Group), DC3314

Ann Zimmer: -- Distributed Feature Composition: DFC an overview

Tuesday, 10 February 2004, 3:30PM - Statistics & Actuarial Science , MC5136
Prof. Guangzhe Fan: -- Regression and Survival Tree Analysis with Randomly Generated and Evolved Trees

10. Lab Cleanup !