Meeting Agenda


Date:	March 3, 2004
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	1:30 PM
Chair:	Michael Wasilewski

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Gabriel Moreno
Coffee hour this week:: Edwin Vane
Coffee hour next week:: ???

3. Forthcoming

Date:	March 10	March 17	March 24	March 31
Location:	DC1304	DC1304	DC1304	DC1304
Chair:	Jie Xu	Jack Wang	Damin Yao	Bryan Chan
Technical Presentation:	Edwin Vane	Michael Wasilewski	Jie Xu	Jack Wang

4. Technical Presentation

Gabriel Renaud

Title: Use of Voronoi diagrams in non-photorealistic rendering

Abstract: The definition of a Voronoi diagram is quite simple and easy to understand. However, they have many different applications in domains such as biology, chemistry, geology, terrain modeling and, of course, computer graphics. I'm going to present algorithms to efficiently compute Voronoi diagrams, and some applications of these diagrams in non-photorealistic rendering.

5. General Discussion Items

.htaccess: Somebody outside the university wanted to link to our list of conferences on the agenda (which of course is in a continual state of flux). It was suggested to use a .htaccess file to prevent Google from returning our agenda when people look for conferences. Also Mike suggested creating a separate, more fixed, page of conferences we are concerned with that could be maybe linked to. Nobody was assigned this task.
Kevin has been upgrading most of the machines in the lab to make them look more like eachother. Almost all of the machines are done now. The only ones lagging behind are fezzik, huey and inigo.
Printing should work from all linux machines now.
If you've been using gnome, your old settings may be stopping you from getting the full desktop experience. To see how to fix this, check the newsgroup posting by Stefanus.
The final surplus bin is being sent off this week. Erin wants the corner by the printers cleaned out so that we can put computers there.

6. Action List

Lab Rearrangement Update: Bill filled in for Erin with some comments. We are almost ready for the cabelling party within the lab (that is, moving computers and rewiring everything. However, two things need to happen:
- The current power system needs to be figured out; what is plugged into what and account for all the blue cables coming out of the PDS. Edwin is looking into this.
- We need a plan of where to put computers. Then we can determine where blue cables need to be laid so that every computer is plugged into the PDS in some way. Edwin and Sandrine are looking at this with Erin providing support. Anybody is free to provide input.
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

Game Developers Conference

Venue: March 22-26, 2004; San Jose Convention Center, California

GMP 2004

Venue: April 13-15, 2004, Beijing, China

SG04: 4th International Symposium on SMART GRAPHICS

Venue: May 22-24, 2004; Banff Centre, Canada
Conference URL: http://www.smartgraphics.org
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/
Camera-ready deadline: March 15, 2004

Graphics Interface 2004

Venue: May 17-19, 2004, London, Ontario
Conference URL: http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/GI2004/
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
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/
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/
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

CHI 2004

Venue: April 24-29,2004, Vienna, Austria
Conference URL: http://www.chi2004.org/

CGT 2004: Computer Game Technology Conference 2004

Venue: April 8-10 (Toronto Canada)
Conference URL: http://www.cgt.auc.ca/

CGI2004: COMPUTER GRAPHICS INTERNATIONAL 2004

Venue: June 16 -19, 2004, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece
Conference URL: http://www.ics.forth.gr/cgi2004/intro.html

SG04: 4th International Symposium on SMART GRAPHICS

Venue: May 22-24, 2004, Banff Centre, Canada
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
Camera ready copy: March 5, 2004
Conference URL: http://www-human.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/vr04w2/

8. Directors' Meeting

Was there one?

9. Seminars and Events

Wednesday, 3 March 2004, 4:00PM - Faculty of Mathematics , MC 5158: Prof. Nancy Day: -- Formal Methods: Don't Leave Here Without Them!
Thursday, 4 March 2004, 3:30PM - Statistics & Actuarial Science , MC5158: Paul Marriott: -- Mixture models and Geometry
Thursday, 4 March 2004, 3:30PM - Pure Mathematics , MC 6091A: David McKinnon: -- Rational approximations of rational points
Friday, 5 March 2004, 2:00PM - Computer Science (Databases Group), DC 1331: Lukasz Golab, Ph.D. Candidate: -- Querying Sliding Windows over On-Line Data Streams
Friday, 5 March 2004, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization , MC 5158: Bertrand Guenin: -- Coloring graphs that do not contain $K_5$ as an odd minor