Meeting Agenda


Date:	March 31, 2004
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	1:30 PM
Chair:	Bryan Chan

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Erin
Coffee hour this week:: Alex
Coffee hour next week:: ??

3. Forthcoming

Date:	April 7	April 14	April 21	April 28
Location:	DC1304	DC1304	DC1304	DC1304
Chair:	Alex Clarke	Bill Cowan	Stefanus Du Toit	Elodie Fourquet
Technical Presentation:	Daming Yao	Bryan Chan	Alex Clarke	Bill Cowan

4. Technical Presentation

Jack Wang

Title: Frame Mapping Using Sh

Abstract: Frame Mapping is a natural extension to bump mapping where the entire surface frame is perturbed in an anisotropic lighting model to produce brush metal effects. This talk describes ways to implement frame mapping using the Sh shading language.

5. General Discussion Items

Alias is hiring:
- Alias has two open software engineer positions for StudioTools. See uw.cgl for details.

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.
- Started cleaning the machine room, we should be reducing the number of boxes in there.
- Erin and Sandrin are looking into setting up proper laptop access in the lab.

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

Friday, 2 April 2004, 1:30PM - Pure Mathematics , MC 5045: Michael Burns: -- Subfactors and Planar Algebras
Friday, 2 April 2004, 3:30PM - Applied Mathematics , Math & Computer, Room 5136: Dr. M. Trummer: -- Spectral Differencing with a Twist
Friday, 2 April 2004, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization , MC 5158: David Wagner: -- Matroids that behave like electrical networks