Meeting Agenda

Date:	January 5th, 2005
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	1:30 PM
Chair:	Bill (filling in for Michael)

1. Changes to the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: New Year's Eve Party
Coffee hour this week:: TBD
Coffee hour next week:: TBD

3. Forthcoming

Date:	January 12th	January 19th	January 26th	February 2nd
Location:	DC1304	DC1304	DC1304	DC1304
Chair:	Michael McCool	Gabriel Moreno	Kevin Moule	Zheng Qin
Technical Presentation:	Stephen Mann	Michael McCool	Gabriel Moreno	Kevin Moule

4. Technical Presentation

Robin Liu

Title: A Simple Manifold-Based Construction of Surfaces of Arbitrary Smoothness

Abstract: This is a paper from SIGGRAPH'04. It presents a method to construct a surface with infinite continuity, using the manifold approach. The manifold modeling is firstly introduced by Grimm & Hughes in 1995, which is an extension of B-splines to surfaces of arbitrary topology. This technique has some nice properties of B-Spline, such as local control, and guaranteed continuity of arbitrary degree. The surface is specified using a polyhedral control mesh instead of a rectangular one.The domain of surface is modeled with a manifold whose topology matches that of the polyhedral mesh.

5. General Discussion Items

Should we change the lab meeting time? Mike teaches CS488 at 1:30pm MWF.

6. Action Items

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

Monday, 10 January 2005, 12:00PM to 1:30PM - MC2066: Waterloo Software Community Lunch Seminar, The Realities of the Wireless World, David Yach, RIM
Wednesday, 5 January 2005, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization , MC 5136: #1 Joseph Young #2 Martha Yip #3 Minyan Ni: -- #1 A Cutting Plane Method for Semidefinite Programming #2 Not all knots are classical #3 Full $2^m$ designs