Meeting Agenda

Date:	May 10th, 2006
Location:	DC 2303
Time:	12:30 PM
Chair:	Eoghan (Owen) Sherry

1. Changes to the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Kevin
Coffee hour this week:: ???
Coffee hour next week:: ???

3. Forthcoming

Date:	May 17th	May 24th	May 31st	April 7th
Location:	DC 2303	DC 2303	DC 1304	DC 1304
Chair:	Robin Liu	Martin Talbot	Mike Terry	Jie Xu
Technical Presentation:	Kevin Moule	Eoghan Sherry	Robin Liu	Martin Talbot

4. Technical Presentation

Stephen Mann	Title: A Blossoming Derivation of Foward Differencing Abstract: Forward differencing is an efficient method of evaluating polynomial curves at a uniform set of samples. Derivations of forward differencing tend to be based on the monomials and tend to be coordinate based. In this talk, I derive the forward differencing formulas from the blossom of a polynomial curve, giving a coordinate free formulation of foward differencing.

Stephen Mann

Title: A Blossoming Derivation of Foward Differencing

Abstract:
Forward differencing is an efficient method of evaluating polynomial curves at a uniform set of samples. Derivations of forward differencing tend to be based on the monomials and tend to be coordinate based. In this talk, I derive the forward differencing formulas from the blossom of a polynomial curve, giving a coordinate free formulation of foward differencing.

5. General Discussion Items

6. Action Items

DC1304 will be unavailable on the following dates:

May 17th, June 14th, August 9th and August 16th.
GI: Who's going? Is carpooling a good idea?
Steve, Robin, Jie, Celine, Ed, Curtis so far.
Kaleidescape will be hosting the CGL coffee hour on May 26th. Food and entertainment will be provided.

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

2006 May 10, 13:30 - Algorithms and Complexity Group Seminar
Matthew Skala, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Distance Permutations in Euclidean Spaces
2006 May 12, 11:30 - Artificial Intelligence Lab PhD Seminar
Georgia Kastidou, PhD Candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
An approach for delivering personalized ads in interactive TV customized to both users and advertisers
2006 May 15, 13:30 - Computer Science Master's Thesis Presentation
Li Xiao, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University Waterloo
Valuing Hedge Fund Fees
2006 May 15, 15:30 - Computer Science Master's Thesis Presentation
Jason Skomorowski, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, Univ. Waterloo
Topical Opinion Retrieval
2006 May 18, 14:30 - Cryptography Group Seminar
Douglas Stebila, University of Waterloo
Unified Point Addition Formulae and Side-Channel Attacks
2006 May 19, 11:30 - Artificial Intelligence Lab PhD Seminar
Martin Talbot, PhD Candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Trajectory Capture in Frontal Plane Geometry For The Visually Impaired
2006 May 19, 14:00 - Database Research Group PhD Seminar
Qiang Wang, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, Univ. Waterloo
P2P tree overlays and in-network query processing

Also see other Math and CS postings.