Meeting Agenda

Date:	November 8th, 2006
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	10:30
Chair:	Gabe Esteves

1. Changes to the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Curtis Luk - thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: Jeff Dicker
Coffee hour next week:: ???

3. Forthcoming

Date:	November 15th	November 22nd	November 29th	December 6th
Location:	DC 1304 10:30	DC 1304 10:30	DC 1304 10:30	DC 1304 10:30
Chair:	Elodie Fourquet	Alex Kalaidjian	Ed Lank	Andrew Lauritzen
Technical Presentation:	Jeff Dicker	Gabriel Esteves	Elodie Fourquet	Alex Kalaidjian

4. Technical Presentation

Bill Cowan	Title: Counting states Abstract: When group theory is used to provide an abstract model of the affordances of a user interface we get the counter-intuitive result that the number of states in an interface strongly determines its possible structures. This talk will discuss how states are counted, showing that the result is exactly what we expect, and not counter-intuitive at all, preparing us to take advantage of the complete classification of the finite groups.

Bill Cowan

Title: Counting states

Abstract: When group theory is used to provide an abstract model of the affordances of a user interface we get the counter-intuitive result that the number of states in an interface strongly determines its possible structures. This talk will discuss how states are counted, showing that the result is exactly what we expect, and not counter-intuitive at all, preparing us to take advantage of the complete classification of the finite groups.

5. Discussion Items

The Intelligent Vision and Reasoning Department at Siemens Corporate Research (SCR) in Princeton, NJ currently hasB research scientist job opportunities available in 3DB rendering/ geometric computing. Ideal candidates would have a PhD, research experience and publications in 3D rendering / geometric modeling, and strong programming skills using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and OpenGL. Internships for Master's and PhD students (typically lasting three to six months depending on student availability) also available.

6. Action Items

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

2006 Nov 08, 13:30 Algorithms and Complexity Group Seminar: Narad Rampersad, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Words avoiding repetitions in arithmetic progressions
2006 Nov 10, 12:00 Waterloo Formal Methods PhD Seminar: Ann Zimmer, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, Univ. Waterloo
Feature Algebra
2006 Nov 24, 12:30 Artificial Intelligence Lab Seminar: Harold Boley, University of New Brunswick and Insti. for Information Technology, Nat. Res.Council of Canada
Rule-based Social Networking for Expert Finding

Also see other Math and CS postings.