Meeting Agenda

Date:	December 6th, 2006
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	10:30
Chair:	Andrew Lauritzen

1. Changes to the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Alex (thanks!)

Coffee hour this week:

Volunteers?

Coffee hour next week:

Andrew

3. Forthcoming

Date:	December 13th	December 20th	January 3rd	January 10th
Location:	DC 1304 10:30	DC 1304 10:30	DC 1304 10:30?	DC 1304 10:30
Chair:	Vladimir Levin	Yi Lin	Robin Liu	Curtis Luk
Technical Presentation:	Ed Lank	Andrew Lauritzen	Vladimir Levin	Yi Lin

4. Technical Presentation

Alex Kalaidjian	Title : Bob Ross: A mild-mannered hippie, or artistic genius? Abstract: There are no mistakes, only crappy tech-talks.

5. Discussion Items

• None so far...

6. Action Items

• Christmas Party: (When?) Bill Cowan's House? (Directions?)

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

8. Directors' Meeting

• One supposedly occurred!

9. Seminars and Events

Wednesday, 6 December 2006, 1:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization (Cryptography), DC 1331

Atefeh Mashatan: -- Noninteractive two-channel message authentication based on hybrid-collision resistant hash functions.



Friday, 8 December 2006, 2:30PM - Pure Mathematics (Universal Algebra Seminar), MC 5045

Professor Ross Willard: -- "Finite algebras with few subpowers. VI



Friday, 8 December 2006, 3:30*PM - Combinatorics and Optimization (Tutte Seminar), MC 5158

Henry Wolkowicz: -- Euclidean Distance Matrix Completions, Sensor Network Localization, and Graph Realization



Monday, 11 December 2006, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization (Cryptography), DC 1304

Daniele Micciancio: -- Ideal lattices: cryptographic applications and open problems



Wednesday, 13 December 2006, 11:00AM - Combinatorics and Optimization (Graph Theory), MC 5158

Charles Little: -- Vector spaces and the Petersen graph



2006 Dec 08, 09:30, Networks and Distributed Systems PhD Seminar

Elad Lahav, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, Univ. Waterloo - Improving user/kernel interaction in dedicated servers



2006 Dec 11, 12:00, Information Retrieval Seminar

Jeremy Barbay, AC Group, University of Waterloo - Searching in Posting Lists: cache-oblivious algorithms and succinct data-structures



2006 Dec 11, 15:30, Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) Group Seminar

Daniele Micciancio, University of California, San Diego - Ideal lattices: cryptographic applications and open problems



2006 Dec 12, 13:30, Computer Science Master's Thesis Presentation

Olga Baysal, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, Univ. Waterloo - Attaching Social Interactions Surrounding Software Changes to the Release History of an Evolving Software System



Also see other Math and CS postings.

10. Lab Cleanup