MEETING-DATE:December 6th, 2006 MEETING-LOCATION:DC 1304 MEETING-TIME:10:30 MEETING-CHAIR:Andrew Lauritzen MEETING-CHAIRPIC:andrew.jpg COFFEE-HOUR-LAST-WEEK:Alex (thanks!) COFFEE-HOUR-THIS-WEEK:Volunteers? COFFEE-HOUR-NEXT-WEEK:Andrew FORTH-DATE1:December 13th FORTH-DATE2:December 20th FORTH-DATE3:January 3rd FORTH-DATE4:January 10th FORTH-LOCATION1:DC 1304 10:30 FORTH-LOCATION2:DC 1304 10:30 FORTH-LOCATION3:DC 1304 10:30? FORTH-LOCATION4:DC 1304 10:30 FORTH-CHAIR1:Vladimir Levin FORTH-CHAIR2:Yi Lin FORTH-CHAIR3:Robin Liu FORTH-CHAIR4:Curtis Luk FORTH-CHAIRPIC1:nopic.gif FORTH-CHAIRPIC2:y9lin.jpg FORTH-CHAIRPIC3:ybliu.jpg FORTH-CHAIRPIC4:nopic.gif FORTH-TP1:Ed Lank FORTH-TP2:Andrew Lauritzen FORTH-TP3:Vladimir Levin FORTH-TP4:Yi Lin FORTH-TPPIC1:ed.jpg FORTH-TPPIC2:andrew.jpg FORTH-TPPIC3:nopic.gif FORTH-TPPIC4:y9lin.jpg TPNAME:Alex Kalaidjian TPTITLE:Bob Ross: A mild-mannered hippie, or artistic genius? TPABSTRACT:There are no mistakes, only crappy tech-talks. TPPIC:alexk.jpg DIONE: DITWO: DITHREE: DIFOUR: AIONE:Christmas Party: (When?) Bill Cowan's House? (Directions?) AITWO: AITHREE: AIFOUR: DMONE:One supposedly occurred! DMTWO: DMTHREE: DMFOUR: SEMINARS:
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