Meeting Agenda

Date:	February 5th
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	1:30
Chair:	Michael McCool

1. Changes to the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

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3. Forthcoming

Date:	February 12th	February 19th	February 26th	March 5th
Location:	DC 1304 1:30	DC 1304 10:30	DC 1304 10:30	DC 1304 10:30
Chair:	Shawn Morel	Zheng Qin	Jamie Ruiz	Christine Szentgyorgyi
Technical Presentation:	Kevin Moule	Michael McCool	Shawn Morel	Zheng Qin

4. Technical Presentation

Stephen Mann	Title : Degree Elevation of B-Spline Curves Abstract: I will explore some ideas about degree raising algorithms for B-spline curves using the blossom.

5. Discussion Items

• Internship positions available at Adobe research.
• Machine room door (Steve)
• A reminder to chairs to send email to next chair (Steve)
• PS/3 with Linux now available as "enora" (Mike)

6. Action Items

• DC 1304 not available on April 23.

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

3:30PM - Computational Mathematics , MC 5158 
Dr. Bill Hager: -- "Recent Advances in Bound Constrained Optimization" 
 
Tuesday, 6 February 2007, 3:30PM - Pure Mathematics , MC 5158 
Elias Katsoulis: -- "Operator algebras and Dynamical systems" 
 
Tuesday, 6 February 2007, 4:00PM - Combinatorics and Optimization (Combinatorial Optimization), MC 5136  
Ashkan Aazami: -- The complexity of computing a Nash equilibrium 
 
Wednesday, 7 February 2007, 10:30AM - Combinatorics and Optimization , Math & Computer, Room 5158  
Timothy Chan: -- Robust Management of Motion Uncertainty in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy 
 
Wednesday, 7 February 2007, 1:30PM - Computer Science (Algorithms and Complexity Group), DC 1304  
Alex Lopez-Ortiz: -- Closing the gap between theory and practice: A refined framework for on-line algorithm analysis 
 
Wednesday, 7 February 2007, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization (Graduate Student Seminar), MC5136  
Lino Demasi / Siddharth Rajaram: -- Colouring Infinite Graphs / The Vertex-Weighted Steiner Tree Polytope 
 
Thursday, 8 February 2007, 10:30AM - Combinatorics and Optimization , Math & Computer, Room 5158  
Andrew Childs: -- Quantum algorithms and quantum state identification 
 
Thursday, 8 February 2007, 1:30PM - Pure Mathematics (Universal Algebra Seminar), MC 5045  
R. Willard: -- Algebras with few subpowers. VIII 
 
Friday, 9 February 2007, 2:30PM - Pure Mathematics (Analysis Seminar), MC 5136  
Mitja Mastnak: -- "Approximate Permutability of Traces on Semigroups of Matrices 
 
Friday, 9 February 2007, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization (Tutte Seminar), MC 5158  
Karen Meagher: -- Extensions of the Erd\H{o}s-Ko-Rado Theorem to Systems of Partitions 

Also see other Math and CS postings.

10. Lab Cleanup