Meeting Agenda

Date:	March 26th
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	1:30
Chair:	Jie Xu

0. Attendances

1. Changes to the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Jaime Ruiz- thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: School Achievement Awards
Coffee hour next week:: Holiday(Easter bunny)

3. Forthcoming

Date:	April 2nd	April 9th	April 16	April 23
Location:	DC 1304 1:30	DC 1304 1:30	DC 1304 10:30	DC 1304 10:30
Chair:	Paul Church	Bill Cowan	Jeff Dicker	Gabriel Esteves
Technical Presentation:	Michael Terry	Jie Xu	Paul Church	Bill Cowan

4. Technical Presentation

Martin Talbot	Title : Mmmmusic Abstract: My previous talk examined pitch. I covered some of the biological features involve in pitch perception. Most of my talk focussed on the outer and inner ears' machinery. This week, I'd like to go deeper inside the brain. I'd like to discuss the cognitive mechanisms accountable for our musical tastes: what makes our brain prefer a piece of music to another? I will adopt a cognitive neuropsychological view.

Martin Talbot

Title : Mmmmusic
Abstract:
My previous talk examined pitch. I covered some of the biological features involve in pitch perception. Most of my talk focussed on the outer and inner ears' machinery. This week, I'd like to go deeper inside the brain. I'd like to discuss the cognitive mechanisms accountable for our musical tastes: what makes our brain prefer a piece of music to another? I will adopt a cognitive neuropsychological view.

5. Discussion Items

None so far...

6. Action Items

Meet in CGL on April 23rd
June 29th lab open house

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

2007 Mar 26, 10:30 DC1304 -- Computer Science Seminar
Andrew Warfield, Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia and the Storage Architect for XenSource 
Virtual Devices for Virtual Machines

2007 Mar 28, 13:30 DC1304 -- Algorithms and Complexity Group Seminar
Meng He, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Succinct Ordinal Trees Based on Tree Covering

2007 Mar 28, 13:30 MC5158 -- Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) Group Seminar
Mridul Nandi, University of Waterloo
A simple and unified approach of proving several security notions related to indistinguishability

2007 Mar 28, 14:30 DC1331 -- Networks and Distributed Systems PhD Seminar
Reaz Ahmed, PhD candiate, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, Univ. Waterloo
Plexus: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Protocol Enabling Efficient Subset Search

2007 Mar 30, 14:00 DC1304 -- Database Research Group PhD Seminar
Mohamed Soliman, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Top-k Query Processing in Uncertain Databases

2007 Apr 03, 11:00 DC1331 -- Computer Science Master's Thesis Presentation
Denise Eng, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, Univ. Waterloo
On the Application of Photoacoustic Absorption Spectral Data to the Modeling of Leaf Optical Properties

2007 Apr 04, 13:30 DC1331 -- Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) Group Seminar
Ian Goldberg, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Improving the Robustness of Private Information Retrieval

2007 Mar 26, 3:30PM MC5136 -- Applied Mathematics
Dr. M. Vidyasagar: -- Recent Developments in the Theory of Hidden Markov Models

     
2007 Mar 27, 10:30AM MC5158 -- Applied Mathematics 
Dr. David Poulin: -- Quantum error correction beyond the standard paradigm

     
2007 Mar 27, 2:30PM MC5136B -- Applied Mathematics 
Dr. Gail Wolkowicz: -- An alternative formulation for a delayed logistic equation

    
2007 Mar 29, 4:00AM MC5136B -- Combinatorics and Optimization (Graph Theory) 
Nick Wormald: -- Sampling independent sets, and Gibbs measures.

2007 Mar 29, 1:30PM MC5045 -- Pure Mathematics (Universal Algebra Seminar)
Andrew Gilmour: -- "Flatness Properties of Acts: An Overview"

     
2007 Mar 29, 3:30PM MC5136 -- Pure Mathematics (Number Theory Seminar)
Jeongsoo Kim: -- "Computational Aspects of Wintner's Question"

     
2007 Mar 29, 4:00PM MC5158 -- Statistics & Actuarial Science 
Don McLeish: -- Using Technology in Teaching Statistics

     
2007 Mar 30, 3:30PM MC5046 -- Pure Mathematics (Geometry & Topology Seminar)
Thomas Ivey: -- "A Twistor-like Construction for Hopf Hypersurfaces in the Complex Hyperbolic Plane"

Also see other Math and CS postings.