Meeting Agenda

Date:	July 29th, 2009
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	1:30
Chair:	Elodie Fourquet

1. Acceptance of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Jingyuan- thanks!

Coffee hour this week:

Volunteers?

Coffee hour next week:

Elodie

3. Forthcoming

Date:	August 5th, 2009	August 12th, 2009	August 19th, 2009	August 26h, 2009
Location:	DC 1304 1:30	DC 1304 1:30	DC 1304 1:30	DC 1304 1:30
Chair:	Richard Fung	Eugene Greeene	Marshall Hahn	Jingyuan Huang
Technical Presentation:	Bill Cowan	Gabriel Esteves	Elodie Fourquet	Richard Fung

4. Technical Presentation

Steve Mann	Title : The Ghost Map Abstract: In this talk, I will review the "Ghost Map" of John Snow that mapped a cholera outbreak in 1854. In particular, I will investigate the map's significance, both with regards to this particular outbreak and as a landmark in epidemiology.

5. Discussion Items

• None so far...

6. Action Items

• The freezer was defrost. Thanks Steve!
• Think about reserving a room for next term....

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

• WSCG 2010
• CAD'10
• 3DUI

Upcoming Deadlines

• Aug 01, 2009: NPAR Conference
• Aug 03, 2009: SIGGRAPH 2009 Conference

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

2009 Jul 31, 14:00, DC 1331 - Database Research Group PhD Seminar

Patrick Kling, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo

Optimizing distributed XML queries through localization and pruning

2009 Aug 05, 15:00, DC 1304 - Bioinformatics Group Master's Thesis Presentation

Daniil Golod, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo

The k-best Paths in Hidden Markov Models. Algorithms and Applications to Transmembrane Protein Topology Recognition

Also see other Math and CS postings.

10. Lab Cleanup