Meeting Agenda

Date:	August 12th, 2009
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	13:30
Chair:	Richard Fung

1. Acceptance of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Eugene- thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: Volunteers?
Coffee hour next week:: Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	August 19th, 2009	August 26h, 2009	September 2, 2009	September 9, 2009
Location:	DC 1304 1:30	DC 1304 1:30	DC 1304 1:30	DC 1304 1:30
Chair:	Marshall Hahn	Matt Kay	Craig Kaplan	Kate Kinnear
Technical Presentation:	Elodie Fourquet	Richard Fung	Eugene Greene	Marshall Hahn

4. Technical Presentation

Gabriel Esteves	Title : Structural Hidden Markov Models Abstract: Fitting a process to a HMM provides an effective means of process description. When it comes to interpretation or control, assigning physical meaning to the states of the HMM can be problematic. This situation can be overcome by including high-level information in the inference process. The result is the so-called "Structural" HMM. In this talk I will briefly present the formalism and applicable parameter inferencing techniques.

Gabriel Esteves

Title : Structural Hidden Markov Models
Abstract:
Fitting a process to a HMM provides an effective means of process description. When it comes to interpretation or control, assigning physical meaning to the states of the HMM can be problematic. This situation can be overcome by including high-level information in the inference process. The result is the so-called "Structural" HMM. In this talk I will briefly present the formalism and applicable parameter inferencing techniques.

5. Discussion Items

None so far...

6. Action Items

Next term's lab meeting will be in the same room at the same time.

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

2009 Aug 12, 13:30 Algorithms and Complexity Group PhD Seminar
Krishnam Raju Jampani, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
The Simultaneous Representation Problem for Chordal, Compatability and Permutation Graphs

Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 2:00PM Pure Mathematics (Working Geometry), Math & Computer, Room 5046 
Yiannis Loizides
The Yang-Mills Equations

Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 2:00PM Pure Mathematics (Working Geometry), Math & Computer, Room 5046
Nat Leung
Special Lagrangian Geometry

Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 3:30PM Combinatorics and Optimization (Undergraduate Research), MC 5136B 
Will Ma
Triangle Packing and Covering

2009 Aug 14, 13:00 Networks and Distributed Systems Master's Thesis Presentation
Sean Tozer, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Avoiding Bad Query Mixes to Minimize Unsuccessful Client Requests Under Heavy Loads

2009 Aug 17, 14:00 Database Research Group Master's Essay Presentation
Nan Jiang, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
A Survey of Existing Automated System Diagnosis Techniques

2009 Aug 21, 10:30 Networks and Distributed Systems PhD Seminar
Jin Xiao, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
On the role of desirability in uncooperative networks

Also see other Math and CS postings.