Meeting Agenda

Date:	February 25th, 2009
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	1:30 PM
Chair:	Richard Fung

1. Changes to the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Eugene- thanks!

Coffee hour this week:

Zainab

Coffee hour next week:

Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	March 4th	March 11th	March 18th	March 25th
Location:	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30
Chair:	Eugene Greene	Marshal Hahn	Matthew Kay	Craig Kaplan
Technical Presentation:	Elodie Fourquet	Richard Fung	Eugene Greene	Marshall Hahn

4. Technical Presentation

Gabriel Esteves	Title : Languages for probabilistic programming Abstract: Programming languages that explicitly deal with uncertain quantities has been an active area of research since the late 70s. In this talk, I present some of the current thinking in this area, in particular in the context of robotics applications.

5. Discussion Items

• None so far...

6. Action Items

• Thursday February, 26th and Friday, February 27th Grad Students Open House - Lab tour at 2:30 both days
• Undergrads Open House - Tuesday, 17th March Lab tour from 12:00 to 13:30
• Volunteers are needed to share the demos load required for lab tours
• iPerimeter Institute Talk: Mar. 4 2:00 pm Rob Cook from Pixar

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

2009 Feb 25, 10:30 — Computer Science Seminar

Zeeshan Syed, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, MIT and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology

2009 Feb 25, 13:30 — Algorithms and Complexity Group PhD Seminar Computational Methods for Physiological Data

Zhi Xu, PhD Candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo Decision Problems For Convex Languages

2009 Feb 27, 11:30 — Artificial Intelligence Lab PhD Seminar
Lachlan Dufton, PhD Candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo Extending Environment Design to a Multiagent Setting

Also see other Math and CS postings.

10. Lab Cleanup