Meeting Agenda

Date:	March 31, 2010
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	1:30
Chair:	Andrew Seniuk

1. Acceptance of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Last week:: Cherry - thanks!
Monday=Friday:: Stephen ("but the school payed for it") - thanks!
This week:: Maxime?
Next week:: volunteers?...

3. Forthcoming

Date:	April 7, 2010	April 14, 2010	April 21, 2010	April 28, 2010
Location:	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30
Chair:	Andrew Seniuk	Martin Talbot	Mike Terry	Matthew Thorne
Technical Presentation:	Alex Pytel	Maxime Quiblier	Zainab AlMeraj	Andrew Seniuk

4. Technical Presentation

Alex Pytel	Utilizing Self-Organized Criticality for Procedural Modeling of Landscapes Many classic approaches to terrain modeling attempt to reproduce the fractal character that is appropriate for a given landform. However, few techniques provide adequate motivation for their procedure from the point of view of the dynamics of the system that the landform belongs to. This is why another common theme in terrain modeling is simulation of material erosion and transport designed specifically to produce realistic landscape features caused by fluvial and aeolian processes. Models of erosion that are characterized by self-organized criticality (SOC) are particularly practical, because they are able to relate the physical processes involved with fractal growth dynamics in an emergent way.

Alex Pytel

Utilizing Self-Organized Criticality for Procedural Modeling of Landscapes

Many classic approaches to terrain modeling attempt to reproduce the fractal character that is appropriate for a given landform. However, few techniques provide adequate motivation for their procedure from the point of view of the dynamics of the system that the landform belongs to. This is why another common theme in terrain modeling is simulation of material erosion and transport designed specifically to produce realistic landscape features caused by fluvial and aeolian processes. Models of erosion that are characterized by self-organized criticality (SOC) are particularly practical, because they are able to relate the physical processes involved with fractal growth dynamics in an emergent way.

5. Discussion Items

None so far...

6. Action Items

We need a new CGL poster to replace the ancient one.

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Upcoming Deadlines

Apr 7, 2010: SBIM paper deadline (TODAY)
Apr 9, 2010: HPG - High Performance Graphics papers (extended)
Apr 12, 2010: APGV - Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualisation papers
Apr 15, 2010: GraVisMa - Computer Graphics, Vision and Mathematics papers
Apr 26, 2010: SGP - Symposium on Geometry Processing papers
Apr 28, 2010: Vis / InfoVis / VAST workshop/tutorial proposals
May 5, 2010: TPCG - Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics papers
May 11, 2010: SIGGRAPH Asia papers
June 28, 2010: Vision, Modeling and Visualization Workshop papers (abstracts on 21st)

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

Today at 2:30 - Database Research Group PhD Seminar
"High Availability for Database Systems through Remus"
Umar Farooq Minhas, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Monday, April 12, 2010 - Artificial Intelligence Seminar
"Preference Elicitation for Risky and Intertemporal Choices"
Greg Hines, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:30 a.m.  DC 2306C (AI Lab)

Thursday, April 15, 2010
"Computational Insights into Population Biology."
Tanya Berger-Wolf, Deptartment of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago
10:30 a.m.  DC 1304

Also see other Math and CS postings.