Meeting Agenda

Date:	October 7, 2010
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	11:00
Chair:	Ben Lafreniere

1. Acceptance of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Tyler- thanks!

Coffee hour this week:

Bill

Coffee hour next week:

Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	October 14, 2010	October 21, 2010	October 28, 2010	November 4, 2010
Location:	NOT DC 1331 10:30	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 10:30	DC 1331 10:30
Chair:	Tiffany Inglis	Ed Lank	Stephen Mann	Alex Pytel
Technical Presentation:	Tiffany Inglis	Ben Lafreniere	Philippe Lamoureux	Ed Lank

4. Technical Presentation

Zainab AlMeraj

Title : Visual Explanations Abstract: I will be presenting Decarlo's paper "Visual Explanations" published in NPAR 2010. Due to overwhelming information surrounding the functioning of our human perceptual system, new ideas are being developed to address immediate improvements to automatic depiction in graphics. Decarlo proposes 'Visual explanations', representations that account for patterns in two dimensions as evidence of a visual world. This representation contains semantics about structure found in a scene that can be used to improve communicating content to viewers. Efforts towards representations are meant to improve the link between both computer graphics and perceptual sciences.

5. Discussion Items

• None so far...

6. Action Items

• Poster!
• DC 1331 is not available on October 14, but DC 1316 is. DC 1331 is not available on December 2, and neither is anything else (except perhaps the lab).

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

• Oct 01, 2010: EG11 Full paper submission
• Oct 08, 2010: EG11 STARS, Tutorials submission

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

    * 2010 Oct 07, 10:00 — Computer Science Seminar
      Subhash Suri, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
      New Directions in Algorithms and Computational Geometry
    * 2010 Oct 08, 15:30 — Programming Languages Lab PhD Seminar
      Mona Mojdeh, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
      Personalized Email Spam Filtering with Minimal or No User Training
    * 2010 Oct 12, 09:00 — Software Engineering Research Group PhD Thesis Defence
      Zarrin Langari, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., University of Waterloo
      Modelling and Analysis of Dynamic Systems
    * 2010 Oct 14, 09:30 — Database Research Group PhD Thesis Defence
      Iman Elghandour, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
      Automatic Physical Design for XML Databases
    * 2010 Oct 14, 14:30 — Database Research Group Seminar
      Alkis Polyzotis, University of California, Santa Cruz
      Semi-Automatic Index Tuning for Database Systems
    * 2010 Oct 14, 16:30 — Distinguished Lecture Series Seminar
      Madhu Sudan, MIT/Microsoft Research
      Towards Universal Semantic Communication
    * 2010 Oct 19, 13:30 — Database Research Group PhD Thesis Defence
      Yingying Tao, PhD candidat, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
      Mining Time-Changing Data Streams
    * 2010 Oct 20, 11:00 — Software Engineering Research Group PhD Thesis Defence
      Abram Hindle, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
      Evidence-Based Software Process Recovery
    * 2010 Nov 01, 13:30 — Artificial Intelligence Lab PhD Thesis Defence
      Tyrel Russell, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
      A Computational Study of Problems in Sports

Also see other Math and CS postings.

10. Lab Cleanup