Meeting Agenda

Date:	May 19, 2011
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	11:30
Chair:	Zainab AlMeraj

1. Acceptance of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

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

3. Forthcoming

Date:	May 26	June 2	June 9	June 16
Location:	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30
Chair:	Xinling Chen	Bill Cowan	Edgar Bering	Eugene Green
Technical Presentation:	Mike Terry	Zainab AlMeraj	Xinling Chen	Elodie Fourquet

4. Technical Presentation

Matthew Thorne	Title : Making Comics: A Hands-On Experience Abstract: Abstract: Ever wanted to make a comic, or wondered how? Well wonder no more! For in this presentation I shall take you through the steps that I have recently followed in my own personal comic making exercise! Come and experience the journey from the initial script to a finished page. Share in the joy and pain, the sweat and tears and the trials and tribulations of bringing a comic page to life as I discuss thumbnails, character design, drawing the page, the tools and some reflections on the whole process.

Matthew Thorne

Title : Making Comics: A Hands-On Experience
Abstract:
Abstract: Ever wanted to make a comic, or wondered how? Well wonder no more! For in this presentation I shall take you through the steps that I have recently followed in my own personal comic making exercise! Come and experience the journey from the initial script to a finished page. Share in the joy and pain, the sweat and tears and the trials and tribulations of bringing a comic page to life as I discuss thumbnails, character design, drawing the page, the tools and some reflections on the whole process.

5. Discussion Items

None so far...

6. Action Items

Poster update: "no update is good update" (inspired from "no news is good news") Actually from Cherry via email

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

May 20, 2011: ISVC'11 Paper submissions

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

2011 May 20, 3:30 MC 5158- Combinatorics and Optimization Seminar: Igor Shparlinski, Macquarie University; Graphs and Matrices with Integral Spectrum in Some Families

2011 May 24, 12:00 RAC 2009- Institute for Quantum Computing Seminar: Ansis Rosmanis, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo; Complete Characterization of the Fixed Space of Completely Positive Trace Preserving Super-operators

2011 May 26, 10:30 DC 1302- Computer Science Seminar: Parthasarathy (Partha) Ranganathan, Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA; Saving the world together, one server at a time

2011 May 27, 3:00 DC 1304- Bioinformatics Group PhD Seminar: Richard Jang, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo; Combining Automated Peak Tracking in SAR by NMR with Structure-Based Backbone Assignment from 15N-NOESY

Also see other Math and CS postings.