Meeting Agenda

Date:	October 20, 2011
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	11:30
Chair:	Bill Cowan

1. Acceptance of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

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

3. Forthcoming

Date:	October 27, 2011	November 3, 2011	November 10, 2011
Location:	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30
Chair:	Elodie Fourquet	Tiffany Inglis	Craig Kaplan	Ben Lafreniere
Technical Presentation:	Edgar Bering	Bill Cowan	Elodie Fourquet	Tiffany Inglis

4. Technical Presentation

Zainab AlMeraj	Title : Inquiry into aesthetic and similarity measurements of geometric arrangements Abstract: In the talk I will go over some existing works that deal with point arrangements and similarity experiments in an attempt to reach an understanding of what similarity is in the context of geometric arrangements. I touch on vision and some psychophysical paradigms and then go over some means of quantifying the similarity for these arrangements. I will end the talk with a few discussion questions.

Zainab AlMeraj

Title : Inquiry into aesthetic and similarity measurements of geometric arrangements
Abstract:
In the talk I will go over some existing works that deal with point arrangements and similarity experiments in an attempt to reach an understanding of what similarity is in the context of geometric arrangements. I touch on vision and some psychophysical paradigms and then go over some means of quantifying the similarity for these arrangements. I will end the talk with a few discussion questions.

5. Discussion Items

Wolfgang's talk tomorrow

6. Action Items

Send PDFs of recent posters to Steve.

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

Oct 24, 2011: GD/SPM11 Conference

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

2011 Oct 21, 10:00 - Artificial Intelligence Lab Master's Thesis Presentation Yuxin Yu, Masters student, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, U of Waterloo: Mechanisms for Dynamic Setting with Restricted Allocations

2011 Oct 21, 11:30 - Artificial Intelligence Lab PhD Seminar Arthur Carvalho , PhD candidate, David R Cheriton School of Computer Science, U of Waterloo: On a Reliable Peer-Review Process

2011 Oct 21, 14:30 - Institute for Computer Research Seminar Prof. Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, Department of Computer Science, York University, Toronto: Is `Iron Man 2' Right? Re-Investigating 3D User Interfaces

Monday, 24 October 2011, 12:00PM - Computational Mathematics , Math & Computer, Room 5158, Dr. Uri Ascher: Title not available

Monday, 24 October 2011, 3:30PM - Faculty of Mathematics , M3 1006, Walter Craig: On the singular set of the Navier-Stokes equations

2011 Oct 25, 09:00 - Symbolic Computation Group PhD Thesis Defence Somayeh Moazeni, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sc., Univ. Waterloo: Optimal Execution Strategies: Uncertainty and Robustness

2011 Oct 25, 15:30 - Artificial Intelligence Lab Seminar Prof. Peter Shizgal, Concordia University Research Chair: The neural computation of utility: contributions from the study of brain stimulation reward

2011 Oct 26, 10:30 - Programming Languages Lab Seminar Sinisa Catic, Independent Consultant, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: ALGOL MMXI Universal Programming Language

2011 Oct 26, 13:30 - Algorithms and Complexity Group Seminar Alex Leong, University of Waterloo: Variations on the Erdos Discrepancy Problem

2011 Oct 27, 13:30 - Programming Languages Lab Seminar Pavel Parizek, Postdoc, School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo: Identifying Future Field Accesses in Exhaustive State Space Traversal

Also see other Math and CS postings.