MEETING-DATE:March 1, 2012 MEETING-LOCATION:DC 1331 MEETING-TIME:11:30 MEETING-CHAIR:Marta Kryven MEETING-CHAIRPIC:martaPicture.jpg COFFEE-HOUR-LAST-WEEK:Lesley and Steve COFFEE-HOUR-THIS-WEEK:Volunteers? COFFEE-HOUR-NEXT-WEEK:Volunteers? FORTH-DATE1:March 8, 2012 FORTH-DATE2:March 15, 2012 FORTH-DATE3:March 22, 2012 FORTH-DATE4:March 29, 2012 FORTH-LOCATION1:DC 1331 11:30 FORTH-LOCATION2:DC 1331 11:30 FORTH-LOCATION3:DC 1331 11:30 FORTH-LOCATION4:DC 1331 11:30 FORTH-CHAIR1:Ben Lafreniere FORTH-CHAIR2:Philippe Lamoureux FORTH-CHAIR3:Stephen Mann FORTH-CHAIR4:Lesley Northam FORTH-CHAIRPIC1:ben.jpg FORTH-CHAIRPIC2:philippe-bright.jpg FORTH-CHAIRPIC3:smann.jpg FORTH-CHAIRPIC4:LNortham.png FORTH-TP1:Craig Kaplan FORTH-TP2:Marta Kryven FORTH-TP3:Ben Lafreniere FORTH-TP4:Philippe Lamoureux FORTH-TPPIC1:craig.jpg FORTH-TPPIC2:martaPicture.jpg FORTH-TPPIC3:ben.jpg FORTH-TPPIC4:philippe-bright.jpg TPNAME:Tiffany Inglis TPTITLE:Pixel Art User Study TPABSTRACT:Brief introduction to some common practices in pixel art, results of the user study which some of you took part in. TPPIC:tiffany.jpg DIONE:Lab tour on March 13 for open house. DITWO: DITHREE: DIFOUR: AIONE:The March 1st event. Quoted from Bill ``The Day when students are invited to come to labs. Also, when we fail to meet students we want to meet we get to meet them there." AITWO:The upcoming conferences scripts need to be repaired. AITHREE: AIFOUR: DMONE: DMTWO: DMTHREE: DMFOUR: SEMINARS:>>this Friday>, 11:30am VIP seminar - E5-6004>Andrew Clinton, CGL alum and Side Effects developer>Title: Volumetric Rendering - What it Takes to Win an Oscar!>>>2012 March 6th>, 3:30 MC 5158>Dr. Bard Ermentrout, University Professor of Computational Biology, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh>Flicker Hallucinations: Faraday waves in the brain>>>2012 Mar 02>, 10:30 Symbolic Computation Group PhD Seminar>Mustafa Elsheikh, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo>Fast Computation of Smith Normal Forms of Sparse Matrices Over Local Rings>>>2012 Mar 05>, 10:30 Computer Science Seminar>Leman, Akoglu, Dept. Comp. Sci., Carnegie Mellon University>Large-scale Graph Analytics: Patterns, Anomalies, and Tools>>>2012 Mar 07>, 08:30 Database Research Group Master's Thesis Presentation>Mina (Fathy) Farid, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo>Query Optimization for On-Demand Information Extraction Tasks over Text Databases>>>2012 Mar 07>, 13:00 Database Research Group PhD Thesis Defence>George Beskales, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo>Modeling and Querying Uncertainty in Data Cleaning >>>2012 Mar 07>, 14:30 Database Research Group PhD Seminar>Ahmed Ataullah, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo>Towards Policy-Centric Object-Relational-Modeling (ORM)>>>2012 Mar 08>, 10:15 Software Engineering Research Group PhD Seminar>Sarah Nadi, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo>Mining Kbuild to Detect Variability Anomalies in Linux>>>2012 Mar 08>, 14:00 Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) Group PhD Seminar>Ryan Henry, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo>Solving Discrete Logarithms in Smooth Order Groups with CUDA >