MEETING-DATE:April 5, 2012
MEETING-LOCATION:DC 1331
MEETING-TIME:11:30
MEETING-CHAIR:Simon Parent
MEETING-CHAIRPIC:Simon.png
COFFEE-HOUR-LAST-WEEK:Phil
COFFEE-HOUR-THIS-WEEK:Easter Bunny
COFFEE-HOUR-NEXT-WEEK:Grace
FORTH-DATE1:April 12, 2012
FORTH-DATE2:April 19, 2012
FORTH-DATE3:April 26, 2012
FORTH-DATE4:May 3, 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:Alex Pytel
FORTH-CHAIR2:Matthew Thorne
FORTH-CHAIR3:Grace Yao
FORTH-CHAIR4:Zainab AlMeraj
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FORTH-CHAIRPIC3:grace.jpg
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FORTH-TP1:Lesley Northam
FORTH-TP2:Simon Parent
FORTH-TP3:Alex Pytel
FORTH-TP4:Matthew Thorne
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FORTH-TPPIC2:Simon.png
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TPNAME:Stephen Mann
TPTITLE:Perspective Projection in a Conformal Model
TPABSTRACT:I will review a method of Goldman to represent perspective<nl>projection as a versor in the conformal model of geometric algebra.  This is a<nl>somewhat counter-intuitive result, since perspective projections do no<nl>preserve angles and are thus non-conformal.  Goldman's technique starts<nl>with a view direction and distance to the viewing plane, from which he<nl>constructs (with heavy use of trig functions) the eye point and projection<nl>plane, as well as the versor used for the perspective projection.  I then<nl>give some geometric intuition about Goldman's approach, and present a<nl>simplified variant that starts with the eye point and view direction,<nl>and constructs a versor for perspective projection without using trig<nl>functions.<nl>
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AIONE:Discuss Curtis' performance on Top Chef Canada.<P><nl><A HREF="http://www.foodnetwork.ca/topchefcanada/bios/-/47977/story.html"><IMG WIDTH=150 SRC="http://www.foodnetwork.ca/uploadedImages/Food_Network/Content/OnTV/Shows/Top_Chef_Canada_2/Bio/TCC_S02_avatar_0002_CURTIS.jpg?size=250x250" ALT="Curtis"></A>
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AITHREE:Fix the conference script, or just delete this item again.
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SEMINARS:<pre><nl>Wednesday, 4 April 2012, 10:30AM<nl>  Computer Science, DC 1304<nl>  Christopher Batty<nl>  Simulating Liquids for Computer Graphics and Visual Effects <nl><nl>Thursday, 5 April 2012, 3:30PM<nl>  Pure Mathematics (Number Theory Seminar), MC 5136B<nl>  Jennifer Park<nl>  Hilbert's tenth problem over number fields<nl><nl>Monday, 9 April 2012, 9:30AM<nl>  Computer Science (Database Research Group), DC 1331<nl>  Patrick Kling<nl>  Distributed XML Query Processing <nl><nl>Tuesday, 10 April 2012, 9:30AM<nl>  Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence Lab), DC 2306C(AI Lab)<nl>  John Finnson<nl>  Modeling trust in multiagent mobile vehicular ad-hoc networks through<nl>  enhanced knowledge exchange for effective travel decision making <nl><nl>Wednesday, 11 April 2012, 9:00AM<nl>  Computer Science (Information Retrieval Group), DC 2310<nl>  Mona Mojdeh<nl>  Personal Email Spam Filtering with Minimal User Interaction <nl><nl>Monday, 16 April 2012, 12:30PM<nl>  Institute for Quantum Computing, RAC1 2009<nl>  David Kaiser<nl>  How the Hippies Saved Physics <nl></pre>