MEETING-DATE:April 26, 2012
MEETING-LOCATION:DC 1331
MEETING-TIME:11:30
MEETING-CHAIR:Bill Cowan
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COFFEE-HOUR-LAST-WEEK:Tiffany
COFFEE-HOUR-THIS-WEEK:Matthew
COFFEE-HOUR-NEXT-WEEK:Volunteers?
FORTH-DATE1:May 3, 2012
FORTH-DATE2:May 10, 2012
FORTH-DATE3:May 17, 2012
FORTH-DATE4:May 26, 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:Zainab AlMeraj
FORTH-CHAIR2:Grace Yao
FORTH-CHAIR3:Elodie Fourquet
FORTH-CHAIR4:Tiffany Inglis
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FORTH-TP1:Matthew Thorne
FORTH-TP2:Bill Cowan
FORTH-TP3:Zainab AlMeraj
FORTH-TP4:Grace Yao
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TPNAME:Alex Pytel
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DIONE:Next term's lab meetings at 11.30.
DITWO:From <it> Physics Today </it><nl><nl>Commentary: Too many authors, too few creators<nl><nl>A few years ago, Robert Fefferman, dean of physical sciences at the University of Chicago, made an interesting remark. He mentioned that Enrico Fermi, wanting to encourage individual creativity and innovation, required his PhD students to select their problem, solve it, and submit the results for publication in their name alone.<nl><nl>(Even if it does contain the evil I-word.)<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>  Survived another round.
AITWO:Lab Retreat - update?
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SEMINARS:<dl><nl><dt>, 10:00 — Scientific Computation Group Master's Thesis Presentation<nl>Jiong Xi, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo</dt><nl><dd>A Gradual Non-Convexation Penalty Method for Minimizing VaR</dd><nl></dl><nl><nl><nl><dl><nl><dt>, 10:00 — Artificial Intelligence Lab PhD Seminar<nl>John Champaign, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton Schoo of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo</dt><nl><dd>An Annotations Approach to Peer Tutoring Incorporating the Modeling of Reputation</dd><nl></dl><nl><nl><dl><nl><dt>Apr 30, 13:30 — Artificial Intelligence Lab PhD Thesis Defence<nl>John Champaign, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton Schoo of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo</dt><nl><dd>Peer-Based Intelligent Tutoring Systems: A Corpus-Oriented Approach</dd><nl></dl><nl><nl><dl><nl><dt>May 01, 11:00 — Artificial Intelligence Lab Seminar<nl>Gordon McCalla, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan</dt><nl><dd>Learning in Context: From Peer Help to Lifelong Learning</dd><nl></dl><nl><nl><dl><nl><dt>May 01, 16:30 — Distinguished Lecture Series Seminar<nl>Jeannette Wing, President's Professor, and Head of Comp. Sci., Dept., Carnegie Mellon University</dt><nl><dd>Computational Thinking: a radically new oxymoron recently discovered near the source of the Brahmaputra.</dd><nl></dl><nl><nl><dl><nl><dt>first line</dt><nl><dd>second line</dd><nl></dl><nl><nl><dl><nl><dt>first line</dt><nl><dd>second line</dd><nl></dl><nl><nl><nl><nl><nl><nl><nl><nl><nl><nl><nl><nl>2012 Apr 26, 10:00 — Scientific Computation Group Master's Thesis Presentation<nl>Jiong Xi, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo<nl>A