MEETING-DATE:November 29, 2012 MEETING-LOCATION:DC 1331 MEETING-TIME:11:30 MEETING-CHAIR:Marta Kryven MEETING-CHAIRPIC:martaPicture.jpg COFFEE-HOUR-LAST-WEEK:Elodie COFFEE-HOUR-THIS-WEEK:Bill COFFEE-HOUR-NEXT-WEEK:Volunteers? FORTH-DATE1:December 6, 2012 FORTH-DATE2:December 13, 2012 FORTH-DATE3:December 20, 2012 FORTH-DATE4:December 27, 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:Tiffany Inglis FORTH-CHAIR2:Craig Kaplan FORTH-CHAIR3:Bill Cowan FORTH-CHAIR4:Stephen Mann FORTH-CHAIRPIC1:tiffany.jpg FORTH-CHAIRPIC2:cr.jpg FORTH-CHAIRPIC3:cowan_unflipped.gif FORTH-CHAIRPIC4:mann.jpg FORTH-TP1:Bill Cowan FORTH-TP2:Elodie Fourquet FORTH-TP3:Tiffany Inglis FORTH-TP4:Craig Kaplan FORTH-TPPIC1:cowan_unflipped.gif FORTH-TPPIC2:elodie.jpg FORTH-TPPIC3:tiffany.jpg FORTH-TPPIC4:cr.jpg TPNAME:Zainab AlMeraj TPTITLE:Brief examples of 2D/3D Shape representation for modelling purposes TPABSTRACT:In search for a representation style for 2D shapes I came across many. I will go over shape representation and some of the different representation styles using in 3D and 2D research. TPPIC:zainab.jpg DIONE:Lunch for Elodie on Monday, December 5 DITWO:Christmas party 15th of December DITHREE: DIFOUR: AIONE: AITWO: AITHREE: AIFOUR: LEONE: LETWO:11:30 LETHREE:11:30 LEFOUR: DMONE: DMTWO: DMTHREE: DMFOUR: SEMINARS:
Thursday, Nov. 29 2012
        PhD Defence/Computer Graphics Research Group        ``Perspective in Two Dimensions for Computer Graphics''        Elodie Fourquet, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton        School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo        1:00 p.m.; DC 2310
Thursday, 29 November 2012, 3:30PM -- MC 5136B
   Number Theory Seminar Seminar -- Pure Mathematics          Speaker: Jerry Wang, Harvard University          Title: ""Pencils of quadrics and 2-Selmer groups of Jacobians of          hyperelliptic curves""
Friday, 30 November 2012, 3:30PM -- MC 5158
   Tutte Seminar Seminar -- Combinatorics and Optimization          Speaker: Marcus Appleby, Queen Mary - University of London          Title: "Galois Symmetries of SIC-POVM"
Friday, 30 November 2012, 3:30PM -- MC 5136
   Analysis Seminar Seminar -- Pure Mathematics          Speaker: Chun Kit Lai, McMaster University          Title: "Fourier frames on general measure spaces"
Friday, Nov. 30, 2012
        PhD Defence/Databases Research Group        ``Query Interactions in Database Systems''        Mumtaz Ahmad, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton        School of Comp. Sci.,  Univ. Waterloo        9:30 a.m.; DC 231011:30        Artificial Intelligence Seminar        ``Exploring the incentives of electricity market participants''        Michael Pavlin, Assistant Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University        11:30 .m.; DC 2306C (AI Lab)        PhD Seminar/CACR/CrySP Research Group        ``Enhancing Tor's Performance using Real-time Traffic        Classification''        Mashael Alsabah, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton        School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo        2:30 p.m.; DC 1302
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
        Master's Thesis Presentation/Databases Research Group        ``PStorM:   Profile Storage and Matching for Feedback-Based        Tuning of MapReduce Jobs''        Mostafa Ead, graduate student, David R. Cheriton        School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo        2:30 p.m.; DC 1331
Tuesday, December 11, 2012cember 10, 2012
    Programming Languages Research Group    ``Approximate Call Graphs for JavaScript''    Max Schaefer, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center    10:30 a.m.;  DC 2585
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
    PhD Defence/Databases Research Group    ``Scalable and Highly Available Database Systems in the Cloud ''    Umar Farooq Minhas, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton    School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo    9:00 a.m.; MC 2009