Meeting Agenda

Date:	March 1, 2012
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	11:30
Chair:	Marta Kryven

1. Acceptance of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Lesley and Steve- thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: Volunteers?
Coffee hour next week:: Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	March 8, 2012	March 15, 2012	March 22, 2012	March 29, 2012
Location:	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30
Chair:	Ben Lafreniere	Philippe Lamoureux	Stephen Mann	Lesley Northam
Technical Presentation:	Craig Kaplan	Marta Kryven	Ben Lafreniere	Philippe Lamoureux

4. Technical Presentation

Tiffany Inglis	Title : Pixel Art User Study Abstract: Brief introduction to some common practices in pixel art, results of the user study which some of you took part in.

5. Discussion Items

Lab tour on March 13 for open house.

6. Action Items

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."
The upcoming conferences scripts need to be repaired.

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

Mar 01, 2012: SMARTGREENS 2012 Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

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

Also see other Math and CS postings.