Meeting Agenda

Date:	April 26, 2012
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	11:30
Chair:	Bill Cowan

1. Acceptance of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Tiffany- thanks!

Coffee hour this week:

Matthew

Coffee hour next week:

Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	May 3, 2012	May 10, 2012	May 17, 2012	May 26, 2012
Location:	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30
Chair:	Zainab AlMeraj	Grace Yao	Elodie Fourquet	Tiffany Inglis
Technical Presentation:	Matthew Thorne	Bill Cowan	Zainab AlMeraj	Grace Yao

4. Technical Presentation

Alex Pytel	Title : Abstract:

5. Discussion Items

• Next term's lab meetings at 11.30.
• From Physics Today Commentary: Too many authors, too few creators 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. (Even if it does contain the evil I-word.)

6. Action Items

• Discuss Curtis' performance on Top Chef Canada.

  Survived another round.

• Lab Retreat - update?

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

• VRST 2012

Upcoming Deadlines

• Apr 30, 2012: PG12 Paper submission

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

, 10:00 — Scientific Computation Group Master's Thesis Presentation Jiong Xi, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo

A Gradual Non-Convexation Penalty Method for Minimizing VaR

, 10:00 — Artificial Intelligence Lab PhD Seminar John Champaign, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton Schoo of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo

An Annotations Approach to Peer Tutoring Incorporating the Modeling of Reputation

Apr 30, 13:30 — Artificial Intelligence Lab PhD Thesis Defence John Champaign, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton Schoo of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo

Peer-Based Intelligent Tutoring Systems: A Corpus-Oriented Approach

May 01, 11:00 — Artificial Intelligence Lab Seminar Gordon McCalla, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Learning in Context: From Peer Help to Lifelong Learning

May 01, 16:30 — Distinguished Lecture Series Seminar Jeannette Wing, President's Professor, and Head of Comp. Sci., Dept., Carnegie Mellon University

Computational Thinking: a radically new oxymoron recently discovered near the source of the Brahmaputra.

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Also see other Math and CS postings.

10. Lab Cleanup