Meeting Agenda

Date:	Sep 20, 2012
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	11:00
Chair:	Marta Kryven

1. Acceptance of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Craig- thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: Volunteers?
Coffee hour next week:: Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	Sep 27, 2012	Oct 4, 2012	Oct 11, 2012	Oct 18, 2012
Location:	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30
Chair:	Stephen Mann	Lesley Northam	Tyler Nowicki	Simon Parent
Technical Presentation:	Craig Kaplan	Marta Kryven	Stephen Mann	Lesley Northam

4. Technical Presentation

Tiffany Inglis	Title : Title: Circle Patterns in Gothic Architecture Abstract: Abstract: Inspired by Gothic and related architectural style, I analyzed a commonly found motif--the circular ring structure--and use it to generate patterns.

5. Discussion Items

6. Action Items

Lab Retreat - update (possible September 22nd activity at the button factory)

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

Jul 31, 2012: GRAPP 2013 Paper submission
Aug 03, 2012: SAP 2012 Conference
Aug 05, 2012: SIGGRAPH12 Conference

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 PhD Defence/Information Retrieval Research Group ``Novelty and Diversity in Retrieval Evaluation'' Maheedhar Kolla, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo 10 a.m.; DC 2314

Friday, 21 September 2012, 2:05PM -- DC 1302 true Seminar -- Computer Science Speaker: David R. Cheriton, Stanford University, CA Title: "Abort Rates and Degree of Concurrency with Transactional Memory"

Friday, 21 September 2:10 p.m.; DC 1302 ``Optimal Order Execution: Do You Know What Your Broker is Doing?'' Peter Forsyth, Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo

Friday, 21 September 2012, 3:30PM -- MC 5158 Tutte Seminar Seminar -- Combinatorics and Optimization Speaker: Kevin Cheung, Carleton University Title: "Takin' IP to the streets"

Friday, 21 September 3:00 p.m.; DC 1302 ``Benefits and Pitfalls of Interdisciplinary Research on Light and Matter Interactions'' Gladimir Baranoski, Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo

Tuesday, September 25, 2012 Master's Thesis Presentation/Cryptography, Security and Privacy (CrySP) ``A Privacy-Friendly Architecture for Mobile Social Networking Applications'' Sarah Pidcock, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo 8:30 a.m.; DC 1331

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 Algorithms and Complexity Seminar ``On the complexity of reconfiguration problems'' Takehiro Ito, Tohoku University 1:30 p.m.; DC 1304

Friday, October 5, 2012 PhD Seminar/CACR Seminar Series/CrySP Research Group ``Practical PIR for Electronic Commerce'' Ryan Henry, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo 2:30 p.m.; DC 1304

Wednesday, October 10, 2012 CrySP Series on Privacy and Sociology and Legal Studies Seminar ``Repo Men Are Coming: Body EULAs, Privacy and Security of the Person'' Dr. Ian Kerr, University of Ottawa 1:30 p.m.; DC 1302

Also see other Math and CS postings.