Meeting Agenda

Date:	November 29, 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:

Elodie- thanks!

Coffee hour this week:

Bill

Coffee hour next week:

Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	December 6, 2012	December 13, 2012	December 20, 2012	December 27, 2012
Location:	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30
Chair:	Tiffany Inglis	Craig Kaplan	Bill Cowan	Stephen Mann
Technical Presentation:	Bill Cowan	Elodie Fourquet	Tiffany Inglis	Craig Kaplan

4. Technical Presentation

Zainab AlMeraj	Title : Brief examples of 2D/3D Shape representation for modelling purposes Abstract: 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.

5. Discussion Items

• Lunch for Elodie on Monday, December 5
• Christmas party 15th of December

6. Action Items

7. Lab Events

• 11:30
• 11:30

8. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

• Dec 02, 2012: VRCAI 2012 Conference
• Dec 02, 2012: EG13 Short paper deadline

9. Directors' Meeting

10. Seminars and Events

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

Also see other Math and CS postings.

10. Lab Cleanup