Meeting Agenda

Date:	November 30, 2017
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	1:30
Chair:	Ryan Goldade

1. Acceptance of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Don't know - thanks!

Coffee hour this week:

Volunteers?

Coffee hour next week:

Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	December 7, 2017	December 14, 2017	December 21, 2017	Jan 4, 2017
Location:	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30
Chair:	Craig Kaplan	Marta Kryven	No meeting	Stephen Mann
Technical Presentation:	Veronika Irvine	Craig Kaplan	Still no meeting	Marta Kryven

4. Technical Presentation

Ryan Goldade	Title : Geodesics in Heat Abstract: I will discuss an interesting approach to solving the geodesic problem using partial differential equations on general geometry.

5. Discussion Items

6. Action Items

7. Lab Events

• Graphics Interface 2018 (Full paper) December 18th, 2017
  York University
• I3D 2018 (Full paper) December 22nd, 2017
  Montreal
• Eurographics 2018 (Short Paper) January 5th 2018
  Eurographics 2018 (Poster) February 2nd 2018
• SIGGRAPH 2018 (Full paper) January 23rd, 2018
  Vancouver

8. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

9. Directors' Meeting

10. Seminars and Events

Thursday, 30 November 2017, 3:30PM - Computational Mathematics, DC 1304

Dr. Roger Melko: -- Machine Learning the Many-Body Problem

Friday, 1 December 2017, 10:30AM - Computer Science (Symbolic Computation Group), DC 1304

Mohab El-Safey: -- A Lower Bound on the Positive Semidefinite Rank of Convex Bodies

Friday, 1 December 2017, 1:30PM - Computer Science (Networks and Distributed Systems), DC 1304

Xu Cui: -- NetStore: Leveraging Network Optimizations to Improve Distributed Transaction Processing Performance

Friday, 1 December 2017, 3:30PM - Computer Science (Programming Languages Lab), DC 2310

Aaron Moss: -- Derivatives of Parsing Expression Grammars

Monday, 4 December 2017, 10:30AM - Computer Science (Data Systems Group), DC 1302

Rumi Chunara: -- Citizen-Sourced Data for Public Health Modeling

Monday, 4 December 2017 Moved to 11:30AM (link points to new notice) Computer Science (Data Systems Group),

Salman Mohammed -- The Limited Effectiveness of Neural Networks for Simple Question Answering on Knowledge Graphs

Monday, 4 December 2017, 11:30AM - Computer Science (Data Systems Group), DC 2102

Salman Mohammed: -- The Limited Effectiveness of Neural Networks for Simple Question Answering on Knowledge Graphs

Wednesday, 6 December 2017, 12:30PM - Computer Science (Data Systems Group), DC 2585

Alexey Karyakin: -- Improving Memory Energy Efficiency of Database Systems

Wednesday, 6 December 2017, 1:00PM - Computer Science (Computer Graphics Research Group), DC 2310

Tyler Nowicki: -- The Twists and Turns of Character Animation: Modeling the Angular Speed of Trajectories

Wednesday, 6 December 2017, 3:30PM - Computer Science (Computer Graphics Research Group), DC 2568

Morgan McGuire: -- Realistic 3D Graphics in Real Time

Thursday, 7 December 2017, 10:30AM - Computer Science (Natural Phenomena Simulation Group), DC 2314

Spencer Van Leeuwen: -- On the Bluish Appearance of Veins

Friday, 8 December 2017, 10:00AM - Applied Mathematics , MC 6460

Cong Wu: -- Stability and Control of Caputo Fractional Order Systems

Friday, 8 December 2017, 2:30PM - Computational Mathematics , DC 1302

Dr. Shawn Wang: -- Linear convergence of gradient descent methods in the framework of Bregman distance

Also see other Math and CS postings.

11. Lab Cleanup