Meeting Agenda

Date:	September 13, 2018
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	10:30
Chair:	Xiang Fang

1. Acceptance of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

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

3. Forthcoming

Date:	September 20, 2018	September 27, 2018	October 4, 2018	October 11, 2018
Location:	DC 1331 10:30	DC 1331 10:30	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30
Chair:	Ryan Goldade	Yu Gu	Michael Honke	Clara Kang
Technical Presentation:	Xiang Fang	Ryan Goldade	Yu Gu	Michael Honke

4. Technical Presentation

Bill Cowan	Title : Measuring CS Grad Schools Abstract: I will describe how research ouyput is measured, in particular, of a new method that measures the success of PhD students at getting tenure stream positions in universities.

5. Discussion Items

6. Action Items

Lab meeting next term: 10:30 on Thursdays

7. Lab Events

8. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

9. Directors' Meeting

10. Seminars and Events

Friday, 14 September 2018, 1:00PM - Computer Science (Scientific Computation Group), DC 2310 [Newish]

Yossef Musleh: -- Fast Algorithms for Finding the Characteristic Polynomial of a Rank 2 Drinfeld Module

Friday, 14 September 2018, 1:30PM - Computer Science (ISS4E), DC 1304

Pirathayini Srikantha: -- Hierarchical Signal Processing for Tractable Power Flow Management in Electric Grid Networks

Friday, 14 September 2018, 1:30PM - Pure Mathematics (Geometry & Topology Seminar), MC 5403 [Newish]

Tyrone Ghaswala: -- Mapping class groups, coverings, braids and groupoids

Friday, 14 September 2018, 3:00PM - Pure Mathematics (Analysis Seminar), MC 5417 [Newish]

Eli Shamovich: -- Fixed points of self-maps of the free ball

Friday, 14 September 2018, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization (Tutte Colloquium), MC 5501 [Newish]

Michelle Delcourt: -- Rapid mixing of Glauber dynamics for colorings below Vigoda�s 11/6 threshold

Monday, 17 September 2018, 10:00AM - Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence Lab), DC 2310 [New!]

Steven Wang: -- Improved Artificial Neural Network Models for Predicting Hourly Water Consumption

Monday, 17 September 2018, 4:00PM - Pure Mathematics , MC 5501 [Newish]

Christian Rosendal: -- Geometries of topological groups

Monday, 17 September 2018, 5:00PM - Computer Science (Systems and Networking), DC 2310 [Newish]

Elaheh Jalalpour: -- Software Defined Security for CDN Edge-servers

Wednesday, 19 September 2018, 10:00AM - Computer Science (Systems and Networking), DC 2310

Md Faizul Bari: -- Resource Orchestration in Softwarized Networks

Wednesday, 19 September 2018, 11:00AM - Computer Science (Programming Languages Lab), DC 3126 [New!]

Ifaz Kabir: -- κDOT: A DOT Calculus with Mutation and Constructors

Thursday, 20 September 2018, 10:30AM - Mathematics Education Seminar , MC 5501 [New!]

Caelan Wang: -- Supporting Students' Mental Wellness

Thursday, 20 September 2018, 2:30PM - Applied Mathematics , MC 6460 [Newish]

Adam Stinchcombe: -- The Population Density Particle Method to Simulate Oscillator Populations

Thursday, 20 September 2018, 4:00PM - Statistics & Actuarial Science , M3-3127 [Newish]

Michele Guindani: -- Bayesian Approaches to Dynamic Model Selection

Friday, 21 September 2018, 1:30PM - Computer Science (Scientific Computation Group), DC 2310 [Newish]

Ahmed Khan: -- Bidirectional Learning in Recurrent Neural Networks Using Equilibrium Propagation

Also see other Math and CS postings.