Meeting Agenda

Date:	October 25, 2018
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	10:30
Chair:	Greg Philbrick

1. Acceptance of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: None - thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: Volunteers?
Coffee hour next week:: Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	November 1, 2018	November 8, 2018	November 15, 2018
Location:	DC 1331 10:30	DC 1331 10:30	DC 1331 10:30	DC 1331 10:30
Chair:	Reza Adhitya Saputra	Andrew Tinits	Christopher Batty
Technical Presentation:	Greg Philbrick	Reza Adhitya Saputra	Andrew Tinits

4. Technical Presentation

Stephen Mann	Title : More Fun with Spiral Curves Abstract: A few weeks ago, Xiang gave a talk on spiral curves. I became interested in some aspects of these curves, so I looked up a couple of papers on them, and I'll present my findings in this talk.

5. Discussion Items

Can the meeting start at 11 AM or 10:50 AM at the earliest in November?

6. Seminars and Events

Thursday, October 25, 2018

Exploring Blockchain in Waterloo Region
Launch of the first Canadian Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Blockchain Initiatives Group
3:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Catalyst137: Waterloo's Hub for IoT
137 Glasgow Street, Kitchener
Registration required to attend

Friday, October 26, 2018

Master's Thesis Presentation Programming Languages
Gradual C Programming for Typed Lua
Rafi Shan Turas, Master's candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. DC 2314

Monday, October 29, 2018

PhD Seminar Programming Languages
Persistent Union-Find for Efficient Type Environments
Aaron Moss, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:30 p.m. DC 2310

Inaugural Seminar AI Institute
Machine Learning for SAT Solvers
Vijay Ganesh, ECE
University of Waterloo
3:30 p.m. DC 1302

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

PhD Seminar Data Systems
Energy Efficiency in Database Servers with Multi-core CPUs
Mustafa Korkmaz, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:15 a.m. DC 1304

Distinguished Lecture Series
All Questions Answered
Donald E. Knuth, Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming
Stanford University
3:30 p.m. AL 116 (Please note new room)
Sold-out event Please bring your free Eventbrite ticket to be admitted

Thursday, November 1, 2018

Mathematics Education Seminar
Mathematical Analogies
Andrew Beltaos / Amenda Chow
University of Waterloo / York University
10:30 a.m. MC 5501

Also see other Math and CS postings.