MEETING-DATE:August 12th, 2009
MEETING-LOCATION:DC 1304
MEETING-TIME:13:30
MEETING-CHAIR:Richard Fung
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COFFEE-HOUR-LAST-WEEK:Eugene
COFFEE-HOUR-THIS-WEEK:Richard
COFFEE-HOUR-NEXT-WEEK:Marshall
FORTH-DATE1:August 19th, 2009
FORTH-DATE2:August 26h, 2009
FORTH-DATE3:September 2, 2009
FORTH-DATE4:September 9, 2009
FORTH-LOCATION1:DC 1304 1:30
FORTH-LOCATION2:DC 1304 1:30
FORTH-LOCATION3:DC 1304 1:30
FORTH-LOCATION4:DC 1304 1:30
FORTH-CHAIR1:Marshall Hahn
FORTH-CHAIR2:Matt Kay
FORTH-CHAIR3:Craig Kaplan
FORTH-CHAIR4:Kate Kinnear
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FORTH-TP1:Elodie Fourquet
FORTH-TP2:Richard Fung
FORTH-TP3:Eugene Greene
FORTH-TP4:Marshall Hahn
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TPNAME:Gabriel Esteves
TPTITLE:Structural Hidden Markov Models
TPABSTRACT:Fitting a process to a HMM provides an effective means of<nl>process description.  When it comes to interpretation or control, assigning physical meaning to the states of the HMM can be problematic.  This situation can be overcome by including high-level information in the inference process.  The result is the so-called "Structural" HMM.  In this talk I will briefly present the formalism and applicable parameter inferencing techniques.<nl>
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DIONE:CGL, HCI, and Crysp labs are invited by Craig to do lab tours on Sunday, August 23rd for approximately 40 high school teachers.<nl>
DITWO:The thunderstorm on Sunday brought down CGL servers and an old computer, the one that runs the serial console, died.  
DITHREE:Be careful when walking in the machine room. 
DIFOUR:Upcoming conferences: Eurographics, September 14; CHI, September, 17; IUI, September 25; and call for papers on illustrative visualizations, Craig has details.<nl>
AIONE:Next term's lab meeting will be in the same room at the same time.
AITWO:The conference and special journal issues link for the meeting minutes is broken.
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SEMINARS:<p><pre>2009 Aug 12, 13:30 Algorithms and Complexity Group PhD Seminar<nl>Krishnam Raju Jampani, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo<nl>The Simultaneous Representation Problem for Chordal, Compatability and Permutation Graphs<nl></pre></p><nl><p><pre><nl>Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 2:00PM Pure Mathematics (Working Geometry), Math & Computer, Room 5046 <nl>Yiannis Loizides<nl>The Yang-Mills Equations<nl></pre></p><nl><p><pre><nl>Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 2:00PM Pure Mathematics (Working Geometry), Math & Computer, Room 5046<nl>Nat Leung<nl>Special Lagrangian Geometry<nl></pre></p><nl><p><pre><nl>Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 3:30PM Combinatorics and Optimization (Undergraduate Research), MC 5136B <nl>Will Ma<nl>Triangle Packing and Covering <nl></pre></p><nl><p><pre><nl>2009 Aug 14, 13:00 Networks and Distributed Systems Master's Thesis Presentation<nl>Sean Tozer, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo<nl>Avoiding Bad Query Mixes to Minimize Unsuccessful Client Requests Under Heavy Loads<nl></pre></p><nl><p><pre><nl>2009 Aug 17, 14:00 Database Research Group Master's Essay Presentation<nl>Nan Jiang, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo<nl>A Survey of Existing Automated System Diagnosis Techniques<nl></pre></p><nl><p><b><pre><nl>2009 Aug 17. Steve Wozniak, founder of Apple Computer, Inc.<nl>Fusion-io, a Utah-based company with a super-speedy digital storage device<nl>Communitech technology association breakfast at Bingemans Conference Centre in Kitchener <nl><nl>Details:<nl><nl>www.communitech.ca<nl>http://news.therecord.com/Business/article/581843<nl><nl>Tickets: Vic has some tickets available.<nl></pre></b></p><nl><p><pre><nl>2009 Aug 21, 10:30 Networks and Distributed Systems PhD Seminar<nl>Jin Xiao, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo<nl>On the role of desirability in uncooperative networks<nl></pre></p><nl>