Meeting Minutes

Date:	April 15th, 2009
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	1:30
Chair:	Stephen Mann

1. Attendance

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Holiday- thanks!

Coffee hour this week:

Ryan

Coffee hour next week:

Eugene

3. Forthcoming

Date:	April 22nd, 2009	April 29th, 2009	May 6th, 2009	May 13, 2009
Location:	DC 1331 1:30	DC 2303 1:30	DC 1304 1:30	DC 1304 1:30
Chair:	Michael McCool	Zainab Meraj	Alex Pytel	Jamie Ruiz
Technical Presentation:	Ben Lafreniere	Stephen Mann	Michael McCool	Zainab Meraj

4. Technical Presentation

Kate Kinnear	Title : Procedural Modeling of Spaceships Abstract: In this talk I will examine some aesthetic principles as they relate to the visual interest of spaceships and how these principles can be applied in practice to procedurally model spaceships.

5. Discussion Items

• Lab meeting next term - when?

  Will email HCI and others and decide next week.

• Minutes and Agenda forms

  Working to get minutes to transfer to next agenda automatically

• Hot water heater replaced

6. Action Items

• Meeting for April 29th will be in DC 2303

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

• Apr 15, 2009: CGVCVIP2009 Submission Deadline
• Apr 15, 2009: NPAR Submission deadline
• Apr 15, 2009: GI2009 Early Registration
• Apr 21, 2009: GI2009 Poster submission

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

Friday, April 17, 2009
        Artificial Intelligence Lab PhD Seminar
        Exchanging Reputation Information Between Communities:
        A Payment-Function Approach,
        Georgia Kastidou, PhD Candidate, David R. Cheriton School
        of Computer Science, U. of Waterloo
        11:30 a.m.; DC2305C (AI Lab Conference Room)

2009 Apr 21, 12:00 - Institute for Quantum Computing PhD Seminar
        Gus Gutoski, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci.,
        Univ. Waterloo
        Distinguishing Convex Sets of Quantum Strategies

2009 Apr 24, 10:00 - Human-Computer Interaction Master's Thesis Presentation
        Ryan Stedman, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci.,
        Univ. Waterloo
        Aiding Human Discovery of Out-of-the-Moment Handwriting Recognition Errors

2009 May 21, 16:30 - Distinguished Lecture Series Seminar
        Dr. Tom A. Furness III, Professor & International Director, Human
        Interface Technology Laboratory, University of Washington
        Cobwebs in a Virtual Brain

Also see other Math and CS postings.

10. Lab Cleanup