Meeting Minutes

Date:	November 25, 2009
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	1:30
Chair:	Cherry Zhang

1. Attendance

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Jaime - thanks!

Coffee hour this week:

Cherry

Coffee hour next week:

Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	December 2, 2009	December 9, 2009	December 16, 2009	December 23, 2009
Location:	DC 1304 1:30	DC 1304 1:30	DC 1304 1:30	DC 1304 1:30
Chair:	Areej Alhotali	Martin Talbot	Gabriel Esteves	Elodie Fourquet
Technical Presentation:	Matthew Thorne	Martin Talbot	Areej Alhotali	Cherry Zhang

4. Technical Presentation

Bill Cowan	Title : Tensor Geometry for Computer Graphics Abstract: Isn't the title bad enough?

5. Discussion Items

• proposal (by Cherry): synch chair-talk schedule?
• Craig received some copies of Adobe CS 4

6. Action Items

• Y-Mas Party, tentatively Thurs. Dec 10

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

• AMDO10
• GMP 2010

Upcoming Deadlines

• Nov 30, 2009: CAD'10 Paper submission deadline

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

2009 Nov 25, 13:30 — Algorithms and Complexity Group Seminar

Felipe Cucker, Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong 
On a Problem Posed by Steve Smale

2009 Nov 25, 14:30 — Database Research Group PhD Seminar

George Beskales, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Modeling the Possible Repairs of Functional Dependencies Violations

2009 Nov 27, 11:30 — Artificial Intelligence Lab Seminar

Chris Marriott, University of Calgary
Imitation in artficial agents

2009 Nov 30, 10:30 — Computer Science Seminar

Csaba Szepesvari, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta 
Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning

2009 Dec 03, 14:00 — Distinguished Lecture Series Seminar

 Fran Allen, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
High Performance Computers and Compilers: A Personal Perspective

2009 Dec 11, 10:30 — Software Engineering Research Group Master's Thesis Presentation
Sarah Nadi, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Towards a Model-Driven Framework for Change and Configuration Management

Also see other Math and CS postings.

10. Lab Cleanup