Meeting Minutes

Date:	May 26, 2010
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	1:30
Chair:	Eugene Greene

1. Attendance

Zainab AlMeraj, Gabriel Esteves, Eugene Greene, Marshall Hahn, Craig Kaplan, Philippe Lamoureux, Ed Lank, Stephen Mann, Alex Pytel, Jamie Ruiz, Mike Terry, Matthew Thorne

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Elodie/Philippe- thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: Eugene
Coffee hour next week:: Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	June 2, 2010	June 9, 2010	June 16, 2010	June 23, 2010
Location:	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30
Chair:	Marshall Hahn	Tiffany Inglis	Mike Terry	Matthew Kay
Technical Presentation:	Elodie Fourquet	Eugene Greene	Marshall Hahn	Tiffany Inglis?

4. Technical Presentation

Gabriel Esteves	Title : Parallelization of the SIMD Kalman filter for track fitting Abstract: High-energy physics experiments produce a wealth of data that by its sheer amount present an analysis challenge. Over the past couple of decades, a technique known as the Kalman filter has emerged as the preferred tool to deal with this data. The Kalman filter is computationally intensive, and fast implementations are desirable, especially when considering the on-line data analysis task. In this work I present a parallel implementation of the Kalman filter and its performance.

Gabriel Esteves

Title : Parallelization of the SIMD Kalman filter for track fitting
Abstract:
High-energy physics experiments produce a wealth of data that by its sheer amount present an analysis challenge. Over the past couple of decades, a technique known as the Kalman filter has emerged as the preferred tool to deal with this data. The Kalman filter is computationally intensive, and fast implementations are desirable, especially when considering the on-line data analysis task. In this work I present a parallel implementation of the Kalman filter and its performance.

5. Discussion Items

None so far...

6. Action Items

We need a new CGL poster to replace the superannuated one.

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

May 30, 2010: CGiV2010 Submission of animations
May 31, 2010: AMDO10 Early registration
May 31, 2010: GI 2010 Conference

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

2010 May 26, 14:00, MC 5046 - Pure Mathematics Working Geometry Seminar: Thea Gegenberg, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo; Calibrations and Special Lagrangian Submanifolds

2010 May 26, 14:00, MC 5046 - Pure Mathematics Working Geometry Seminar: Spiro Karigiannis, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo; The Weyl Curvature in Riemannian Geometry

2010 May 26, 14:30, MC 5136B - Combinatorics and Optimization Undergraduate Research Seminar: Henry Wokowicz, Dept. of C&O, UW; Modelling and Solving Large Scale Sensor Network Localization Problems

2010 May 26, 15:30, DC 1304 - Computer Graphics Research Group Seminar: Sean Puckett (see his website); Virtual Film in a Digital World

2010 May 26, 17:00, MC 5158 - Computer Science Colloquium: Gerald Jay Sussman, Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; The Art of the Propagator

2010 May 27, 13:30, DC 1304 - Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) Group PhD Seminar: Aniket Kate, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo; Distributed Private-Key Generators for Identity-Based Cryptography

2010 May 28, 11:30, DC 2306C (AI Lab) - Artificial Intelligence Lab PhD Seminar: Lachlan Dufton, PhD Candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Computer; Paradoxes of Voting

2010 May 28, 15:30, MC 5158 - Combinatorics and Optimization, Tutte Seminar: Antoine Deza, McMaster University; Optimization algorithms: worst-case behaviour and related conjectures

2010 May 31, 12:30, RAC 2009 - Institute for Quantum Computing Seminar: Anne Broadbent, Institute for Quantum Computing; QMIP = MIP*

2010 June 2, 13:00, DC 2306C (AI Lab) - Artificial Intelligence Lab PhD Seminar: Cristina Ribeiro, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo; Sleep Coach: Incorporating Models of Affect into a Persuasive Virtual Human Application

2010 June 2, 13:30, DC 1304 - Algorithms and Complexity Group Seminar: Frederic Magniez, LRI, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS; Recognizing well-parenthesized expressions in the streaming model

Also see other Math and CS postings.