Meeting Minutes

Date:	September 15, 2010
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	1:30
Chair:	Eugene Greene

1. Attendance

Zainab AlMeraj, Bill Cowan, Elodie Fourquet, Eugene Greene, Marshall Hahn, Tiffany Inglis, Craig Kaplan, Philippe Lamoureux, Simon Parent, Alex Pytel, Matthew Thorne

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Xinling- thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: David?
Coffee hour next week:: Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	September 22, 2010	September 30, 2010	October 7, 2010	October 14, 2010
Location:	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 10:30	DC 1331 10:30	NOT DC 1331 10:30
Chair:	Marshall Hahn	Tiffany Inglis	Ben Lafreniere	Philippe Lamoureux
Technical Presentation:	Gabriel Esteves	Eugene Greene	Zainab AlMeraj	Tiffany Inglis

4. Technical Presentation

Elodie Fourquet	Title : What's next? Abstract: There is yet more to know about perspectiveS. I will talked about the Vedusiti painters, in particular about Piranisi in his 'Views of Rome'.

5. Discussion Items

We need to talk about text for the lab poster.

6. Action Items

Poster!
DC 1331 is not available on October 14, but DC 1316 is.
DC 1331 is not available on December 2, and neither is anything else (except perhaps the lab).

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

2010 Sep 15, 15:00, DC 1331 - Software Engineering Research Group Master's Thesis Presentation

Kah Kuen Fu, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Mobile Spatial Subscriptions in Distributed Event-based Systems

2010 Sep 16, 13:00, DC 2314 - Scientific Computation Group Master's Thesis Presentation

Zhirong Li, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Two Affine Scaling Methods for Solving Optimization Problems Regularized with an L₁-Norm

2010 Sep 16, 13:30, MC 5136B - Combinatorics and Optimization (Algebraic Combinatorics)

Sho Suda, Tohoku University
Complex spherical designs and codes

2010 Sep 16, 16:00 MC 5158 - Statistics & Actuarial Science

Abdulkadir Hussein, University of Windsor
An Efficient use of auxiliary information at design the stage of group sequential testing procedures

2010 Sep 17, 11:00, DC - David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Cheriton Research Symposium

2010 Sep 17, 15:30, MC 5158 - Combinatorics and Optimization (Tutte Seminar)

Joseph Cheriyan, Univ. Waterloo
Approximation algorithms for min-cost (S,T) connectivity

2010 Sep 20, 12:30, RAC 2009 - Institute for Quantum Computing

Alessandro Fedrizzi, Queensland University
Discrete- and continuous-time quantum walks with single photons

2010 Sep 20, 16:00, MC 5158 - Computational Mathematics

Dr. Mark Braverman, Dept. of Mathematics and Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Julia sets?

2010 Sep 21, 14:00, DC 1304 - Institute for Computer Research Seminar

Dr. Tao Stein, Engineer, Facebook
Protecting the Social Graph

2010 Sep 22, 11:00, DC 1331 - Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) Group Master's Thesis Presentation

Jalaj Upadhyay, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Generic Attacks on Hash Functions

2010 Sep 22, 14:00, MC 5136 - Statistics & Actuarial Science

Gary Sneddon, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Mount Saint Vincent University
Heterogeneity, clustered count data, and excess zeros: can we figure out who ever goes to the doctor?

2010 Sep 22, 15:00, DC 1331 - Networks and Distributed Systems Master's Thesis Presentation

Muhamed Sukkar, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Design and Implementation of a Service Discovery and Recommendation Architecture for SaaS Applications

2010 Sep 22, 16:00, DC 1304 - Combinatorics and Optimization (Graduate Student Seminar)

Vijay V. Vazirani, Georgia Tech
Primal-Dual Algorithms for Rational Convex Programs

Also see other Math and CS postings.