Meeting Minutes

Date:	October 28, 2010
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	10:30
Chair:	Stephen Mann

1. Attendance

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Tiffany- thanks!

Coffee hour this week:

Cherry

Coffee hour next week:

Matthew Thorne

3. Forthcoming

Date:	November 4, 2010	November 11, 2010	November 18, 2010	November 25, 2010
Location:	DC 1331 10:30	DC 1331 10:30	DC 1331 10:30	DC 1331 10:30
Chair:	Alex Pytel	Jamie Ruiz	Mike Terry	Matthew Thorne
Technical Presentation:	Ed Lank	Stephen Mann	Alex Pytel	Jamie Ruiz

4. Technical Presentation

Philippe Lamoureux	Title : The Demoscene Abstract: I'll be presenting a brief overview of the history of the demoscene, and will explain how some of the original effects on the Commodore 64 were generated.

5. Discussion Items

• An inspection of SCS work spaces will take place on Nov. 3 from 130 to 4 pm. Please inspect your own area and make sure there are
  • no conditions that could cause someone to trip or fall.
  • unsafe storage of equipment or chemicals
  • overloaded electrical devices, unsafe wiring etc.
  • piles of food containers or recycling not in appropriate bins
  • unsafe piles of paperwork, boxes, files etc.
• Campus-wide domain reorganization.
• Fall Open House next Saturday (the 6th). Students interested in volunteering to work at the booth and lead tours should sign up in the faculty mailroom or talk to Heather O'Leary in DC 2119.

6. Action Items

• Poster!
• 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

• GI11

Upcoming Deadlines

• Nov 02, 2010: ICCP 2011 Paper submissions

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

• 2010 Oct 29, 13:30 - Networks and Distributed Systems
  Augustin Chaintreau, Columbia University
  Incentivizing Peer-Assisted Services: A Fluid Shapley Value Approach
• 2010 Nov 01, 13:30 - Artificial Intelligence Lab PhD Thesis Defence
  Tyrel Russell, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
  A Computational Study of Problems in Sports
• 2010 Nov 09, 16:30 - Distinguished Lecture Series Seminar
  Susan Landau, Harvard University
  Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies

Also see other Math and CS postings.

10. Lab Cleanup