Meeting Minutes

Date:	November 18, 2010
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	10:30
Chair:	Mike Terry

1. Attendance

Phil, Eugene, Tiffany, Steve, Bill, Alex, Matt, Mike, Cherry, Xinling

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Alex- thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: Jing's key
Coffee hour next week:: Eugene

3. Forthcoming

Date:	November 25, 2010	December 2, 2010	December 9, 2010	December 16, 2010
Location:	DC 1331 10:30	CGL Lab	DC 1331 10:30	DC 1331 10:30
Chair:	Matthew Thorne	Cherry Zhang	Zainab AlMeraj	Bill Cowan
Technical Presentation:	Jamie Ruiz	Mike Terry	Matthew Thorne	Cherry Zhang

4. Technical Presentation

Alex Pytel	Title : Scaling Issues in Procedural Modeling Abstract: Generating detail at different levels of scale in just the right way is a central concern when modeling fractal-like objects. One of the challenges is achieving a realistic scaling of geometric features in respect to different ranges of scales and different spatial locations. In practice there are also additional considerations, such as how easy a given technique makes it to generate detail in a given range of scales and whether it suffers from artifacts like creasing. I will discuss several procedural modeling techniques and their properties related to scaling issues.

Alex Pytel

Title : Scaling Issues in Procedural Modeling
Abstract:
Generating detail at different levels of scale in just the right way is a central concern when modeling fractal-like objects. One of the challenges is achieving a realistic scaling of geometric features in respect to different ranges of scales and different spatial locations. In practice there are also additional considerations, such as how easy a given technique makes it to generate detail in a given range of scales and whether it suffers from artifacts like creasing. I will discuss several procedural modeling techniques and their properties related to scaling issues.

5. Discussion Items

Internship available at Sybase. Talk to Craig
Image processing job available at MathWorks. Talk to Mike
We will go to Side Effects sometime in January

6. Action Items

Time for next month's lab meetings: Thursday 11:30. The only date not available to you is March 24th.
DC 1331 is not available on December 2, and neither is anything else (except perhaps the lab).
Stephen Mann will be tech presenter in place of Cherry Zhang in January.
The holiday party will be sometime after December 16.
Copy for poster due next week from all students
Zainab needs to be removed from talk rotation.

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

2010 Nov 22, 10:30 - Software Engineering Research Group Seminar
DC 1302
Dr. XING Zhenchang, National University of Singapore
Model Differencing with GenericDiff and Its Applications

2010 Nov 24, 14:30 - Database Research Group Seminar
DC 1331
Kevyn Collings-Thompson, Microsoft Research
Risk-aware Information Retrieval

2010 Nov 26, 14:30 - Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) Group PhD Seminar
DC 1331
Aleksander Essex, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Hacking Democracy: An Election Fruadster's Tricks of the Trade

2010 Nov 26, 15:00 - Artificial Intelligence Lab Master's Thesis Presentation
DC 2306C
Derek Wang, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Matching Rules and Market Share in an Electronic Trading Platform

2010 Nov 29, 14:00 - Software Engineering Research Group Master's Essay Presentation
DC 1331
Daniel Isaacs, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Developers Like Requirements, Project Managers Don't

2010 Nov 29, 14:30 - Programming Languages Lab PhD Seminar
DC 1304
Roy Krischer, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Improving the Usability of Asynchronous Exception Handling

2010 Dec 03, 14:00 - Artificial Intelligence Lab PhD Thesis Defence
DC 2306C
Claus Strommer, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Pursuing the Relations Between Saliency, Context, Intent, and Rhetorical Figures in Text Media

2010 Dec 03, 14:30 - Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) Group PhD Seminar
MC 5136
Jeremy Clark, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Selections: An internet voting system with over-the-shoulder coercion resistance

2010 Dec 09, 13:00 - Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) Group Master's Thesis Presentation
DC 1331
Ryan Henry, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Nymbler: Privacy-enhanced Protection from Abuses of Anonymity

2010 Dec 13, 13:00 - Database Research Group PhD Thesis Defence
DC 1331
Ranked Retrieval in Uncertain and Probabilistic Databases

2010 Dec 16, 13:30 - Programming Languages Lab PhD Thesis Defence
DC 1331
Roy Krischer, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Advanced Concepts in Asynchronous Exception Handling

Also see other Math and CS postings.