Meeting Minutes

Date:	December 9, 2010
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	10:30
Chair:	Elodie Fourquet

1. Attendance

Craig, Alex, Matt, Bill, Steve, Simon, Cherry, Xinling, Eugene, Philippe, Tiffany

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Xinling Chen- thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: Elodie
Coffee hour next week:: Cherry

3. Forthcoming

Date:	December 16, 2010	January 6, 2011	January 13, 2011	January 20, 2011
Location:	DC 1331 10:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30
Chair:	Bill Cowan	Eugene Greene	Zainab AlMeraj	Xinling Chen
Technical Presentation:	Stephen Mann	Zainab AlMeraj	Bill Cowan	Xinling Chen

4. Technical Presentation

Matthew Thorne	Title : Working Methods Abstract: I will discuss the book "Working Methods" which documents the creative process of several comic artists. I will highlight common aspects of their workflow and some insights gained into the importance of layout and design of comics.

5. Discussion Items

None so far...

6. Action Items

Time for next term lab meetings: Thursday 11:30. The only date not available to you is March 24th.
The holiday party will be on Saturday December 18: Bill's house. Check map on Bill's webpage
Updates on the poster?

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

Dec 10, 2010: EG11 Short papers, educations papers, areas papers

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

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

# 2010 Dec 09, 14:30 - Software Engineering Research Group Master's Thesis Presentation
Ana Krulec, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Case Study of Feature-Oriented Requirements Modeling, Applied to an Online Trading System

# 2010 Dec 09, 15:30 - Scientific Computation Group Master's Thesis Presentation
Wenjie Xiao, graduate student, School of Comp. Sci. , Univ. Waterloo
A Simplified Method for Hedging Jump Diffusions

# 2010 Dec 10, 10:30 - Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) Group PhD Seminar
Aleksander Essex, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Eperio: Mitigating Technical Complexity in Cryptographic Election

# 2010 Dec 10, 10:30 - Artificial Intelligence Lab Seminar
Nathan Insel, University of Arizona
Network dynamics and neural coding in the rat medial prefrontal cortex: implications for speed of processing and goal-d

# 2010 Dec 10, 13:00 - Symbolic Computation Group Seminar
Jason Selby, University of Waterloo and Maplesoft
Building Parallelism into a Memory Management System

# 2010 Dec 13, 13:00 - Database Research Group PhD Thesis Defence
Mohamed Soliman, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Ranked Retrieval in Uncertain and Probabilistic Databases

# 2010 Dec 14, 14:00 - Software Engineering Research Group PhD Seminar
Kacper Bak, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci, University of Waterloo
Feature and Meta-Models in Clafer: Mixed, Specialized, and Coupled

# 2010 Dec 15, 14:30 - Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) Group PhD Seminar
Femi Olumofin, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Preserving Access Privacy Over Large Databases

# 2010 Dec 16, 10:30 - Artificial Intelligence Lab Master's Thesis Presentation
Tuong (Teresa) Luu, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Approach to Evaluate Clustering using Classification Labelled Data

# 2010 Dec 16, 13:30 - Programming Languages Lab PhD Thesis Defence
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.