Meeting Minutes

Date:	January 20, 2011
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	11:30
Chair:	Xinling Chen

1. Attendance

Alex, Cherry, Craig, Eugene, Lesley, Matthew, Philippe, Steve, Xinling, Bill, Matei, Tiffany,Elodie

2. Coffee Hour

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

3. Forthcoming

Date:	January 27, 2011	February 3,2011	February 10,2011	February 17,2011
Location:	Side Effects, Toronto	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30
Chair:		Tiffany Inglis	Craig Kaplan	Ben Lafreniere
Technical Presentation:		Elodie Fourquet	Eugene Greene	Tiffany Inglis

4. Technical Presentation

Xinling Chen	Title : Embroidery Modeling and Rendering in Real Time Abstract: I am going to talk about the work I did during my internship in Japan last summer, which is also the research I am working on.

5. Discussion Items

The trip to Side Effects
Escher exhibition in Ohio

6. Action Items

Time for next term lab meetings: Thursday 11:30. The only date not available to you is March 24th.
Updates on the poster?

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

Jan 24, 2011: Computer Graphics and VCVIP 2011 Submission deadline

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

2011 Jan 21, 12:00- Artificial Intelligence Lab PhD Seminar Shehroz Khan, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo One Class Classification: Review and Application to Raman Spectroscopy

2011 Jan 26, 14:30- Database Research Group PhD Seminar Chen Zhang, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo HBaseDB: A solution for Multi-row distributed transactions with global strong snapshot isolation using HBase on clouds

2011 Feb 02, 14:00-Programming Languages Lab PhD Seminar Mirza Omer Beg, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo A Constraint Programming Approach for Instruction Assignment

2011 Feb 08, 14:30- Algorithms and Complexity Group PhD Thesis Defence Krishnam Raju Jampani Simultaneous Graph Representation Problems

2011 Feb 10, 16:30- Distinguished Lecture Series Talk Gilles Brassard, University of Montreal Quantum Magic in Secret Communication

2011 Feb 15, 09:00- Waterloo Formal Methods PhD Thesis Defence Shahram Esmaeilsabzali, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo Prescriptive Semantics for Big-Step Modeling Languages

2011 Feb 18, 14:00- Software Engineering Research Group PhD Seminar Ahmed Raihan Al-Ekram, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo Adaptive Replication Reconfiguration for QoS

Math Faculty Seminars:

Monday, 17 January 2011, 9:00AM - Applied Mathematics , MC 5158 Derek Steinmoeller: -- Modeling Internal Wave Dynamics in Lakes Using Unstructured Grids

Monday, 17 January 2011, 11:30AM - Combinatorics and Optimization , MC 5158 Oleg Pikhurko: -- Stability Method in Extremal Combinatorics

Monday, 17 January 2011, 3:30PM - Computational Mathematics , Math & Computer, Room 5136 Chris Eliasmith: -- "How to build a brain: From single neurons to cognition"

Tuesday, 18 January 2011, 7:00PM - Faculty of Mathematics , Theatre of the Arts, Modern Languages Building Professor Shing-Tung Yau: -- The Shape of Inner Space

Thursday, 20 January 2011, 4:00AM - Statistics & Actuarial Science , MC 5158 Karen McKeown: -- Misclassification of Current Status Data

Thursday, 20 January 2011, 1:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization (Algebraic Combinatorics), MC 5136B Chris Godsil: -- Spectra of Paths

Thursday, 20 January 2011, 4:00PM - Combinatorics and Optimization , MC5136B Bill Cunningham: -- Matroids, Graphs and 3-Connectivity

Friday, 21 January 2011, 12:00PM - Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence Lab), DC 2306C(AI Lab Shehroz Khan: -- One Class Classification: Review and Application to Raman Spectroscopy

Friday, 21 January 2011, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization (Tutte Seminar), MC 5158 Bruce Richmond: -- Maximum Stirling Numbers of the Second Kind

Also see other Math and CS postings.