Meeting Minutes

Date:	September 22, 2011
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	11:30
Chair:	Matthew Thorne

0. Introduction of New Lab Members

1. Attendance

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

CS Picnic- thanks!

Coffee hour this week:

Steve

Coffee hour next week:

Grace

3. Forthcoming

Date:	September 29, 2011	October, 6, 2011	October 13, 2011	October 20, 2011
Location:	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30
Chair:	Dan Vogel	Zainab AlMeraj	Edgar Bering	Bill Cowan
Technical Presentation:	Mike Terry	Matthew Thorne	Dan Vogel	Zainab AlMeraj

4. Technical Presentation

Joe Istead	Title : Testing For Intersection Between Cylinders Abstract: I will discuss an algorithm for detecting collisions between cylinders in R^3. While other algorithms take an iterative approach or parametrize the intersection set, exploiting an intuitive concept yields an efficient algorithm that is better suited for most applications. The algorithm is built up to sketch its correctness.

5. Discussion Items

• Mathematica coming for a visit September 23. "Mathematica in Education and Research" 2-4pm, including Q&A CPH 3679 for Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
• Use your steel umbrella outside for the next few days.
• Machine room alarm.

6. Action Items

• Send PDF of recent posters to Steve.
• Coffee Hour at 4:30 in the fall? (Did we decide yet?)

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

• Eurographics12

Upcoming Deadlines

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

2011 Sep 22, 14:00 - Database Research Group Master's Thesis Presentation
Alexey Karyakin, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Dynamic Scale-out Mechanisms for Partitioned Shared-Nothing Databases

 

2011 Sep 22, 15:30 - Scientific Computation Group PhD Seminar
Somayeh Moazeni, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sc., Univ. Waterloo
Regularized Robust Optimization for Optimal Portfolio Execution

 

2011 Sep 23, 08:30 - Software Engineering Research Group PhD Thesis Defence
Vahid Karimi, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Access Control Models and Policies for Pattern-based Business Processes

 

2011 Sep 26, 14:30 - Algorithms and Complexity Group Master's Thesis Presentation
Kamran Tirdad, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Exploiting the Computational Power of Ternary Content Addressable Memory

 

2011 Sep 27, 11:00 - Institute for Computer Research Seminar
Prof. Ron Baecker, Technologies for Aging Gracefully lab (TAGlab), University of Toronto
Technologies for Aging Gracefully

 

2011 Sep 27, 14:30 - Bioinformatics Group PhD Seminar
Daniel Holtby, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
LoopWeaver - Loop Modeling by the Weighted Scaling of Verified Proteins

 

2011 Sep 28, 10:30 - Software Engineering Research Group Seminar
Luisa Mich, Department of Computer and Management Sciences, University of Trento
Requirements for a web reputation monitoring system

 

2011 Sep 28, 14:30 - Database Research Group Seminar
Jonathan Goldstein, Microsoft
Temporal Analytics on Big Data for Web Advertising

Also see other Math and CS postings.

10. Lab Cleanup