Meeting Minutes

Date:	November 24, 2011
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	11:30
Chair:	Philippe Lamoureux

1. Attendance

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Ben- thanks!

Coffee hour this week:

Phil

Coffee hour next week:

Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	December 1, 2011	December 8, 2011	December 15, 2011	December 22, 2011
Location:	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30
Chair:	Stephen Mann	Simon Parent	Matei Negulescu	Alex Pytel
Technical Presentation:	Ben Lafreniere	Philippe Lamoureux	Stephen Mann	Matei Negulescu

4. Technical Presentation

Craig Kaplan	Title : Abstract:

5. Discussion Items

• Books in the CGL Library

6. Action Items

• ?-mas party on December 10. Be there.

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

• 2011 Nov 25, 11:30 � Artificial Intelligence Lab PhD Seminar
  Omar Zia Khan, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
  Automated Refinement of Bayes Networks? Parameters based on Test Ordering Constraints

• 2011 Nov 25, 15:30 � Artificial Intelligence Lab Seminar
  Oleg V. Michailovich, Assistant Professor, Department of ECE University of Waterloo
  HARDI-based diagnosis of first episode schizophrenia using isometric embedding and compressed sensing

• 2011 Dec 14, 11:30 � Algorithms and Complexity Group Master's Essay Presentation
  Nik Shkrob, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
  Integer representation: n-ary Gray codes in the cell probe memory model

• Thursday, 24 November 2011, 3:30PM - Pure Mathematics (Number Theory Seminar), MC 5136B
  Timothy Caley: -- The Prouhet-Tarry-Escott problem

• Thursday, 24 November 2011, 3:30PM - Pure Mathematics (Computability Learning), MC 5046
  Carrie Knoll: -- $WKL_{0}$ and the Heine-Borel Theorem, Part 2

• Friday, 25 November 2011, 1:30PM - Applied Mathematics , MC 5158
  Wai Man Ng: -- Formal Theory of PDEs

• Friday, 25 November 2011, 3:30PM - Pure Mathematics (Analysis Seminar), MC 5136
  Benjamin Willson: -- Amenability and Semidirect Products of Groups and Lau Algebras

• Monday, 28 November 2011, 11:00AM - Applied Mathematics , MC 5158
  Wai Man Ng: -- Energy Shaping on Systems with Two Degrees of Underactuation

• Tuesday, 29 November 2011, 10:30AM - Pure Mathematics , MC 4062
  Tommy Chow: -- Graph algebras with real rank zero

• Wednesday, 30 November 2011, 3:30PM - Pure Mathematics (Geometry & Topology Seminar), MC 5046
  Sergey Cherkis: -- Gravitational Instantons and Tropical Geometry of Monopoles

Also see other Math and CS postings.

10. Lab Cleanup