Meeting Minutes

Date:	January 26, 2012
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	11:30
Chair:	Zainab

1. Attendance

Elodie, Bill, Tiffany, Steve M., Simon, Craig, Zainab, Phil, Matthew T., Marta

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Matthew - thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: Zainab
Coffee hour next week:: Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	February 2, 2012	February 9, 2012	February 16, 2012	February 23, 2012
Location:	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30
Chair:	Bill Cowan	Elodie Fourquet	Tiffany Inglis	Craig Kaplan
Technical Presentation:	Grace Yao	Zainab AlMeraj	Bill Cowan	Elodie Fourquet

4. Technical Presentation

Matthew Thorne	Title : WordsEye: An Automatic Text-to-Scene Conversion System Abstract: The WordsEye paper was published at SIGGRAPH 2001 and describes a natural language based system for describing and modelling a 3D scene. For this talk, I will present the WordsEye paper with some comments on its relevance to my research and, perhaps, computer graphics in general.

5. Discussion Items

None so far...

6. Action Items

The March 1st event. Quoted from Bill ``The Day when students are invited to come to labs. Also When we fail to meet students we want to meet we get to meet them there."

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

Thursday, 26 January 2012 -- Institute for Quantum Computing: 12:00PM RAC1 2009; ``Time in relativistic quantum information" by Tim Ralph

Thursday, 26 January 2012 -- Pure Mathematics (Computability Learning): 3:30PM MC 5046; ``Maximal Ideals in Countable Commutative Rings" by Matthew Harrison

Thursday, 26 January 2012 -- Pure Mathematics (Number Theory Learning Seminar): 3:30PM MC 5136B; ``The Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing" by Hugh Williams

Thursday, 27 January 2012 -- Pure Mathematics (Working Geometry): 2:30PM MC 5136B; ``Gauge Theory and Calibrated Geometry: On Tian's 2000 Annals paper" by Spiro Karigiannis

Thursday, 27 January 2012 -- Combinatorics and Optimization (Tutte Seminar): 3:30PM MC 5158; ``Graphical Gaussian Models with Symmetries and Algebraic Combinatorics" by Helene Gehrmann

Thursday, 27 January 2012 -- Pure Mathematics (Analysis Seminar): 3:30PM MC 5136; ``On Hamana's Theorem" by Evgenios Kakariadis

Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012 -- Institute for Quantum Computing/PhD Seminar: 12 noon; RAC 2009; ``The quantum query complexity of read-many formulas" by Robin Kothari

Monday, April 9, 2012 -- PhD Defence/Databases Research Group: 9:30 am.; DC 1331; ``Distributed XML Query Processing" by Patrick Kling

Monday, April 16, 2012 -- PhD Defence/Databases Research Group: 1:30 p.m.; DC 1331; ``Query Optimization in Dynamic Environments" by Amr El-Helw

May 1st Distinguished Lectures Series: Jeannette Wing (Carnegie Mellon University) -- 2:30 p.m.; DC 1302: second line

May 16th Distinguished Lectures Series: Cynthia Dwork (Microsoft Research) -- 2:30 p.m.; DC 1302: second line

Also see other Math and CS postings.

10. Lab Cleanup