Meeting Minutes

Date:	March 15, 2012
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	11:30
Chair:	Philippe Lamoureux

1. Attendance

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Bill- thanks!

Coffee hour this week:

Ben & Jerry Tiff

Coffee hour next week:

Marta

3. Forthcoming

Date:	March 22, 2012	March 29, 2012	April 5, 2012	April 12, 2012
Location:	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30
Chair:	Stephen Mann	Lesley Northam	Simon Parent	Alex Pytel
Technical Presentation:	Ben Lafreniere	Philippe Lamoureux	Stephen Mann	Lesley Northam

4. Technical Presentation

Marta Kryven	Title : What is inside origami? Abstract: An introduction to advanced origami design. In this talk I will show how origami is a problem of packing circles, and what do you need to know in order to make almost anything out of a flat sheet of material.

5. Discussion Items

• None so far...

6. Action Items

• Discuss Curtis' performance on Top Chef Canada.

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

Thursday, 15 March 2012, 2:00AM - Pure Mathematics (Student Algebra), MC 5046

Robert Garbary: -- "First Examples of Spectral Sequences"

Thursday, 15 March 2012, 10:30AM - Applied Mathematics , MC 5136

Dr. Itai Arad: -- How complicated are many-body quantum states?

Thursday, 15 March 2012, 3:30PM - Pure Mathematics (Number Theory Seminar), MC 5136B

Maysum Panju: -- "Listing polynomials given restrictions on their roots"

Thursday, 15 March 2012, 3:30PM - Pure Mathematics (Computability Learning), MC 5046

Matthew Harrison-Trainor: -- A low2 model of RT2.

Thursday, 15 March 2012, 4:00PM - Statistics & Actuarial Science , M3 3127

Bruce L. Jones: -- Credibility for Pension Plan Terminations

Friday, 16 March 2012, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization (Tutte Seminar), MC 5158

Hyung-Chan An: -- Improving Christofides' Algorithm for the s-t Path TSP

Friday, 16 March 2012, 3:30PM - Pure Mathematics , MC 5136

Jason Bell: -- "Diagonals of rational functions, differential equations, and automata"

Monday, 19 March 2012, 2:30AM - Pure Mathematics (Geometry & Topology Seminar), MC 5136

Andrew Dancer: -- "Ricci solitons"

Monday, 19 March 2012, 10:30AM - Computer Science , DC 1304

Swapnil V. Patil: -- Scaling and understanding storage system support for billions of tiny objects

Tuesday, 20 March 2012, 4:00PM - Statistics & Actuarial Science, M3 3127 (New Location)

Prof. Tong Yu: -- By Force of Habitat? On the Dynamics of Insurers' Government Bond Portfolio Durations

Wednesday, 21 March 2012, 3:30AM - Pure Mathematics (Geometry & Topology Seminar), MC 5045

Cheol-Hyun Cho: -- "Lagrangian Floer homology and toric oribfolds"

Wednesday, 21 March 2012, 10:00AM - Computer Science , MC 5158 NOTE TIME AND ROOM

Yizhou Sun: -- Mining Heterogeneous Information Networks

Also see other Math and CS postings.

10. Lab Cleanup