Meeting Minutes

Date:	March 22, 2012
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	11:30
Chair:	Stephen Mann

1. Attendance

Bill Cowan, Elodie Fourquet, Tiffany Inglis, Craig Kaplan, Marta Kryven, Ben Lafreniere, Philippe Lamoureux, Stephen Mann, Lesley Northam, Simon Parent, Alex Pytel, Matthew Thorne, Grace Yao.

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Ben & ~~Jerry~~ Tiff- thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: Marta
Coffee hour next week:: Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	March 29, 2012	April 5, 2012	April 12, 2012	April 19, 2012
Location:	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30
Chair:	Lesley Northam	Simon Parent	Alex Pytel	Matthew Thorne
Technical Presentation:	Philippe Lamoureux	Stephen Mann	Lesley Northam	Simon Parent

4. Technical Presentation

Ben Lafreniere	Title : Intro to the Arduino Microcontroller Abstract: I will give a brief introduction to the Arduino microcontroller platform, including some working examples, and a brief overview of basic analog electronics.

5. Discussion Items

Graphics/HCI talks April 2, April 4.
CS 888 next term - Mondays, 2-5. Implicit surfaces.
Bill: DHCP has been restored.

6. Action Items

Discuss Curtis' performance on Top Chef Canada.

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

Mar 25, 2012: SPM'12 Abstracts due

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

2012 Mar 22, 4:30 - Computer Science Club, Bill Cowan, Multi-processor Real-time Systems. MC 4021.
2012 Mar 27, 12:00 - Institute for Quantum Computing PhD Seminar
Stacey Jeffery, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Improving the Quantum Query Complexity of Boolean Matrix Multiplication Using Graph Collision

Also see other Math and CS postings.

10. Lab Cleanup