Meeting Minutes

Date:	May 3, 2012
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	11:30
Chair:	Zainab AlMeraj

1. Attendance

Matthew Thorne Steve Mann Alex Bill Cowan, Simon Parent Zainab AlMeraj Dan Vogel Elodie

2. Coffee Hour

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

3. Forthcoming

Date:	May 10, 2012	May 17, 2012	May 26, 2012	June 2, 2012
Location:	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30
Chair:	Grace Yao	Elodie Fourquet	Tiffany Inglis	Craig S. Kaplan
Technical Presentation:	Bill Cowan	Zainab AlMeraj	Grace Yao	Elodie Fourquet

4. Technical Presentation

Matthew Thorne	Title : Drawing Words & Writing Picture Abstract: This past Fall, I ran a workshop on creating comics based on the book "Drawing Words & Writing Pictures." In this talk, I will present a short version of the workshop, summarizing the topics that were discussed. This may involve me rambling about things related to making comics. Either way, comics will be discussed in some form and pictures will be involved.

Matthew Thorne

Title : Drawing Words & Writing Picture
Abstract:
This past Fall, I ran a workshop on creating comics based on the book "Drawing Words & Writing Pictures." In this talk, I will present a short version of the workshop, summarizing the topics that were discussed. This may involve me rambling about things related to making comics. Either way, comics will be discussed in some form and pictures will be involved.

5. Discussion Items

Comic fair in Toronto. See Matt Thorne for details
This term there is a CS888 on Implicit surfaces. Lab members ought to audit the class.

6. Action Items

Lab Retreat - update?

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

VRST 2012

Upcoming Deadlines

May 05, 2012: 3DCHI2012 Conference

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

May 04 at 10:00 in DC 1304: Algorithms and Complexity Group Master's Thesis Presentation by Bryan Wilkinson. Titled "Adaptive and Approximate Range Counting"

May 07 at 10:00 in DC 2314: Programming Languages Lab PhD Seminar by Karim Ali. Titled "Application-only Call Graph Construction"

May 09 at 09:30 in DC 1331: Algorithms and Complexity Group Master's Thesis Presentation by Souroush Hosseini Alamdari. Titled "Open Rectangle-of-Influence Drawings"

May 09 at 12:00 in DC 1331: Artificial Intelligence Lab PhD Thesis Defence by Rita Ackerman. Titled "Towards Theoretical Foundations of Clustering"

May 10 at 09:30 in DC 2314: Wendy Rush PhD Seminar by Amirhossein Vakili. Titled "Avestan: A Declarative Modeling Language Based on SMT-LIB"

May 11 at 13:30 in DC 1331: Networks and Distributed Systems Master's Essay Presentation by Bo Hu. Titled "Solar Panel Anomaly Detection and Classification"

May 11 at 14:00 in DC 2310: Artificial Intelligence Lab Master's Thesis Presentation by Fatemeh Dorri. Titled "Adapting Component Analysis"

Also see other Math and CS postings.