Meeting Minutes

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

1. Attendance

Steve M., Grace, Zainab, Matthew T., Alex P., Marta, Dan V.

2. Coffee Hour

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

3. Forthcoming

Date:	Aug 2	Aug 9	Aug 16	Aug 23
Location:	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:00	DC 1331 11:00	DC 1331 11:00
Chair:	Bill Cowan	Elodie Fourquet	Tiffany Inglis	Craig S. Kaplan
Technical Presentation:	Dan Vogel	Zainab AlMeraj	Bill Cowan	Elodie Fourquet

4. Technical Presentation

Grace Yao	Title : Interpolating and Approximating Implicit Surface from Polygon Soup Abstract: I will describes a method for building interpolating or approximating implicit surfaces from polygonal data. We can both generate a surface that exactly interpolates the polygons, or a surface that approximates the input by smoothing away features smaller than some user-specified size. The implicit functions are represented using a moving least-squares formulation with constraints integrated over the polygons.I will also present an improved method for enforcing normal constraints and an iterative procedure for ensuring that the implicit surface tightly encloses the input vertices.

Grace Yao

Title : Interpolating and Approximating Implicit Surface from Polygon Soup
Abstract:
I will describes a method for building interpolating or approximating implicit surfaces from polygonal data. We can both generate a surface that exactly interpolates the polygons, or a surface that approximates the input by smoothing away features smaller than some user-specified size. The implicit functions are represented using a moving least-squares formulation with constraints integrated over the polygons.I will also present an improved method for enforcing normal constraints and an iterative procedure for ensuring that the implicit surface tightly encloses the input vertices.

5. Discussion Items

None so far...

6. Action Items

Lab Retreat - update (possible September 22nd activity at the button factory)

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

SIGGRAPH12

Upcoming Deadlines

Jul 31, 2012: GRAPP 2013 Paper submission

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

27th July at 11:15 in DC 1331 Networks and Distributed Systems Seminar: BY Dr. Sarvapali (Gopal) Ramchurn, University of Southampton, UK Title: Putting the ``Smarts'' into the Smart Grid

Jul 27 at 11:30 in DC 2306C (AI Lab) Networks and Distributed Systems Seminar: David Loker, PhD candidate Title: Weighted Clustering

Aug 01 at 14:30 in DC 1331 Database Research Group PhD Seminar: Catalin-Alexandru Avram, PhD candidate Title: SaviDB: An Edge-Aware Key-Value Storage System

Aug 02 at 09:00 in DC 1304 Software Engineering Research Group PhD Seminar: Ali Niknafs, PhD candidate Title: The Impact of Domain Knowledge on the Effectiveness of Requirements Engineering Activities

Aug 02 at 13:30 in DC 2585 Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) Group Seminar: Micah Sherr, Georgetown University Title: Security and Privacy of Legally Authorized Telephone Surveillance

Also see other Math and CS postings.