Meeting Minutes

Date:	March 13, 2014
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	12:00
Chair:	Stephen Mann

1. Attendance

Christopher Batty, Stephen Mann, William Cowan, Matt, Alex, Egor, Grace, Marta, Tyler

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Marta- thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: Egor funded by Steve
Coffee hour next week:: Tyler

3. Forthcoming

Date:	March 20, 2014	March 27, 2014	April 3, 2014	April 10, 2014
Location:	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30
Chair:	Tyler Nowicki	Alex Pytel	Matthew Thorne	Dan Vogel
Technical Presentation:	Grace Yao	Stephen Mann	Lesley Northam	Alex Pytel

4. Technical Presentation

Bill Cowan	Title : Professors Publishing Abstract: I will discuss optimal publication strategies for professors. This talk contains math: not suitable for children.

5. Discussion Items

Prospective masters student visiting on Friday.
Christopher is going to work with Bill to create a lab mailing list.
Steve bought a new monitor for the lab to be used in the lab by any lab member who wants to use it.

6. Action Items

Tyler Nowicki is off-campus after March 24.

7. Lab Events

Games night? Movie night? Lego night? Origami night? A sad night of drinking away problems?

8. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

Mar 14, 2014: GI14 Poster and demo submission
Mar 20, 2014: CASA 2014 Short paper and poster submission

9. Directors' Meeting

10. Seminars and Events

Master's Thesis Presentation/Database Research Group: ``Database High Availability using SHADOW Systems'': Xin Pan, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo Friday, 11:00 a.m.; DC 2310

Master's Thesis Presentation/Health Informatics Research Group/Artificial Intelligence Research Group: ``Quick and Automatic Selection of POMDP Implementations on Mobile Platform Based on Battery Consumption Estimation'': Xiao Yang, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo Friday, 11:30 a.m.; DC 2306C (AI Lab)

Computer Science Seminar: ``Beyond Worst Case Analysis in Algorithm Design'': Aravindan, Vijayaraghavan, Simons Postdoc research, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University Monday, 10:30 a.m.; DC 1304

Master's Thesis Presentation/Information Retrieval Research Group: ``Unsupervised Aspect Discovery from Online Consumer Reviews'': Kaheer Suleman, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo Tuesday, 1:00 p.m.; DC 133

Computer Science Seminar: ``Refinement of Web Software Motivated by Real-World Patterns'': Gregor Richards, PhD candidate, Purdue University Wednesday, 10:30 a.m.; DC 1304

PhD Seminar/Human-Computer Interaction Research Group: ``Impact of Task-Centric User Interfaces on Problem-Solving Strategies'': Ben Lafreniere, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo Thursday, 3:30 p.m.; DC 2310

Also see other Math and CS postings.

10. Lab Cleanup