Meeting Minutes

Date:	April 3, 2014
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	11:30
Chair:	Matthew Thorne

1. Attendance

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Alex- thanks!

Coffee hour this week:

Matthew

Coffee hour next week:

Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	April 10, 2014	April 17, 2014	April 24, 2014	May 1, 2014
Location:	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30
Chair:	Dan Vogel	Grace Yao	Christopher Batty	Bill Cowan
Technical Presentation:	Alex Pytel	Matthew Thorne	Dan Vogel	Grace Yao

4. Technical Presentation

Marta Kryven	Title : Junk, immediately: a discount rate model of consumption Abstract: I'm going to talk about how mathematics and biology can explain why people eat junk food, even when junk and non-junk are available at the same cost.

5. Discussion Items

• None so far...

6. Action Items

• Tyler Nowicki is off-campus after March 24.
• Lesley is away until end of May/beginning of June; availability during July/August is sketchy.

7. Lab Events

8. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

• SIBGRAPI 2014

Upcoming Deadlines

9. Directors' Meeting

10. Seminars and Events

Thursday, 3 April 2014, 1:30PM : Pure Mathematics (Number Theory Seminar), MC 5136B
    Michael Rubinstein: Moments of zeta functions associated to hyperelliptic curves

Thursday, 3 April 2014, 3:30PM : Applied Mathematics , Math & Computer, Room 5158
    Ian M. Mitchell: The Monotone Acceptance Ordered Upwind Method (A Causal Algorithm
    for Minimum Time / Cost Optimal Control) and some Lessons in (Ir)Reproducible Research in Computational Math

Friday, 4 April 2014, 2:00PM : Computer Science (Waterloo Formal Methods), DC 2310
    Fathiyeh Faghihekhorasani: SMT-based Synthesis of Distributed Self-Stabilizing Systems

Friday, 4 April 2014, 3:30PM : Combinatorics and Optimization (Tutte Seminar), MC 5158
    David Gosset: The Bose-Hubbard Model is QMA-complete

Monday, 7 April 2014, 10:00AM : Applied Mathematics , Math & Computer, Room 6496
    Kenneth Webster: A Multigrid Approach To Patch-Based Image Inpainting

Monday, 7 April 2014, 2:30PM : Institute for Quantum Computing , QNC 0101
    Fernando Pastawski: Using dissipation for quantum information processing

Tuesday, 8 April 2014, 10:00AM : Applied Mathematics , Math & Computer, Room 6496
    Cong Wu: Model-based Fault Estimation

Tuesday, 8 April 2014, 1:00PM : Computer Science (Human-Computer Interaction), DC 3323 [Newish]
    Filip Krynicki: Methods and models for the quantitative analysis of crowd brainstorming

Tuesday, 8 April 2014, 2:00PM : Computer Science (Scientific Computation Group), DC 2310
    Aditya Tayal: Effective and Efficient Optimization Methods for Kernel Based Classification Problems

Wednesday, 9 April 2014, 10:00AM : Applied Mathematics , Math & Computer, Room 5158
    Kexue Zhang: Impulsive Control of Discrete-Time Complex Dynamical Networks with Time-Delay

Thursday, 10 April 2014, 10:30AM : Computer Science (Software Architecture Group), DC 1304
    Laura Inozemtseva: Coverage Is Not Strongly Correlated With Test Suite Effectiveness'

Thursday, 10 April 2014, 1:00PM : Computer Science (Human-Computer Interaction), DC 2585
    Ben Lafreniere: Task-Centric User Interfaces

Thursday, 10 April 2014, 3:00PM : Computer Science (Computer Graphics Research Group), DC 1304
    Simon Parent: How Programmers Comment When They Think Nobody's Watching

Also see other Math and CS postings.

10. Lab Cleanup