Meeting Minutes

Date:	November 23, 2017
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	1:30
Chair:	Veronika Irvine

1. Attendance

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

none

Coffee hour this week:

Volunteers?

Coffee hour next week:

Steve

3. Forthcoming

Date:	Novermber 30, 2017	December 7, 2017	December 14, 2017	December 21, 2017
Location:	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30
Chair:	Ryan Goldade	Craig Kaplan	Marta Kryven	No meeting
Technical Presentation:	Ryan Goldade	Veronika Irvine	Craig Kaplan

4. Technical Presentation

Xiang Fang	Title : $C^1$/$C^2$ and Higher Bézier Splines on Triangulations Abstract: I will talk about more kinds of triangular interpolants.

5. Discussion Items

• Will there be a CGL meeting on Dec 21st?Conclusion: No
• When will Craig chair and give a technical presentation?Conclusion: Before Marta in presentation order

6. Action Items

7. Lab Events

• Graphics Interface 2018 (Full paper) December 18th, 2017
  York University
• I3D 2018 (Full paper) December 22nd, 2017
  Montreal
• Eurographics 2018 (Short Paper) January 5th 2018
  Eurographics 2018 (Poster) February 2nd 2018
• SIGGRAPH 2018 (Full paper) January 23rd, 2018
  Vancouver

8. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

9. Directors' Meeting

10. Seminars and Events

Social Justice and Anti-Oppressive Practices Interactive Exhibit

Tuesday, November 28, 2017, 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM EST, Atrium, STJ2, St. Jerome's University
The exhibit showcases student projects on various forms of social oppression, including racism, sexism, heterosexism, cissexism, and ableism.

PhD Seminar: The Many Faces of Computer-generated Poetry (Carolyn Lamb)

Wednesday, November 29, 2017, 11:00 a.m.,DC 3323

PhD Seminar: Leveraging Network Optimizations to Improve Distributed Transaction Processing Performance(Xu Cui)

Friday, December 1, 2017, 1:30 p.m., DC 1304

PhD Seminar: Derivatives of Parsing Expression Grammars (Aaron Moss)

Friday, December 1, 2017,3:30 p.m., DC 2310

Master's Thesis Presentation: The Limited Effectiveness of Neural Networks for Simple Question Answering on Knowledge Graphs (Salman Mohammed)

Monday, December 4, 2017, 11:30 a.m., DC 2102

Seminar: Citizen-Sourced Data for Public Health Modeling (Rumi Chunara)

Monday, December 4, 2017, 10:30 a.m., DC 1302

Cory Doctorow: "Dead canary in the coalmine: we just lost the web in the war on general purpose computing"

Monday, December 4, 2017 - 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EST, The Theatre of the Arts,Modern Languages Building
This is the decade in which the unstoppable temptation to solve your problems by breaking everyone else's computers really starts to chomp on our collective butts.

PhD Seminar: The Twists and Turns of Character Animation: Modeling the Angular Speed of Trajectories (Tyler Nowicki)

Wednesday, December 6, 2017, 1:00 p.m., DC 2310

Seminar: Realistic 3D Graphics in Real Time (Morgan McGuire, NVIDIA)

Wednesday, December 6, 2017, 3:30 p.m., DC 2568

Master's Thesis Presentation: Natural Phenomena SimulationOn the Bluish Appearance of Veins (Spencer Van Leeuwen)

Thursday, December 7, 2017, 10:30 a.m., DC 2314

Adrien Pouliot Lecture: Four Problem-solving strategies for Mathematics and for Life (Richard Hoshino)

Saturday, December 9, 2017, 7:00 PM EST, Mathematics 3, Room 1006
In this informal and interactive presentation, winner Richard Hoshino will present four of his favourite math problems, and share stories of how these problems have led to authentic mathematical experiences for both high school students and undergraduates.

Canada 150 Lecture Series: Canada's Hidden Histories

Wednesday, December 13, 2017, 7:00 PM EST, CIGI Auditorium
Four professors from Laurier and Waterloo will bring to light some of the hidden figures and narratives, including those of First Nations, gender struggles, and migration/refugee experiences.

Also see other Math and CS postings.

10. Lab Cleanup