Meeting Minutes

Date:	Jan 4, 2018
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	1:30
Chair:	Stephen Mann

1. Attendance

Steve, Craig, Xiang, Andrew, Reza, Greg

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Volunteers?
Coffee hour this week:: Volunteers?
Coffee hour next week:: Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	Jan 11, 2018	Jan 18, 2018	Jan 25, 2018	Feb 1, 2018
Location:	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30
Chair:	Jade Marcoux-Ouellet	Greg Philbrick	Reza Adhitya Saputra	Andrew Tinits
Technical Presentation:	Stephen Mann	Jade Marcoux-Ouellet	Greg Philbrick	Reza Saputra

4. Technical Presentation

Stephen Mann	Title : Curves For Geometric Modeling Revisited Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss why Bezier and B-spline curves are useful for geometric modeling, and show why monomials and interpolatory curves are poor choices for geometric modeling. In addition, I will give a visual demonstration of the slow convergence of Bernstein's constructive approach to the Wierstrass approximation theorem.

5. Discussion Items

Update the lab, etc?

6. Action Items

Marta missed her tech talk, and is defending next week, so it's unclear who will be giving the tech talk next week (although it's Marta's responsibility to find a replacement).

7. Lab Events

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

Friday, January 5, 2018
Master's Thesis Presentation * Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP)
StyleCounsel: Seeing the (Random) Forest for the Trees in Adversarial Code Stylometry
Chris McKnight, Master's candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
3:00 p.m. o DC 2585

January�6 to 7, 2018
StarCon
A two-day software engineering conference for undergrads and grads alike
Find out more at https://starcon.io

Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Master's Thesis Presentation * Data Systems
Stream WatDiv - A Streaming RDF Benchmark
Libo Gao, Master's candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. o DC 2314

Master's Thesis Presentation * Software Engineering
Extracting Non‐Functional Requirements from Unstructured Text
Sahba Ezami, Master's candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
3:00 p.m. o DC 2314

Thursday, January 11
Oliver Schneider
Software Tools that Help People Create Haptic Experiences
10:30, DC 1304.

Also see other Math and CS postings.