Meeting Minutes for March 4 2009
Eugene Greene
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Date: March 4th, 2009
Location: DC 1331
Time: 1:30
Chair: Eugene Greene
0. Attendance
Bill Cowan, Elodie Fourquet, Eugene Greene, Marshall Hahn,
Craig Kaplan, Kate Kinnear, Stephen Mann, Michael McCool,
Zainab Meraj, Alex Pytel, Jie Xu, Cherry Zhang
1. Changes to the Agenda - additions or deletions
2. Coffee Hour
Coffee hour last week:
Zainab- thanks!
Coffee hour this week:
Kate
Coffee hour next week:
Volunteers?
3. Forthcoming
Date:
March 11th March 18th March 25th April 1st
Location:
DC 1331 1:30 DC 1331 1:30 DC 1331 1:30 DC 1331 1:30
Chair:
Marshal Hahn Matthew Kay Craig Kaplan Kate Kinnear
Technical Presentation:
Richard Fung Eugene Greene Marshall Hahn Matthew Kay
4. Technical Presentation
Elodie Fourquet
Title : An Aesthetic Evaluation of Perspective with Eye Tracking
Abstract:
I will present a paper that investigate the influence of single-
versus multi-perspectives on aesthetic choices within one image.
5. Discussion Items
o A Waterloo student was mentioned in Wired
<http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-03/wp_quant?currentPage=all>
6. Action Items
o Undergrads Open House - Tuesday, 17th March Lab tour from
12:00 to 13:30
o Volunteers are needed to share the demos load required for
lab tours
o iPerimeter Institute Talk: Mar. 4 2:00 pm Rob Cook from
Pixar
o Check your schedule for next term so we can pick a meeting
time and place
7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues
o March 15th deadline for Bridges short paper
<http://bridgesmathart.org/bridges-2009/>
o March 21st deadline for VIS week
<http://vis.computer.org/VisWeek2009/>
+ IEEE Visualization (Vis),
IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis) Conferences,
IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST)
o April 1st (13th?) deadline for NPAR
<http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/npar2009/>
8. Directors' Meeting
9. Seminars and Events
2009 Mar 5, 11:00 - Institute for Computer Research Seminar
Nate Foster, Programming Languages and Databases Groups,
Department of Computer & Information Science,
University of Pennsylvania
Bidirectional Programming Languages
2009 Mar 5, 14:30 - Distinguished Seminar Series
Dayan Ban, PhD,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Waterloo
Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers
2009 Mar 10, 14:00 - Bioinformatics Group PhD Seminar
Sayyed Bashir Sadjad, PhD candidate,
David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Computational results for the protein-ligand docking problem
2009 Mar 11, 13:30 - Algorithms and Complexity Group Seminar
Arash Farzan, School of Computer Science,
University of Waterloo
Towards Universal Succinct Representations of Trees
2009 Apr 01, 16:30 - Distinguished Lecture Series Seminar
Nancy Leveson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Computers and Trust
Also see other Math and CS postings.
10. Lab Cleanup