Minutes: 2008.02.27
Jie Xu
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Date: Feb 27, 2008
Location: DC 1304
Time: 2:30
Chair:
Jie Xu
0. Attendance:
Andrea, Bill, Jeff, Elodie, Marshall, Craig, Ed, Vladimir, Robin, Curtis,
Steve, Terry, Ryan, Christine, Martin, Jie, Cam, Richard, Richard Mann.
1. Changes to the Agenda - additions or deletions
2. Coffee Hour
Coffee hour last week:
Curtis- thanks!
Coffee hour this week:
Jie
Coffee hour next week:
Volunteers?
3. Forthcoming
Date: Mar 5, 2008 Mar 12, 2008 Mar 19, 2008 Mar 26, 2008
Location: DC 1304 2:30 DC 1304 2:30 DC 1304 2:30 DC 1304 2:30
Chair:
Cameron Zwarich
Andrea Bunt
Bill Cowan
Jeff Dicker
Technical Presentation:
Michael Terry
Jie Xu
Cameron Zwarich
Andrea Bunt
4. Technical Presentation
Martin Talbot Title : Haptic and Auditory Vision
Abstract:
I will talk a little about my PhD?s second stage: this talk is about the
study and the design of interactive frameworks for the enhancement of
spatial orientation in blind condition. 1) I will describe what makes
vision and haptic superior modalities for collecting spatial information
from the environment, and what makes audition inferior. 2) I will present
theory and evidence from studies with blind people on spatial awareness.
3) Finally, I will use these points to motivate the design of an initial
system, which I have implemented, but not tested.
5. Discussion Items
Terry's AwkChecker is available for testing at:
http://snap.cs.uwaterloo.ca:8080/awkchecker/AwkChecker.html
Christine's CHI paper was nominated for Best Paper Award at CHI
6. Action Items
A new photocopier(printer) installed in CGL lab
March 11: March Break Lab Open House.
Grad recruiting on March 7th (tell new students grad study is great in UW)
7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues
8. Directors' Meeting
9. Seminars and Events
2008 Mar 03, 10:30 DC1304? Computer Science Seminar
Carsten Lutz, Computer Science, Dresden University of Technology
Description Logics for Large-Scale Ontologies
2008 Mar 06, 15:30 DC1304? Computer Graphics Research Group PhD Seminar
Jiwen Huo, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School Comp. Sci., Univ.
Waterloo
Induction or Deduction? How Do Users Understand Queries?
2008 Mar 07, 11:30 DC1304? Artificial Intelligence Lab PhD Seminar
Adam Milstein, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School Comp. Sci., Univ.
Waterloo
FastSLAM with Skeleton Maps
2008 Mar 07, 14:00 MC 5158A NOTE ROOM? Database Research Group PhD Seminar
Wei Jiang, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ.
Waterloo
Order-Related Work in Conventional and Non-Conventional Databases
2008 Mar 07, 15:00 DC1304? Programming Languages Lab Seminar
Jose' Nelson Amaral, University of Alberta
Fixing Performance Bugs Created by Good Programmers
2008 Mar 10, 14:30 DC1304? Bioinformatics Group Seminar
Professor Chris Langmead, Carnegie Mellon University
New Methods for Modeling the Dynamics of Biomolecular Structures
2008 Mar 14, 11:30 DC 2306C AI Lab? Artificial Intelligence Lab PhD
Seminar
Tyrell Russell, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci.,
Univ. Waterloo
Qualification and Elimination in the NHL using Constraint Programming
Wednesday, 27 February 2008, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization
(Graduate Student Seminar), MC 5136
Natalie Mullin / Jamie Smith: -- Cayley Graphs / Recurrence in Random
Walks on an Infinite Grid
Thursday, 28 February 2008, 9:30AM - Applied Mathematics , Math &
Computer, Room 5158
Dr. Michael Waite: -- Vortex modes and stratified turbulence
Thursday, 28 February 2008, 10:00AM - Pure Mathematics (Operator Theory),
MC 6005
Ken Davidson: -- The complete Pick property, continued
Friday, 29 February 2008, 9:20AM - Combinatorics and Optimization
(Special), DC 1304
The organizers are Alan George and Steve Vavasis.: -- Waterloo Numerical
Analysis Symposium
Friday, 29 February 2008, 2:30PM - Pure Mathematics (Analysis Seminar), MC
5136
Laurent Marcoux: -- On the topological stable rank of non-selfadjoint
operator algebras
Monday, 3 March 2008, 1:30PM - Pure Mathematics (Logic Seminar), MC 5158A
Salih Azgin: -- Frobenius V: Valued Fields equipped with an endomorphism.
Monday, 3 March 2008, 4:00PM - Pure Mathematics , MC 5158
Julia F. Knight: -- Comparing classes of Structures
Tuesday, 4 March 2008, 9:30AM - Applied Mathematics , Math & Computer,
Room 5158
Dr. Wenbo Tang: -- Anatomy of Chaotic Mixing and Locating
Clear-Air-Turbulence
Also see other Math and CS postings.
10. Lab Cleanup