Meeting Agenda

Date:	June 6, 2013
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	11:30
Chair:	Zainab AlMeraj

1. Acceptance of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Elodie- thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: Nancy
Coffee hour next week:: Zainab

3. Forthcoming

Date:	June 13, 2013	June 20, 2013	June 27, 2013	July 4, 2013
Location:	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30
Chair:	Bill Cowan	Elodie Fourquet	Tiffany Inglis	Nancy Iskander
Technical Presentation:	Alex Pytel	Matthew Thorne	Dan Vogel	Zainab AlMeraj

4. Technical Presentation

Lesley Northam	Title : A Brief Introduction to Soviet Montage Theory Abstract: This talk will be presented in using a 9 minute video. The video demonstrates the five aspects of soviet montage with examples. Some of the examples may be offensive (no nudity, but there is some violence). Please note: there will be no question and answer session after the video because Lesley has problems speaking after her recent throat surgery. If you have any question please email her afterwards.

Lesley Northam

Title : A Brief Introduction to Soviet Montage Theory
Abstract:
This talk will be presented in using a 9 minute video. The video demonstrates the five aspects of soviet montage with examples. Some of the examples may be offensive (no nudity, but there is some violence).

Please note: there will be no question and answer session after the video because Lesley has problems speaking after her recent throat surgery. If you have any question please email her afterwards.

5. Discussion Items

6. Action Items

Grace is away this term and next: needs to be indicated on attendance list.
Vincent needs to be removed from attendance list (away this term, I think not coming back?) Vladimir Lyubinets should be removed from members list
Switched Zainab and Matt tech talks on June 20th.

7. Lab Events

Dim sum - May 29th?

8. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

Jun 11, 2013: CGI2013 Conference
Jun 13, 2013: SIGGRAD13 Conference

9. Directors' Meeting

VolVolVolVol

10. Seminars and Events

"Relative Facial Action Unit Detection" by Mahmoud Khademi, McMaster University
June 7, 2013 Artificial Intelligence Seminar
in DC 2306C at 11:30 a.m

"Preference Elicitation for Social Choice: A Study in Voting and Stable Matching" by Craig Boutilier
June 7, 2013 Artificial Intelligence Seminar
in MC 5158 at 3:30 p.m.

"Privacy-centric Access Control for Distributed Heterogeneous Medical Information Systems" by Atif Khan
June 10, 2013 PhD Seminar/CrySP Research Group
in DC 1304 at 10:00 a.m.

"The multicore evolution and operating systems" by Frans Kaashoek, MIT
June 11, 2013 SCS Distinguished Lecture Series
in DC 1302 at 3:30 p.m.

"High Availability for Database Systems in Geographically Distributed Cloud Computing Environments" by Huangdong Meng
June 12, 2013 Master's Thesis Presentation/Databases Research Group
in DC 1331 at 2:30 p.m.

Also see other Math and CS postings.