Meeting Agenda

Date:	September 22, 2016
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	10:30
Chair:	Omar Zarifi

1. Acceptance of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Andrew - thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: Volunteers?
Coffee hour next week:: Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	September 29, 2016	October 6, 2016	October 13, 2016	October 20, 2016
Location:	DC 1331 10:30	DC 1331 10:30	DC 1331 10:30	DC 1331 10:30
Chair:	Christopher Batty	JC Chang	Bill Cowan	Terence Dickson
Technical Presentation:	Dan Vogel	Christopher Batty	JC Chang	Bill Cowan

4. Technical Presentation

Omar Zarifi	Title : Fast Muscle Wrapping Using Natural Geodesic Variations Abstract: An important consideration for biomechanical simulations is muscle wrapping. It is necessary to determine the correct path taken by muscles and tendons around bones and other obstacles for accurate force and torque computations. In this talk, I will present a fast wrapping algorithm that's designed to work with analytic parametric surfaces, which utilizes natural geodesic variations in conjunction with Newton's method to iteratively converge on a valid wrapping path. Required mathematical topics (mainly differential geometry of curves and surfaces) will also be briefly reviewed.

Omar Zarifi

Title : Fast Muscle Wrapping Using Natural Geodesic Variations
Abstract:
An important consideration for biomechanical simulations is muscle wrapping. It is necessary to determine the correct path taken by muscles and tendons around bones and other obstacles for accurate force and torque computations. In this talk, I will present a fast wrapping algorithm that's designed to work with analytic parametric surfaces, which utilizes natural geodesic variations in conjunction with Newton's method to iteratively converge on a valid wrapping path. Required mathematical topics (mainly differential geometry of curves and surfaces) will also be briefly reviewed.

5. Discussion Items

Health and safety inspection, 3:15 Sept 22.

6. Action Items

For the purposes of CGL scheduling, Ryan and Yipeng should be considered unavailable/inactive during S16 (internships).

7. Lab Events

Let's consider planning a group trip to CTRL-V, possibly in conjunction with the HCI lab.

8. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

9. Directors' Meeting

10. Seminars and Events

Thursday, 22 September 2016, 12:00PM - Computer Science (Scientific Computation Group), DC 1331: Amir Memartoluie: -- Computational Methods in Finance Related to Distributions with Known Marginals

Friday, 23 September 2016, 11:00AM - Computer Science (ISS4E), DC 1316: Omid Ardakanian: -- Unobtrusive Techniques for Establishing Occupancy-Related Energy Savings in Commercial Buildings

Monday, 26 September 2016, 10:15AM - Computer Science (Database Research Group), DC 1302: Per-Ake (Paul) Larson: -- Database Systems Meet Non-Volatile Memory (NVRAM)

Thursday, 29 September 2016, 3:30PM - Computer Science (Computer Science), DC 1302: Gail Murphy: -- Human-Centric Software Development Tools

Also see other Math and CS postings.