MEETING-DATE:January 20, 2011 MEETING-LOCATION:DC 1331 MEETING-TIME:11:30 MEETING-CHAIR:Xinling Chen MEETING-CHAIRPIC:xinling.jpg COFFEE-HOUR-LAST-WEEK:Zainab COFFEE-HOUR-THIS-WEEK:Xinling COFFEE-HOUR-NEXT-WEEK:Elodie FORTH-DATE1:January 27, 2011 FORTH-DATE2:February 3,2011 FORTH-DATE3:February 10,2011 FORTH-DATE4:February 17,2011 FORTH-LOCATION1:Side Effects, Toronto FORTH-LOCATION2:DC 1331 11:30 FORTH-LOCATION3:DC 1331 11:30 FORTH-LOCATION4:DC 1331 11:30 FORTH-CHAIR1: FORTH-CHAIR2:Tiffany Inglis FORTH-CHAIR3:Craig Kaplan FORTH-CHAIR4:Ben Lafreniere FORTH-CHAIRPIC1: FORTH-CHAIRPIC2:tiffany.jpg FORTH-CHAIRPIC3:craig.jpg FORTH-CHAIRPIC4:ben.jpg FORTH-TP1: FORTH-TP2:Elodie Fourquet FORTH-TP3:Eugene Greene FORTH-TP4:Tiffany Inglis FORTH-TPPIC1: FORTH-TPPIC2:elodie.jpg FORTH-TPPIC3:edgreene.jpeg FORTH-TPPIC4:tiffany.jpg TPNAME:Xinling Chen TPTITLE:Embroidery Modeling and Rendering in Real Time TPABSTRACT:I am going to talk about the work I did during my internship in Japan last summer, which is also the research I am working on. TPPIC:xinling.jpg DIONE:The trip to Side Effects DITWO:Escher exhibition in Ohio DITHREE: DIFOUR: AIONE:Time for next term lab meetings: Thursday 11:30. The only date not available to you is March 24th. AITWO:Updates on the poster? AITHREE: AIFOUR: DMONE: DMTWO: DMTHREE: DMFOUR: SEMINARS:

2011 Jan 21, 12:00- Artificial Intelligence Lab PhD SeminarShehroz Khan, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. WaterlooOne Class Classification: Review and Application to Raman Spectroscopy

2011 Jan 26, 14:30- Database Research Group PhD SeminarChen Zhang, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. WaterlooHBaseDB: A solution for Multi-row distributed transactions with global strong snapshot isolation using HBase on clouds

2011 Feb 02, 14:00-Programming Languages Lab PhD SeminarMirza Omer Beg, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. WaterlooA Constraint Programming Approach for Instruction Assignment

2011 Feb 08, 14:30- Algorithms and Complexity Group PhD Thesis DefenceKrishnam Raju JampaniSimultaneous Graph Representation Problems

2011 Feb 10, 16:30- Distinguished Lecture Series TalkGilles Brassard, University of MontrealQuantum Magic in Secret Communication

2011 Feb 15, 09:00- Waterloo Formal Methods PhD Thesis DefenceShahram Esmaeilsabzali, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. WaterlooPrescriptive Semantics for Big-Step Modeling Languages

2011 Feb 18, 14:00- Software Engineering Research Group PhD SeminarAhmed Raihan Al-Ekram, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. WaterlooAdaptive Replication Reconfiguration for QoS

Math Faculty Seminars:

Monday, 17 January 2011, 9:00AM - Applied Mathematics , MC 5158Derek Steinmoeller: -- Modeling Internal Wave Dynamics in Lakes Using Unstructured Grids

Monday, 17 January 2011, 11:30AM - Combinatorics and Optimization , MC 5158 Oleg Pikhurko: -- Stability Method in Extremal Combinatorics

Monday, 17 January 2011, 3:30PM - Computational Mathematics , Math & Computer, Room 5136Chris Eliasmith: -- "How to build a brain: From single neurons to cognition"

Tuesday, 18 January 2011, 7:00PM - Faculty of Mathematics , Theatre of the Arts, Modern Languages BuildingProfessor Shing-Tung Yau: -- The Shape of Inner Space

Thursday, 20 January 2011, 4:00AM - Statistics & Actuarial Science , MC 5158 Karen McKeown: -- Misclassification of Current Status Data

Thursday, 20 January 2011, 1:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization (Algebraic Combinatorics), MC 5136B Chris Godsil: -- Spectra of Paths

Thursday, 20 January 2011, 4:00PM - Combinatorics and Optimization , MC5136B Bill Cunningham: -- Matroids, Graphs and 3-Connectivity

Friday, 21 January 2011, 12:00PM - Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence Lab), DC 2306C(AI Lab Shehroz Khan: -- One Class Classification: Review and Application to Raman Spectroscopy

Friday, 21 January 2011, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization (Tutte Seminar), MC 5158 Bruce Richmond: -- Maximum Stirling Numbers of the Second Kind