MEETING-DATE:April 14, 2011 MEETING-LOCATION:DC 1331 MEETING-TIME:11:30 MEETING-CHAIR:Alex Pytel MEETING-CHAIRPIC:apytel1.jpg COFFEE-HOUR-LAST-WEEK:Cherry and Elodie COFFEE-HOUR-THIS-WEEK:Simon COFFEE-HOUR-NEXT-WEEK:Alex FORTH-DATE1:April 21, 2011 FORTH-DATE2:April 28, 2011 FORTH-DATE3:May 5, 2011 FORTH-DATE4:May 12, 2011 FORTH-LOCATION1:DC 1331 11:30 FORTH-LOCATION2:DC 1331 11:30 FORTH-LOCATION3:DC 1331 11:30 FORTH-LOCATION4:DC 1331 11:30 FORTH-CHAIR1:Jamie Ruiz FORTH-CHAIR2:Mike Terry FORTH-CHAIR3:Matthew Thorne FORTH-CHAIR4:Cherry Zhang FORTH-CHAIRPIC1:jgruiz_02.jpg FORTH-CHAIRPIC2:michael_terry.jpg FORTH-CHAIRPIC3:thorne.jpg FORTH-CHAIRPIC4:cherry.jpg FORTH-TP1:Simon Parent FORTH-TP2:Alex Pytel FORTH-TP3:Jamie Ruiz FORTH-TP4:Mike Terry FORTH-TPPIC1:simon.png FORTH-TPPIC2:apytel1.jpg FORTH-TPPIC3:jgruiz_02.jpg FORTH-TPPIC4:michael_terry.jpg TPNAME:Lesley Northam TPTITLE:MapReduce Raytracing: Rendering on a Public Cloud TPABSTRACT:The MapReduce paradigm provides fault-tolerant parallelism over a heterogeneous cloud. In this presentation I will discuss how MapReduce can be used for raytracing. TPPIC:LNortham.png DIONE:None so far DITWO: DITHREE: DIFOUR: AIONE:Poster updates. AITWO:Book the room for next term's lab meetings. We decided to keep the same time and place. AITHREE: AIFOUR: DMONE: DMTWO: DMTHREE: DMFOUR: SEMINARS:
Thursday, 14 April 2011Combinatorics and OptimizationEfficient Automatic Differentiation for Optimization and Nonlinear Systems, Part 2Thomas F. Coleman2:00PM, MC 6052
Friday, 15 April 2011Networks and Distributed Systems Master's Thesis PresentationResource Provisioning in the Electrical GridOmid Ardakanian13:30, DC 1331
Wednesday, 20 April 2011Waterloo Formal Methods PhD SeminarDetecting and Representing the Complete set of Counterexamples to an Invariant for an EFSMAlma Juarez-Dominguez11:00 , DC 1304
Wednesday, 20 April 2011Databases SeminarGenerating Efficient Execution Plans for Vertically Partitioned XML DatabasesPatrick Kling2:30PM, DC 1331
Wednesday, 20 April 2011Networks and Distributed SystemsGesture-based Image Acquisition between Smartphone and Digital SignageJason Ho3:00PM, DC 2310