MEETING-DATE:Jul 26, 2012
MEETING-LOCATION:DC 1331
MEETING-TIME:11:30
MEETING-CHAIR:Zainab AlMeraj
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COFFEE-HOUR-LAST-WEEK:Matthew T.
COFFEE-HOUR-THIS-WEEK:Marta 
COFFEE-HOUR-NEXT-WEEK:Volunteers?
FORTH-DATE1:Aug 2
FORTH-DATE2:Aug 9
FORTH-DATE3:Aug 16
FORTH-DATE4:Aug 23
FORTH-LOCATION1:DC 1331 11:30
FORTH-LOCATION2:DC 1331 11:00
FORTH-LOCATION3:DC 1331 11:00
FORTH-LOCATION4:DC 1331 11:00
FORTH-CHAIR1:Bill Cowan
FORTH-CHAIR2:Elodie Fourquet
FORTH-CHAIR3:Tiffany Inglis
FORTH-CHAIR4:Craig S. Kaplan
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FORTH-TP1:Dan Vogel
FORTH-TP2:Zainab AlMeraj
FORTH-TP3:Bill Cowan
FORTH-TP4:Elodie Fourquet
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TPNAME:Grace Yao
TPTITLE:Interpolating and Approximating Implicit Surface from Polygon Soup
TPABSTRACT:I will describes a method for building interpolating or approximating implicit surfaces from polygonal data. We can both generate a surface that exactly interpolates the polygons, or a surface that approximates the input by smoothing away features smaller than some user-specified size. The implicit functions are represented using a moving least-squares formulation with constraints integrated over the polygons.I will also present an improved method for enforcing normal constraints and an iterative procedure for ensuring that the implicit surface tightly encloses the input vertices.
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AIONE:Lab Retreat - update (possible September 22nd activity at the button factory)
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SEMINARS:<dl><nl><dt>27th July at 11:15 in DC 1331 Networks and Distributed Systems Seminar</dt><nl><dd>BY Dr. Sarvapali (Gopal) Ramchurn, University of Southampton, UK Title: Putting the ``Smarts'' into the Smart Grid</dd><nl></dl><nl><nl><dl><nl><dt>Jul 27 at 11:30 in DC 2306C (AI Lab) Networks and Distributed Systems Seminar</dt><nl><dd>David Loker, PhD candidate Title: Weighted Clustering</dd><nl></dl><nl><nl><dl><nl><dt>Aug 01 at 14:30 in DC 1331 Database Research Group PhD Seminar</dt><nl><dd>Catalin-Alexandru Avram, PhD candidate Title: SaviDB: An Edge-Aware Key-Value Storage System</dd><nl></dl><nl><nl><dl><nl><dt>Aug 02 at 09:00 in DC 1304 Software Engineering Research Group PhD Seminar</dt><nl><dd>Ali Niknafs, PhD candidate Title: The Impact of Domain Knowledge on the Effectiveness of Requirements Engineering Activities</dd><nl></dl><nl><nl><dl><nl><dt>Aug 02 at 13:30 in DC 2585 Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) Group Seminar</dt><nl><dd>Micah Sherr, Georgetown University Title: Security and Privacy of Legally Authorized Telephone Surveillance</dd><nl></dl><nl><nl>