Meeting Minutes

Date:	April 14, 2011
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	11:30
Chair:	Alex Pytel

1. Attendance

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Cherry and Elodie- thanks!

Coffee hour this week:

Simon

Coffee hour next week:

Alex

3. Forthcoming

Date:	April 21, 2011	April 28, 2011	May 5, 2011	May 12, 2011
Location:	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30
Chair:	Jamie Ruiz	Mike Terry	Matthew Thorne	Cherry Zhang
Technical Presentation:	Simon Parent	Alex Pytel	Jamie Ruiz	Mike Terry

4. Technical Presentation

Lesley Northam	Title : MapReduce Raytracing: Rendering on a Public Cloud Abstract: The MapReduce paradigm provides fault-tolerant parallelism over a heterogeneous cloud. In this presentation I will discuss how MapReduce can be used for raytracing.

5. Discussion Items

• None so far

6. Action Items

• Poster updates.
• Book the room for next term's lab meetings. We decided to keep the same time and place.

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

Thursday, 14 April 2011
Combinatorics and Optimization
Efficient Automatic Differentiation for Optimization and Nonlinear Systems, Part 2
Thomas F. Coleman
2:00PM, MC 6052

Friday, 15 April 2011
Networks and Distributed Systems Master's Thesis Presentation
Resource Provisioning in the Electrical Grid
Omid Ardakanian
13:30, DC 1331

Wednesday, 20 April 2011
Waterloo Formal Methods PhD Seminar
Detecting and Representing the Complete set of Counterexamples to an Invariant for an EFSM
Alma Juarez-Dominguez
11:00 , DC 1304

Wednesday, 20 April 2011
Databases Seminar
Generating Efficient Execution Plans for Vertically Partitioned XML Databases
Patrick Kling
2:30PM, DC 1331

Wednesday, 20 April 2011
Networks and Distributed Systems
Gesture-based Image Acquisition between Smartphone and Digital Signage
Jason Ho
3:00PM, DC 2310

Also see other Math and CS postings.

10. Lab Cleanup