Meeting Minutes

Date:	September 15, 2011
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	11:30
Chair:	Mike Terry

1. Attendance

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Jaime- thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: CS Picnic
Coffee hour next week:: Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	September 22, 2011	September 29, 2011	October, 6, 2011	October 13, 2011
Location:	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30
Chair:	Matthew Thorne	Dan Vogel	Zainab AlMeraj	Edgar Bering
Technical Presentation:	Joe Istead	Mike Terry	Matthew Thorne	Dan Vogel

4. Technical Presentation

Alex Pytel	Title : Screen Space Techniques Abstract: The large number of existing screen space post-processing and rendering techniques suggests that more graphics problems may have elegant solutions in screen space. I will discuss some basic screen space techniques, such as edge detection needed for many anti-aliasing algorithms, as well as some less traditional examples of working in the problem setting. I will also present an unsolved problem concerning high performance rendering of user interfaces that I find interesting.

Alex Pytel

Title : Screen Space Techniques
Abstract:
The large number of existing screen space post-processing and rendering techniques suggests that more graphics problems may have elegant solutions in screen space. I will discuss some basic screen space techniques, such as edge detection needed for many anti-aliasing algorithms, as well as some less traditional examples of working in the problem setting. I will also present an unsolved problem concerning high performance rendering of user interfaces that I find interesting.

5. Discussion Items

Mathematica coming for a visit September 23. "Mathematica in Education and Research" 2-4pm, including Q&A CPH 3679 for Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
Saul Greenberg's visit on September 21.

6. Action Items

Send PDF of recent posters to Steve.
Coffee Hour at 4:30 in the fall?

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Eurographics12

Upcoming Deadlines

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

2011 Sep 16, 10:00 -- Database Research Group PhD Thesis Defence
Xuhui Li, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Second-tier Cache Management to Support DBMS Workloads
2011 Sep 16, 11:00 -- Institute for Computer Research Seminar
Prof. Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Cyber-Physical Systems: A New Multi-Disciplinary Frontier for Computer Science and Engineering
2011 Sep 16, 13:30 -- Symbolic Computation Group Seminar
B. David Saunders, University of Delaware, USA
Exact Linear Algebra in LinBox, a status report
2011 Sep 20, 15:00 -- Computer Science Seminar
Smit Shah, MTS-Storage, Engineer, and Glen McCready, Sr. Staff Engineer, VMWare
Storage Virtualization
2011 Sep 20, 15:30 -- Artificial Intelligence Lab Seminar
Rutsuko Ito, University of Toronto at Scarborough
Cortico-striatal regulation of hippocampal- and amygdala-dependent reward learning
2011 Sep 21, 16:30 -- Distinguished Lecture Series
Saul Greenberg, University of Calgary
Proxemic Interactions: the New Ubicomp?
2011 Sep 22, 14:00 -- Database Research Group Master's Thesis Presentation
Alexey Karyakin, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Dynamic Scale-out Mechanisms for Partitioned Shared-Nothing Databases
2011 Sep 23, 08:30 -- Software Engineering Research Group PhD Thesis Defence
Vahid Karimi, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Access Control Models and Policies for Pattern-based Business Processes
2011 Sep 28, 14:30 -- Database Research Group Seminar
Jonathan Goldstein, Microsoft
Temporal Analytics on Big Data for Web Advertising

Also see other Math and CS postings.