Meeting Minutes

Date:	February 2, 2012
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	11:30
Chair:	Bill Cowan

1. Attendance

Grace, Marta, Philippe, Alex, Matt, Steve, Simon, Elodie, Lesley, Tiffany, Bill, Craig.

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Marta- thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: Volunteers?
Coffee hour next week:: Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	February 9, 2012	February 16, 2012	February 23, 2012	March 1, 2012
Location:	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30
Chair:	Elodie Fourquet	Tiffany Inglis	Craig Kaplan	Marta Kryven
Technical Presentation:	Zainab AlMeraj	Bill Cowan	Elodie Fourquet	Tiffany Inglis

4. Technical Presentation

Grace Yao	Title : Introduction to Volume Rendering and an efficient traversal for Abstract: In scientific visualization and computer graphics, Volume Rendering is a set of techniques used to display a 2D projection of a 3D discretely sampled data set. It is used in medical and engineering field. It is also more and more important in visual art and computer games. This presentation will give a general idea of Volume Rendering and also go through the very common used ray casting approach in Volume Rendering. At last, it will also give a simple and efficient algorithm of Octree(which is used to accelerate the process).

Grace Yao

Title : Introduction to Volume Rendering and an efficient traversal for
Abstract:
In scientific visualization and computer graphics, Volume Rendering is a set of techniques used to display a 2D projection of a 3D discretely sampled data set. It is used in medical and engineering field.

It is also more and more important in visual art and computer games. This presentation will give a general idea of Volume Rendering and also go through the very common used ray casting approach in Volume Rendering. At last, it will also give a simple and efficient algorithm of Octree(which is used to accelerate the process).

5. Discussion Items

None so far...

6. Action Items

The March 1st event. Quoted from Bill ``The Day when students are invited to come to labs. Also, when we fail to meet students we want to meet we get to meet them there."
The upcoming conferences acripts need to be repaired.

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

Feb 05, 2012: EGPGV 2012 Abstracts due
Feb 06, 2012: 3DCHI2012 Submission deadline (extended)

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

Friday, 3 February 2012, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization (Tutte Seminar), MC 5158: Dominique Orban: Degeneracy in Continuous Optimization

2012 Feb 08, 14:30 - Database Research Group PhD Seminar: Greg Drzadzewski, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo. Online Analytical Processing of Documents

Also see other Math and CS postings.