Meeting Minutes

Date:	March 6, 2014
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	11:30
Chair:	Stephen Mann

1. Attendance

Christopher Batty, Dan Vogel, Stephen Mann, Bill Cowan, Marta, Egor, Alex, Tyler

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Egor, Grace- thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: Volunteers?
Coffee hour next week:: Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	March 13, 2014	March 20, 2014	March 27, 2014	April 3, 2014
Location:	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30
Chair:	Lesley Northam	Tyler Nowicki	Alex Pytel	Matthew Thorne
Technical Presentation:	Bill Cowan	Grace Yao	Stephen Mann	Lesley Northam

4. Technical Presentation

Christopher Batty	Title : Merging of Dynamic Surface Meshes Abstract: Triangle mesh surfaces are a common and useful representation for digital geometry, but when applied to physical simulations or other problems involving complex deformations, they can often end up colliding and intersecting. In the case of a water animation, we would like to merge the colliding geometry together so that, for example, two water droplets merge into one. I will provide an overview of three general strategies that have been proposed to achieve this effect, and discuss some of their trade-offs.

Christopher Batty

Title : Merging of Dynamic Surface Meshes
Abstract:
Triangle mesh surfaces are a common and useful representation for digital geometry, but when applied to physical simulations or other problems involving complex deformations, they can often end up colliding and intersecting. In the case of a water animation, we would like to merge the colliding geometry together so that, for example, two water droplets merge into one. I will provide an overview of three general strategies that have been proposed to achieve this effect, and discuss some of their trade-offs.

5. Discussion Items

Reminder: create minutes

6. Action Items

Tyler Nowicki is off-campus after March 24.

7. Lab Events

Games night? Movie night? Lego night? Origami night? A sad night of drinking away problems?

8. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

SCCG 2014

Upcoming Deadlines

Mar 09, 2014: SCCG 2014 Paper submission

9. Directors' Meeting

None

10. Seminars and Events

Monday, March 10, 2014
        Computer Science Seminar
        ``Computational Privacy: Two Fundamental Problems''
        Reza Shokri, Post-doc researcher, Institute of Information Security,
        Dept. Comp. Sci., ETH Zurich
        10:30 a.m.; DC 1304

Tuesday, March 11, 2014
        CM Colloquium
        ``Learning with Marginalized Corruption''
        Kilian Q. Weinberger, Assistant Professor, Washington University.
        DC 1304 at 11:00 am

Wednesday, March 12, 2014
        Computer Science Seminar
        ``You Can Have your Virtual Cake and Eat It Too''
        Andres Lagar-Cavilla, Co-Founder of Gridcentric, Inc.
        10:30 a.m.; DC 1304

Also see other Math and CS postings.