ISocials < Imager

---+ Imager Socials

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---++ Description

See also the [[http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/96hkljo5uc5a0p05ronloklusk%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics]["imager-lab" google calendar]].

As of Fall 2010, Imager socials have been held in x836 as a mix of socializing and short talks:
   * 12:30: pizza and informal chatting
   * 12:45-1:15: two 10-minute talks (+5m questions each), pitched at level for all of Imager)
   * til 2: finish the pizza and chatting.


---++ IMAGER Social Schedule 2011
   * January 26th - canceled in lieu of Jan 28 Imager Party
   * February 23rd
      1. HCI - Garth Shoemaker (new postdoc; Booth): "Body Centric Interaction with Very Large Wall Displays"
      1. Graphics - Ben Jones (MSc; van de Panne): "I've fallen and I CAN get up. Fall recovery controllers for physically simulated characters"
   * March 23rd
      1. Graphics - Wolfgang's group - name/title TBA
      2. HCI - Charlotte Tang (postdoc; McGrenere) - title TBA
   * April 27th
      1. Viz - Stephen Ingram (!PhD; Munzner) - title TBA
      2. HCI - Steve Yohanan (!PhD; !MacLean) - "Social Human-Robot Interaction through Affective Touch"
   * May 25th
      1. Graphics - Tyson Brochu (!PhD; Bridson): "Really, Really Robust Collision Detection."
      2. TBA - ??
   * June 22nd
      1. TBA - ??
      2. TBA - ??
   * July 27th - no social
   * August 24th - no social
   * September 28th
   * October 26th
   * November 23rd
 
---++ IMAGER Social Schedule 2010
   * August 25th
   * September 22nd
      1. Stelian Coros (postdoc; van de Panne)
      2. David Levine (postdoc; Pai).
   * October 27th
      1. Jeff Hendy (!PhD; Booth / !McGrenere):"Graphically Enhanced Keyboard Accelerators"
      2.  Vincent Levesque (Postdoc; !MacLean):"Enhancing Physicality in Touch Interaction with Programmable Friction". 
   * November 24th - Pizza only
   * December 22nd - canceled - holiday.

---++ IMAGER Social Schedule 2006

<a href="ImagerSocials">2006 Imager Socials schedule</a>

---++ ISocial czar responsibilities and history

---+++ ISocial Czar responsibilities
   * Send out general call for speakers, to faculty, at beginning of term (try to fill whole term)
   * 1 week in advance (can do at imager facstaff mtg)
      * Remind speakers
      * Ask for news announcements from faculty 
      * Add these to news on website
   * At event & afterwards:
      * Announce news events
      * Announce speakers
    

---+++ Frequency of participation
   * 4-5 socials in a given term -> 8-10 slots or about one for each of us.
      * -> Every faculty should be represented by a talk (student, postdoc, self) ~once during term
      * Co-supervised by two imager faculty -> only counts half :-)  
   * Shut down for Jun-Aug
   * Replaced by Imager party, sometime in summer, and in January (2011). 



---+++ Position  held by:
   * 2010-11 W2 - Karon
   * 2010-11 W1 - Tamara (inaugural)


-- KaronMacLean - 08 Feb 2011 <br>
-- Tamara - 05 Jan 2007 <br>
This topic: Imager > WebHome > ISocials
Topic revision: r25 - 2011-03-04 - KaronMacLean