The IAM Lounge serves as the social and meeting hub for the IAM members, guests and visitors. It houses the IAM Library and is frequently used as a space to study, eat or relax. The Lounge provides the IAM users with a fridge, microwave oven, kettles, coffee makers, an expresso machine, and filtered drinking water, and has a terminal available for access to the IAM linux network. Several IAM research groups regularly use the Lounge for their meetings, taking advantage of the presentation area equipped with a ceiling-mount projector and a pull-down screen. The Lounge is also used as a place for refreshments and interactions before the IAM seminars, and every Friday morning throughout most of the year, the IAM members gather here for the IAM tea/coffee hour. A Lounge Use Calendar is posted inside the Lounge to help schedule the different activities taking place here.
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| A quick look at the lounge from the door connecting it with room 309 |
The sitting and discussion area, with two bookcases housing the main IAM Library stock |
Linux terminals, bookcases with the graduate thesis and scientific journal collections, and the presentation area in the left background |
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| Neil Balmforth discussing a problem with Iain Moyles and Michael Lindstrom |
Eric Cytrynbaum and his research group at one of their weekly meetings |
Mark Willoughby, Michael Lindstrom and Kelly Paton working on an assignment |
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| Michael Lindstrom (right foreground) and others at the IAM Friday morning tea/coffee |
Bernie Shizgal with guest speaker Peter Forsyth before his Distinguished Colloquium talk in November 2006 |
The audience of the MITACS overview presented by MITACS Business Director Laurence Meadows in October 2009 |