Machines
and Organisms: Locomotion and Manipulation
a
seminar at cornell university, 2004
Last
updated
Tuesday, November 16, 2004 14:48
A participant list
is available here
A list of this past Spring's speakers is available here
A list of Spring 2005 (future) speakers is available here
Questions? Contact Saurabh Mahapatra or
Veronica Santos.
Talks are 2:45 to
3:45 in 204 Thurston, unless otherwise noted in red.
Seminar Schedule
| Sept
09, 2004 |
How do the feathers of a bird produce a sustained note composed
of integer-related harmonics?
Kimberly Bostwick (Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates)
|
| Sept 16, 2004 |
(no talk this
week) |
Sept
23, 2004
in
Hollister 166 (McManus Lounge)
4:30
to 5:30 PM
|
Vibro-acoustography and Vibrometry: Measuring Tissue Properties
James F. Greenleaf (Mayo Clinic Ultrasound Group)
|
| Sept 30, 2004 |
Neuromechanical Systems Biology: How exactly do animals move?
John Guckenheimer (Mathematics, Cornell)
|
| Oct 07, 2004 |
Addressing Bayesian statistics and Utility functions in sensorimotor
experiments
Konrad Koerding (MIT)
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| Oct 14, 2004 |
Learning Motor Synergies
Mark Latash (Penn State University)
|
| Oct 21, 2004 |
Learning and Remapping in the Sensory Motor System
Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi (Northwestern University)
|
Oct 22, 2004
(Friday)
4 PM in Thurston 204 |
Learning to walk by actuating a passive dynamic walker
Russ Tedrake (MIT)
|
Oct 28, 2004
4-5 PM in 261 Rhodes |
Aerodynamic Properties of Avian Flight as a Function of Wing Shape
Andrew
March (Cornell)
|
| Nov
04, 2004 |
Multi-Finger Prehension in Humans: Biomechanics and Control
Vladimir Zatsiorsky (Penn State University)
|
Nov 11, 2004
TIME: 4:00 PM |
Piecewise-holonomic mechanics, hybrid dynamical systems, and
escaping cockroaches
Philip Holmes (Princeton)
|
| Nov 18, 2004 |
Laser-polymerized microfluidic devices for protein and cell analysis
Brian
Kirby (MAE Cornell)
|
| Nov
25, 2004 |
(Thanksgiving
Break - No Seminars) |
| Dec 02, 2004 |
Control of human walking: Freeloading on physics
Art
Kuo (U Michigan)
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History
of the Seminar
- Organized
by Saurabh Mahapatra and Nicholas Estevez in Spring
2005.
- Organized by Dan Riskin and Veronica Santos in 2003-2004
- Organized
by Madhusudhan Venkadesan and Manoj Srinivasan in 2002-2003
- Organized
by Francisco Valero- Cuevas in 2001-2002
- Organized
by Andy Ruina in 2000-2001
Related
Links
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more about our seminar at this IGERT
site
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