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)

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

  • Read more about our seminar at this IGERT site