Machines and Organisms

A Seminar at Cornell University, 2005

Last updated Monday, December 15, 2005 16:15

Fall 2005 schedule.
Spring 2005 schedule here.
Fall 2004 schedule here
A participant list is available here

Seminars are held Thursdays unless notified at Thurston 204, 2.45-3.45 pm.

If you have questions about location etc, feel free to contact Gordon Berman or Kevin Keenan.

Seminar Schedule

Sept 15, 2005	Erez Dekel (The Weizmann Institude of Science) Optimality and evolutionary tuning of the expression level of a protein
Sept 22, 2005	Kojiro Matsushita (University of Tokyo) Locomoting with less computation but more morphology
Sept 29, 2005	Kimberley Bostwick (Museum of Vertebrates, Cornell) Bird sings with stridulating wing feathers
Oct 6, 2005	Kevin Keenan (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell) The surface EMG as an index of activity in a population of motor units
Oct 13, 2005	Sam Walcott (Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell) Explaining history dependence in muscle with molecules. (A pseudo history-dependent cross-bridge model).
Oct 20, 2005	Konrad Körding (MIT) Human movement as an optimal decision process
Oct 27, 2005	Open
Nov 3, 2005	Walter Herzog (University of Calgary) Considerations on history dependence of skeletal muscle contraction
Nov 10, 2005	Open
Nov 17, 2005	John Bertram (University of Calgary) A minor epiphany in gait control: understanding constrained optimization
Nov 24, 2005	Thanksgiving Break (No Seminar)
Dec 1, 2005	Joseph Fetcho (Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell) Optical and genetic approaches toward understanding motor system function and dysfunction

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