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Machines and Organisms:
Locomotion and Manipulation
A Seminar at Cornell
University, Fall 2007
Schedule
Spring 2007 schedule here
Fall 2006 schedule here
Spring 2006 schedule here.
Fall 2005 schedule here.
A participant list is available here
Seminars are held Thursdays unless notified at Thurston 201,
2.45-3.45 pm.
If you have questions about location etc, feel free to contact
Leif Ristroph.
Seminar
Schedule
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Aug. 30, 2007
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Organizational Meeting
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Sept. 6, 2007
3-4 pm Thursday
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Floris van Breugel (Cornell University, Biological Engineering)
A Passively Stable Flapping Hovering Micro Air Vehicle
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Sept. 11, 2007
3-4 pm Tuesday, Olin 255
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Bill Bialek (Princeton University, Physics and Integrative Genomics)
Ising models for networks of real neurons
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Sept. 20, 2007
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David Hu (NYU, Courant Institute, Applied Mathematics Laboratory)
Snakes on a plane
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Sept. 27, 2007
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Umberto Pesavento (Cornell University, Theoretical & Applied Mechanics)
At the scale of insects, flapping flight can be more efficient than
fixed wing flight
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Oct. 3, 2007
2:45-3:45 pm Wednesday
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Jeff Krichmar (The Neurosciences Institute, Theoretical Neurobiology)
Brain-based Devices: Studying brain function by developing embodied
models of the nervous system
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Oct. 4, 2007
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Mandyam Srinivasan (Queensland Brain Institute, Neuroscience)
From flying insects to autonomous aerial vehicles
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Oct. 11, 2007
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Mitra Hartmann (Northwestern University, Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering)
Studying Biomechanics to Gain Insight into Sensory Perception
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Oct. 18, 2007
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Manoj Srinivasan (Princeton University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
Abstract
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Oct. 25, 2007
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Steve Vogel (Duke University, Biology)
Pumping and Jumping: Toward Simple Rules
that Transcend Size
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Nov. 1, 2007
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David Field (Cornell University, Psychology)
Abstract
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Nov. 9, 2007
Friday, 2:45-3:45
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Art Kuo (University of Michigan, Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering)
How do biological oscillators control human walking?
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Nov. 15, 2007
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Michiel van de Panne (University of British Columbia, Computer Science)
Analysis-by-synthesis and synthesis-by-analysis for modeling human motion
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Nov. 22, 2007
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No Seminar - Thanksgiving
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Nov. 29, 2007
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Tom Daniel (University of Washington, Biology)
Abstract
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Dec. 6, 2007
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Peko Hosoi (MIT, Mechanical Engineering)
Optimizing Low Reynolds Number Locomotion
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History of the Seminar
- Organized by Megan Thompson, Gordon Berman, and Leif Ristroph in 2006-2007.
- Organized by Gordon Berman and Kevin Keenan in 2005-2006.
- Organized by Saurabh Mahapatra and Nicholas Estevez in 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
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