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Machines and Organisms:
Locomotion and Manipulation
A Seminar at Cornell
University, Fall 2006
Schedule
Last updated Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Spring 2006 schedule here.
Fall 2005 schedule here.
Spring 2005 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
Megan Thompson.
Seminar
Schedule
For a preview of next semester's schedule, click here
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Aug. 31, 2006
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Francisco
Valero-Cuevas(Cornell University)
Impulse
analysis during dynamic manipulation: An attractor reconstruction
application?
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Sept. 7, 2006
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Anupam Saxena (Indian Institute of Technology. Kanpur)
Designing Compliant Mechanisms and Optimal
Multi-Agent Capture of a Gradually Moving Object
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Sept. 14, 2006
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Itai Cohen(Cornell University)
Using novel imaging tools to investigate complex matter
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Sept. 21, 2006
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Cancelled
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Sept. 28, 2006
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John Rieffel (Cornell)
Evolutionary Fabrication: the Co-Evolution of Form and
Formation
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Oct. 5, 2006
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Andy Ruina
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Oct. 12, 2006
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Cancelled
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Oct. 19, 2006
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Mike Sherback (Cornell)
An Optimal Control Approach to Analyzing Sensorimotor Behavior
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Oct. 26, 2006
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Silvia Blemker (Virginia)
A Computational Mechanics Framework for Uncovering the Principles of Skeletal Muscle Design
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Nov. 2, 2006
Room Change
1120 Snee Hall
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Leif Ristroph (Cornell)
Common threads in flapping locomotion
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Nov. 3, 2006
Friday - Noon
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L. Mahadevan (Harvard)
Of fluttering flags, fishes, flying carpets and flytraps
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Nov. 9, 2006
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Peter Melcher (Ithaca College)
The silent organic pump: the risky business of using a tension-driven water pump in nature
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Nov. 16, 2006
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Hugh Herr
(MIT Media Labs)
New Horizons for Orthotic & Prosthetic Technology: Merging Body and
Machine
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Nov. 23, 2006
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Thanksgiving (No Seminar)
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Nov. 30, 2006
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Malcolm MacIver (Northwestern)
Embodiment, control, and cognition
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Dec. 7, 2006
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Tom Powers (Brown)
Flows driven by flagella of multicellular organisms enhance long-range molecular transport
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Dec. 8, 2006
Friday - 3:30 pm
217 Upson Hall
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Neville Hogan (MIT)
Contact Robotics and Neuroengineering
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History of the Seminar
- Organized by Gordon Berman and Megan Thompson 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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