Machines and Organisms

A Seminar at Cornell University, Spring 2006 Schedule

Last updated Thursday, April 24, 2005 12:09

Fall 2005 schedule here.
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

Feb 2, 2006	Max Donelan (Simon Fraser University) Sensorimotor control
Feb 9, 2006	Randy Beer (Case Western Reserve University) Frictionless Brains: The Dynamics of Brain-Body-Environment Systems
Feb 16, 2006	Bernard Gerstman (Florida International University) Laser damage to the retina: how to cook or explode an eye
Feb 23, 2006	Deborah King (Ithaca College) From Take-off to Landing: Biomechanical Issues in the Sport of Figure Skating
March 2, 2006	Open
March 9, 2006	Iain Couzin (University of Oxford) Collective motion and decision-making in animal groups
March 16, 2006	Mary Lou Zeeman (University of Texas, San Antonio) How does estradiol initiate the LH surge? A modeling approach.
March 23, 2006	Spring Break (No Seminar)
March 30, 2006	Steve Lehman (University of California, Berkeley) Muscle Mechanics: A Case Study in Vertical Integration
April 6, 2006	William Warren (Brown University) A Dynamical Model of Human Locomotor Path Formation
April 13, 2006	George Lauder (Harvard University) How fishes swim: experimental hydrodynamics and the mechanics of flexible propulsors
April 20, 2006	Rob Clewley (Mathematics, Cornell) How best to dynamically model finger motions?
April 27, 2006	Mimi A.R. Koehl (University of California, Berkeley) Smelling with hairy noses: The design of olfactory antennae and the fluid dynamics of odor capture
May 4, 2006	Sharon M. Swartz (Brown University) Skin and Bones: The remarkable mechanics and aerodynamics of bat wings

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