Machines and Organisms: Locomotion and Manipulation

A Seminar at Cornell University, Spring 2007 Schedule

Fall 2006 schedule here
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 Megan Thompson or Leif Ristroph.


Seminar Schedule

Jan. 25, 2007
Open
Feb. 1, 2007
Fumiya Iida (MIT)
Toward Fast, Cheap, and "Under" Control: Dynamic Locomotion in Under-Actuated Systems
Feb. 8, 2007
Kristine Mosier (Indiana University School of Medicine)
Sensorimotor integration and remapping:
Implications for motor learning, adaptation and brain-machine interfaces
Feb. 15, 2007
Cancelled - Snow
Feb. 22, 2007
Zoran Popovich (University of Washington)
Mar. 1, 2007
Russell Main (Cornell)
Skeletal Mechanics, Bone Histomorphology, and Growth in Tetrapods
Mar. 8, 2007
Peter Varkonyi (Princeton)
Alternative models of the lamprey CPG: Behavioral predictions via phase oscillators
Mar. 15, 2007
Sanjay Sane (University of Washington)
Leading with your nose: The role of antennae in insect flight control.
Mar. 22, 2007
Spring Break (No Seminar)
Mar. 29, 2007
Open
Apr. 5, 2007
Andy Ruina (Cornell)
Apr. 12, 2007
Daniel Koditschek (University of Pennsylvania)
Gait Generation for Bioinspired Locomotion
Apr. 19, 2007
Kimball B-11
Mike Dickinson (Caltech)
How Flies Fly
Apr. 26, 2007
Metin Sitti (Carnegie Melon)
Biologically Inspired Miniature Mobile Robots
Apr. 30, 2007
Monday
John Milton (Claremont College)
Balancing at the edge of stability
May 3, 2007
Jack Dennerlein (Harvard)
The dynamics of the finger and upper extremity during repetitive occupational tasks

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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

n 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