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Robotics Institute Seminar Schedule, Fall 2008
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Seminar Calendar

*** Note! ***
Seminar information from Spring 2009 onward is exclusively on the new RI website's RI seminar schedule. This site exists as an archive that will eventually be integrated with the new site.

 

Information on the speaker can be viewed by clicking on the title of the seminar.

The abstract, video, and the presentation, when available, are also accessible by clicking on the title of the seminar.

The schedule, titles, and abstracts from earlier in this semester can be found in the archives.

 

RI Seminar Vodcasts can be found here: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~robocast/

 

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Host

Video

Sep 5

 

CANCELED

Alberto Elfes

NASA JPL

John Dolan

 

Sep 12

Engineering Self-Organizing Systems

Radhika Nagpal

Harvard University

Seth Goldstein

 

Sep 19

 

Theory and Design of Novel Robot Architectures for New Surgical Frontiers

Nabil Simaan

Columbia University

Howie Choset

 

Sep 26

Mars Sample Return (MSR): Reflections on Why, How, and When

Terry Huntsberger

NASA JPL

John Dolan

 

Oct 3

CANCELED

 

Oct 10

Toward Steerable Cannula and Legged Capsule Robots in Medicine

Robert Webster

Vanderbilt University

Howie Choset

 

Oct 17

Mid semester break / No classes

 

Oct 24

Robots at Work
Special Location: Wean 7500

Red Whittaker

Carnegie Mellon University

Sanjiv Singh

 

Oct 31

Autonomous Mobile Manipulation for the Motor Impaired

Charlie Kemp

Georgia Tech

Paul Rybski

 

Nov 7

Roll, Crawl, Walk, Climb, and Jump: Robot Locomotion Inspired by Nature and Beyond

Dennis Hong

Virginia Tech

Howie Choset

 

Nov 14

Navigation within the Hybrid Spatial Semantic Hierarchy

Benjamin Kuipers

University of Texas at Austin

Reid Simmons

 

Nov 21

 Research in autonomous systems and human-robot interaction at the NCARAI

Alan Schultz

Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence

Paul Rybski

 

Nov 28

Thanksgiving Holiday / No classes

 

Dec 5

 A System of Human-Robot Interfaces for Large Robot Teams

Julie Adams

Vanderbilt University

Aaron Steinfeld

 

Dec 12

Finals / No classes

 

           

General Information

Seminars are held every Friday in 1305 Newell-Simon Hall, unless otherwise noted on the calendar or abstract. Seminars begin at 3:30pm, and refreshments are served starting at 3:15pm. Feel free to arrive early to get the first shot at the cookies and talk to your colleagues; please try not to leave during a seminar in deference to the speaker.

If you would like to arrange a meeting with a speaker, please contact the speaker if they are from CMU, or their host, listed on the calendar, if they are from outside of the University.

Previous Seminars

Abstracts from earlier this semester, as well as Seminar calendars and abstracts back to the Fall of 1993 can be found in the Robotics Institute Seminar Archive.

Seminar Committee

For technical issues and final scheduling commitments, as well as opinions or suggestions on speakers and seminar topics, please contact Aaron Steinfeld by e-mail at steinfeld@cs.cmu.edu, or by phone at (412) 268-7417.

Aaron Steinfeld, seminar chairsteinfeld@cs.cmu.edu
Michael Dille, electronic publicitymdille3+seminar@andrew.cmu.edu
Mehmet Dogar, real-world publicitydogar@ceng.metu.edu.tr
Peggy Martin, speaker relationspm1e@andrew.cmu.edu

           

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