Foundations of Robotics Seminar − Spring 2011

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Seminars are held, on a regular basis, Tuesdays in NSH 3305, unless otherwise noted on the calendar. Seminars begin at 4:30pm. Feel free to arrive early to get the first shot at the cookies and talk to your colleagues.

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.

Information on the speaker, when available, can be viewed by clicking on the speaker's name. The abstract, when available, can be viewed by clicking on the title of the seminar. A google calendar of the schedule is also available here.

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Host (Appointments)
March 1	Optimization Methods for Nonlinear Data Association
	Matthew Travers	Northwestern University	Howie Choset
April 5	Robust Grasping Under Uncertainty in Pose and/or Shape
	Kaijen Hsiao	Willow Garage	Siddhartha Srinivasa
April 12	Kinematics of Sliding-Rolling Contact and Its Applications to Manipulation
	Lei Cui	Robotics Institute	Howie Choset
April 21	Goal. Set. CHOMP!
	Anca Dragan	Robotics Institute	Siddhartha Srinivasa
April 21	Reengineering the Hand: Novel Approaches to Robotic Manipulation
	Aaron Dollar	Yale	Howie Choset
May 3	This Way Up. Which Way Forward?
	Dave Rollinson	Robotics Institute	Howie Choset
July 6	Tip-Steerable Needles
	John Swensen	LIMBS Lab	Howie Choset

For technical issues and final scheduling commitments, as well as opinions or suggestions on speakers and seminar topics, please contact Robbie Paolini by email.