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GRASP Seminar Series: Spring 2009

All seminars will be held on Fridays, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon, Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (3330 Walnut Street) unless otherwise indicated.

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January 14th (Special Seminar) Levine 307 at 3pm	Lena Gorelick Weizmann Institute of Science Talk: Using Poisson-Based Shape Representation for Object and Action Recognition
January 16th	Srinivasa Narasimhan Carnegie Mellon University Talk: Illuminating Cameras
January 23rd	Emmanuelle Collins Florida A&M University and Florida State University Talk: Dynamic Modeling of Skid-Steered Vehicles for Motion Planning
January 30th	Victor Preciado University of Pennsylvania Talk: Spectral Analysis of Stochastic Models for Large-Scale Complex Dynamical Networks
February 2nd (Special Seminar) Lvn 315 at 11:30am	Edgar Lobaton University of California, Berkeley Talk: Recovering Topological Information of a Camera Network Coverage
February 6th	Todd Zickler Harvard University Talk: Physics-based computer vision, reconsidered
February 13th	Chris Rogers Tufts University Talk: Nurturing Creativity in the College Classroom using LEGO bricks and LabVIEW
February 20th	Jerome Le Ny University of Pennsylvania Talk: Performance Optimization for Unmanned Vehicle Systems
February 27th	Bernard Chazelle Princeton University Talk: The Convergence of Bird Flocking
March 5 th (Special Seminar) Levine 307 at 11am	Dimitris P. Tsakiris Institute of Computer Science - FORTH Talk: Bio-Inspired Pedundulatory Robotic Locomotion
March 6th	Nicholas Roy Massachusetts Institute of Technology Talk: Planning and Learning in Information Space
March 13th	SPRING BREAK
March 16th (Special Seminar) Levine 307, 3:30pm	Steve Cousins Willow Garage, CEO Talk: An Open Platform for Robotics Research
March 20th	Dmitri Tymoczko Princeton University Talk: Geometry and Music
March 25th (Special Seminar) Lvn 512, 10:30pm	Danny Kaufman University of British Columbia/Rutgers University Talk: Coupled Principles for Discrete Contact Mechanics
March 27th	Devavrat Shah Massachusetts Institute of Technology Talk: Network Algorithms: Decentralization and Efficiency
April 3rd	Karon MacLean University of British Columbia Talk: Haptic Communication: from Abstract to Affect
April 10th	Paul Newman University of Oxford Talk: Outdoor Navigation, Mapping and Understanding with Vision and Laser
April 17th	Howie Choset Carnegie Mellon University Talk: Toward Path Planning, Control, and Filtering for Novel Robot Systems
April 21st (Special Seminar) Levine 307, 2pm	Siwei Lyu University of Albany, SUNY Talk: Reduce Statistical Dependencies in Natural Signals Using Radial Gaussianization
April 21st (Special Seminar) Raisler Lounge, 4pm	Fei-Fei Li Princeton university Talk: High-level visual recognition: understanding the visual world beyond isolated objects
April 24th	John Lygeros Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich Talk: Stochastic Hybrid Systems Biology
May 1st (Berger Auditorium)	Hana El-Samad University of California, San Francisco Talk: Stochastic Biological Circuits: Noise as a Phenotype
May 8th	Jennifer King and Snehit Neenakri University of Pennsylvania - Robo Master's Presentations Talk: A Particle Filter Approach to Simultaneous Localization and Mapping using Range-Only Data Talk: Immersive 3D Video Surveillance Monitoring Application for Modern Day Surveillance Systems
May 20th (Special Seminar) Lvn 512, 12:30pm	Evan Ribnick University of Minnesota Talk: View-Invariant Analysis of Periodic Motion
May 22nd (Special Seminar) Levine 307, 11am	Shreyas Sundaram University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Talk: Linear Iterative Strategies for Information Dissemination and Processing in Distributed Systems
June 8th (Special Seminar) Levine 307, 11am	Juan S. Mejía University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Talk: Safe Control and Coordination of Multiple Autonomous Vehicles
June 15th (Special Seminar) Wu and Chen, 3pm	Yaroslav Tenzer Imperial College London, London, UK Talk: Improving the Realism of Haptic Perceptions in Virtual Arthroscopy Training
June 17th (Special Seminar) Levine 307, 11am	Guilherme A. S. Pereira Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Talk: Vector Field Approaches for UAV Navigation
June 19th (Special Seminar) Levine 307, 11am	Haifeng Gong University of California, Los Angeles Talk:"Intrackability: An Information Theoretical Measure for Good Feature to Track" and "Deformable Templates for Recognition"

Seminars from prior years

Fall 2008 / Spring 2008

Fall 2007 / Spring 2007

Fall 2006 / Spring 2006

Fall 2005 / Spring 2005

Fall 2004

2003-2004

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