Foundations of Robotics Seminar − Spring 2007

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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.

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Host (Appointments)
February 4	Robust Object Shape Models for Grasping
	Jared Glover	MIT	Alberto Rodriguez
February 18	Control Strategies for Robots in Contact
	Jaeheung Park	Stanford	Alberto Rodriguez
March 11	SPRING BREAK - NO SEMINAR
March 18	Visualizing Locomotion through the Local Connection
	Ross Hatton	Carnegie Mellon University	Ross Hatton
March 25	DCIKSON PRICE IN SCIENCE AWARD CEREMONY - NO SEMINAR
April 22	Manipulation Planning with Task-space Regions
	Dmitry Berenson	Carnegie Mellon University	Dmitry Berenson
April 29	Using Classification to Gain Environmental Awareness from Low-fidelity Sensors
	Matt Tesch	Carnegie Mellon University	Matt Tesch
May 6	ICRA Practice talks
	Daniel Munoz Brian Becker Ross Knepper	Carnegie Mellon University	Alberto Rodriguez
May 27	A Language for Large Ensembles of Independently Executing Nodes
	Michael Ashley-Rollman	Carnegie Mellon University	Michael Ashley-Rollman

Seminars are held, on a regular basis, on Wednesdays in NSH 1507, 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.

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