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Foundations of Robotics
Seminar, February 22, 2006
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Biography | Presentation Slides | Speaker
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Algebraic
Topological Tools for Sensor Networks
Robert Ghrist
NSH 1507
Refreshments 4:45 pm
Talk 5:00 pm
As sensor engineering and manufacturing
evolve to produce smaller devices, we will face the problem of dealing with
large collections of local networked devices. What types of global problems can
be solved by a swarm of local sensors? Topologists solved a similar problem
nearly a century ago, and in so doing invented some very sophisticated
algebraic tools. This talk will demonstrate the surprising effectiveness of
algebraic topology as a toolbox for working with sensor networks having neither
localization capabilities nor probabilistic assumptions.
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Speaker Bio |
Robert Ghrist
is an Associate Professor of Mathematics and a Research Associate Professor at
the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois,
Champaign-Urbana. His Ph.D. is in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University
in 1995. Prof. Ghrist works on
Topological Methods in Applied Mathematics, using tools from algebraic
topology, knot theory, symplectic topology, and geometric group theory in a
diverse set of application domains, ranging from robotics and sensor networks
to fluid dynamics and differential equations.
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Speaker Appointments |
For appointments, please contact Howie
Choset (choset@ri.cmu.edu)
The Robotics Institute is part of the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.