Conferences

See our conference schedule.

Schedule Updates

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Monthly Meetings

all are Fridays, 12 noon - 1:30 pm, in Wean 8220
lunch is provided

Most of these are the second Friday of each month, but the February, April, and October meetings have been moved due to holidays, travel, and conference deadlines. Presentation topics/presenters will be listed below as we schedule them. If you'd like to present please contact jasoncam@cs and seth@cs. Presentations are typically 20 minutes long and more formal/prepared than the weekly update presentations.

2/17/2006 Babu: the 3D Fax Machine,
Nels: Agent-oriented Catom Programming,
Mike Weller: A Design for Giant Helium-filled Catoms,
Casey: Release 1.0 of the DPR/Claytronics Simulator
3/10/2006 Jason & Babu: Collective Actuation,
Brian: New Catom Prototypes,
Seth: ?
4/21/2006 Preethi Bhat: Hierarchical Planning, ?, ?
5/12/2006
6/9/2006
7/14/2006
8/11/2006
9/8/2006
10/20/2006
11/10/2006
12/8/2006


Weekly Meetings

all are Thursdays, 2-3pm, in the Intel "Hot Metal Bridge" room

This is a rotating presentation schedule. Presentations should be very brief updates (~8-10 minutes) of the latest status of your work. Slides are not required, but visuals are encouraged. When possible we archive visuals via hyperlinks below. If you'd like to be added to the schedule or removed from it, contact seth@cs and jasoncam@cs. 

1/18/2006 Babu,  Sidd,  Nels
1/25/2006 Burak (missed), Brian, Seth 
2/1/2006  Preethi, Stano or see slat website, Casey 
2/8/2006  Mike,   Byung Woo,   Ben 
2/15/2006 Ram,   Jason,   Babu   
2/22/2006 Sidd,   Nels,   Burak   
3/1/2006  Brian,   Seth,   Preethi   

Note meeting change to Thursday 2pm, at Intel.

3/9/2006  Babu,   Mike, Brian & Seth (He catoms)   
16-Mar    Byung Woo,   Stano,   Ram    (CMU Spring Break)
23-Mar    Jason,   Casey,   Sidd 
30-Mar    Nels,   Burak,   Brian 
6-Apr     Seth,   Preethi,   Stano 
13-Apr    Casey,   Mike,   Byung Woo 
20-Apr    Ben,   Ram,   Jason 
27-Apr    Babu,   Sidd,   Nels 
4-May     Burak,   Brian,   Seth     (During Computational Frontiers, May, 3-5) 
11-May    Preethi, Stano  (During AAMAS, May 8-12), Casey     (Finals at CMU; During ECCV, May 7-13)
18-May    Mike,   Byung Woo,   Ben      (During ICRA, May 15-19)
25-May    Ram,   Jason,   Babu  (After end of semester)



Sub-project meetings
Giant Helium Filled Catoms Wednesdays, 3:30pm, Wean ????
Manipulation TBD
Communications & Hierarchies Mondays, 12 noon, Intel Belefield room

Please send other subproject meeting times to Jason and Seth.