Robotics Institute: Seminar Schedule, Fall 2008

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Robotics Institute Seminar Schedule, Fall 2008
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Seminar Calendar

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Seminar information from Spring 2009 onward is exclusively on the new RI website's RI seminar schedule. This site exists as an archive that will eventually be integrated with the new site.

Information on the speaker can be viewed by clicking on the title of the seminar.

The abstract, video, and the presentation, when available, are also accessible by clicking on the title of the seminar.

The schedule, titles, and abstracts from earlier in this semester can be found in the archives.

RI Seminar Vodcasts can be found here: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~robocast/

Date	Speaker	Affiliation		Host	Video
~~Sep 5~~	CANCELED
	Alberto Elfes	NASA JPL		John Dolan
Sep 12	Engineering Self-Organizing Systems
	Radhika Nagpal	Harvard University		Seth Goldstein
Sep 19	Theory and Design of Novel Robot Architectures for New Surgical Frontiers
	Nabil Simaan	Columbia University		Howie Choset
Sep 26	Mars Sample Return (MSR): Reflections on Why, How, and When
	Terry Huntsberger	NASA JPL		John Dolan
~~Oct 3~~	CANCELED

Oct 10	Toward Steerable Cannula and Legged Capsule Robots in Medicine
	Robert Webster	Vanderbilt University		Howie Choset
Oct 17	Mid semester break / No classes

Oct 24	Robots at Work Special Location: Wean 7500
	Red Whittaker	Carnegie Mellon University		Sanjiv Singh
Oct 31	Autonomous Mobile Manipulation for the Motor Impaired
	Charlie Kemp	Georgia Tech		Paul Rybski
Nov 7	Roll, Crawl, Walk, Climb, and Jump: Robot Locomotion Inspired by Nature and Beyond
	Dennis Hong		Virginia Tech	Howie Choset
Nov 14	Navigation within the Hybrid Spatial Semantic Hierarchy
	Benjamin Kuipers	University of Texas at Austin		Reid Simmons
Nov 21	Research in autonomous systems and human-robot interaction at the NCARAI
	Alan Schultz	Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence		Paul Rybski
Nov 28	Thanksgiving Holiday / No classes

Dec 5	A System of Human-Robot Interfaces for Large Robot Teams
	Julie Adams	Vanderbilt University		Aaron Steinfeld
Dec 12	Finals / No classes

General Information

Seminars are held every Friday in 1305 Newell-Simon Hall, unless otherwise noted on the calendar or abstract. Seminars begin at 3:30pm, and refreshments are served starting at 3:15pm. Feel free to arrive early to get the first shot at the cookies and talk to your colleagues; please try not to leave during a seminar in deference to the speaker.

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.

Previous Seminars

Abstracts from earlier this semester, as well as Seminar calendars and abstracts back to the Fall of 1993 can be found in the Robotics Institute Seminar Archive.

Seminar Committee

For technical issues and final scheduling commitments, as well as opinions or suggestions on speakers and seminar topics, please contact Aaron Steinfeld by e-mail at steinfeld@cs.cmu.edu, or by phone at (412) 268-7417.

Aaron Steinfeld, seminar chair	steinfeld@cs.cmu.edu
Michael Dille, electronic publicity	mdille3+seminar@andrew.cmu.edu
Mehmet Dogar, real-world publicity	dogar@ceng.metu.edu.tr
Peggy Martin, speaker relations	pm1e@andrew.cmu.edu

Seminar Mailing List

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The Robotics Institute is part of the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.