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Robotics Institute Seminar Schedule, Spring 2004
General Information | Previous Seminars | Seminar Committee

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Seminar Calendar

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

The abstract 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.

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Host
January 16	A ground surface based space perception in real and virtual environments
	Bing Wu	Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Univ. of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA	George Stetten
January 23	Activity Modeling and Coordination in Complex Domains: Robot Teams, Humanoids, and People Time: 2:30pm
	Maja Mataric	University of Southern California	Kevin R Dixon
January 30	Robotic Hide-and-Seek
	Geoffrey Gordon	CALD, Carnegie Mellon	Geoffrey Gordon
February 6	Visual 3D Modeling using Cameras and Camera Networks
	Marc Pollefeys	UNC-Chapel Hill	Bob Collins
February 13	Generalized Principal Component Analysis GPCA: Geometric Clustering for Vision and Control
	Rene Vidal	Johns Hopkins University	Martial Hebert
February 20	Secret Weapons: Using Robotics in Biology and Biology in Robotics
	Tucker Balch	Georgia Institute of Technology	Reid Simmons (Contact: Jean Harpley)
February 27	Robots that Climb, Cover, and SLAM: Topological methods in Robotics Time: 10:30am | Place: SH125
	Howie Choset	Carnegie Mellon University	Howie Choset
	Moving towards collaboration: Using computational cognitive models to enable better human-robot interaction | Regular Time and Place
	Alan Schultz	US Naval Research Laboratory	Reid Simmons
March 12	Spring Break, No Seminar
March 19	Integrating Generative Models and Discriminative Models
	Zhuowen Tu	UCLA	Yanxi Liu
March 22	Statistics of the Geometry of Object Populations Time: 10:30am
	Steve Pizer	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	George Stetten
March 26	Representing and Recognizing Human Actions
	James Davis	Ohio State	Bob Collins
April 2	User Interfaces and Reinforcement Learning for Motion Control
	Michiel van de Panne	University of British Columbia, Canada	Jessica Hodgins
April 9	Networked Robotics: From Multi-Robot Systems to Wireless Sensor Networks
	Gaurav Sukhatme	USC	Sanjiv Singh
April 16	MOBOT competition, No Seminar
April 20	The RedTeam and the DARPA Grand Challenge Special RI/FRC Seminar | Time: 12:00pm
	Chris Urmson	Carnegie Mellon University	Chris Urmson
April 23	Visual Recognition from Invariant Local Features
	David Lowe	University of British Columbia	Sanjiv Singh
April 30	The Roboceptionist Project
	Reid Simmons	Carnegie Mellon University	Reid Simmons
May 7	Motion Retargeting with Physics and Deformations
	Jovan Popovic	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Nancy Pollard
May 11	Overview of Robotic Research, Development, and Application Activities at Sandia National Laboratories Time: 10:00-11:30am | Place: NSH 3305
	Larry Shipers	Sandia National Laboratories	Ralph Hollis
June 14	Towards Real-Life Reinforcement Learning Time: 10:30am
	Michael L. Littman	Rutgers University	Geoffrey Gordon

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 Brett Browning. by e-mail at brettb@ri.cmu.edu, or by phone at (412) 268-6021.

Brett Browning, chair Gita Sukthankar, real-world publicity Sarjoun Skaff, speaker relations & electronic publicity

brettb@cs.cmu.edu gitars@cs.cmu.edu sarjoun@cmu.edu

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