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Robotics Institute Seminar Schedule, Fall 2007
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, 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
Sept 7	Haptic Interaction through Lorentz Magnetic Levitation: a Personal Journey
	Ralph Hollis	Carnegie Mellon University		Alexei Efros
Sept 11 (Tuesday- Special seminar NSH 3305, 4:00 pm)	Audiovision, Abstract Communication and Interactive Art
	Golan Levin	Carnegie Mellon University		Roger B. Dannenberg
Sept 14	Seminar Cancelled
Sept 21	Slipping the Surly Bonds of Earth:  Intelligent Navigation and Collaboration for Air Vehicles
	Sanjiv Singh	Carnegie Mellon University
Sept 28	From Images to Insights.
	Wojciech Matusik	Adobe Systems		Srinivas Narasimhan
Oct 5	Medical Robotics
	Jacob Rosen	University of Washington		Jessica Hodgins
Oct 12	Pursuing the Dream of Cheap, Reliable, Useful Robots and New Control Kids on the Block
	George Kantor and Marcel Bergerman	Carnegie Mellon University
Oct 19	Mid semester break / No classes
Oct 26	New Techniques for Acquiring, Rendering and Displaying Human Performances
	Paul Debevec		University of Southern California	Alexei Efros
Nov 2	Perceiving the Actions and Intentions of Others: Brain Mechanisms for Social Perception
	Kevin Pelphrey	Carnegie Mellon University		Jessica Hodgins
Nov 9	Fixing the Beating Heart: Ultrasound Guidance for Robotic Intracardiac Surgery
	Robert Howe	Harvard University		Metin Sitti
Nov 16	“Athletic Walking”
	Vytas Sun Spiral	NASA Ames		John Dolan
Nov 23	Thanksgiving Holiday / No classes
Nov 30	Conditional Random Fields for Labeling Tasks in Robotics
	Dieter Fox	University of Washington		Drew Bagnell
Dec 5	Tartan Racing and the Urban Challenge
	Chris Urmson	Carnegie Mellon University		Alexei Efros
Dec 14	Formation and Evolution of Groups in Large Social Networks
	Daniel Huttenlocher	Cornell University		Alexei Efros

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 Alexei Efros by e-mail at efros@cs.cmu.edu, or by phone at (412) 268-1234.

Alexei Efros, seminar co-chair Paul Rybski, seminar co-chair Eakta Jain, electronic publicity Michael Dille, real-world publicity Peggy Martin, speaker relations

efros@cs.cmu.edu, prybski@cs.cmu.edu ejain@andrew.cmu.edu mmdille3@andrew.cmu.edu mpm1e@andrew.cmu.edu

Seminar Mailing List

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