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GRASP Seminar Series: Fall  2008

All seminars will be held on Fridays, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon, Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (3330 Walnut Street) unless otherwise indicated.

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September 5th

Eric Klavins
University of Washington
Talk: Programmed Molecular Self-Organization - Robots behaving like molecules and molecules behaving like robots



September 12th Maxim Likhachev
University of Pennsylvania
Talk: Solving Hard Planning Problems in Robotics with Simple Graph Searches
 
September 18th
(Special Seminar)
Levine 512 at 2pm
Amit Roy-Chowdhury
University of California, Riverside
Talk: From Single Images To Camera Networks: Modeling and Inference Strategies


 
September 26th

Alexander Rakhlin
UC Berkeley and University of Pennsylvania
Talk: Online Learning with Limited Feedback


 
October 3rd

Pieter Abbeel
UC Berkeley
Talk: Apprenticeship Learning for Robotic Control with Application to Quadruped Locomotion and Autonomous Helicopter Flight


 
October 10th Longin Jan Latecki
Temple University
Talk: Contour Grouping Based on Contour-Skeleton Duality


 
October 14th
(Special Seminar)
Levine 315 at 1pm
Ioannis Poulakakis
University of Michigan
Talk: Feedback Control of Monopedal Robot Running
 
October 17th

Laurent Younes
Johns Hopkins University
Talk: Matching and Comparing Deformable Structures with Metamorphosis

 
October 20th
(Special Seminar)
Levine 307 at 2pm
Ashutosh Saxena
Stanford University
Talk: Robotic Grasping and Depth Perception: Learning 3D Models from a Single Image


 
October 24th

Yoshiaki Sakagami
Honda Research Institute USA Inc.
Talk: Honda Humanoid ASIMO: How to approach human like capability?

 
October 31st Peter Allen
Columbia University
Talk: Graspit!: A Visualization and Simulation Engine for Grasping Research
 

at 2pm in
Berger Aud.

 

Hugh Durrant-Whyte
University of Sydney, Australia
Talk: Information, Fusion and Control in Autonomous Networks

 
November 7th

Klara Nahrstedt
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Talk:View-casting: View-based Stream Dissemination and Control for Multi-Party 3D Tele-immersive Environments


 
November 14th Oliver Brock
University of Massachusetts
Talk: Robots for the Real World - Towards Autonomous Mobile Manipulation
 
November 19th
(Special Seminar)
Levine 307 at 12pm

Andrew Ng
Stanford University
Talk: STAIR: The STanford Artificial Intelligence Robot project


 
November 21st Jeff Trinkle
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Talk: Simulation-Based Planning and Design for Robotic Systems with Intermittent Contacts


 
November 28th THANKSGIVING BREAK  
December 5th

Chris Gerdes (GRASP/MEAM Seminar)
Stanford University
Talk: Lanekeeping Assistance at the Vehicle Handling Limits


 
December 8th
(Special Seminar)
Levine 307 at 11am
Jason Derenick
Lehigh University
Talk: Planning and Estimation for Intelligent Vehicle Systems


 

Seminars from prior years

Spring 2008

Fall 2007 / Spring 2007

Fall 2006 / Spring 2006

Fall 2005 Spring 2005

Fall 2004

2003-2004

 

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