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GRASP Lab Seminar Fall 2004
The GRASP Seminar features investigators from different universities and research institutions presenting their work to the Lab. Seminar talks normally occur each Friday at 11:00 in Levine Hall 307. Additional talks may occur occasionally at other times, as noted in the schedule.
September 1 (Wednesday), "Digital Image Forensics," Hany Farid, Dartmouth College, 3:00 PM, Levine Hall 307.
September 3, "Physical Modeling and Optimization of Heterogeneous Solids: Level Set Methods," Michael Yu Wang, Department of Automation and Computer Aided Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
September 3, "Exact Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction," Matthew Brand, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, 1:30 PM, Levine Hall 307.
September 10, "An Exploration of Texture in Images," Bruce Maxwell, Department of Engineering, Swarthmore College, 2:00 PM, Levine Hall 307.
September 17, TBA, Irfan Essa, Georgia Tech, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
September 24, "Navigation and Mapping for Autonomous Mobile Robots," John Leonard, Department of Ocean Engineering, MIT, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
October 1, "Phantom Track Generation Using Multiple Electronic Combat Air Vehicles (ECAVs)," Suhada Jayasuriya, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A & M, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
October 8, "Autonomy and Cooperation for Miniature UAVs", Randy Beard, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Brigham Young University, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
October 15, "Blind Source Separation for Degenerate and Noisy Mixing Models", Justinian Rosca, Seimens Corporate Research, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
October 22, "High-Confidence Control: Statistical Verification for Autonomous Vehicles", Tariq Samad, Honeywell Labs, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 315.
October 29, "Contact Force Distribution for Robotics Hand Grasping and Multi-limbed Robots," Dennis Hong, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
November 5, "Sensor-Based Locomotion Control in Animals and Machines," Noah Cowan, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
November 12, "End-to-End Training of Energy-Based Models with Applications to Vision and Robotics," Yann LeCun, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
November 19, Rescheduled to Feb 18, 2005, Maja Mataric, Computer Science Department, USC, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
December 3, "Reinforcement Learning and Apprenticeship Learning for Control," Andrew Ng, Computer Science Department, Stanford, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
December 10, "The Curse of Uncertainty in Dynamic Programming, and How to Fix It," Laurent El Ghaoui, EECS, Berkeley, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.
Prior years: 2003-2004.
