GRASP Seminar Series: Spring 2005

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.

January 21, "Abstractions of Robot Planning and Control," Calin Belta, Dpt. of Mechanical Engineering, Drexel, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 315.

February 4, “Hierarchical Activity Modeling Using Dynamic Abstraction”, Sridhar Mahadevan , Autonomous Agents Lab, CS Dpt., UMass, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.

February 11, “Sum of Squares Programs: What are They Good For, and How To Solve Them”, Pablo Parrilo, MIT, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.

February 18, “Toward Assistive Action, Interaction, and Engagement for Robot Teams and Human-Robot Systems”, Maja Mataric, USC, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.

February 25, "Towards Real-Life Reinforcement Learning", Michael Littman, Dpt. of Computer Science, Rutgers University, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.

March 4, “Applying Robotics to Biology: Tracking, Analyzing and Modeling the Behavior of Social Animals”, Tucker Balch, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.

March 18, "Tracking People and Recognizing Their Activities," Deva Ramanan, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Dpt, University of California at Berkeley, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.

March 25, “Photorealistic 3D Modeling of Large-Scale Scenes: Integration of 3D Range and 2D Intensity Sensing in a Complete System”, Ioannis Stamos, Hunter College, CUNY 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.

April 1, "Real-time Estimation of Camera Motion and Other Endeavors in Structure from Motion", David Nister, Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments, Dpt. of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.

April 8, “Self-Reconfigurable Robots and Digital Hormones for Multifunctional Applications”, Wei-Min Shen, USC Information Sciences Institute, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.

April 15, "Challenges for Critical Embedded Systems", Helen Gill, National Science Foundation (NSF), 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.

April 22, Seth Teller , “Pervasive Multi-Sensor Egomotion Estimation for Direct Interaction and Unstructured Robotics”, MIT EECS Dept. and CS & AI Laboratory, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.

April 29th, Ali Shokoufandeh , Drexel University, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307. [RESCHEDULED from March]

May 20th, Daniel Gomez-Ibanez , University of Pennsylvania, MEAM Department 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307.

Prior years: Fall '04, 2003-2004.