             |
GRASP Seminar Series: Fall 2005
All seminars will be held on Fridays, 11:00 a.m. -12:00 noon, Room 307 Levine, unless otherwise indicated
| September 9 | Bob Full University of California at Berkeley (Wu & Chen Auditorium) “Bipedal Bugs, Galloping Ghosts and Gripping Geckos: BioInspired Robotics, Artificial Muscles and Adhesives” |
|
September 16 |
Mireille Broucke University of Toronto “Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Reachability on a Simplex” |
| September 23 | Thomas Huang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Vision-Based Hand Gesture Tracking and Recognition” |
| September 30 | Oussama Khatib Stanford University “Human-Centered Robotics” |
| October 7 | Ming Lin University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “Physically-Based Simulation for Robotics and Animation” |
| October 14 | Martial Hebert Carnegie Mellon University “Topics in Object Recognition in Images and Video” |
| October 21 | John Baras University of Maryland “Distributed Multi-Agent Collaboration: Deterministic, Stochastic and Hybrid Algorithms” |
| October 28 | Jean-Jacques
Slotine Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Modularity, Synchronization, and the Brain” |
| November 4 | Kristin Dana Rutgers University “Computational Skin Texture: Surface Detail in Object Models” |
| November 11 | Pietro Perona California Institute of Technology “Towards Visual Serendipity” |
| November 18 | Lydia Kavraki Rice University “Sampling-Based Motion Planners: Recent Developments and Future Challenges” |
| November 25 | HOLIDAY |
| December 2 | Allison Okamura The Johns Hopkins University “Haptic Sensing, Modeling and Feedback in Robot-Assisted Surgery” |
| December 9 | Daniela Rus Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Self-Configuring Robots: Successes and Challenges” |
Seminars from prior years
GRASP Laboratory
Site maintained by graspadm@grasp.cis.upenn.edu
Last update:12 September, 2005