Program for NEMS 2009:

Time Speaker Title School
9:00   Continental Breakfast  
9:30 Mike Gennert and Grant McGimpsey Welcome and Opening Words  
9:40 Nobuhiko Hata Image Guided Robot Surgey Research at Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard
10:00 Scott Kuindersma Dexterous Mobility with the uBot-5 Mobile Manipulator UMass-Amherst
10:20 Timothy Gifford Teleroboticaly Negotiating Apetrues Utilizing Intentional Dynamics U of Conn
10:40   Break  
11:00 Matt Bell Grasping Non-Stretchable Cloth Polygons Dartmouth
11:20 Aggeliki Tsoli Low-Dimensional Neural Subspaces for Reaching Brown
11:40 Erin Rapacki The Design of an Underactuated Wheelchair-Mounted Robotic Arm to Open Door Knobs and Handles UMass-Lowell
12:00   Lunch and Tours  
1:30 Marek Vondrak Physics-based Motion Tracking Brown
1:50 Matei Ciocarlie Data-Driven Grasping with Partial Sensor Data Columbia U
2:10 Greg Cole MRI Compatible Manipulator for Deep Brain Stimulation WPI
2:30   Break  
2:50 Hao Dang Functional Analysis of Finger Contact Locations during Grasping Columbia U
3:10 Steve Hart and Shichao Ou Intrinsically Motivated Learning for Object Manipulation and Human Interaction UMass-Amberst
3:30   Break  
3:50 Dylan Glotzer and Jon Moran Bending and Kissing: Computing Self-Contact Configerations of Planar Loops with Revolute Joints Clark U
4:10 John Wason Robust Vision-Guided Multi-Probe Microassembly RPI
4:30 Kate Tsui I Want That : Human-in-the-Loop Control of a Wheelchair-Mounted Robotics Arm from Interface through Grasping UMass-Lowell
4:50 Mike Gennert Closing Remarks