2011 – 2012 Seminars

Spring 2012

7/3/2012

Prof. Don Shimamoto, Swarthmore College
The Topology of Configuration Spaces of Polygons in the Plane

5/8/2012

Prof. Frank Dellaert, Georgia Tech
Factor Graphs, Bayes Trees, and Preconditioning for SLAM and SFM

4/27/2012

Dr. Joan Walker, University of California, Berkeley “Experiments and Modeling to Study Technologies Aimed at Behavior Change”

4/18/2012

Dr. Edgar Lobaton, North Carolina State University
DCO Seminar

4/12/2012

Professor Richard Murray, California Institute of Technology
DCO Seminar

4/11/2012

Whitney Tabor, University of Connecticut, Psychology and Cognitive Science, Haskins Laboratories DCO Special Seminar

4/4/2012

Dr. Bruce Francis, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
DCO Seminar

3/14/2012

Prof. Randall Berry, Northwestern University
DCO Seminar

2/22/2012

Professor Calin Belta, Boston University
“Temporal Logic Analysis and Control for Dynamical Systems”

1/27/2012

Erik Johannesson, Lund University, Sweden (Dept. of Automatic Control)
“Control and Communication with Signal-to-Noise Ratio Constraints”

1/25/2012

Professor Soon-Jo Chung, Aerospace Engineering, UIUC
“Control Challenges of Realizing a Soft-Winged Aerial Robot that Can Fly like a Bat”

Fall 2011

12/7/2011

Enric Xargay, PhD Candidate in the Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, UIUC
“Time-Critical Cooperative Path-Following Control of Multiple Autonomous Vehicles”

11/16/2011

Prof. Dan Work
“Traffic Monitoring Using GPS Enabled Smartphones”

11/15/2011

Professor Peter Imkeller, Humboldt University, Berlin
“Large Deviations and Stochastic Resonance”

11/2/2011

Professor Randy Freeman, Northwestern University
“Decentralized Filters for the Robust Averaging of Time-Varying Signals in Mobile Sensor Networks”

11/1/2011

Professor Peter Imkeller, Humboldt University, Berlin
“Large Deviations and Stochastic Resonance”

10/25/2011

Professor Peter Imkeller, Humboldt University, Berlin
Large Deviations and Stochastic Resonance

10/19/2011

Dan Abrams, Northwestern University
“Competitions in Social Systems: Mathematical Models of Religious Affiliation”