| Date |
Speaker |
Institution |
Title |
Host |
Notes |
| 9/10 |
Francisco Valero-Cuevas |
USC, BME & BKPT |
Embracing the complexity of the brain-hand system to understand dexterous manipulation |
- |
URL
*NO LOCATION FOR HSC ON THIS DATE*
Webcast |
| 9/17 |
Terrence Sanger |
Stanford, Neurology |
When practice does not make perfect: Failure of motor learning in neural networks and in children with dystonia |
Francisco Valero-Cuevas |
URL
|
| 9/24 |
Emmanuel Todorov |
UCSD, Cognitive Science |
A new mathematical framework for optimal choice of actions |
Francisco Valero-Cuevas |
URL |
| 10/1 |
Eva Kanso |
USC, AME |
Swimming of solid bodies in a perfect fluid |
- |
URL |
| 10/8 |
Rahman Davoodi |
USC, BME |
Musculoskeletal modeling software |
- |
URL |
| 10/15 |
Nicolas Schweighofer |
USC, BKY |
Non-linear interaction between spontaneous arm use and performance after motor cortex lesion: insights from a computational model. |
- |
URL
LOCATION IN UPC IS SSL 204 ON THIS DATE |
| 10/22 |
Stefan Schaal
Heiko Hoffmann |
USC, CS |
Artificial and biological motor control and motor learning |
- |
Schaal URL
Hoffmann URL |
| 10/29 |
Krishna Nayak |
USC, EE |
MRI of the body in motion: current capabilities and future prospects |
- |
URL |
| 11/5 |
No Seminar |
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Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego. |
- |
|
| 11/12 |
Todd Murphey |
U Colorado, Boulder |
TBA |
Francisco Valero-Cuevas |
LOCATION IN UPC IS SSL 204 ON THIS DATE
URL |
| 11/19 |
Rick Lieber |
UCSD |
Intraoperative laser diffraction studies of human muscle during hand surgery |
Linda Fetters |
URL |
| 11/26 |
No Seminar |
------- |
Thanksgiving holiday |
- |
|
| 12/3 |
John Milton |
Claremont College |
Developing expertise: from stick balancing to hitting golf balls |
Francisco Valero-Cuevas |
URL |
| Winter Holiday |
| 1/14 |
|
|
No Seminar. First day of classes at USC |
|
|
| 1/22 |
Roland Johansson |
Umeå, Sweden |
-Special Tuesday seminars:
1) “Sensory control of our hands in dexterous object manipulation tasks” (9am Zilkha Seminar Rm, HSC)
And
2) “Encoding and use of tactile afferent information in control of object oriented actions” (4pm, Hedco Auditorium, UPC) |
Jerald Loeb |
URL |
| 1/28 |
Nina Bradley |
USC, BKY |
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Maybe because he'd been rehearsing for that moment during embryogenesis |
_ |
URL |
| 2/4 |
Michele Rucci |
Boston University |
Active Vision in Humans and Robots
UPC Location is HNB100 |
Bartlett Mel |
URL |
| 2/11 |
Maja Mataric |
USC, CS |
Socially Assistive Robotics for Hands-Off Rehabilitation |
- |
URL |
| 2/18 |
|
|
No seminar. University Holiday |
|
|
| 2/25 |
Linda Fetters |
USC, BKY |
Reaching with the Feet |
- |
URL |
| 3/3 |
Sherry Backus |
Hospital for Special Surgery |
TBA |
Francisco Valero-Cuevas |
- |
| 3/10 |
Norberto Grzywacz |
USC |
Responses of Retinal Ganglion Cells to Natural Images |
- |
URL |
| 3/17 |
|
|
No seminar. University Holiday |
|
|
| 3/24 |
John Scholz |
University of Delaware |
Effects of robot assisted gait training (RAGT) on gait adaptation in healthy persons and overground walking of chronic stroke survivors |
Linda Fetters |
URL |
| 3/31 |
Steve Scott |
Queen's University, Kingston Ontario |
Clinical Talk:
The use of the KINARM robot for clinical assessment of sensory, motor and cognitive function.
Science/Engineering Talk:
Optimal feedback control as a conceptual framework for interpreting the neural basis of voluntary motor control. |
Jerald Loeb |
URL |
| 4/7 |
Paul Schrater |
U Minessotta |
Scheduling Information Gathering and Planning for Uncertainty |
Evangelos Theodorou |
URL |
| 4/14 |
Dan Ferris |
U Michigan |
Robotic Orthoses for Gait Rehabilitation |
Francisco Valero-Cuevas |
URL |
| 4/21 |
Terry Ellis |
Boston University |
Rehabilitation for the self-management of Parkinson's disease: Results of an interdisciplinary andomized controlled trial. |
Linda Fetters |
URL |
| 4/28 |
Veronica Santos |
USC |
Sensory event-driven grip control of prosthetic hands |
- |
URL |
