Recent Talks
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2007
Title Sensory and movement volumes of animals: Implications for control
Place University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, July 23, 2007
Host 8th International Congress of Neuroethology, Symposium on Top Down Influences in Active Sensing

Title Infomechanical specializations for maximizing prey capture in knifefish
Place University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, July 21 2007
Host Electrosensory Systems Satellite Meeting, 8th International Congress of Neuroethology

Title Robotic Electrolocation: Active Underwater Target Localization with Electric Fields
Place Angelicum University, Rome Italy, April 13 2007
Host 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Session on Bio-inspired Perception

Title Infomechanical intrigues of the knifefish
Place Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, March 23 2007
Host JHU Workshop on ribbon fin propulsion and maneuvering

Title Embodiment, control, and cognition: A fish eye's view from neuroethology
Place Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, March 1 2007
Host The Department of Mechanical Engineering

Title Embodiment, control, and cognition: A fish eye's view from neuroethology
Place University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA, February 16 2007
Host The Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science

2006
Title Embodiment, control, and cognition
Place Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Nov 30, 2006
Host Machines and Organisms Seminar Series, Nonlinear Systems IGERT.

Title Towards Direct Numerical Simulation of Freely Swimming Fish, by Oscar M. Curet, Neelesh A. Patankar, and Malcolm A. MacIver. Presented by Oscar M. Curet.
Place American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics, 59th Annual Meeting, Tampa FL, USA, Nov 19, 2006
Host Session AA: Biofluid Dynamics 1: Swimming-1.

Title Hydrodynamics of ribbon fin-based swimming with application to highly maneuverable underwater vehicles, by Neelesh A. Patankar, Oscar M. Curet, and Malcolm A. MacIver. Presented by Neelesh A. Patankar.
Place American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics, 59th Annual Meeting, Tampa FL, USA, Nov 19, 2006
Host Session AA: Biofluid Dynamics 1: Swimming-1.

Title Hydrodynamics of ribbon fin-based swimming with application to highly maneuverable underwater vehicles, by Neelesh A. Patankar, Oscar M. Curet, and Malcolm A. MacIver. Presented by Neelesh A. Patankar.
Place American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition Chicago IL, USA, Nov 6, 2006
Host Session FED-4 A: Biomedical and Biological Topics

Title Generating Thrust with a Biologically-Inspired Robotic Ribbon Fin, by Michael Epstein, J. Edward Colgate, and Malcolm A. MacIver. Presented by Malcolm A. MacIver
Place Beijing, China, October 10, 2006
Host IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), session on robotic fish

Title Spatial congruence of sensation and action: a general design principle for active sensing?
Place Chicago IL, USA, Sept 22, 2006
Host Northwestern University, Department of Physiology

Title From morphological computation to planning: insights from neuroethology
Place Bloomington Indiana USA June 3, 2006
Host Artificial Life X

Title Embodiment, control, and cognition
Place Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA June 19, 2006
Host Neural Systems and Behavior Course, Evening lecture program.

Title Neuroethology: From Morphological Computation to Planning
Place University of Chicago, Feb 24, 2006
Host The Department of Philosophy, John Haugeland and William Wimsatt's graduate seminar on boundaries and modules.
2005
Title Matched spaces for animal sensation and movement
Place Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA, Oct 12, 2005
Host The Neuroscience Program

Title A biologically inspired robotic ribbon fin
Place IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, August 2 2005
Host Workshop on Morphology, Control, and Passive Dynamics

Title Matched spaces for animal sensation and movement
Place University of Illinois at Chicago, July 22 2005
Host The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Title Explorations in computational morphology
Place Merrickville, Ontario, Canada, May 07 2005
Host University of Ottawa Electric Fish Meeting

Title The geometry of animal sensing and animal movements: a story of two spaces
Place Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, March 15 2005
Host The Neuroscience Program Seminar Series

Title The geometry of animal sensing and animal movements: a story of two spaces
Place McGill University, Montreal, Canada, March 04 2005
Host Department of Biology Organismal Seminar Series

Title A story of two spaces: How an animal's sensorium is related to the space they reach over short time scales
Place Northwestern University, February 02, 2005
Host The Chicago Land Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences Research Seminar Series

Title Sensory acquisition in active sensing systems
Place University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, January 28 2005
Host Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Seminar Series

Title Sensory acquisition in active sensing systems
Place University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, January 25 2005
Host The Committee on Computational Neuroscience, Center for Neural Computation and Engineering Seminar Series
2004
Title Matching of sensing and motor volumes and optimality of movements in active sensory systems
Place California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, November 8 2004
Host 10th Anniversary Celebration of the Center for Neuromorphic Engineering at Caltech

Title Matching of sensing and motor volumes in active sensory systems
Place San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA, USA, October 23 2004
Host Society for Neuroscience Satelite Symposium on Advances in Computational Motor Control