NA Digest Thursday, June 11, 1987 Volume 87 : Issue 55

This weeks Editor: Gene Golub

Today's Topics:

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Subject: Submission for nadigest
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INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS
University of Minnesota
514 Vincent Hall
206 Church Street S.E.
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
(612)624-6066 miller%umn-cs-fsa@umn-cs.arpa
Avner Friedman, Director miller@csfsa.cs.umn.edu
Willard Miller, Associate Director


Summer Program on
ROBOTICS
August 3 - 28, 1987

Organizing Committee: J. T. Schwartz (Chairman)
R. Brockett, J. Hopcroft, T. Lozano-Perez

Tentative Schedule as of June 12

ALL LECTURES IN VINCENT HALL 570

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WEEK 1 August 3 -7
Introduction to Robotics: An Overview

MONDAY, August 3
9:00 am - 10:30 J. T. Schwartz Courant Institute
Some mathematical questions suggested by robotics:
I. Some problems of grasping
11:00 am - noon Matt Mason Carnegie Mellon University
Robotic Manipulation: An Introduction. I
2:00 pm - 3:30 Chris Hoffman Purdue University
Blending surfaces
TUESDAY, August 4
9:00 am - 10:30 J. T. Schwartz Courant Institute
Some mathematical questions suggested by robotics:
II. Peg-in-Hole insertion
11:00 am - noon Matt Mason Carnegie Mellon University
Robotic Manipulation: An Introduction. II
2:00 pm - 3:30 Chris Hoffman Purdue University
Notions of computation in geometry
WEDNESDAY, August 5
9:00 am - 10:30 J. T. Schwartz Courant Institute
Some mathematical questions suggested by robotics:
III. Complexity of motion planning
11:00 am - noon Matt Mason Carnegie Mellon University
Robotic Manipulation: An Introduction. IIII
2:00 pm - 3:30 Chris Hoffman Purdue University
Geometry and physical simulation
THURSDAY, August 6
9:00 am - 10:30 J. T. Schwartz Courant Institute
Some mathematical questions suggested by robotics:
IV. Some issues in control
2:00 pm - 3:30 Chris Brown University of Rochester
Introduction and overview of computer vision.
Issues, approaches, systems, vocabulary
FRIDAY, August 7
10:30 am - noon Chris Brown University of Rochester
Introduction and overview of computer vision. II
2:00 pm - 3:30 Chris Brown University of Rochester
Introduction and overview of computer vision. III

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WEEK 2 August 10 - 14
Computer Vision and Other Sensors
Organizer: C. Brown

MONDAY, August 10
10:30 am - noon Steve Shafer Carnegie Mellon University
Input -- cameras, optical phenomena in CV.
Generalized cylinder results and 3-D shape inference
2:00 pm - 3:30 Steve Shafer Carnegie Mellon University
continuation of morning talk
TUESDAY, August 11
10:30 am - noon Demetri Terzopolous Schlumberger, Palo Alto
Visual modeling.
The computation of visible-surface representations
2:00 pm - 3:30 Demetri Terzopolous Schlumberger, Palo Alto
Signal matching.
Recovering 3D shape and non-rigid motion from images
using deformable models

WEDNESDAY, August 12
10:30 am - noon John Aloimonos University of Maryland
Structure from Motion
2:00 pm - 3:30 John Aloimonos University of Maryland
Structure from Motion. II
THURSDAY, August 13
10:30 am - noon Robert Hummel Courant Institute
Representations from zero crossings.
Associated algorithms. Survey of connectionism
2:00 pm - 3:30 Robert Hummel Courant Institute
continuation of morning talk
FRIDAY, August 14
10:30 am - noon Robert Haralick University of Washington
Facet model or other technical work.
Mathematical status of computer vision
(with technical examples)
2:00 pm - 3:30 Robert Haralick University of Washington
continuation of morning talk


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WEEK 3 August 17 - 21
Robot Manipulation (Kinematics/Control)
Organizer: M. Mason

MONDAY, August 17
10:30 am - noon John Hollerbach MIT
Robot dynamics. I
2:00 pm - 3:30 Roger Brockett Harvard
Compliance control
TUESDAY, August 18
10:30 am - noon John Hollerbach MIT
Robot dynamics. II
2:00 pm - 3:30 Mike McCarthy University of California, Irvine
Rigid body kinematics, and the kinematics
of two robot arms cooperating to manipulate
a common object

WEDNESDAY, August 19
2:00 pm - 3:30 Mike McCarthy University of California, Irvine
continuation of Tuesday talk
2:00 pm - 3:30 Roger Brockett Harvard
Grasping and manipulation
THURSDAY, August 20
10:30 am - noon Tomas Lozano-Perez MIT
Robot systems that sense, plan, and manipulate
2:00 pm - 3:30 Matt Mason Carnegie Mellon University
Mechanics and planning of manipulator pushing
operations
FRIDAY, August 21
10:30 am - noon Tomas Lozano-Perez MIT
Motion planning and automatic robot programming
2:00 pm - 3:30 Matt Mason Carnegie Mellon University
An exploration of sensorless manipulation

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WEEK 4 August 24 - 28
Computational Issues in Geometry
Organizer: C. Hoffman

MONDAY, August 24
9:30 am - 10:30 Bruno Buchberger Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz
Grobner Bases:
A Tutorial on the Mathematical Background of the
Method
11:00 am - noon Micha Sharir Courant Institute/Tel Aviv Univ
On problems in computational geometry
related to efficient motion planning with few
degrees of freedom
2:00 pm - 3:00 John Owen Shape Data Ltd.
To be announced
TUESDAY, August 25
9:30 am - 10:30 Bruno Buchberger Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz
Grobner Bases:
Applications in Non-Linear Computational Geometry
11:00 am - noon Micha Sharir Courant Institute/Tel Aviv Univ
Davenport-Schinzel sequences and their geometric
applications
2:00 pm - 3:00 John Owen Shape Data Ltd.
To be announced
WEDNESDAY, August 26
9:30 am - 10:30 Deepak Kapur General Electric
Algebraic Reasoning for Object Construction from
Ideal Images. I
11:00 am - noon Chris Gibson University of Liverpool
To be announced
2:00 pm - 3:00 Deepak Kapur General Electric
Algebraic Reasoning for Object Construction from
Ideal Images. II
THURSDAY, August 27
9:30 am - 10:30 John Reif Duke University
Complexity of Robot Movement Planning. I
2:00 pm - 3:00 Kokichi Sugihara University of Tokyo
Algebraic and combinatorial structures of lined
drawings and polyhedrons
FRIDAY, August 28
9:30 am - 10:30 John Reif Duke University
Complexity of Robot Movement Planning. II
2:00 pm - 3:00 Kokichi Sugihara University of Tokyo
An approach to error-free solid modelling

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Mail-From: GOLUB created at 11-Jun-87 15:35:39
Date: Thu 11 Jun 87 15:35:38-PDT
From: Gene H. Golub <GGOLUB@Score.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: sabbatical leave
To: na@Score.Stanford.EDU

I shall be away from Stanford for at least a year beginning June 20, 1987.
>From July 13, 1987 until mid September, I'll be at Bell Labs. Then
from Oct. 1 on, I shall be at the University of Maryland. Electronic mail
which is sent to Stanford will automatically be forwarded to me.

NA-net will continue to run with the help of Cleve Moler and Mark Kent.
Here is Cleve's current address and affiliation.

>Moler, Cleve
*FNAME Cleve B. Moler
*TITLES Manager, Scientific Software
*OADDR 
* Dana Computer
* 550 Del Rey Ave.
* Sunnyvale, CA 94086
* 
*OPHONE (408) 732-0400
*INTERESTS 
* Numerical analysis, Mathematical software, Matrix
* computation, Large scale scientific computation, Graphics.
* 

And here's my office address and e-mail address.

computer account: golub%btl.csnet@relay.cs.net
office address: 2c-455, at&t bell laboratories, murray hill, nj 07974
phone #: 201-582-3720

Best regards,
Gene Golub

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