From NA-Request@Score.Stanford.EDU Thu Jun 11 20:58:06 1987 Received: from Score.Stanford.EDU (score.stanford.edu.ARPA) by anl-mcs.ARPA (4.12/4.9) id AA01964; Thu, 11 Jun 87 20:56:46 cdt Message-Id: <8706120156.AA01964@anl-mcs.ARPA> Date: Thu 11 Jun 87 17:59:29 PDT Subject: NA Digest V87 #55 From: NA Digest Errors-To: NA-request@Score.Stanford.EDU Maint-Path: NA-request@Score.Stanford.EDU To: NA.Distribution.List:; Reply-To: NA@Score.Stanford.edu Status: RO NA Digest Thursday, June 11, 1987 Volume 87 : Issue 55 This weeks Editor: Gene Golub Today's Topics: Submission for nadigest sabbatical leave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mail-From: GOLUB created at 11-Jun-87 15:22:49 Date: Thu, 11 Jun 87 16:22:43 cdt From: miller%umn-cs-fsa@umn-cs.arpa (Willard Miller) To: na.golub@score.stanford.edu Subject: Submission for nadigest ReSent-Date: Thu 11 Jun 87 15:22:49-PDT ReSent-From: Gene H. Golub ReSent-To: na@Score.Stanford.EDU 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 ****************************** 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 ****************************** 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 ****************************** 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 ****************************** 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 ------------------------------ Mail-From: GOLUB created at 11-Jun-87 15:35:39 Date: Thu 11 Jun 87 15:35:38-PDT From: Gene H. Golub 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 ------------------------------ End of NA Digest ************************** -------