USC Department of Biomedical Engineering: Seminar

Weekly Seminar Series on

Engineering
Neuroscience
&
Health

at the University of Southern California

Organized by Francisco Valero-Cuevas

2007-2008 Academic Year here

Coming up: 2009-2010 Academic Year here

2008-2009 Academic Year

Time
Monday, 4-5 pm
Refreshments will be served from 3 to 4 pm.

Locations
University Park Campus (UPC): Hedco Neuroscience Building (HNB) 100 map
Health Sciences Campus (HSC): Center for the Health Professions (CHP) 147 map

All available webcasts are hosted here

Schedule of Speakers

Fall semester (2008) | Spring semester (2009)

Fall semester, 2008

Date	Speaker	Institution	Live Location	Title	Host	Notes
9/1	University Holiday Labor Day	-	-	-	-	-
9/2, Tue	Hartmut Geyer	University of Jena, Germany	UPC	From legged dynamics to motor control of human locomotion	Jonas Buchli	URL
9/8	Hod Lipson	Cornell University	UPC	Mining experimental data for dynamical invariants - from cognitive robotics to biomechanics and computational biology	Francisco Valero-Cuevas	URL
9/15	Robert Gregor	University of Southern California	HSC	Sensorimotor Control of Locomotion: Loss of Length-Dependent Input	-	URL
9/22	Kiisa Nishikawa	Northern Arizona University	UPC	Neuromechanics of elastic energy storage and recovery during ballistic movements	Heiko Hoffmann	URL
9/29	Gerald Loeb	University of Southern California	UPC	The spinal cord makes sensorimotor control easy to do but difficult to understand	-	URL
10/6	Louis Goldstein	University of Southern California	UPC	Combinatorial Phonology: Vocal gestures and their coupling	-	URL
10/13	James Weiland	University of Southern California	HSC	Retinal Prosthesis for the Blind	-	URL
10/20	Kelly Cole	University of Iowa	UPC	How Do We Discover Why Manual Dexterity Declines with Old Age?	Jason Kutch	URL
10/27	Dani Byrd	University of Southern California	UPC	Linguistic structuring of speech articulation	-	URL
11/03	Lena Ting	Emory University and Georgia Tech	UPC	Standing in balance: Translating high-level intentions into low-level motor commands in animals, humans, and robots	Francisco Valero-Cuevas	URL
11/10	Paul Newton	University of Southern California	UPC	Vortex lattice theory - A particle interaction perspective	-	URL
11/17	Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington, D.C.	-	-	-	-	-
11/24	Todd Coleman	University of Illinois	UPC	Applications of Feedback System Engineering Principles to the Design of Brain-Machine Interfaces	Shri Narayanan	URL
12/1	Michael Arbib	University of Southern California	UPC	Tool Use, End-Effectors and Sequential Action	-	URL
12/8	Simon Giszter	Drexel University	UPC	Primitives and notions of modularity in spinal cord	Heiko Hoffmann	URL
12/15	Scott Grafton	University of California, Santa Barbara	HSC	Embodied Cognition: How physical experience changes the way we see other people and things	Carolee Winstein	URL
12/22	Holiday break	-	-	-	-	-
12/29	University Holiday Winter Recess	-	-	-	-	-

Spring semester, 2009

Date	Speaker	Institution	Live Location	Title	Host	Notes
1/5	Holiday break	-	-	-	-	-
1/12	Richard L. Lieber	University of California, San Diego	HSC	Biological and Biomechanical Basis of Muscle Injury	Francisco Valero-Cuevas	URL
1/19	University Holiday Martin Luther King Day	-	-	-	-	-
1/22	Minoru Shinohara	Georgia Institute of Technology	HSC	Sympathetic modulation of afferent input and motor output variability	Francisco Valero-Cuevas	URL
1/26	Caroline LeClercq, Vincent Hentz	Institut de la Main (The Hand Institute), Paris, France; Stanford University	HSC	Engineering challenges in the area of hand surgery	Francisco Valero-Cuevas	URL LeClercq, URL Hentz
2/2	Stuart Binder-Macleod	University of Delaware	HSC	Force Optimization During Electrical Activation of Skeletal Muscle: From the Bench to the Bedside	Linda Fetters	URL
2/9	Laurent Itti	University of Southern California	UPC	Modeling bottom-up and top-down visual attention in humans and monkeys	-	URL
2/16	University Holiday Presidents' Day	-	-	-	-	-
2/23	Philip Requejo	Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center	HSC	Evidence-Based Strategies to Preserve Shoulder Function in Manual Wheelchair Users	-	URL
3/2	Ellis Meng	University of Southern California	UPC	Polymer BioMEMS for Hybrid Neural Interfaces and Implantable Drug Delivery Systems	-	URL
3/9	John Krakauer	Columbia University	HSC	Some new thoughts about stroke recovery	Nicolas Schweighofer	URL
3/16	USC spring break	-	-	-	-	-
3/23	David Reinkensmeyer	University of California, Irvine	HSC	Mechanisms of Motor Learning during Robotic Movement Training	Nicolas Schweighofer	URL
3/30	Art Kuo	University of Michigan	UPC	Mechanics and Control of Human Locomotion: Let Your Physics do the Walking	Jason/ Francisco	URL
4/6	Kai-Nan An	Mayo Clinic, Minnesota	HSC	Application of Medical Imaging in Orthopedic Biomechanics	Man-Ying Wang	URL
4/13	Richard M. Leahy	University of Southern California	UPC	Automated Analysis and Coregistration of Cortical Anatomy	-	URL
4/20	Andrew Gordon	Columbia University	HSC	What do two hands know that one does not? Bimanual training in children with cerebral palsy	Francisco Valero-Cuevas	URL
4/27	Christopher M. Powers	University of Southern California	HSC	Mechanisms of patellofemoral joint dysfunction: What have we learned over the last 15 years?	-	URL
5/4	David Kleinfeld	University of California, San Diego	UPC	Object localization by a scanning sensorimotor system	Tansu Celikel	URL
5/11	George V. Lauder	Harvard University	UPC	Fish biorobotics	Evan Kanso	URL