The GRASP Lab is hosting the GRASP 40th anniversary celebration on September 27th -28th. It will include a day and a 1/2 event to celebrate it’s impact over the last 4 decades since being founded in 1979. Hundreds of GRASP alumni and current members will come together for the event to network, reminisce and have the opportunity to listen to an amazing speaker line-up comprised of fellow GRASP alumni currently in academia, industry and government selected from each of the decades. Full details of the schedule are below and registration is now closed. The full program and recordings of the talks will be posted after the event.
The Full GRASP at 40th Program may be viewed here.
SCHEDULE
September 27th, 2019 – at the Sheraton of University City
08:00 – 09:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
09:00 – 12:00 Academic Speaker Presentations (Session Chairs: Dr. Vijay Kumar and Dr. Ruzena Bajscy)
| Katerina Fragkiadaki | PhD’13 |
| Nora Ayanian | PhD’11 |
| Hadas Kress-Gazit | PhD’08 |
| Paulo Tabuada | PostDoc’03 |
| Eero Simoncelli | Faculty’93 |
| Gerda Kamberova | PhD’92 |
| Howie Choset | UG’90 |
| Peter Allen | PhD’85 |
| Ken Goldberg | UG’84 |
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 16:00 Industry/Government Speaker Presentations (Session Chairs: Dr. Kostas Daniilidis and Dr. George Pappas)
| Eric Krotkov | PhD’87 |
| Angela Lai | UG’94/MS’94 |
| Robert Mandelbaum | PhD’95 |
| Volkan Isler | PhD’04 |
| Katherine Kuchenbecker | Faculty’07-’16 |
| Alex Kushleyev | UG’07/MS’09 |
| Vivian Chu | ROBO’13 |
| Avik De | PhD’17 |
16:00 – 16:30 Break
16:30 – 17:30 Brief Remarks (Session Chair: Dr. Daniel Koditschek)
| Franc Solina | PhD’87 |
| James Gee | PhD’96 |
| Venkat Krovi | PhD’98 |
| Bert Tanner | PostDoc’03 |
| Calin Belta | PhD’08 |
| Kevin Galloway | PhD’10 |
| Chinwendu Enyioha | PhD’14 |
| Rebecca Pierce Khurshid | PhD’15 |
| Philip Dames | PhD’15 |
| Monroe Kennedy | PhD’19 |
| Feifei Qian | PostDoc’19 |
17:30 Closing Remarks
Dinner at the Cira Green
18:30 – 22:00 GRASP Alumni & Special Invite Dinner*
*Eventbrite Registration Required
September 28th, 2019 at PERCH
08:30 – 10:30 Breakfast
09:00 – 10:30 GRASP Lab Demos (3rd Floor and Outdoor Aerial Net)
10:30 – 12:00 Selected GRASP Lab Researcher Talks (Outdoor Aerial Net)