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The Symposiums takes place partly in Tübingen (Dec. 13 / 14)
and partly in Stuttgart (Dec. 15 / 16).
Talks:
TUESDAY, Dec. 13th, 2016:
2:30 p.m.
Gitta Kutyniok Einstein Professor, Institute of Mathematics, Technical University, Berlin A Mathematical Framework for Feature Selection from Real-World Data with Non-Linear Observations
4:00 p.m.
Sham M. Kakade Washington Research Foundation Data Science Chair, Associate Professor, Dept. of Statistics & Dept. of Computer Science, University of Washington The Promise and Challenge of Unsupervised Learning
5:00 p.m.
Sébastien Bubeck Researcher in the Theory Group at Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington Kernel-based methods for bandit convex optimization
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 14th, 2016:
9:30 a.m.
Thore Graepel Research Lead at Google DeepMind, Professor of Computer Science at University College LondonAlphaGo and the role of multi-agent learning in artificial intelligence research
11:00 a.m.
Moritz Hardt Senior Research Scientist at Google Brain, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, Berkeley Rethinking generalization in machine learning
THURSDAY, Dec. 15th, 2016:
2:00 p.m.
Sangbae Kim Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Cheetah: New Design Paradigm Shift Toward Mobile Robots
3:30 p.m.
Aaron Dollar Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science Mechanical Intelligence in Robotic Manipulation: Towards Human-level Dexterity in Robotic and Prosthetic Hands
4:30 p.m.
David Hu The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Soft Materials: Ants Rafts, Elephant Trunks, Cat Tongues
FRIDAY, Dec. 16th, 2016:
10:00 a.m.
Adam Stokes Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems, School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh Bioinspired Soft Systems Engineering
Cecilia Laschi The Biorobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant´Anna Soft Robotics: Scientific Questions, Technological Challenges and New Robotics Scenarios
1:30 p.m.
Carmel Majidi Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University Liquid Metal Architectures - Soft Multifunctional Materials With Microfluidic Networks of Liquid-Phase Metallic Alloys
Itai Cohen Department of Physics, Cornell University Graphene Origami: Atomically Thin Constructs as Platforms for Robotics at the Micron Scale
Massimo Vergassola Department of Physics, University of California San Diego Sensing and Navigation in Complex Environments