Seminar 2007 10 31 What I Do

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CISST ERC Seminar
This Is What I Do

Date: Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Time: 12:00pm
Place: CSEB B17 (Lunch will be served - 11:30am)

Speaker: Greg Chirikjian
JHU
Title: This Is What I Do
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Abstract

In my lab we work on a wide variety of topics in the general area of mathematical modeling. These topics relate to robotics (modular self-reconfigurable robots, snake-like robots, binary manipulators, spherical motors/encoders, robotic self-repair and replication) as well as topics in computational structural biology (DNA Mechanics and Conformation, Structural Bioinformatics, Protein Kinematics), and medical applications (kinematic needle steering, brachytherapy seed cloud reconstruction, various registration problems). This talk will present a high-level survey of these topics.

Bio

Greg Chirikjian received the B.S.E. degree in engineering mechanics, the M.S.E. degree in mechanical engineering, and the B.A. degree in mathematics, all from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, in 1988. He then received the Ph.D. degree from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, in 1992. In the summer of 1992, at the age of 25, he returned to JHU to start the robotics program. He is currently a Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering with secondary appointments in various departments.