The Technical Committee on Model-Based Optimization for robotics is excited to kick off a new virtual seminar series.

We'll be getting started with a talk from Zac Machester of CMU at 10AM EST on Friday November 18th. It should be an engaging start to the series, and we hope to see many of you there!

Speaker: Zac Manchester

Title: Composable Optimization for Robotic Motion Planning and Control

Date: Friday, November 18th

Time: 10-11 AM EST (GMT -05:00)

Link: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/91247893326?pwd=L2JWU21aQzc4cU1ZQklEb0QrWGQvdz09

Please see attached document for details on the speaker and the abstract.

Stay tuned for more details to come on other TC seminars that we'll be holding this spring. Our rough schedule is below. We're looking forward to this fantastic slate of speakers to help keep everyone in touch across the long gap in conferences until ICRA.

January: Carlos Mastalli and Majid Khadiv

February: Justin Carpentier

March: Nathan Ratliff

April: Hae-Won Park and Ioannis Havoutis

More details on upcoming seminars (and video links for past ones) can be found here.