SEMINAR: (Wednesday) January 28, 2009
Optimal Movement Generation: Algorithms and Case Studies
Frank Park, PhD
Visiting Professor
Department of Interactive Computing and the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Georgia Tech
Host: Boris Prilutsky
Time: noon-1pm Wednesday, January 28
Location: CRB, room 119J
SEMINAR: (Wednesday) February 11, 2009
Analysis and Synthesis of Gait with Prostheses
Mark Pitkin, PhD
Tufts University School of Medicine
Poly-Orth International
Boston, MA
** Special location **
Time: noon-1pm Wednesday, February 11
Location: Crescent Room, Student Commons Building, Georgia Tech
SEMINAR: (Wednesday) February 25, 2009
Activity of spinal interneurons during air-stepping
Michel Lemay, PhD
Neurobiology and Anatomy
Drexel University School of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA
Host: Boris I. Prilutsky
Time: noon-1pm Wednesday, February 25
Location: CRB, room 119J
SEMINAR: (Wednesday) March 11, 2009
Speaker: Donald R. Humphrey, PhD
Professor of Physiology
Emory University School of Medicine
Host: T. Richard Nichols
Time: noon-1pm Wednesday, March 11
Location: CRB, room 119J
SEMINAR: (Wednesday) March 25, 2009
Restoration of supraspinal pathways and their local spinal interaction
Speaker: Samit Chakrabarty, PhD
Department of Neuroscience
Columbia University
Host: Boris I. Prilutsky
Time: noon-1pm Wednesday, March 25
Location: CRB, room 119J
SEMINAR: (Wednesday) April 8, 2009
Stephanie LeGare
“Clinical Reliability of a Device for Measuring Forces and Moments in Amputee Gait.”
Kali Marquardt
“The Effects of Sub-sensory Noise on Balance Control in Transtibial Amputee’s.”
Traci Berkman
“An Association Between Translation and Hand Dominance.”
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Wednesday, April 8
Location: Centennial Research Building (CRB) Room 119J, Georgia Tech
SEMINAR: (Wednesday) April 15, 2009
Chris Fink
“Center of pressure movement during gait initiation in transtibial amputees”
Denise Larkins
“Comparison of Body Composition Measurements in Amputees vs. Non-Amputees”
Elizabeth Ashley Heard
“Design and Fabrication of a Prosthesis to Test Osseointegration in a Feline Transtibial Model”
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Wednesday, April 15
Location: Centennial Research Building (CRB) Room 119J, Georgia Tech
SEMINAR: (Wednesday) April 22, 2009
Brian Gold
"Consistency and Magnitude of Pinch Force in Voluntary Opening Body Powered Terminal Devices"
Dustin Brooks
"A Static Evaluation of Transtibial Prosthesis Suspension"
Ru Chen
"Calibration of an in-socket pressure measurement system using different interface materials”
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Wednesday, April 22
Location: Centennial Research Building (CRB) Room 119J, Georgia Tech
SPECIAL SEMINAR: (Thursday) April 23, 2009, Cancelled
Internal stochastic resonance in the central nervous system
Elias Manjarrez, PhD
Institute of Physiology
Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico
Host: Minoru Shinohara
Time: 2:30 - 3:30 pm Thursday,, April 23
Location: CRB, room 119J