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Seminars, 2009 Spring

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

THIRTY YEARS AFTER FUNCTIONALLY COMPLETE SPINAL CORD INJURY,
AND THE BRAIN IS STILL LOOKING FOR THE LEGS AND FEET

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