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Workshop 3 Schedule (tentative)

Monday, January 14

8:00-8:45am Welcome reception with continental breakfast
8:45-9:00am Welcome and introduction: Avner Friedman, Art Kuo, and Lena Ting
What determines muscle's function in movement?
9:00-9:30am Peter A. Huijing: Epimuscular myofascial transmission: Its potential in health and disease
9:30-9:40am Coffee break
9:40-10:10am Sharon R. Bullimore: Can molecular properties be inferred from experiments on whole muscle cells?
10:10-10:30am Coffee break
10:30-11:00am Thomas J. Roberts: Extracellular determinants of muscle mechanical performance during movement
11:00-11:10am Coffee break
11:10-11:45am Glen Lichtwark: Does elastic energy enhance muscle efficiency in the stretch shortening cycle?
11:45-12:15pm Discussion
12:15-2:00pm Lunch break
What biomechanical degrees of freedom does the nervous system control?
2:00-2:30pm Matt Tresch: Low dimensional motor control using muscle synergies to exploit intrinsic dynamics
2:30-2:40pm Coffee break
2:40-3:10pm Lena H. Ting: Emergence of muscle synergies from neural and musculoskeletal constraints
3:10-3:30pm Coffee break
3:30-4:00pm W.Z. Rymer: Control of force generation across multi-degree of freedom joints

4:00-4:10pm

Coffee break
4:10-4:45pm Jason Kutch: Force variability as an indicator of neural control dimensionality
4:45-5:15pm Discussion

 

Tuesday, January 15

Is locomotion a matter of neural control or just mechanics?
9:00-9:30am Andy Ruina: Energetics and optimality of locomotion
9:30-9:40am Coffee break
9:40-10:10am A. J. (Ton) van den Bogert: Is human gait optimal?
10:10-10:30am Coffee break
10:30-11:00am J. Max Donelan: Mechanical determinants of the metabolic cost of healthy and pathological gait
11:00-11:10am Coffee break
11:10-11:45am Art Kuo: Feedback and feedforward control of human locomotion
11:45-12:15pm Discussion
12:15-2:00pm Lunch break
How is stability achieved in musculoskeletal systems?
2:00-2:30pm Andrew A. Biewener: Functional diversification within and between muscle synergists may simplify motor control
2:30-2:40pm Coffee break
2:40-3:10pm A. J. (Knoek) van Soest: Stability of bipedal standing: Stiffness requirements in inverted pendulum models
3:10-3:30pm Coffee break
3:30-4:00pm Robert J. Peterka: Following Occam's razor toward an understanding of human postural control

4:00-4:10pm

Coffee break
4:10-4:45pm Daniel M. Merfeld: The contributions of internal models to the dynamics of vestibular perception and action
4:45-5:15pm Discussion
5:15-5:30pm Coffee and refreshments
5:30-6:30pm Public lecture: Max Donelan, Simon Fraser University
Title: Why Do We Walk the Way We Do?
6:30pm Reception in Jennings Hall, 3rd Floor

 

Wednesday, January 16

What computations does the nervous system perform for control?
9:00-9:30am John Guckenheimer: Neural dynamics
9:30-9:40am Coffee break
9:40-10:10am Mike Paulin: Dyanimats: Virtual animals for integrative modeling of neural and biomechanical mechanisms underlying agile movement
10:10-10:30am Coffee break
10:30-11:00am Stefan Schaal: Dynamic movement primitives-A bridge between optimal control and pattern generators
11:00-11:10am Coffee break
11:10-11:45am Konrad Koerding: Adapting to a changing body in a changing world
11:45-12:15pm Discussion
12:15-2:00pm Lunch break
Does the nervous system perform optimal control?
2:00-2:30pm Stephen H. Scott: Interpreting primary motor cortex function based on optimal feedback control
2:30-2:40pm Coffee break
2:40-3:10pm Emo Todorov: Stochastic optimal control of biological movement
3:10-3:30pm Coffee break
3:30-4:00pm Kurt A. Thoroughman: Trial-by-trial motor adaptation, elemental neural transformations, and making covert computations overt

4:00-4:10pm

Coffee break
4:10-4:45pm F.A. Mussa-Ivaldi: Adaptive control of force and movement
4:45-5:15pm Discussion

 

Thursday, January 17

Can musculoskeletal mechanics simplify neural control?
9:00-9:30am Richard L. Lieber: Skeletal muscle design dramatically simplifies motor control strategies
9:30-9:40am Coffee break
9:40-10:10am T. Richard Nichols: How much of motor coordination is mediated by musculoskeletal mechanics?
10:10-10:30am Coffee break
10:30-11:00am Steve L. Lehman: From molecules to muscle: Necessity, and experimental and modeling challenges
11:00-11:10am Coffee break
11:10-11:45am Walter Herzog: On the mechanics of sarcomeres
11:45-12:15pm Discussion
12:15-2:00pm Lunch break
Manipulation: The brain really does something!?
2:00-2:30pm Francisco J. Valero-Cuevas: Towards understanding dexterous manipulation in humans
2:30-2:40pm Coffee break
2:40-3:10pm Robert D. Howe: Why do simple robot grippers work as well as human hands?
3:10-3:30pm Coffee break
3:30-4:00pm Roland S. Johansson: Encoding and use of tactile afferent information in control of object oriented actions

4:00-4:10pm

Coffee break
4:10-4:40pm Discussion
6:00pm Banquet dinner at Holiday Inn on the Lane

 

Friday, January 18

9:00-9:30am Manoj Srinivasan: Optimal control and legged locomotion
9:30-9:40am Coffe break
9:40-10:10am Andre Seyfarth: Stability and Control in Legged Systems - from models to robots
10:10-10:20am Coffee break
10:20-10:50am R. Brent Gillespie: Sensory feedback and the extended mind
10:50-11:00am Coffee break
11:00-11:30am J.R. Flanagan: Coming to grips with mechanics: predictive control mechanisms in object manipulation
11:30-11:40am Coffee break
11:40-12:10pm Kevin Lynch: Natural Single-Arm Interaction with Programmable Constraints
12:10-12:20pm Coffee break
12:20-12:50pm Mitra Hartmann: What are neurons with multi-whisker receptive fields doing in the brain of the rat and why should you care?
12:50-2:00pm Lunch break
What's the future of muscle, limb, and brain interactions?
2:00-4:45pm Discussion: Topics to be determined
 

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