Ian Manchester, Jan 2012

Ian Manchester will visit CDS on 25 Jan 2012 (Wed). If you would like to meet with her, please sign up below.

• 12:30pm-2:00pm:Lunch and discussion; please sign up here if you want to join the lunch
• 2:00-3:00pm: Talk; place: TBA
• 3:00-3:30: open
• 3:30-4:00: open
• 4:00-4:30: open
• 4:30-5:00: open
• 5:00-5:30: open

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Ian Machester
MIT

Title: TBA

Abstract: TBA

Biography

Ian Manchester received the BE (Hons 1) and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He was then a post-doc and guest lecturer at Umeå University, Sweden. He is presently a Research Scientist with the Robot Locomotion Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For the last 2 yrs he was working with Alex Megretski and Russ Tedrake, mostly on convex optimization algorithms for nonlinear system identification and analysis. A particular focus has been identifying and analyzing systems with autonomous oscillations (limit cycles) including live neurons in culture, and walking robots.