Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar Memorial Symposium and SciRoc Camp

18 Sep 2020
Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar Memorial Symposium and SciRoc Camp

Dates: 21 - 25 SEPTEMBER 2020
Location: Virtual
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sciroc-camp-gkk-symposium/

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The Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar Memorial Symposium and the SciRoc Camp will be held from Monday, 21 September to Friday, 25 September, 2020.

The symposium is a week long summit of robotics talks to commemorate the life of Prof. Dr. Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar (1961 — 2019). Experts in various fields of robotics, from around the world, and who have worked with Prof. Kraetzschmar for decades, will share key insights and their take on the current state of robotics.

The SciRoc Camp is an online event for sharing information on advances in robotics benchmarks. The event aims to connect robotics benchmark developers and robotics researchers around the world. At this camp, the world’s top robotics teams will share their latest results through a webcast.


[SPEAKERS - SYMPOSIUM]
Monday, 21 September
10:00 — 11:00 : Prof. Michael Beetz PhD, University Bremen, Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Tuesday, 22 September
10:00 — 11:00 : Noda Itsuki, Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Wednesday, 23 September
16:00 — 17:00 : Dirk Holz, Tech Lead, Senior Researcher / Software Engineer, X - the moonshot factory

Thursday, 24 September
10:00 - 11:00 :  A. Fernando Ribeiro, Prof. Associado com Agregação, Universidade do Minho

Friday, 25 September
09:15 — 09:45: Luis Almeida, CISTER Research Unit, University of Porto
10:00 — 10:30: Gerald Steinbauer, Associate Professor Graz University of Technology
10:45 — 11:15: Nico Hochgeschwender, Professor of Autonomous Systems, b-it, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University
11:30 — 12:00: Luca Iocchi, Full Professor Sapienza Università di Roma
14:00 — 14:30: Daniele Nardi, Full Professor Sapienza Università di Roma
14:45 — 15:15: Matteo Matteucci, Full Professor Politecnico di Milano AI & Robotics Lab
15:30 — 16:00: Pedro U Lima, Full Professor Universidade de Lisboa
16:15 — 17:00: Manuela M. Veloso, Herbert A. Simon University Professor on leave at J.P.Morgan AI Research


[SPEAKERS - SCIROC CAMP]
Monday, 21 September
14:00 — 15:00: Champion's Talk: Team SocRob
15:00 — 16:00: Champion's Talk: Team b-it-bots

Tuesday, 22 September
14:00 — 15:00: Robot Perception Tutorial

Wednesday, 23 September
14:00 — 15:00: Robot Planning Tutorial

Thursday, 24 September
14:00 — 15:00: Robot Manipulation Tutorial


[ PARTICIPATE ]
All the talks will be live-streamed in the event website here:
https://sites.google.com/view/sciroc-camp-gkk-symposium/
Questions to presenters may be posted online.


[ ORGANIZER ]
SciRoc (https://sciroc.org/)
You can contact us with questions & doubts here: deebul.nair@h-brs.de