ORIentate Seminar, Oxford Robotics Institute, University of Oxford
ORIentate Seminar
ORIentate is the bi-weekly seminar series ran by the Oxford Robotics Institute (ORI). It is an opportunity for the ORI community to connect and share their work. We host diverse sessions ranging from presentations from our academics and students, tutorials on technical topics, and keynotes given by invited external speakers.
External research talks are open to all members of the University of Oxford community and are marked with an asterisk [*]. All other events are only for members and associates of the Oxford Robotics Institute.
Lead: Perla Maiolino
Postdoc Chairs: Victor-Alexandru Darvariu and Joe Watson
Upcoming Talks
Formal methods for robot planning and control
Speaker: Jana Tumova (KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Visiting Professor at ORI)
Location: LR2, Thom Building
Time: 4pm-5pm
ORGS Lecture Series: How to Give a Presentation
Speaker: Nick Hawes (ORI)
Location: LR1, Thom Building
Time: 3:30pm-4:30pm
Title TBC
Speaker: Lorenzo Masia (Technical University of Munich)
Location: LR1, Thom Building
Time: 3:30pm-4:30pm
Past Talks
Tutorial on SLAM and 3D Perception
Speaker: Ethan Yifu Tao (DRS-P Group, ORI)
Location: LR1, Thom Building
Placing Humans at the Centre of Wearable Assistive Robotics and Technology
Speaker: Digby Chappell (Oxford Robotics Institute)
Location: LR1, Thom Building
Time: 3:30pm-4:30pm
Transfer of Status Presentations
Speakers: ORI students preparing for Transfer of Status (ToS)
Location: HBAC Lecture Theatre
Time: 3:30pm-4:30pm
Composable Optimization for Robotic Motion Planning and Control
Speaker: Zac Manchester (Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University)
Location: LR1, Thom Building
Time: 4pm-5pm
Note that this seminar is taking place on a Wednesday.
Location: LR1, Thom Building
Session 1
Tutorial on Graph Neural Networks
Speakers: Alex Schutz and Victor Darvariu (GOALS Group, ORI)
Session 2
Intro to Oxford University Innovations (OUI)
Speaker: Serena de Nahlik (OUI)
Introduction to ORI Research Groups
Speakers: All ORI Principal Investigators
Location: Lecture Theatre LR7 (Information Engineering Building)
Time: 3:30pm-5pm
Location: Thom Building Lecture Theatre LR2
Session 1
Intrinsic motivation in evolved, engineered, and hybrid systems: the interface of biophysics, computer science, and behavioral science
Speaker: Michael Levin (Tufts University)
Session 2
Evaluating Intuitive Physics Understanding in Video Diffusion Models via Likelihood Preference
Speakers: Jianhao Yuan (CRG & MRG Groups, ORI)