<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">I know Cliff and Brandon and a few others of us are on the CS Grad list - but this seemed particularly relevant to Michael's work with "collision-free trajectories":<div><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">colloquia <<a href="mailto:colloquia@cs.unm.edu">colloquia@cs.unm.edu</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>[Colloquia] Reminder: Colloquium (Tomorrow) 4/6</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">April 5, 2016 at 2:45:18 PM MDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><a href="mailto:csgrad@cs.unm.edu">csgrad@cs.unm.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:csundergrad@cs.unm.edu">csundergrad@cs.unm.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:csfaculty@mail.cs.unm.edu">csfaculty@mail.cs.unm.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:colloquia@cs.unm.edu">colloquia@cs.unm.edu</a><br></span></div><br><div><div class="moz-forward-container" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">UNM Computer Science Department Colloquium Series<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Wednesday 4/6<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Self-driving cars, quadrotors, and computing, different faces of motion planning<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span><span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span><br>Motion planning is the process of finding a collision-free trajectory of a mobile robot, given start and end states. Sensor noise, mechanical constraints, and changing environments make an already challenging problem even more difficult. Lately, artificial intelligence methods, such as reinforcement learning, showed promising results in solving motion planning problems. In this talk, I will present three different motion planning applications. First, an overview of Google’s self-driving car project will highlight motion planning challenges that we must solve when engineering a fully autonomous vehicle. Second, I will talk about quadrotor control with reinforcement learning, as an example of a research project. Finally, I will discuss how we can use motion planning ideas to make computing more adaptive and robust to noise and errors.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span lang="UZ-CYR">Date:</span></b><span lang="UZ-CYR"> Wednesday, April 6th<br><b>Time:</b> 2:00-3:00 PM<br><b>Room:</b> Centennial Engineering Center 1041<br><b>Speaker:</b> Dr.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span>Aleksandra Faust<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span>Senior Research Robotics Engineer at X, formerly Google[x]<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b>This technical talk will be followed by an<o:p></o:p></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span>Interview Workshop (3:00-4:00,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b><span lang="UZ-CYR">Centennial Engineering Center</span></b><b><span lang="UZ-CYR"> </span></b><b>1041) and a<o:p></o:p></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span>Social Reception (4:00-5:00,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b><span lang="UZ-CYR">Centennial Engineering Center, Stamm Room)</span></b><b><span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="UZ-CYR"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span>Aleksandra Faust is a Senior Research Robotics Engineer at X, formerly Google[x], working on self-driving cars. Prior to joining X, Aleksandra was a Senior Researcher in Sandia National Labs. She earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science (with distinction) at the University of New Mexico, a Masters of Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Bachelors in Mathematics from University of Belgrade, Serbia. Aleksandra was the winner of Tom L. Popejoy Award, the best doctoral dissertation at University of New Mexico in Engineering, Mathematics, and Sciences in the period between 2011-2014. She was also awarded with Sandia National Laboratories Doctoral Studies Program and New Mexico Space Grant fellowships, and an Outstanding graduate student in Computer Science award. Her research interests include adaptive planning algorithms for decision making and motion planning, machine learning techniques for solving complex tasks, reinforcement learning, and learning transfer, adaptation and reuse. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="UZ-CYR" style="font-size: 5pt;"><br></span><span lang="UZ-CYR" style="font-size: 7.5pt;">Faculty Host: Prof. Lydia Tapia</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="UZ-CYR" style="font-size: 7.5pt;">Colloquium Faculty contact: Prof. Tapia,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:tapia@cs.unm.edu" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span lang="UZ-CYR" style="font-size: 7.5pt;"></span></a><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tapia@cs.unm.edu" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">tapia@cs.unm.edu</a><span lang="UZ-CYR"><br></span><i><span lang="UZ-CYR" style="font-size: 7.5pt;">Contact the faculty contact indicated above with questions.</span></i><span lang="UZ-CYR"></span><span><o:p></o:p></span></div><br></div><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;">Colloquia mailing list</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><a href="mailto:Colloquia@mail.cs.unm.edu" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Colloquia@mail.cs.unm.edu</a><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><a href="http://mail.cs.unm.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/colloquia" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">http://mail.cs.unm.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/colloquia</a><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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