Registration is closed for the 2025 BISCCITs Workshop at the University of Colorado- Boulder, June 16th - 18th 2025
Important Note: There are limited outlets to charge your computer in the meeting rooms. Please be sure to fully charge your computer before coming to the workshop each day.
2024 SOAR/BISCCITs Workshop Schedule
August 5 - 7, 2024
Imperial College London
Tutorials:
Please come prepared with any required download/software; review the Tutorial information for what is needed for each tutorial.
Zoom:
https://washington.zoom.us/j/95762492551?pwd=Y2RCb0tXL1hNb1FPSXFGcFhEZFdEUT09
- All times are listed in London Time
- Keynote talks and lightning talks will be available on Zoom
WIFI:
Use eduroam or
Sky wifi which appears as “_The Cloud” and use
Street number: 1
Post code: SW72AZ
Monday, August 5, 2024
Royal School of Mines, rm 131
12:00 Arrive (you are welcome to bring a lunch with you)
12:30 Welcome: Pat Bradshaw, Ric Wehling, Andy Evans, Tom Daniel, Huai-Ti Lin
13:00 Keynote talks
“Shapes and Dynamics in Hawk Morphing Flight”
Lydia France, PhD, Schmidt AI in Science Fellow, University of Oxford and The Alan
Turing Institute
“Bio-inspired configuration and algorithms for vibration source localization”
Jun Wu, PhD, Postdoc, Animal Vibration Lab, University of Oxford
“The visual guidance of dragonfly aerial combat”
Samuel T. Fabian, PhD, Postdoc, NBits (Lin) Lab, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London
14:30 Break
15:00 Lightning talks
17:30 Poster session- Posters, Pizzas, and Pints
Pizzas are being ordered from The Pizza Room, there will be meat, vegetarian, halal, vegan, and gluten free options.
'Margherita + courgettes' is GF | vegetarian | no beef | no fish | no nuts | halal
'Vegan Margherita + vegan pepperoni' is vegan | no cheese | lactose free | no beef | no fish | no nuts | halal
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
Royal School of Mines, rm 131
8:00 Arrive
8:30 Keynote talks
"Feeling flowers for feeding and refueling during flight"
Tanvi Deora, PhD, Faculty fellow at the Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi NCR,
India
“A Bioinspired, Information-Rich Approach to Sensor Placement and Active Sensing"
Burak Boyacioglu, PhD, Postdoc, van Breugel Lab, Mechanical Engineering
Department, University of Nevada, Reno
“Mechanosensory representation of wing deformations”
Alexandra Yarger, PhD, Postdoc, NBits (Lin) Lab, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London
10:00 Break
10:15 Tutorials:
Tutorial 1 Control Theory I: “Communicating about feedback control between engineering and biology perspectives”,
Led by: Michelle Hickner, Location: RSM 303
Tutorial 2 ML & Image Processing I: “3D Pose estimation using DeepLabCut”,
Led by: Jack Supple, Location: RSM 131
12:00 Working lunch (lunch provided) – Mode Sensing discussion RSM 303
The sensor-rich architecture of insects offers a novel bio-informed design principle for agile flight control, but the control-theoretic principle that it embodies has yet to be tested. We’ll discuss how this challenge has been addressed by applying experimental and theoretical tools to construct a model of blowfly flight dynamics and control, which we use to identify the functional principle according to which visual physiology is matched to flight physics.
13:00 Keynote talks
“Synthesizing Spatial Sensitivity Patterns for Sensorimotor Convergence”
Zoe Turin, PhD Candidate, Bioinspired Perception and Robotics Lab, University of
Colorado Boulder
“The visual world of free-flight pigeons: Eye movements and optical flow”
Tony Lapsansky, PhD, University of British Columbia & Northwest Indian College
"Feather-inspired Flow Control for Stall Mitigation and Load Alleviation"
Aimy Wissa, PhD, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Princeton University
14:30 Break
14:45 Tutorials:
Tutorial 3 MUJOCO Modeling: “Introduction to biomechanical modeling in MuJoCo”,
Led by: Elliott Abe, Location: RSM 131
Tutorial 4 Image Processing II: “Videogrammetry Basics”,
Led by: Shane Windsor, & Jasmin Wong, Location: RSM 303
17:00 Poster session - Curry and Curiosity
Dinner will be ordered from: Prince of Wales Southall, there will be meat, vegetarian, vegan/dairy-free, gluten-free, and halal options available.
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Royal School of Mines, rm 131
8:00 Arrive
8:30 Keynote talks
"Flies tune the activity of their multifunctional gyroscope”
Anna Verbe, PhD, Postdoc, Dickerson Lab, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, and Claire
Eschbach Lab, Neuro Paris Saclay Institute
“Optics and vision: tuning of flower and butterfly coloration to the visual systems of
observers”
Casper van der Kooi, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Groningen, The
Netherlands
“Does glossiness impact targeting of moving objects?”
Amanda Franklin, PhD, DECRA Fellow, University of Melbourne
10:00 Break
10:15 Tutorials:
Tutorial 5 Control Theory II: “Application of control-engineering concepts for identification and modeling of biological systems”,
Led by: Gorkem Secer, Location: RSM 131
Tutorial 4 Image Processing II: “Videogrammetry Basics”,
Led by: Shane Windsor, & Jasmin Wong, Location: RSM 303
CANCELLED: Tutorial 6 Information Theory: “Practical Introduction to Information Theory”,
Led by: Ali Weber, Location: RSM 303
12:00 Working lunch (lunch provided)
13:00 Keynote talks
“Linking Sensory and Motor Systems via Active Sensing”
Ismail Uyanik, PhD, Associate Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Hacettepe University
“The Smellicopter”
Melanie Anderson, PhD, Postdoc, Riffell Lab, University of Washington“
“Transient flow phenomena in biological flight.”
Alfonso Martinez, PhD, Postdoc, Bird Lab, University of California Davis
14:30 Collaboratory introduction and instructions: Tom Daniel
14:45 Collaboratory (directed collaborative discussions)
16:45 Workshop close: Tom Daniel
17:00 Future of BISCCITs discussion (Optional)
Important Note: There are limited outlets to charge your computer in the meeting rooms. Please be sure to fully charge your computer before coming to the workshop each day.