Vancouver Society for Cognitive Systems Presents

Robotics for Society

New Directions in Cognitive Science Conference

Feburary 2-3, 2007 @ UBC Robson Square

Conference Overview

The Robotics for Society conference will bring together some of the world's leading researchers in robotics to convene in Vancouver, Canada. Part of an ongoing series of conferences held by the Vancouver Society for Cognitive Systems, this year's conference will focus on the interactions between robotics and the societies in which they are embedded. The program includes invited talks as well as student poster presentations. The small and intimate scale of this conference will provide an inviting setting for researchers from traditionally disparate disciplines to exchange ideas.

Conference Program

The program schedule is outlined as follows:

Friday, Feb 2
8:55am Opening
9:00am James Little (UBC)
10:00am Coffee & Posters
11:30am Gordon Cheng (ATR)
12:30pm Lunch
2:00pm Richard Vaughan (SFU)
3:00pm Coffee
4:00pm Rodney Brooks (MIT)
5:00pm End
  Dinner

Saturday, Feb 3
9:30am Alan Mackworth (UBC)
10:30am Coffee & Posters
11:30am Hideki Kozima (NICT)
12:30pm Lunch
2:00pm Stefan Schaal (USC)
3:00pm Coffee
3:30pm Masaaki Honda (Waseda)
4:30pm Richard Rosenberg (UBC)
5:00pm End
  Party

Registration

Online registration is now closed. Please remember that registration does not guarantee admission; we are admitting registered attendees on a first come, first served basis! If you are registered for the event, please come early.

Payment will be collected on site. *UBC and SFU students do not need to pay entry fees but must show valid Student ID.

Check or Cash
Students*
Non-Students
Before 12/31/06
$15 $75
After 12/31/06
$25 $100

Accomodation

If you are traveling from out of province and are interested in staying at the designated conference hotel, please contact Rebecca Weiss for more information.