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📢 TC Poster Session and Networking Event 2026
Our TC will hold a virtual poster session and networking event again this summer! If you have exciting projects you’d like to share with the community, this is a great chance to present, get feedback, and connect with researchers!
🗓️ Key dates:
Poster registration: July 20 (lnkd.in/eHYex_cG)
Decision notification: July 22
Poster upload: July 24 (link will be sent to accepted authors)
Event: July 28, 9:00–11:30 AM EDT / 3:00–5:30 PM CEST / 10:00 PM–12:30 AM JST
🤖 The event will be held virtually on Spatial.Chat, so it's open to participants worldwide. No registration needed to attend. The join link will be emailed a few days beforehand.
📢 OptRob TC Seminar Series 2026, Seminar #2
Join us for our next Technical Committee seminar!
🎙️ Thomas Lew (Toyota Research Institute)
Talk: Uncertainty-Aware Control at the Limits
🗓️ When: February 19, 2026 — 11:00 AM EST
💻 Where:
dartmouth.zoom.us/j/94765993…
🏆 OptRob TC Best Paper Award: Nominations Now Open (2025 papers)
We are now accepting nominations for the 2025 Best Paper Award;
The winner will get $500 travel grant to attend an IEEE RAS conference!
✅ Eligibility: Papers published/appeared in 2025 (conference or journal; online or in print)
📌 Nomination deadline: Feb 7, 2026 (AOE)
🧪 Self-nominations welcome (please limit to ≤2 papers per lab)
🗳️ Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
📣 Winners announced: March 2026
If you’ve read (or authored) a paper that pushed model-based optimization forward, please nominate it and help highlight great work in our community.
More details about best paper nomination and awarding process: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
🚀 Call for Student Co-Chairs
We’re recruiting Student Co-Chairs to work closely with the Co-Chairs of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Model-Based Optimization for Robotics.
✅ Who should apply: PhD or MS-PhD students (enrolled through the term) with interest in optimization for robotics, strong communication skills, and IEEE + RAS membership.
📢First TC Seminar of 2026
We’re thrilled to kick off the new year with our first seminar on January 15th!
Ani Majumdar, Princeton University
Video World Models That Know When They Don’t Know
When: 15th Jan 2026, 9AM EST
Zoom: dartmouth.zoom.us/j/94765993…
Stay tuned for our other upcoming seminars:
- 19th Feb 2026, 11AM EST, Thomas Lew, Toyota Research Institute
- 24th March 2026, 9AM EST, Yan Gu, Purdue University
- TBD, Somil Bansal, Stanford University
Meanwhile, if you want to check the recordings of our previous series, check our website tcoptrob.org/seminars/ or YouTube channel youtube.com/@tcoptrob
Hope to see many of you at the seminar!
#Robotics #Optimization #Control #Dynamics #ScienceInnovation
📢 A quick reminder to join us this week!
Our virtual seminar series kicks of with Heng Yang, who will give an inspiring talk on:
Semidefinite Relaxations for Robot Perception and Control: From Theory to Practice and Back
When: December 11th 2025, 9AM EST
Meanwhile, if you want to check the recordings of our previous series, check our website tcoptrob.org/seminars/ or YouTube channel youtube.com/@tcoptrob
Hope to see many of you at the seminar!
#Robotics #Optimization #Control #Dynamics #ScienceInnovation
📢 The virtual seminar series is back!
We’re thrilled to kick off with an inspiring talk:
Heng Yang, Harvard University
Semidefinite Relaxations for Robot Perception and Control: From Theory to Practice and Back
When: 11th Dec 2025, 9AM EST
Zoom: dartmouth.zoom.us/j/94765993…
And a great line up to folow:
- 15th Jan 2026, 9AM EST, Anirudha Majumdar, Princeton University
- 29th Jan 2026, 11AM EST, Thomas Lew, Toyota Research Institute
- TBD, Somil Bansal, Stanford University
Save the dates and stay tuned-more exciting speakers to be announced soon!
Meanwhile, if you want to check the recordings of our previous series, check our website tcoptrob.org/seminars/ or YouTube channel youtube.com/@tcoptrob
Hope to see many of you at the seminar!
#Robotics #Optimization #Control #Dynamics #ScienceInnovation