All About Locomotion

Arrival Times:
The gymnasium will be open at 11:00 am on Tuesday for those of you who would like to set up your poster before the workshop and/or load your soundbite onto our computers.

We encourage all participants to arrive prior to 12:45 to allow time to pick up your name tag and program.

*** CHANGE OF VENUE ***
Thanks to all of you who have pre-registered for the workshop. We have had such a positive and overwhelming response that we are moving the event to a larger venue (updated posters available below). The new location will be:

Location and directions:
Radcliffe Gymnasium, Radcliffe Yard, (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University). (Maps and directions)

Parking:
Unfortunately parking is neither fun nor easy in Harvard Square. If possible it is almost always easier to take the T in. If it is necessary to drive, parking information is available here.

General Information:
We are pleased to announce “A Day of Locomotion,” to be held at Harvard University on Tuesday October 16, 2007. The workshop will include a number of talks on biological locomotion and will culminate in a panel discussion on Grand Challenges in the field.

One of the primary goals of the workshop is to facilitate the formation of new interdisciplinary collaborations. To this end a large part of the workshop will be dedicated to posters and soundbites providing a broad overview of locomotion activities in the New England area.

Updated workshop information will be posted at this site as it becomes available.

Confirmed Speakers: (click here for abstracts)

• Eric Lauga (UCSD) — Swimming on Small Scales
• Andy Ruina (Cornell University) — Bipedal Locomotion
• Steve Vogel (Duke University) — Bioballistics: An Exercise in Scaling
• Jane Wang (Cornell University) — Insect Flight: Aerodynamics, Optimization, and Evolution

Confirmed Panelists:

• Howard Berg — Harvard University, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology/Department of Physics
• Andy Biewener — Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
• George Lauder — Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
• L. Mahadevan — Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Posters and soundbites: We strongly encourage attendees to present a poster and soundbite. Soundbites will serve as an opportunity to briefly introduce and/or summarize the content of your poster. If you would like to present a poster and soundbite, please email your name, affiliation, title and abstract to Debbie Blanchard (drblnc@mit.edu). Please include Locomotion 07 – POSTER in the subject line of the email.

Deadline to submit poster abstracts: October 1, 2007

Regisration: There is no registration fee but if you plan to attend, we ask that you register ahead of time by sending your name and affiliation to Kate Zirpolo (kzirpolo@deas.harvard.edu). Please include Locomotion 07 – REGISTRATION in the subject line of your email.

Schedule:

• 12:45-1:00 Welcome (Howard Stone)
• 1:00-1:30 Eric Lauga: “Swimming on Small Scales”
• 1:30-2:00 Steve Vogel: “Bioballistics: An Exercise in Scaling”
• 2:00-3:00 Soundbites
• 3:00-4:00 Posters and Coffee
• 4:00-4:30 Jane Wang: “Insect Flight: Aerodynamics, Optimization and Evolution”
• 4:30-5:00 Andy Ruina: “Bipedal Locomotion”
• 5:00-6:00 Panel Discussion (Panelists: Howard Berg, Andy Biewener, L. Mahadevan, and George Lauder; Moderator: Peko Hosoi)

eForum: This blog will remain up after the workshop to facilitate continued online discussions. We hope that this eForum will be used by the community to post questions and answers; preprints, images and videos; and meeting announcements related to locomotion. For instructions on posting to the eForum, click here.

Please Post:

Locomotion Poster 1 (red dragonfly), Locomotion Poster 2 (blue fish)

Organizers:

• Peko Hosoi, MIT (peko@mit.edu)
• Eric Lauga, UCSD (elauga@ucsd.edu)
• L. Mahadevan, Harvard (lm@seas.harvard.edu)
• Howard Stone, Harvard (has@seas.harvard.edu)
• Jane Wang, Cornell (zw24@cornell.edu)