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The ACT often organises conferences, workshops and, more in general, events that aim at stimulating the scientific community with problems and challenges derived from the European Space Agency's day to day activities.

Archive of ACT talks "Science coffee"

 

-January 24th, 2012
"Emergent Communication between Robots" by Luc Steels from Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

-November 25th, 2011
"Airborne Wind Power. Towards the automation and flight control of kite systems for power generation Robots" by Jonathan Ramirez from TUDelft University, The Netherlands

-November 10th, 2011
"Dynamics and control of Aerospace vehicles " by Daniel Alazard from Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace, France

-October 14th, 2011
"Space at TNO" by Erik Laan from TNO

-October 14th, 2011
"Patterns of Innovation in Government Organizations: Insights from NASA" by Zoe Szajnfarber from The George Washington University, UE

-July 15th, 2011
"Research Experiences on Modelling and Simulation for Systems Design" by Danielle Gianni

-June 17th, 2011
"Econophysics and complex networks" by Diego Garlaschelli from "Leiden Institute of Physics", The Netherlands.

-May 20th, 2011
"Robotic modeling in mathematical cognition" by Marek Rucinski

-May 20th, 2011
"Hybrid Swarm Intelligent Algorithms" by Karl Tuyls from "University of Maastricht", The Netherlands.

-April 1st, 2011
"Perception in Action" by Luca Ascari from "Henesis".

-October 22nd, 2010
"Modeling and Simulating Rural Environments for Satellite Navigation" by Frank Schubert from "Deutsches Zentrum DLR für Luft-und Raumfahrt e.V.", Germany.

-August 13th, 2010
"A component model for on-board software applications" by Marco Panunzio from "University of Padova", Italy.

-July 12th, 2010
"Environmental Impacts of Infrastructure Projects from the Perspectives of Embodied Energy and CO2 Emission" by Andy Wong from "University of Cambridge", England.

-May 21st, 2010
"The Climates of Planet Mars" by François Forget from "Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique", France.

-March 26th, 2010
"Spatial correlation as an early warning signal for catastrophic shifts in ecosystems and natural systems" by Vasilis Dakos from "Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group Wageningen University", The Netherlands.

-March 19th, 2010
"Three-Dimensional Modeling of the Early Martian Climate and Water Cycle " by Robin Wordsworth from "Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique", France.

-March 5th, 2010
"Modelling of particle collisions in highly rarefied plasma flows" by Dejan Petkow from "Institute of Space Systems, Stuttgart".

-February 26th, 2010
"Neuromorphic computation of Optic Flow" Final presentation of Ariadna study 08-6303a by Vasco Medici et al., from "Institute of Neuroinformatic, ETH and University of Zurich ".

-February 12th, 2010
"Imitating Cricket mechanosensing: dream or reality?" by Gijs Krijnen from "University of Twende, Enschede".

-January 19th, 2010
"Building reflexivity ? : Stakes, methods and challenges of ethical reflection about contemporary sciences" by Sara Aguiton from "Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales".

-October 9th, 2009
"Multi body Dynamics Analysis & Aerospace Applications" by Gianluigi Baldesi from "ESTEC".

-September 24th, 2009
"Self-organizing urban transportation systems" by Carlos Gershenson from "UNAM".

-September 4th, 2009
"The Technology Transfer Programme" by Frank Salzgeber from "ESA".

-June 18th, 2009
"The role of campaniform sensilla in the control of stick insect locomotion" by Josef Schmitz from "Biocybernetics, University of Bielefeld ".

-May 15th, 2009
"Discovering Nature’s secrets with Atomic Force Microscopy, Algae and Bionics" by Clemens Gruenberger from "TU Vienna", Austria.

-April 10th, 2009
"Meteorites look different from Near-Earth Asteroids" by Pierre Vernazza from "ESA".

-February 27th, 2009
"Evolutionary dynamics of collective action" by Francisco Santos from the MLG Group/IRIDIA lab at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

-April 16th, 2007
"Semantic Web" by Ivan Herman from the World Wide Web Consortium.

-November 17th, 2006
"Swarm Intelligence" by Marco Dorigo from the IRIDIA lab at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

-March 29th, 2006
"Left-handed materials at visible frenquencies" by Sir J.B. Pendry from the Blackett Laboratory, Department of Physics of the Imperial College London.

-December 2nd, 2005
"Plasma Technology for Space" by Prof. Richard van der Sanden from the Center for Plasma Physics and Radiation Technology, Dept. of Applied Physics, Technical University of Eindhoven.

-July 6th, 2005
"Advances in Constellation Design: the Flower Constellation Set " by Prof. Daniele Mortari from the Aerospace Department, Texas A&M University.

-March 21st, 2005
"The On-going Convergence of Nano-, Bio- and Information Technologies: What to Expect for Human Space exploration?" by Slava G. Turyshev

-February, 11th 2004
"Complete Search in Continuous Global Optimization and Constraint Satisfaction" by Prof. Arnold Neumaier from the Institut für Mathematik, Universität Wien

-September 9th, 2003
"Controlled antihydrogen propulsion for future missions into very deep space" by Dr. Michael Martin-Nieto

-January 23rd, 2003
"Creativity and Computers" by Margaret Boden

-June 20th, 2003
"Science Fact and Science Fiction: A glimpse into the future"
by Dr. Lawrence Krauss

-February 10th, 2003
"Thinking usefully about the futures of space... something useful to think about"
by Prof. Dr. Jim Dator

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