=== RSS Area Chair Symposium === As part of the RSS area chair meeting, the area chairs traditionally take advantage of being together in one place to give a research mini-symposium. This will occur at UC Berkeley, 250 Sutardja Dai Hall from 9am to 6:15pm. ---- \\ * 9:00 AM **Giorgio Grisetti, University of Freiburg**\\ Generalized Least Squares on Hypergraphs and its application to Simultaneous Calibration Localization and Mapping * 9:30 AM **J. Andrew Bagnell, Carnegie Mellon University**\\ Computational Rationalization: From Inverse Optimal Control to Inverse Equilibria * 10:00 AM **Siddhartha Srinivasa, Intel Labs Pittsburgh**\\ Mobile manipulation in the real world * 10:30 AM Break * 10:45 AM **Ingmar Posner, Oxford University**\\ Seeking the Writing on the Wall - Planning to Perceive for Semantic Mapping * 11:15 AM **Andrea Thomaz, Georgia Institute of Technology**\\ An HRI Approach to Learning by Demonstration * 11:45 AM **Stefan Williams, University of Sydney**\\ SLAM, Dense Stereoscopic Seaﬂoor Reconstruction and Habitat Mapping using an AUV * 12:15 PM Lunch * 1:30 PM **Andrew Davison, Imperial College London**\\ Monocular SLAM, Live Dense Reconstruction and Physically Predictive Vision * 2:00 PM **Jun Morimoto, ATR**\\ Connecting robots with brains: Introduction of Brain-Robot interface (BRI) studies * 2:30 PM **Pieter Abbeel, UC Berkeley**\\ Towards Robotic Laundry * 3:00 PM **Takayuki Kanda, ATR**\\ Natural Human-Robot Interaction * 3:15 PM Break * 3:45 PM **David Hsu, National University of Singapore**\\ Continuous-State POMDPs with application to Unmanned Aircraft Collision Avoidance * 4:15 PM **Uluç Saranlı, Bilkent University**\\ Reactive Footstep Planning with a Spring-Mass Runner * 4:45 PM **Han-Lim Choi, KAIST**\\ CBBA: A Decentralized Task Planning Framework * 5:15 PM **Frank Dellaert, Georgia Institute of Technology** The Bayes Tree and Inference in Large-Scale Graphical Models for SLAM and SFM