Model-Based Optimization

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🤖 The event will be held virtually on https://t.co/lPqXW5UjSQ, so it's open to participants worldwide. No registration needed to attend. The join link will be emailed a few days beforehand.

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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!

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🗓️ Key dates:
Poster registration: July 20 (https://t.co/c69xCaj4F4)
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

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🔜 Coming up next:• March 24, 2026: Yan Gu (Purdue University) — Topic TBA • TBD: Somil Bansal (Stanford University) — Topic TBA Hope to see you there. Please share with students and colleagues who’d enjoy the discussion!

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📢 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:
https://t.co/oiubICBK6R

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📣 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: https://t.co/lWDYKZMnL2

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🏆 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!

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✅ 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: https://t.co/dsEAUQe9EP

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🔧 What you’ll do: help organize TC events/workshops, strengthen student–TC communication, drive initiatives, and help build the Welcome Kit for RAS conferences.

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🚀 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.

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✅ 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.

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Meanwhile, if you want to check the recordings of our previous series, check our website https://t.co/Po3KAZEWrQ or YouTube channel https://t.co/lfNXnLgbaZ

Hope to see many of you at the seminar!

#Robotics #Optimization #Control #Dynamics #ScienceInnovation

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📢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: https://t.co/oiubICBK6R

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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

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📢 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

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Meanwhile, if you want to check the recordings of our previous series, check our website https://t.co/Po3KAZFuho or YouTube channel https://t.co/lfNXnLgJ0x

Hope to see many of you at the seminar!

#Robotics #Optimization #Control #Dynamics #ScienceInnovation

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Meanwhile, if you want to check the recordings of our previous series, check our website https://t.co/WJA06IaCCR or YouTube channel https://t.co/a6afwpc7tE

Hope to see many of you at the seminar!

#Robotics #Optimization #Control #Dynamics #ScienceInnovation

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📢 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: https://t.co/oiubICChWp

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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!