Weekly Club Meeting - OFFSITE at DU

Date: Thursday, July 08, 2010
Time: 11:45:00 AM - 1:00:00 PM

Location:
Denver University

Program Speaker

Dr. Kimon Valavanis

The Rotary Club of Denver
Club 31
Weekly Club Meeting
July 8, 2010
11:45 - 1:00 p.m.
OFFSITE
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER

Lunch will be ready at 11:30

Program: Dr. Kimon Valavanis
"Unmanned Aerial Vehicles"

Reservations are Required to attend this meeting! Please call the Rotary Office to see if there is a spot available. There will NOT be a regular Club meeitng at the DAC on this Day.

Those who are interested are invited to tour Dr. Valavanis's lab (about 2.5 blocks away) after the lunch from 1-1:30.

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Dr. Ing. Kimon Valavanis is considered the world's leading authority on UAV research. He joined the University of Denver on September 1, 2008 as Professor and Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. From 2003—August 2008 he was Professor at the University of South Florida
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, where he created the Unmanned Systems Laboratory.

Dr. Valavanis is Fulbright Senior Lecturing & Research Award Scholar. He leads the NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/U CRC) and Safety Security Rescue-Research Center (SSR-RC). Dr. Valavanis serves as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems and Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine.

He received the Diploma in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (5 years of study) from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece and his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and the PhD degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has published over 300 book chapters, technical journal/transaction and conference papers in the areas of Unmanned Systems, Distributed Intelligence Systems, Robotics and Automation and is the co-author of the book (with Dr. G. N. Saridis) Intelligent Robotic Systems: Theory, Design and Applications. Dr. Valavanis has organized and served on the organizing committees of numerous international robotics and UAV conferences, seminars and symposia including serving as Co-Chair of the recent International Conference and Exhibition on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles held in Dubai, UAE on June 21-23, 2010.