RAS Summer School on Control of Surgical Robots - Call for Applications!

1st Biannual Summer School on Control of Surgical Robots (COSUR 2016)
Sponsored by IEEE RAS, project MURAB
http://metropolis.scienze.univr.it/altair/events/cosur-2016/

5-9 September 2016
Department of Computer Science
University of Verona, Italy
General enquiries: info_robotics_summer_school@ateneo.univr.it

The 1st Biannual Summer School on Control of Surgical Robots (COSUR 2016) is a new summer school to be held at University of Verona from September 5th to 9th. COSUR 2016 is jointly organized by the Altair Robotics Lab at University of Verona, the European project MURAB (MRI and Ultrasound Robotic Assisted Biopsy) and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Technical Committee on Robotic Surgery, and funded by the IEEE RAS, the MURAB project, and the Doctoral Program in Computer Science of the University of Verona.

COSUR 2016 focuses on the control and sensing aspects of robotic surgery. Together with the basics on teleoperation algorithms, the school will address vision and image based control, to introduce students to the main concepts of surgical automation. By introducing automation in surgery, we aim at showing students how to leverage the increased accuracy of robots and medical imaging, to develop new diagnostic and therapeutical tools that can support advanced procedures.

IMPORTANT DATES
Application deadline: 8 June 2016
Acceptance by: 15 June 2016
Registration deadline: 8 July 2016

APPLICATION AND REGISTRATION
The school is opened to PhD students and Post-Doctoral fellows working in the field of Robotic Surgery, provided that they have a basic knowledge of control systems and image processing. Due to space availability limitations, the applicants will be selected based on their CV and a motivation letter.
IEEE-RAS student members are encouraged to attend and they will receive a refunding of 50% of the registration+travel expenses, up to €500.

The applicants need to send an email to
registration_robotics_summer_school@ateneo.univr.it
attaching their CV and a motivation letter that should include a statement of research specifying why they intend to attend the school. In the email, the applicants need to specify if they need a visa for Italy and if they are IEEE-RAS student members (sending their IEEE ID number).
The deadline for applications is 8 June 2016.

PROGRAM
The preliminary program is online! See the school website https://metropolis.scienze.univr.it/altair/events/cosur-2016/

The list of international speakers includes:
· Prof. Paolo Fiorini, Università degli Studi di Verona
· Dr. Riccardo Muradore, Università degli Studi di Verona
· Prof. Arianna Menciassi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
· Dr. Leonardo Mattos, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
· Dr. Elena De Momi, Politecnico di Milano
· Prof. Tamas Haidegger, Óbuda University
· Prof. Mirko D'Onofrio, University Hospital in Verona
· Prof. Marco Zenati, Harvard Medical School
· Prof. Stefano Stramigioli, Universiteit Twente
· Prof. Chris de Korte, Radboud University Medical Centre
· Prof. Philippe Poignet, Université de Montpellier

The school is held the week before the workshop on Computer and Robot Assisted Surgery (CRAS 2016) that will be held in Pisa on 12-14 September 2016 https://www.cras-eu.org/cras-2016
The students of the school will have the opportunity to present the results of their team projects at the CRAS workshop in a dedicated poster session. To register for the workshop, the school attendees will receive a special COSUR2016 registration fee.

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