8:00 - 9:00am Registration and Breakfast

9:00 - 9:30am Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:30 - 10:30am Keynote

Jessica Hodgins joined theRobotics Institute and Computer Science department at Carnegie Mellon University as an Associate Professor in Fall of 2000. She is now a Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, Associate Director for the Faculty in the Robotics Institute as well as the part-time Director of the new Disney Research Pittsburgh Laboratory. Prior to moving to CMU, she was an Associate Professor and Assistant Dean in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1989. She has received a NSF Young Investigator Award, a Packard Fellowship, and a Sloan Fellowship. She was Editor in Chief of ACM Transactions on Graphics from 2000 to 2002 and Papers Chair for ACM SIGGRAPH 2003.

10:30 - 10:45am Break
10:45 - 11:45am Panel Discussion
11:45am - 12:45pm Lunch
12:45 - 1:00pm Break
1:00 - 2:45pm Director's Remarks, and Presentation of the GVU Impact Awards