Guest lecture from Vincent Hayward

The Centre for Engagement and Simulation Science (ICCESS) is hosting a visit from Vincent Hayward, Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Tactile Perception and Technologies at the Institute of Philosophy, on Friday 21^st July. 

As part of his visit Vincent will be giving a guest lecture in the MediCinema at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital from 2-3pm. Please see below for a summary of Vincent's talk and further information.

If you would like to attend then please email ICCESS Centre Manager Duncan Boak: D.Boak@imperial.ac.uk

Early Haptic Processing and Tactual Curiosities

The mechanics of contact is to touch what acoustic waves are to audition and what light waves are to vision. The complex physics of contact, however, differ in fundamental ways from the physics of acoustics and optics. It therefore should be expected that the organisation of the early stages of somatosensory processing be very different from that of equivalent stages in the other sensory modalities.

Vincent’s presentation will describe some salient facts regarding the physics of touch and cover recent findings regarding the processing of time-evolving tactile inputs in second-order neurones in the cat.

Vincent Hayward is Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Tactile Perception and Technologies at the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London. He was the holder of the International Chair in Haptics at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, from 2008 to 2011 and was subsequently appointed Professor. From 1989 to 2008, he was Assistant, Associate, and then Full Professor at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and was director of the McGill Research Center for Intelligent Machines from 2001 to 2004. Vincent is a Fellow of the IEEE and has just completed an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council.

FRIDAY 21ST JULY, 2-3PM
MEDICINEMA
3RD FLOOR, BY LIFT BANK D
CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL
FULHAM ROAD SW10 9NH