Thursday, 5th July, 2012

16,00-16,30 Registration

16,30-17,00 Opening Ceremony

17,00-18,30 Plenary Lectures – Session 1, Chairman: Mircea Ivanescu

1. Cooperation and a theory of biological construction

Corina E. Tarnita
Society of Fellows, Harvard University
Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University

2. The evolution of social behavior in halictid bees

Sarah D. Kocher
Dept. of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

18,30-19,00 Cofee-break

19,00-21,00 Plenary Lectures – Session 2, Chairman: Corina Tarnita

3. Indirect Effects & Spatial Pattern in Savanna Ecosystems: Can Large scale Ecological Field Experiments Help Us Save The World?  

Robert M. Pringle
Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University

4. From System Genetics to Biology

Julien F. Ayroles
Society of Fellows, Dept. of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard   University

5. Hyper-Redundant Tentacle Arms for Robots

Mircea Ivanescu
Dept. of Mechatronics, University of Craiova

21,00 Dinner

Friday, 6th July, 2012

9,30-11,00 Plenary Lectures – Session 3, Chairman: Ioan Doroftei

6. From Biomechanisms to Technical Mechanisms

Iulian Popescu, Daniela Tarnita
Dept. of Applied Mechanics, University of Craiova

7. Design and analysis of an antropomorphic hand system

Daniela Tarnita
Dept. of Applied Mechanics, University of Craiova

8. Impact dynamics research with application to robotic systems 

Dan Marghitu
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Auburn University

11,00-11,30- Cofee-break

11,30-13,00 Plenary Lectures – Session 4
Chairman: Iulian Popescu

9. Models of nonlinear dynamics in neurosciences

Radu Constantinescu
Dept.of Physics, University of Craiova

10. Development of Robotic Systems for Surgery

Doina Pisla, Bogdan Gherman
Dept. of Robotics, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

11. Biomimetic Walking Robots

Ioan Doroftei
Dept. of Mechanical engineering, Mechatronics and Robotics, Technical University of Iasi

13,00-14,30 Lunch

14,30-16,30 Final discussions and directions for future work

16,30 Social Program