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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>FYI<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Sweet, Chad [mailto:sweetc@qti.qualcomm.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 9, 2016 10:51 PM<br><b>To:</b> Tim Sherwood <sherwood@cs.ucsb.edu>; timcheng@ece.ucsb.edu; Matthew Turk <mturk@cs.ucsb.edu>; Katie Byl <katiebyl@ece.ucsb.edu><br><b>Cc:</b> Bica, Vito <vbica@qti.qualcomm.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Southern California Robotics Symposium (SCR) – call for participation<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dear UCSB Faculty,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>We would be grateful if you could please distribute the following call-for-participation/call-for-papers to your faculty members, researchers, and graduate students in robotics.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sincerely,<br>Chad Sweet<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Director of Engineering, Qualcomm Research San Diego<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'> <br>We would like to invite all roboticists to participate in the 2016 Southern California Robotics Symposium (<a href="http://robotics.usc.edu/scr" target="_blank">http://robotics.usc.edu/scr</a>) to be held on April 22nd at UCSD, San Diego, CA.<br>Early registration (until Feb. 20th, 2016) is free, but we have a limited number of available seats, so we strongly encourage attendees to register sooner rather than later.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>With a goal of becoming a prestigious annual tradition, SCR 2016 kicks off by featuring an amazing line-up of speakers from academia and industry, robotics demos, and industry booths. The symposium will also feature poster/demo sessions intended to foster discussion on recent developments in robotics.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>Researchers are also invited to present their latest results during a short spotlight presentation followed by an interactive poster session. Topics from all areas of robotics research are welcome, including but not limited to contributions of methodologies, algorithms, hardware, and system architectures. Interested candidates should send a two-page abstract (in PDF format) by March 1, 2016 to <a href="mailto:scr2016papers@gmail.com" target="_blank">scr2016papers@gmail.com</a>. Further instruction can be found here: <a href="http://robotics.usc.edu/scr/cfp.html" target="_blank">http://robotics.usc.edu/scr/cfp.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>