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speakers

9-10.

Delivered an invited
talk to the
Department
of Chemical
Engineering
at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in
April.

Presented a research
seminar at the University
of Toronto as part of the
Dept. of Mechanical and
Industrial Engineering's
Distinguished Speaker
Series. The seminar was
titled, "Novel Field Robots and Robotic Exoskeletons: Design, Integration
and Applications."

Presented “An Experimentally Validated
Biophysical Model for
Candida Albicans Interactions with Nonfiber-Textured Surfaces” at the
ASME NanoEngineering
for Medicine and Biology
Conference in Houston,
Texas in February.

Invited to serve as a
member of the Technical
Editorial Board for the
Canadian Society for
Mechanical Engineering
International Congress
- Symposium on Control
and Robotics June 2629 in Kelowna, British
Columbia, Canada.

Presented “Biophysical Model of Candida
Albicans Adhesion to
NanofiberTextured Surfaces” to the Adhesion
Society’s Annual Meeting
in San Antonio, Texas in
February.

Invited to serve as a
member of the Technical
Program Committee
for the 2016 IEEE International Conference
on Mechatronics and
Automation Aug. 7-10 in
Harbin, China.

Pinhas Ben-Tzvi

Christopher Williams

Bahareh Behkam

Presented during the
Annual Executive Meeting
of Maxon
Precision Motors Inc., in
Washington
D.C. June 1. The seminar
was titled "Integrating
Novel Field Robots and
Robotic Exoskeletons of
the Future."
Served on a National
Science F