PAST EVENTS

  • Public defense PhD thesis Nicolas Deravet: "Integration processes of oculomotor memory in normal and pathological brain". Thursday September 19th 2019 @ 15h00, Auditoire A01, LLN.
  • Public defense PhD thesis David Cordova: "Using robust and optimal control theory to understand hand dominance and bimanual coordination". Friday December 1st 2017 @ 16h30, Barb 94, LLN click here 
  • Public defense PhD thesis Allan Barrea: "Finger pad mechanics, tactile signals and dexterous manipulation". Monday November 27th 2017 @ 16h30, Barb 93, LLN click here
  • Symposium on "Touch and Grip". Speakers: Benoît Delhaye, Hannes Saal, Ingvars Birznieks, Cagatay Basdogan, Olivier White, Jeroen Smeets and Steve Scott. Tuesday October 3rd, 2017, 13:00-18:00, Maisin auditorium, Brussels click here.
  • Symposium on "Motor control and object manipulation". Speakers: Frédéric Danion, Frédéric Crevecoeur, Joseph McIntyre and Thibault Giard. Thursday February 18th, 2016, 13:30-18:00, click here.
  • PhD Thesis Thibault Giard: "Grip force adaptation to static and dynamic torques during object manipulation". February 18th, 2016, 16:15, Auditorium SUD11, Louvain-la-Neuve, click here
  • Symposium on "Motor Control of Vision". Speakers: Andrew Gordon, Jean-Jacques Orban de Xivry, Guillaume Masson and Caroline Ego. Monday July 20, 2015, 13:30-18-30. For details, click here.
  • PhD Thesis Caroline Ego: "Maturation of visual tracking in typically developing children and individuals with cerebral palsy and autism spectrum disorder". July 20, 2015, 16:30, Auditorium Carnoy, Louvain-la-Neuve.
  • Symposium on "Touch". Speakers: Vincent Hayward, Benoni B. Edin and Benoît Delhaye. Friday October 31st, 2014, 14:30-18:30. For details, click here
  • PhD Thesis Benoît Delhaye: "Skin mechanics involved in dynamic touch". October 31st, 2014, 17:00, Auditorium BARB 94, Louvain-la-Neuve: click here.
  • Symposium on "Neural control of movement and vision". Speakers: Renaud Ronsse, Pieter Medendorp, Frank Bremmer, Gunnar Blohm and Guillaume Leclercq. Friday September 20th, 2013, 10:00-16:00. For details, click here
  • PhD Thesis Guillaume Leclercq: "The velocity visuomotor
    transformation for manual tracking". September 20th, 2013, 15:00, Auditorium SUD 19, Louvain-la-Neuve: click here.
  • Symposium on "Eye movements and perception". Speakers: Professors Marcus Missal, Kark Verfaillie and Guillaume Masson. Friday October 26th, 2012, 10:00-12:45. For details, click here
  • PhD Thesis Sébastien Coppe: "Experimental and theoretical approaches to predictive eye movements". October 26th, 2012, 15:00, Auditorium Barb 92, Louvain-la-Neuve: click here.
  • Symposium on "Neuroscience and Rehabilitation" in honour of Professor Jean Delbeke. Speakers: Professors Alan McComas, Dick Stegeman and Dirk Lefeber. Friday March 16th 2012, 9:30-12:30, Auditorium Maisin: for details, click here.
  • The 2011 ICTEAM Thesis Award was conferred to Frédérci Creveoeur for his thesis entitled "The Gravitational Forces as Fundamental Input for Sensorimotor Coordination". This thesis' promotors are Jean-Louis Thonnard (IoNS) and Philippe Lefèvre. Congratulations!
  • PhD  Thesis Pierre Daye: "Behavioral and modeling studies of eye and head coordination". November 5, 2010, Louvain-la-Neuve (Time: 11:00 am, Aud. Sud 11).
  • Symposium on "Vision and neural control of movement". Speakers: Lance M. Optican (NIH), Marcus Missal (UCLouvain), Graham R. Barnes (University of Manchester), Gunnar Blohm (Queen's University): click here
  • PhD Thesis Thibaut André: "Fingertip skin as an optimal interface to manipulate objects: the role of moisture". May 20, 2010, Brussels: click here
  • PhD Thesis Frédéric Crevecoeur: "The gravitational forces as fundamental input for sensorimotor coordination". March 17, 2010, Louvain-la-Neuve: click here
  • Conference by Sarthak Misra, "Realistic Tool-Tissue Interaction Models for Surgical Simulation and Planning", December 11th 2009, 12h00-13h00, Auditorium de Visscher, Brussels: click here. 
  • Conference by Michael E. Goldberg, "The neurobiology of visual attention", April 6th 2009, 17h00-18h00, Auditorium Maisin, Brussels: click here.
  • Graduate course by Michael E. Goldberg, "Eye movements, spatial perception and attention in the lateral intraparietal area of the monkey", April 7th 2009, 9h30-11h30, Auditorium Maisin, Brussels:  click here.
  • Seminar by Vincent Hayward, "Physically and perceptually based haptics", April 10th 2009, 12h30-13h30, Seminar READ, Brussels: click here.
  • Symposium on "Eye movements: from bench to bed": David Zee and René van Rijn. Jan 13th 2009, Brussels: click here
  • PhD Thesis Demet Yüksel: "How to achieve binocular control in Duane Retraction Syndrome?" Jan 13th 2009, Brussels: click here
  • Seminar by Vincent Levesque, McGill University: click here
  • Symposium on "The role of the frontal lobe in smooth pursuit eye movements". Speakers: Kikuro Fukushima (Hakkaido University, Japan), Steve Heinen (Smith-Kettlewell Eye Res Inst, San Francisco), Marcus Missal (UCLouvain): click here
  • PhD Thesis Jean-Jacques Orban de Xivry: click here
  • Seminar by Karl Gegenfurtner, Justus-Liebig University Giessen: click here
  • Kick-Off Meeting of a new ARC project on: Neural bases of internal representations: from perception to action: click here
  • Seminar by Denise Henriques, York University, Toronto, Canada: click here
  • Seminar by Miriam Spering, Justus-Liebig University Giessen: click here
  • Course on Computational Motor Control by Reza Shadmehr, Johns Hopkins University: click here
  • Symposium on “Motor control in dexterous manipulation”. Speakers: Allan Smith (Université de Montréal), Alan Wing (University of Birmingham), Joe McIntyre (Université Paris 5), Olivier White (PhD defense, UCLouvain): click here
  • Workshop on “The neural circuitry controlling gaze”. Speakers: Joe DeSouza (York University, Toronto), Daniel Guitton (McGill University, Montreal): click here