2025 Machine-Ground Interaction Consortium (MaGIC) meeting
Dan Negrut
Dear Chrono User,
First and foremost, I wish you a healthy, happy, and productive 2025.
At the onset of 2025, I would like to invite you to mark your calendar for the 13th edition of the Machine-Ground Interaction Consortium (MaGIC) meeting, which this year is organized by Dan Negrut, Radu Serban, and Luning Bakke of the Simulation-Based Engineering Lab (SBEL) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
We would love to host you in Madison on September 10 and 11, 2025, for a new edition of this annual event which addresses real-world engineering problems at the intersection of simulation in robotics, terramechanics, embodied AI, sensor simulation, soft robotics, high performance computing, fluid-solid interaction, end-to-end control, autonomy in construction, AI generative models, off-road mobility – all of this on Earth or in extraterrestrial scenarios.
Quick facts:
- The meeting will be in person, at the Wisconsin Discovery Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Keynote speakers:
- Dr. David Gorsich, Chief Scientist, US Army GVSC (digital twin technology, terramechanics, autonomy)
- Professor Kenichi Soga, UC Berkeley (geomechanics)
- The current slate of speakers includes colleagues from NASA Glenn, NASA KSC, German Aerospace Center (DLR, Germany), Argonne National Lab, US Army GVSC, US Army ERDC, Carnegie Mellon, Texas A&M, Rice University, University of Manchester (UK), University of Parma (Italy).
- We are in the process of recruiting additional speakers to create a program similar in spirit to those from past years, see https://sbel.wisc.edu/outreach/magic/.
- Last but not least, we will run Chrono training tutorials on September 9, prior to the MaGIC meeting.
That’s that for now, we will follow up with more details in mid-February :-)
Happy New Year!!!
Dan Negrut
P.S. If you have colleagues who might be interested in this event, please share this message with them or inform us of their email addresses and will reach out to them.
P.P.S. If you would like to suggest a speaker for this event, we would be glad to accommodate as many suggestions as possible.
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Bernard A. and Frances M. Weideman Professor
NVIDIA CUDA Fellow
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Computer Science
University of Wisconsin - Madison
4150ME, 1513 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706-1572
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