Spring 2024

Date Who Affiliation Title Time Location
Fri, Jan. 19 Pete Worden Breakthrough Foundation, Former NASA Ames Head Life in the Universe and Private Sector Space Science Initiatives 10:40 a.m. AERO 120
Tue, Jan. 23 Tory Bruno United Launch Alliance CEO The Future of Rocket Technology and the Launch Industry 4:00 p.m. AERO 111
Fri, Jan. 26 Ping Lu San Diego State University Aerospace Guidance: From Apollo to Artemis and Beyond 10:40 a.m. AERO 120
Fri, Feb. 2 Clare Atzert US Navy Naval Nuclear Propulsion 10:40 a.m. AERO 120
Mon, Feb. 19 Christine Hartzell University of Maryland Dust in the (Solar) Wind: Investigations of Orbital Debris and Asteroid Evolution 9:30 a.m. AERO 114
Wed, Feb. 21 Tam Nguyen MIT Lincoln Laboratory Discovery of Faint Space Objects: An Efficient and Versatile Methodology 9:30 a.m. AERO 111
Fri, Feb 23 R. Scott Erwin Air Force Research Laboratory Autonomy, AI, and Space Systems: An AFRL Perspective 10:40 a.m. AERO 120
Fri, Mar. 1 Daniel Polis Sierra Space Materials Engineering Enabling Space Exploration in the Most Extreme Environments 10:40 a.m. AERO 120
Mon, Mar. 4 James Ferlez DARPA Innovation Fellow Assured Autonomy for Learning-enabled Systems 9:30 a.m. AERO 111
Wed, Mar. 6 Yutian Pang Thales Machine Learning-enhanced Predictive Modeling in Air Traffic Management 9:30 a.m. AERO 111
Fri, Mar. 8 Richard Linares MIT Orbital Carrying Capacity and its Implication on Space Sustainability 10:40 a.m. AERO 120
Mon, Mar. 11 Joshua Knobloch JILA Probing Thermal Transport and Mechanical Properties in Nano-Enhanced Composites using Novel Deep Ultraviolet Tools 9:30 a.m. AERO 111
Fri, Mar. 15 Mike Moreau NASA Goddard Postponed due to weather 10:40 a.m. AERO 120
Mon, Mar. 18 Paula do Vale Pereira Florida Institute of Technology Aiming to Explore Deep Space Through Space Robotics and Technology Demonstrations 9:30 a.m. AERO 111
Wed, Mar. 20 Vishala Arya NASA JPL Simultaneous Space Mission Design, Control & Guidance 9:30 a.m. AERO 111
Mon, Apr. 1 Alia Khan Western Washington University Multi-spectral Remote Sensing and Retrieval of Snow Algae and Light Absorbing Particles in Snow with Commercial SmallSat data, UAVs, and Robotic Sampling 9:30 a.m. AERO 111
Wed, Apr. 3 Anastasia Bizyaeva University of Washington Taming the Swarm: Toward Robust and Flexible Bio-inspired Autonomy 9:30 a.m. AERO 111
Fri, Apr. 5 Mahmoud Hussein Smead Aerospace Harmonics dispersion relation: A new fundamental theory of strongly nonlinear waves 10:40 a.m. AERO 120
Fri, Apr. 6 Cyrus Neary UT Austin PhD Student Engineering AI Systems and AI for Engineering: Compositionality and Physics in Learning 9:30 a.m. AERO 111
Fri, Apr. 12 Simone D'Amico Stanford Autonomous Miniaturized Distributed Space Systems 10:40 a.m. AERO 120
Fri, Apr. 26 Abigail Juhl Air Force Research Laboratory Controlling Instabilities in Flow with Phononic Subsurfaces 10:40 a.m. AERO 120
Tue, Apr. 30 Dan Caruso Caruso Ventures Entrepreneurship, Raising Capital and the Future of Investments in Aerospace and Tech 4:00 p.m. AERO 111