Seminars
Spring 2025
| Date | Who | Affiliation | Title | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Jan. 24 | Alexandre Martin | University of Kentucky | Overview of the KREPE re-entry missions | 10:40 a.m. | AERO 114 |
| Fri, Jan. 31 | Demoz Gebre | University of Minnesota | Analytical Versus Hardware Redundancy: A Case Study of Synthetic Air Data Estimation | 10:40 a.m. | AERO 114 |
| Fri, Feb. 7 | Dylan Boone | JPL | The Europa Clipper | 10:40 a.m. | AERO 120 |
| Mon, Feb. 17 | Jesse Steicher | Stanford University | State-Resolved Chemical Kinetics Measurements for Hypersonic and Atmospheric Entry Flows | 10 a.m. | AERO 114 |
| Fri, Feb. 21 | Damennick Henry | Smead Aerospace | Organized Chaos:ÌýSpacecraft Dynamics in Cislunar Space | 10:40 a.m. | AERO 114 |
| Mon, Feb 24 | Nina Vaidya | University of Southampton, UK | Extreme Materials and Engineering for Extraordinary Journeys | 10 a.m. | AERO 114 |
| Wed, Feb. 26 | Zhiyu Zhang | Harvard University | Synergizing Machine Learning and Autonomous Systems: A Perspective From Adaptive Online Optimization | 10 a.m. | AERO 114 |
| Wed, Feb. 26 | Dale Lawrence | Smead Aerospace | Low-Cost High-Resolution in-Situ Turbulence Observation | 1:45 p.m. | AERO 111 |
| Fri, Feb. 28 | Tae KimÌýÌýÌýÌý | Northrop Grumman/Mission SystemsÌý | Preliminary Power, PNT, and Communication Infrastructure Development Options for Commercial Lunar South-pole Exploration | 10:40 a.m. | AERO 114 |
| Wed, Mar. 5 | Harsh Bhundiya | PhD Candidate, MIT | Rapid In-Space Assembly and Manufacturing of Next-Generation Space Structures | 9:30 a.m. | AERO 111 |
| Fri. Mar. 7 | Sherman LoÌýÌýÌýÌý | Stanford UnivÌý | The Fin Alert Shark Tag: Using GPS to Protect the Ocean | 10:40 a.m. | AERO 114 |
| Fri, Mar. 7 | Charbel Farhat | Stanford | Surrogate Modeling for the Multi-Physics Design Analysis and Optimization of Hypersonic Systems | 1 p.m. | AERO 111 |
| Mon, Mar. 10 | Adam Thorpe | Postdoc, UT Austin | Learning for Autonomy: From Policies to Operators to Distributions | 10 a.m. | AERO 114 |
| Tue, Mar. 11 | Dan Caruso | Entrepreneur, Author | Bandwidth - The Untold Story of Ambition, Deception, and Innovation that Shaped the Internet Age and Dot-Com Boom | 4 p.m. | AERO N240 |
| Wed, Mar. 12 | Romit Maulik | Penn State | Differentiable Physics: A physics-constrained and datadriven paradigm for scientific discovery | 10 a.m. | AERO 114 |
| Fri. Mar. 14 | Gary McGrawÌýÌýÌýÌý | Systems Engineering Consultant | GNSS Multipath: Characterization, Modeling & Mitigation | 10:40 a.m. | AERO 114 |
| Fri, Mar. 14 | Bobby Hodgkinson | Smead Aerospace | AI Literacy: Foundations and Practical Applications of GenAI in Education | 12:45 p.m. | AERO N240 |
| Fri. Mar. 21 | Mohammed Khider | Emergency Location Service at Google | 10:40 a.m. | AERO 114 | |
| Fri, Apr. 4 | Bobby Hodgkinson | Smead Aerospace | AI in Education: Advanced ApplicationsÌý and Emerging Trends with GenAIÌý | 12:45 p.m. | AERO N240 |
| Fri. Apr. 4 | Mark Crews | Lockheed Martin | The Future of GPS | 10:40 a.m. | AERO 114 |
| Wed, April 9 | Jim Brasseur | Smead Aerospace | Impacts of Atmospheric Surface Layer Turbulence on the Wind turbine Drivetrain, and Generalization of Surface Layer Scaling | 9:35 a.m. | AERO 114 |
| Thu, Apr. 10 | Dave Kaufman | President of BAE Space and Mission Systems | The Future of Jobs at BAE, Ball and in the Aerospace Industry | 4 p.m. | AERO 111 |
| Fri. Apr. 11 | Damian Miralles | Samsung | Accelerating Signal Processing Applications with the Arm SIMD Architectures | 10:40 a.m. | AERO 114 |
| Fri. Apr. 25 | Kirsten Strandjord | Univ of Minn | TBA | 10:40 a.m. | AERO 114 |
| Tue, May 13 | Dimitris Lagoudas | Texas A&M | TBA | 10 a.m. | AERO 111 |