Aerospace Engineering Seminar Series | Department of Aerospace Engineering

Date	Title/Location	Speaker
SPRING 2023
January 30, 2023 11:00AM	Recent Progress in Aeronautical Sciences: Vibrational Stabilization in Insect Flight & a Variational Theory of Aerodynamics Location: 3164 Martin Hall, Hybrid Host: Brent Barbee	Haithem Taha Associate Professor University of California, Irvine
February 1, 2023 4:00PM	Quantum Space - Developing The Space Superhighway Journey to the Stars Location: 2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room/Hybrid Host: Brent Barbee	Kerry Wisnosky Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President Quantum Space
February 8, 2023 4:00PM	Drones 101 and the UMD UAS Research and Operations Center (UROC) Location: 3164 Martin Hall, Hybrid Host: Brent Barbee Watch Presentation	John Slaughter Director, UMD UAS Research and Operations Center
February 22, 2023 4:00PM	Control of Uncertainty or Control with Uncertainty? A New Control Design Paradigm for Autonomous Stochastic Systems Location: 2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room/Hybrid Host: Brent Barbee Watch Presentation	Dr. Panagiotis Tsiotras David & Andrew Lewis Chair, Georgia Tech
March 1, 2023 4:00PM	Energetic Neutral Atom (ENA) Imaging of Space Plasmas and Environment: Science, Technology and Instrumentation Location: 2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room/Hybrid Host: Brent Barbee Watch Presentation	Dr. Nikolaos Paschalidis Senior Project Scientist for Advanced Technology / NASA GSFC Heliophysics Chief Technologist
March 8, 2023 4:00PM	Power Beaming & Space Solar Location: 2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room/Hybrid Host: Brent Barbee Watch Presentation	Dr. Paul Jaffe Electronics Engineer and researcher, Naval Research Lab (NRL)
March 15, 2023 4:00PM	Thor the Life Saver? Location: 2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room/Hybrid Host: Brent Barbee Watch Presentation	Dr. Ajay Kothari President and Founder, Astrox Corporation
March 29, 2023 4:00PM	Transpiration Cooling of a Hypersonic Vehicle Location: 2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room/Hybrid Host: Brent Barbee Watch Presentation	Dr. Hassan Saad Ifti University of Maryland, High-Speed Aerodynamics and Propulsion Laboratory (HAPL)
April 5, 2023 4:00PM	Comprehensive mid-fidelity simulation environment for aeroelastic stability analysis of tiltrotors with pilot-in-the-loop Location: 2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room/Hybrid Host: Brent Barbee	Alessandro Cocco Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center
April 12, 2023 4:00PM	Formalizing Assessment Metrics of Sustainable Aviation Through Physics-Based Modeling Location: 2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room/Hybrid Host: Brent Barbee Watch Presentation	Matthew A. Clarke Boeing School of Engineering Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
April 19, 2023 4:00PM	BOLT Hypersonic Flight Experiment: Post-flight Findings and Re-fly Mission Location: 2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room/Hybrid Host: Brent Barbee Watch Presentation	Cameron Butler Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
April 26, 2023 4:00PM	Game-Changing Technologies for Next-Generation Aerial Robots: From Foundation to Practice Location: 2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room/Hybrid Host: Brent Barbee	Dr. Jonathan Rogers Lockheed Martin Professor of Avionics Integration GATech
May 3, 2023 4:00PM	America’s Return to the Moon Location: 2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room/Hybrid Host: Brent Barbee Watch Presentation	Dr. Bhavya Lal NASA Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy (OTPS)

Past Seminars

Date	Title/Location	Speaker
FALL 2022
September 14, 2022 4:00PM	Advanced Measurement Technique for Low Reynolds Number Flows – Temperature-Sensitive Paint Location: 2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room & Zoom Host: Brent Barbee	Tsubasa Ikami Ph.D. Student Tohoku University, Japan
September, 21, 2022 4:00PM	Conjunction Assessment at NASA Location: 2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room & Zoom Host: Brent Barbee Watch Presentation	Lauri K. Newman Conjunction Assessment Program Officer Science Mission Directorate (SMD) NASA Headquarters
September 28, 2022 4:00PM	The Geometry Behind Station-keeping at the L1/L2 Libration Points Location: 2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room & Zoom Host: Brent Barbee Watch Presentation	Ariadna Farres Basiana Research Fellow NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
October 19, 2022 4:00PM	The Evolution and Deployment of Operational UAV Systems Location: 2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room & Zoom Host: Brent Barbee Watch Presentation	Dominic Palumbo
November 9, 2022 4:00PM	Interactive Astrodynamics in the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem Location: 2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room & Zoom Host: Brent Barbee Watch Presentation	Davide Guzzetti
November 11, 2022 3:00PM	Predictive Delivery Environments Location: 2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room & Zoom Host: Brent Barbee	Jeff Payne Sandia National Laboratories
November 16, 2022 4:00PM	DART and Dimorphos Velocity Change Estimation Location: 2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room & Zoom Host: Brent Barbee Watch Presentation	Joshua Lyzhoft NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
November 30, 2022 4:00PM	Topic to be announced. Location: 2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room & Zoom Host: Brent Barbee	Speaker TBA
December 7, 2022 4:00PM	Topic to be announced. Location: 2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room & Zoom Host: Brent Barbee	Speaker TBA

Past Seminars

Date	Title/Location	Speaker
SPRING 2022
February 2, 2022 4:00 p.m.	James Webb Space Telescope Trajectory Design Watch Presentation Location: 2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room Host: Brent Barbee	Mr. Wayne Yu Flight Dynamics Engineer Navigation and Mission Design Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
March 2, 2022 4:00 p.m.	Modeling the spin and orbital dynamics of the Didymos binary asteroid, the target of NASA's DART Mission Watch Presentation Location: Hybrid/2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room Host: Brent Barbee	Harrison Agrusa Ph.D. Candidate University of Maryland Astronomy Department
March 9, 2022 4:00 p.m.	Navigating an Asteroid: OSIRIS-REx’s Historic Touch-and-Go Sample Collection from Bennu Watch Presentation Location: Hybrid/2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room Host: Brent Barbee	Kenny Getzandanner OSIRIS-REx & SSMO Flight Dynamics Lead at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
March 16, 2022 4:00 p.m.	Multiscale modeling of molten particulate deposition in rotorcraft engines Watch Presentation Location: Hybrid/2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room Host: Brent Barbee	Dr. Rahul Koneru ARL Open Campus Postdoct University of Maryland
March 30, 2022 4:00 p.m.	Recent Applications of System Identification at NASA Langley Research Center Watch Presentation Location: Hybrid/2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room Host: Brent Barbee	Dr. Jared Grauer (Ph.D. '11) Research Aerospace Engineer, NASA Langley Research Center
April 6, 2022 4:00 p.m.	Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Space Robotics Watch Presentation Location: Hybrid/2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room Host: Brent Barbee	William S. Vincent Naval Research Laboratory
April 13, 2022 4:00 p.m.	NASA’s Lucy Mission Watch Presentation Location: Virtual Host: Brent Barbee	Kevin Berry Aerospace Engineer NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
May 4, 2022 4:00 p.m.	Autonomous Satellite Navigation at the U.S. Naval Research Lab Watch Presentation Location: Hybrid/2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room Host: Brent Barbee	Evan Ward Naval Research Laboratory

Past Seminars

Date	Title/Location	Speaker
Fall 2018
September 20 3:00 p.m.	Wind farm modeling and control for power grid support Location: 2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room Host: Johan Larsson	Dennice Gayme Johns Hopkins University
October 4 3:00 p.m.	Strong couplings between deforming bubbles and turbulence Location: 2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room Host: Johan Larsson	Rui Ni Johns Hopkins University
October 18 3:00 p.m.	Pursuit of Awareness in Space Domain Awareness Location: 2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room Host: Christine Hartzell	Marcus Holzinger University of Colorado Boulder
October 25 3:00 p.m.	Geometric Mechanics and Controls on Nonlinear Manifolds for Complex Aerospace Systems Location: 2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room Host: Christine Hartzell	Taeyoung Lee George Washington University
Date	Title/Location	Speaker
Spring 2018
February 1 3:00 p.m.	Breaking Waves Location: TBD Host: Johan Larsson	Luke Deike Princeton University
February 8 3:00 p.m.	Rarefied Gases Location: TBD Host: Elaine Oran	Iain Boyd University of Michigan
April 10 3:30 p.m.	DART/AIDA (NASA-ESA joint) Mission Location: 3164 Martin Hall, Aero Conference Room Host: Christine Hartzell	Toshi Hirabayashi Auburn University
April 12 3:30 p.m.	Nonholonomic Constraints and Passive Mechanics Location: 2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room Host: Christine Hartzell	Phanindra Tallapragada Clemson University
April 19 2:00 p.m.	Entry, Descent and Landing Investments Location: Kay Boardrooms, Kim Bldg. Host: Norman Wereley	Robert Braun University of Colorado Boulder
May 3 3:00 p.m.	Hypersonic Propulsion Location: 2164 Martin Hall, DeWalt Seminar Room Host: Christine Hartzell	Harsha K. Chelliah University of Virginia
Summer 2018
July 25 2:00 p.m.	Electric Flight Location: 3164 Martin Hall Host: Chris Cadou	Andor Koltsmark Lange Research Aircraft

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