Minta Martin Seminar Series | Department of Aerospace Engineering

The Minta Martin Seminar Series is a semester long, in-person, lecture series featuring a wide variety of guest lecturers from across aerospace engineering.

The spring Department of Aerospace Engineering Minta Martin Seminar Series will be hosted in person this semester and include free pizza for all attendees!

Date	Title/Location	Speaker
FALL 2024
Wednesday, September, 18 1:30 to 2:30 pm	Research Area Focus: TBA Location: William L. Fourney Aerospace Engineering Conference Room (EDR3164) Faculty Host: Umberto Saetti	Faisal Karmali Harvard University
Wednesday, September, 25 1:30 to 2:30 pm	Research Area Focus: TBA Location: William L. Fourney Aerospace Engineering Conference Room (EDR3164) Faculty Host: Umberto Saetti	Missy Cummings George Mason
Wednesday, October, 2 1:30 to 2:30 pm	Research Area Focus: "Low-Gravity Technologies for the New Space Age" Location: William L. Fourney Aerospace Engineering Conference Room (EDR3164) Faculty Host: Christine Hartzell	Álvaro Romero-Calvo Georgia institute of Tech
Wednesday, October, 9 1:30 to 2:30 pm	Research Area Focus: TBA Location: William L. Fourney Aerospace Engineering Conference Room (EDR3164) Faculty Host: Umberto Saetti	John Valasek Texas A&M University
Wednesday, October, 16 1:30 to 2:30 pm	Research Area Focus: TBA Location: William L. Fourney Aerospace Engineering Conference Room (EDR3164) Faculty Host: Christine Hartzell	Mason Peck Cornell
Wednesday, October, 23 1:30 to 2:30 pm	Research Area Focus: TBA Location: William L. Fourney Aerospace Engineering Conference Room (EDR3164) Faculty Host: Umberto Saetti	Stephanie Stockar Ohio State University
Wednesday, October, 30 1:30 to 2:30 pm	Research Area Focus: TBA Location: William L. Fourney Aerospace Engineering Conference Room (EDR3164) Faculty Host: Umberto Saetti	Amy Pritchett Penn State
Wednesday, November, 6 1:30 to 2:30 pm	Research Area Focus: TBA Location: William L. Fourney Aerospace Engineering Conference Room (EDR3164) Faculty Host: Umberto Saetti & Derek Paley	Daigo Shishika George Mason University
Wednesday, November, 13 1:30 to 2:30 pm	Research Area Focus: TBA Location: William L. Fourney Aerospace Engineering Conference Room (EDR3164) Faculty Host: Umberto Saetti	Torin Clark Colorado University
Wednesday, November, 20 1:30 to 2:30 pm	Research Area Focus: TBA Location: William L. Fourney Aerospace Engineering Conference Room (EDR3164) Faculty Host: Michael Otte	Timothy Bretl University of Illinois

Past Seminars

Date	Title/Location	Speaker
SPRING 2024
Thursday, February 15, 2024 4:00 PM	Research Area Focus: TBA Location: Pepco Room, Kim Building Faculty Host: Christine Hartzell	Karen Daniels NC State
Wednesday, February 21, 2024 4:00 PM	Research Area Focus: TBA Location: 3164 Martin Hall Faculty Host: Umberto Saetti	Jared Grauer NASA Langley
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 4:00 PM	Research Area Focus: Robotics, Autonomy, Controls Location: 3164 Martin Hall Faculty Host: Anya Jones	Brett Lopez UCLA
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 4:00 PM	Research Area Focus: Rotorcraft Aeroacoustics Location: 3164 Martin Hall Faculty Host: Umberto Saetti	Eric Greenwood Penn State
Tuesday, March 13, 2024 4:15 PM	Research Area Focus: Autonomous and nonlinear control Location: 3164 Martin Hall Faculty Host: Umberto Saetti/Jared Grauer	Jeremy Hopwood Virginia Tech
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 4:00 PM	Research Area Focus: Rotorcraft Flight Controls Location: 3164 Martin Hall Faculty Host: Umberto Saetti	Tom Berger (tentative) U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC)
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 4:00 PM	Research Area Focus: Human Factors Engineering Location: 3164 Martin Hall Faculty Host: Umberto Saetti	Doug Fischer Boeing
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 4:00 PM	Research Area Focus: Helicopter/Tiltrotor Test Pilot Location: 3164 Martin Hall Faculty Host: Umberto Saetti	Dan Wells Leonardo Helicopters
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 4:00 PM	Research Area Focus: Aeroelasticity Location: 3164 Martin Hall Faculty Host: Umberto Saetti	Cristina Riso Georgia Tech
Wednesday, April 24, 2024 4:00 PM	Research Area Focus: Atmospheric turbulence Location: 3164 Martin Hall Faculty Host: Anya Jones	Kelly Huang University of Houston

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