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

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

Past Seminars


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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