Dr. Nahum Melamed

(Moderator / Event Lead, and Speaker)

AIAA Distinguished Lecturer/Speaker

Project Leader, Guidance and Control Subdivision,

The Aerospace Corporation

(In-person)

Dr. Paul W. Chodas

(Panelist)

Center for Near Earth Object Studies

NASA JPL

(In-person)

Dr. Andrew Rivkin

(Speaker)

Planetary Astronomer

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

"Planetary Defense After DART: What Have We Learned, and What Comes Next?"

(On-line, Remote Presentation)

Prof. Philip M. Lubin

(Speaker, Panelist)

Professor of Physics at UC Santa Barbara

"Pi: Toward an Operational Planetary Defense Program - Hypervelocity Penetrators to Pulverize Threats"

(On-line or In-Person)

Dr. Jason Pearl

(Speaker)

Physicist, Planetary Defense Group

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

"High-Fidelity Simulation of Asteroid Airbursts with Spheral++"

(On-line, Remote Presentation)

Brent W. Barbee

(Speaker)

Lead Planetary Defense Applications Scientist & Community Liaison

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

"Asteroid Disruption for Planetary Defense and the TERP RAPTOR Mission to Apophis"

(On-line, Remote Presentation)

Adrienne Rudolph

(Speaker)

Ph.D. student

Department of Aerospace Engineering

The University of Maryland at College Park

 CRESST-II researcher supported by NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office

"Asteroid Disruption for Planetary Defense and the TERP RAPTOR Mission to Apophis"

(On-line, Remote Presentation)

Mr. Joe Carroll

(Speaker)

(mostly retired)

"Cheaper by the Dozen: Solar-Sailing Nanosats for Small-Body Missions"

(In-person Presentation)

Mr. Bill Maloney

(Speaker)

Member, Executive Team, The Mars Society 

Partnership Manager, Development Office and Mars Technology Institute

Committee Volunteer, Journal of Space Analog Research

"Nuclear Energy's Role in Settling Mars"

(In-Person Presentation)

Prof. Madhu Thangavelu

(Speaker, Panelist)

Conductor, ASTE527 Graduate Space Concepts Studio,

USC Viterbi School of Engineering and USC School of Architecture

"OPERA II : Fast Flyby Concept for Reconnaissance of NEOs"

(In-Person Presentation)

Brin Bailey

(Speaker)

Research Specialist

Deepspace Group

Department of Physics

University of California, Santa Barbara

NASA Ames Science Collaborator

"(To Be Announced)"

(On-line, Remote Presentation, or In-person)

Alexander (Sasha) N. Cohen

(Speaker)

Research Specialist

UCSB Deepspace Group

Department of Physics

University of California, Santa Barbara

"(To Be Announced)"

(On-line, Remote Presentation, or In-person)