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AIAA LA 6/29 Section (Town Hall) Meeting
(A hybrid event: In-person and online attendance)
Jun 29
Dear All,Please join us for the AIAA LA Planetary Defense and Asteroid Exploration mini-Conference 2024 on Saturday June 29, 2024 at the Lawndale Library, Lawndale, CA or online. This event is open to the public.The event starts at 10:30am PDT, continuing hybrid and available online as well. All are invited to join online or in person and to meet and interact with the leaders and practitioners of Planetary Defense an Asteroid Exploration.
Lawndale Library14615 Burin Ave, Lawndale, CA 90260View on map
Virtual location
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Jun 29, 2024 10:30am PT - Jun 29, 2024 04:30pm PT
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(Attendees are welcome to bring own lunch/food. No lunch will be provided. No lunch break.)
Tentative schedule (details to be announced):
10:00 AM PDT: Check-in; Networking
10:30 AM PDT: Morning Session
12:05 PM PDT: Lunch Break; Networking
01:05 PM PDT: Afternoon Session
05:30 PM PDT: Adjourn
Speakers:
Dr. Nahum Melamed
(Moderator / Event Lead, and Speaker)
AIAA Distinguished Lecturer/Speaker
Project Leader, Guidance and Control Subdivision,
The Aerospace Corporation
(In-person)
Prof. Michael C. Nolan
(Speaker)
Research Professor
OSIRIS-APEX Deputy Principal Investigator
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
"Twenty years of Bennu: From Arecibo to Orbit (and on to Apophis)"
(Online, Remote Presentation)
Luisa Fernanda Zambrano Marin, M.S.
Data Analyst, Florida Space Institute
"Rocks in Space with Radar!"
Brent W. Barbee
Aerospace Engineer, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
"Planetary Defense: NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission"
(On-line, Remote Presentation)
Arushi Nath
Founder, Monitor My Planet
Grade 9 student and a citizen scientist
"PhAst: Accelerated Asteroid Characterization through Novel Photometric Integration Using Ground and Space-Based Sky Surveys"
Morgan Goodwin
Executive Director, Planetary Sunshade Foundation
Director, Sierra Club's local Los Angeles Chapter
"Introducing the Planetary Sunshade"
Nancy C. Wolfson
President, Disrupting Space
"From Ozone Layer to Planetary Defense: Lessons from the Montreal Protocol"
Prof. Madhu Thangavelu
Conductor, ASTE527 Graduate Space Concepts Studio,
USC Viterbi School of Engineering and USC School of Architecture
"Preliminary Planetary Defense Concepts from USC and ISU"
(In-person Presentation)
Brin Bailey
Jr Specialist
Deepspace Group
Department of Physics
University of California, Santa Barbara
NASA Ames Science Collaborator
"Ground effects simulations of terminal asteroid disruption via fragmentation"
Alexander (Sasha) N. Cohen
Research Specialist
UCSB Deepspace Group
"Hydrocode simulations of asteroid disruption and deflection for planetary defense"
Disclaimer: The views of the speakers do not represent the views of AIAA or the AIAA Los Angeles Section.
[AIAA Los Angeles Section], [contact@aiaa-lalv.org], [https://www.aiaa-lalv.org]