2007 Northeast Regional Space Grant Meetings
Final Agenda (updated September 10, 2007)
Final Agenda (PDF) ~
Presentations/Movies
and Photos on National SG site
| Thursday, September 6 Cornell University campus | |
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| 3:00 pm | Tours of research facilities on campus -- meet in lobby of Rhodes Hall no later than 3:00 pm
( map: [JPEG] [PDF] ) - Cornell Theory Center CAVE [Rhodes Hall] - Cornell NanoScale Science & Technology Facility (CNF) [Duffield Hall] - Cornell Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Operations Room [Space Sciences Bldg.] |
| 6:00 | Reception (hors d'ouevres & drinks) in Space Sciences room 622 ( map: [JPEG] [PDF] ) |
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| Friday, September 7 Statler Hotel, Cornell University
( map: [JPEG] [PDF] ) All activities take place in the Ballroom on the 2nd floor, unless otherwise indicated below. | |
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| 8:00 am | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 | Welcome - Yervant Terzian and Joseph Burns |
| 9:15 | "Exploring the Solar System with NASA: A 40 Year Perspective" - Joseph Veverka |
| 9:45 | "NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)" - Gordon Stacey |
| 10:15 | -- Coffee Break -- |
| 10:30 | NASA HQ updates - Katie Pruzan |
| 11:00 |
NASA ESMD Higher Education Program - Lesley Garner ESMD Faculty Fellow presentation - Elmer Grubbs |
| 11:30 | General Space Grant discussion (diversity, industry relations, state relations, and inter-state collaborative efforts) |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch Taylor Room, 2nd floor |
| 1:30 | Northeast Space Grant consortia program overviews |
| 3:00 | -- Coffee Break -- |
| 3:15 | "X-Treme X-Plorers: How to grow a tech-based student rocket competition" [movies] - Peter Plumley |
| 3:30 | "Design of a Portable Minimally-Intrusive Biomonitor for NASA" - Adriana Larriera |
| 3:45 | "University-Built Nanosatellites for Research and Education" [movies] - Mason Peck |
| 4:00 | Northeast Space Grant student presentations "Investigation of Ion Energy Distributions in Hall Thrusters" - Paul Torrey "Dynamics of Drop Impact on Solid, Dry Surfaces" [movies] - Ashley Macner "TripleSpec: A Union of Engineering and Infrared Astronomy" - Angie Wolfgang "Mapping Mars and Touring the Universe" - Ryan Anderson "Going with the Flow: A Summer Internship at NASA" – Jamie Hamilton |
| 5:00 | -- Adjourn -- |
| 6:30 | Dinner Banquet ( map: [JPEG] [PDF] )
Taylor Room, 2nd floor Invited lecture: "NASA's Cassini Mission" - Joseph Burns |
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| Saturday, September 8 Statler Hotel, Cornell University
( map: [JPEG] [PDF] ) All activities take place in the Ballroom on the 2nd floor. | |
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| 8:00 am | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 | "What Do People Learn about Space from the Media?" - Bruce Lewenstein |
| 9:30 | "Introduction: NASA to the Schools Program (AESP)" - William Carlsen and Sonya Williams |
| 10:30 | -- Coffee Break -- |
| 10:45 | "NASA: Back to the Moon" - Don Campbell |
| 11:05 | "Applications of Space-Based Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry to Understanding Volcanic Hazards" - Matthew Pritchard |
| 11:25 | Planning for 2008 regional meeting |
| 11:45 | General discussion and conclusions |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 | -- Adjourn -- |
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Space Grant College and Fellowship Program |
Last Updated: October 2007