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SUMMARY:Tech Talk: Fighting Wildfires from the Sky
DESCRIPTION:Fighting Wildfires from the Sky: Toward Safer\, Around-the-Clock Aerial Operations\nPresented by Dr. Gilbert Wu\, NASA Ames Research Center \nRegister here:\nhttps://aiaa-sf.org/registration/ \nAircraft have been supporting wildfire response for decades—dropping water and retardant\, tracking fire movement\, and helping protect communities. Yet most aerial firefighting today is still limited to daytime operations using crewed aircraft\, with only limited capability in challenging conditions like heavy smoke or low visibility. This leaves critical hours—especially at night—when fires can continue to grow with reduced aerial support.\nIn this talk\, we explore how new technologies being developed at NASA are helping change that picture. By advancing smarter airspace management and coordination tools\, these innovations aim to enable safe\, continuous (24/7) aerial operations and better integration of both crewed and uncrewed aircraft. The goal is to make firefighting from the sky safer\, more flexible\, and more effective—even in complex and low-visibility environments.\nJoin us for a look at how these emerging capabilities could transform wildfire response in the years ahead\, expanding what’s possible\, improving safety for those on the front lines\, and helping communities better face the growing challenge of wildfires. \nGilbert Wu’s research focuses on the application of AI and machine learning to improve aviation operations\, including aircraft conflict detection and resolution\, arrival flow management\, and trajectory optimization. He is passionate about bringing innovative concepts and algorithms to complex air traffic management challenges.\nBefore joining NASA\, he worked as a professional software developer\, and he continues to advocate for robust tools and effective processes in software development and deployment. He holds one patent and has authored or coauthored more than thirty journal articles\, conference papers\, and technical reports.\nDr. Wu currently leads the Airspace Management Research team within the ACERO team of NASA’s AAMP project. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from UCLA. \nSchedule \n6:00 Doors open\, networking\n6:15 Food arrives\n6:30 Presentation begins\n7:15 Q&A\n7:30 Event ends\n(All times approximate) \nAdvance registration required! Refreshments (pizza\, sandwiches\, drinks) will be served at the presentation for paid attendees only. Food tickets must be purchased before noon on the event day.\nThere will also be a live stream available for remote attendees. \nhttps://aiaa-sf.org/registration/
URL:https://aiaa-sf.org/event/tech-talk-fighting-wildfires/
LOCATION:Hacker Dojo\, 855 Maude Avenue\, Mountain View\, CA\, 94043\, United States
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SUMMARY:Precision Metrology for Space Science: LISA\, Atom Interferometry\, and Optical Clocks
DESCRIPTION:Precision Metrology for Space Science: LISA\, Atom Interferometry\, and Optical Clocks\nBy Walter Victor Unglaub \nRegister here:\nhttps://aiaa-sf.org/registration/ \nThe hardest space-science missions are\, at their core\, measurement problems. ESA’s LISA gravitational-wave observatory was formally adopted in January 2024\, with industrial construction under prime contractor OHB System AG underway since mid-2025\, and launch targeted for the mid-to-late 2030s on the Ariane 6 launcher. LISA must resolve picometer-scale changes in distance across 2.5-million-kilometer arms: a fractional measurement of order one part in 10^21. At that level\, the spacecraft and instrument form a single coupled measurement system\, and the limiting noise sources are precisely the types an analog and measurement engineer worries about on the bench\, scaled to extremes. \nIn this talk\, we will walk through the LISA metrology chain end-to-end\, mapping each link to the noise term it contributes. We will also examine how this metrology cross-pollinates. GRACE Follow-On’s laser ranging interferometer (LRI) demonstrated nanometer precision over 220km and the GRACE-FO mission now maps changes in Earth’s gravity associated with groundwater\, ice\, oceans\, and other redistributed mass. Meanwhile\, atom interferometers and portable optical clocks are moving fundamental-physics techniques toward field-deployable inertial sensing\, gravity measurement\, and relativistic geodesy. \n  \nWalter Victor Unglaub received degrees in engineering physics (2009) and applied physics (2010) from Colorado School of Mines in Golden\, CO\, where he studied condensed matter systems with an emphasis on atomic scattering in cold quantum gases. He additionally worked on plasma physics and researched tokamak plasma transport at General Atomics in San Diego\, CA (2008). His research experience further extends to quantum optics and open quantum system control through DoD MURI grants at the University of Southern California (USC) from 2010 to 2015. \nWalter worked at the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering\, teaching and collaborating on various government- and university-funded research projects\, including x-ray imaging of semiconductor ICs\, automation of analog and mixed-signal design\, and optimization of optical interconnects in data centers (2017-2020). In parallel\, Walter worked at a robotics startup (Giant.AI) as a design engineer and project manager (2019-2022)\, where he designed\, manufactured\, assembled\, and tested humanoid robots trained with reinforcement learning. \nWalter is passionate about teaching and has been professionally tutoring since 2013. He currently teaches cosmology as an adjunct faculty member at California State University\, Dominguez Hills (2022-present)\, and is studying regenerative and stem cell technologies through Johns Hopkins University (2024-present). In addition to continuing research in quantum optics and electron transport\, he is also a VLSI research engineer at USC\, where he develops labs and teaching modules for the ECE department with a concentration on linear\, RF\, and sensor circuits (2024-present). \nSchedule \n6:00 Doors open\, networking\n6:15 Food arrives\n6:30 Presentation begins\n7:15 Q&A\n7:30 Event ends\n(All times approximate) \nAdvance registration required! Refreshments (pizza\, sandwiches\, drinks) will be served at the presentation for paid attendees only. Food tickets must be purchased before noon on the event day.\nThere will also be a live stream available for remote attendees. \nhttps://aiaa-sf.org/registration/
URL:https://aiaa-sf.org/event/precision-metrology/
LOCATION:Hacker Dojo\, 855 Maude Avenue\, Mountain View\, CA\, 94043\, United States
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