There are no in-person meetings scheduled in 2022.
The speakers for the postponed 2020 / 2021 talks are listed below. We hope to re-engage with these speakers in 2023 when we start planning again for in-person meetings.
Unless stated otherwise, the meeting location will be Southwestern Yacht Club.
DATE | SPEAKER | SUBJECT |
Postponed | Dr. Gresham Bayne Former Critical Care Consultant to STRATOS Former medical consultant to Bird Aerospace Industries Former CMO & Chair of the Technical Advisory Committee for NantHealth |
What really happened during the STRATOS stratospheric parachute jump and what we still don’t know |
Postponed | Ryan Kastner Professor of Computer Science and Engineering UC San Diego |
Engineers for Exploration |
Postponed | Nick Hutzler Assistant Professor of Physics Caltech |
Using lasers to control atoms and molecules for table-top experiments in fundamental nuclear and particle physics and applications to quantum information, computation, and many-body systems. More detail is TBD. |
Postponed | Joe Valenzuela Director of Business Development for Tactical Systems & Deputy CTO Kratos Defense & Security Solutions |
The general topic will be Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. More detail is TBD. |
Postponed | Katherine de Kleer Assistant Professor Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences Caltech |
Dynamic Processes in the Solar System |
Postponed | Richard Buttery Director of Experimental Science, DIII-D National Fusion Facility, General Atomics |
The Advanced Tokamak Path to Fusion Energy and Critical DIII-D Contributions |
Postponed | Shana Goffredi Associate Professor Biology Department Occidental College, & Visiting Scientist Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences Caltech |
General topic will be beneficial symbiotic partnerships between bacteria and invertebrates. More detail is TBD. |
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