Department of Aerospace Engineering

Monday, February 10, 2025

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  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Steven Chesley - Asteroid orbit determination problems for the DART planetary defense demonstration

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 17, 2025

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  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Nina Vaidya - "Moonshots" Via Extreme Materials and ultralightweight Optics and Optoelectronics

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 24, 2025

• • 3:30 - 5:00 pm
  • Illini Union, Room “A”

  Graduate Student Poster Competition

  • Other
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Niccoli Scalice - Deployable Satellite Structures at AFRL’s Space Vehicles Directorate

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

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  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 4039

  Seminar Speaker: Carina Li - High-Temperature Multifunctional Structural Materials for Aerospace Applications

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 3, 2025

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  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker Adrian Lozano Duran - Building-block flow model: An ML-based general-purpose closure model for large eddy simulation

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

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  • 3:00 - 4:00 pm
  • CIF 2018

  Seminar Speaker: Minduli Wijayatunga - Cosmic Janitors, Space Miners, and Planetary Defenders: Tools for Autonomous Trajectory Design and Guidance in Rendezvous and Proximity Operation Missions

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 10, 2025

• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Marcus Hermann

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, March 15, 2025

• • 1:00 pm

  Spring Vacation Begins

  • Other

Monday, March 24, 2025

• • 7:00 am

  Instruction resumes

  • Other

Monday, March 31, 2025

• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Henry Sodano - Precipitation Printing Towards Diverse Materials, Mechanical Tailoring and Functional Devices

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 7, 2025

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  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker Jason Patrick: Self-healing and Self-sensing in Structural Composites

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, April 12, 2025

• • 12:00 - 2:00 pm
  • Wildfire Tysons at Tysons Galleria

  Regional Event near Washington, DC

  • Social/Informal Event

Monday, April 14, 2025

• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Warren Dixon

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 21, 2025

• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: John Junkins

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 28, 2025

• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker Mykel Kochenderfer: Automated Decision Making for Safety Critical Applications

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

• • All Day

  Instruction Ends

  • Other

Thursday, May 8, 2025

• • All Day

  Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect

  • Other

Friday, May 9, 2025

• • All Day

  Final Exams Begin

  • Other

Saturday, May 17, 2025

• • 8:30 am

  Commencement

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, May 19, 2025

• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1

  • Other

Monday, June 16, 2025

• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2

  • Other

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

• • 5:30 - 7:30 pm
  • Bugsy & Meyers Steakhouse in the Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas

  AIAA Aviation Alumni Reception

  • Social/Informal Event