Research Lab Open Houses
Lab & Research Center Open Houses
Friday, February 14, 2025
1:00 - 5:00 pm
Focus Area Key - ASN: Astrodynamics & Satellite Navigation; AUT: Autonomous Systems; Bio: Bioastronautics; FSM: Fluids, Structures, and Materials; RSESS: Remote Sensing, Earth & Space Sciences
| Focus Area | Faculty | Lab Name | Time | One-on-one Availability | Who Should Attend |
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| FSM | MBEAM Lab | 1-5:00 pm | 1:00 - 4:00 pm E-mail to schedule: tminton@colorado.edu | Students interested in experimental molecular beam research with applications to hypersonics and to materials degradation and drag in low Earth orbit. | |
| ASN |
| NA | Not accepting new studdents | Students interested in astrodynamics, spacecraft autonomy, space debris, charging in space, spacecraft simulation tools, formation flying, etc. | |
| ASN | 1-2PM | Please email Prof Akos in advance to schedule a meeting time between 1-2:00 pm | Students interested in GPS/GNSS, Software Defined Radios, and RF Design. | ||
| FSM | Opt Group | 1:00-3:30 pm Please use the following link to sign up for a 20-minute time slot: | Students interested in continuum mechanics, multi-physics modeling and analysis, numerical simulations, design optimization | ||
| ASN | 3-4:00 pm in AERO 442 (rightmost third) | Limited number of remaining appointments may be available upon request via email. | Students interested in astrodynamics in multi-body systems; trajectory design, analysis, and prediction; applications of dynamical systems theory, machine learning, data mining and/or path planning to astrodynamics problems. | ||
| ASN | Satellite Navigation & Sensing (SeNSe) lab AERO 421 | 1-3PM
| Office one-on-one meeting in AERO N403. Students should email to schedule a meeting: jade.morton@colorado.edu | Students interested in satellite navigation technologies in challenging environments and passive radio-based remote sensing technologies for space weather monitoring, atmospheric profiling, ocean and land surface properties measurement. | |
| RSESS | NA | Not planning on hiring a new PhD student this fall. However, students interested in visiting the impact lab may initiate contact directly at Zoltan.Sternovsky@colorado.edu | Students interested in working with cosmic dust detector and analyzer instruments on space missions, or supporting laboratory measurements using the unique dust accelerator facility. | ||
| ASN, AUT | 1-3:00 pm AERO 442 | Email directly to schedule a meeting: mcmahojw@colorado.edu | Students interested in the intersection between astrodynamics, spacecraft autonomy, and planetary science. | ||
| RSESS | 2-5 pm Students should sign up for 20 minute slots by emailing robert.marshall@colorado.edu | Students interested in the Space Environment, including the ionosphere, magnetosphere, and radiation belts, and interested in space instrumentation and satellite development | |||
| RSESS | LASP/ARL
| Students interested in the Space Sciences, including energetic particle dynamics in the Earth’s and planetary magnetospheres, and in the Heliosphere, and interested in energetic particle measurements and CubeSat development | |||
| ASN, RSESS | STIg lab 443 | NA | Not accepting new students | Students interested in small satellites, RF remote sensing, radio frequency hardware, software defined radios, atmospheric remote sensing, ionospheric-mesospheric-thermospheric science, neutral atmosphere dynamics (waves and tides), building and deploying hardware | |
| RSESS | 1:00-2:45pm and 3:00-4:45pm
Lab is on CU Main campus; transportation (to and from) is provided by current students. Meet in lobby of Aerospace building before tour start time. | Professor Chu is in Antarctica, so 1:1 meetings are not available
Potential students can meet current students during Lab Tour. | Students interested in the lidar instrumentation and technology breakthroughs, atmosphere and space science discoveries, photonics and spectroscopy principles and applications, as well as field work in Antarctica and other parts of the world. | ||
| RSESS | Students interested in earth and space sciences, remote sensing of earth and space environments from space, and data science.
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| ASN | (COMPASS: Clocks, orbits, multipath, positioning, astrodynamics, satellites, space domain awareness) | Email penina.axelrad@colorado.edu directly to schedule an appointment between 1:00-4:00 pm | Students interested in space navigation, clocks, GNSS algorithms, technology and applications, PNT (Position, navigation, and timing) systems, space applications of quantum sensing. | ||
| FSM | Macdonald Lab | Current students will be available to chat from 2-4 PM in AERO 203 | Email to schedule individual meetings between 1-4 PM in AERO 359 robyn.macdonald@colorado.edu | Students interested in computational hypersonics research, including topics related to gas phase chemistry and turbulence. | |
| FSM | Data-driven Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification Lab | 1-3 Email directly to setup | Students interested in data-driven modeling, uncertainty quantification, machine learning, reduced order modeling, and their applications in computational solid and fluid mechanics | ||
| Bio |
| Open house lab tour 3-4pm (start at AERO 325) | Arquilla: Email katya.arquilla@colorado.edu to schedule a time Clark: email torin.clark@colorado.edu Nabity: Email james.nabity@colorado.edu to schedule a time
| Students interested in the study and support of life in space. | |
| ASN | 1-4:00 pm AERO 444A | Email Dr. Scheeres directly to schedule a meeting time between 1-4:00 pm: scheeres@colorado.edu | Students interested in the study and application of space dynamics to enable exploration, solar system science and new mathematical approaches to understanding these systems. | ||
| AUT, FSM |
| Autonomous Decision & Control Lab (ADCL)
| Lab open house 3-5 PM in AERO 242 | Please email Professors directly to make appointments for 1:1 meetings
| Students interested in robotics, dynamics, controls, algorithms and autonomy for aircraft and other aerospace systems. |
| FSM | Lab Open house from 1-4PM: AERO 310 / 308 | Email directly to schedule a meeting beween 1-4:30 pm (AERO 355) | Students interested in lightweight structures, deployable structures, and composite materials | ||
| FSM | CU Aerospace Nanoscale Transport Modelling (CUantam) Laboratory | NA | On sabbatical | Students interested in designing materials for extreme environment microelectronics, hypersonics and quantum devices, using AI-driven computational modeling. | |
| FSM | Experimental Aerodynamics Research Group (WIND Building) | Lab Open house from 2-4PM:
| Available for 1 on 1 meetings 1pm to 4pm in AERO 356, please email directly to book time | Students interested in experimental measurements in primarily low-speed, unsteady flows including combusting flows, gust interactions, dynamic stall, and active flow control. | |
| FSM | Current students available to chat 1-5PM in AES 111 | 1-4:30 PM Contact Dr. Boyd for individual meetings | Students interested in computational modeling of hypersonics and plasma propulsion for a variety of applications | ||
| FSM |
| 1-4 PM | Students interested in the computational modeling of fluids, structures, and fluid-structure interaction | ||
| FSM | Magnetoaerodynamics and Aerospace Plasmas Laboratory (MAPLAB) | Lab open house from 3pm-5pm in AERO N130 | Prof. Ali is currently unavailable for 1:1 meetings during the visit weekend afternoon. Current students will be available during the laboratory open house. | Students interested in experimental hypersonics, magnetohydrodynamics, plasma physics, aerothermodynamics, planetary entry systems engineering
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| FSM | Mechanics of Compelx Materials Lab | Open lab from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm at AERO N453 Bahls Conference Room | 2:00 - 4:00 PM Email directly to schedule: maryam.shakiba@colorado.edu | Students interested in computational damage modeling of materials, with an emphasis on extreme environment problems, in the modeling of high-performance and additively manufactured composites for aerospace applications, and in machine learning. | |
| ASN, RSESS | Steve Nerem | Nerem Group | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Email directly (nerem@colorado.edu) to schedule an appointment. | Students interested in astrodynamics, satellite geodesy, and satellite remote sensing. |
| ASN, RSESS | Khosro Ghobadi-Far | Space Geodesy and Environmental Frontiers Lab | 1:00-4:00 pm AERO 469 | Interested students should Email Dr. Ghobadi-Far regarding availability | Students interested in (1) Astrodynamics and gravity field modeling using satellite data, and (2) Monitoring of water resources using remote sensing observations from GRACE/GRACE-FO satellites, GPS, and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), with an emphasis on quantifying the impact of extreme climate events on freshwater resources like groundwater. |
| RSESS | 1-4PM AERO 463 Reach out via email to schedule: sean.peters@colorado.edu | Students interested in radar remote sensing (active, bistatic, and passive) systems & techniques for terrestrial, lunar, and planetary observations. | |||
| FSM | David Marshall | High Temperature Materials lab | NA | NA | Students interested in materials for high-temperature aerospace applications |
| FSM | Mahmoud I. Hussein | Phononics Laboratory |
| 1:00-4:00 pm AERO 354 Email mih@colorado.edu to schedule | Students interested in (1) advanced material-based methods for flow control, (2) nanoscale thermal transport in engineered materials, and (3) nonlinear wave propagation |
| ASN | Marcus Holzinger | VADeR Laboratory | NA | Email madeline.job@colorado.edu to schedule | Students interested in space situational awareness, space domain awareness, conflict simulation, spacepower theory, and space policy |
| ASN | Vishala Arya | NA | Please email me to schedule a 1-on-1 meeting 2:30-5pm in AERO 465 https://calendly.com/vivi7268-colorado/special-30-minute-meeting | Students interested in Astrodynamics, Stochastic Trajectory Optimization and Control, Multidisciplinary design optimization of space systems, Cooperative control and dynamic decisions for multi agent space systems and Space Logistics |