8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Arrival and breakfast

9:00 AM - 9:20 AM Welcome and logistics, Maria Sakovsky and Manan Arya (Stanford)

Sponsor talks, Muon Space and Aetherflux

9:20 AM - 9:50 AM Keynote talk

Alison Nordt, Director Space Science & Instrumentation, Lockheed Martin

Engineering Innovation Enabling Scientific Discovery from Webb to HWO

9:50 AM - 10:35 AM Technical talks

Alfonso Martínez-Carmena, Post Doc, UC Davis

From nature to aircraft design: How we are learning from the birds

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Ayush Patnaik, Graduate Student, UC Davis

Towards Smart, Autonomous Battery Management for Space Systems

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Francesco Marchioni, Graduate Student, Stanford

RF Driven Magnetrons Enabling a New Class of Electric Propulsion

10:35 AM - 10:55 AM Networking break

10:55 AM - 11:25 AM Keynote talk

Scott Hubbard, Professor, Stanford

Next Steps for Humans to Mars: An Interdisciplinary Iterative Approach

11:25 AM - 12:10 PM Technical talks

Lauren Simitz, Graduate Student, Stanford

n-Hexane Flame Propagation in a Shock Tube at Engine-Relevant Conditions

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Zhi Cheng, Postdoc, UC Berkeley

Reduced-order modeling for fast prediction and modal analysis of Aeroelasticity

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J. William Boley, Assistant Professor, Boston University

3D Printed Polymer Composites and Synthetic Fascia for Stiff and Tough Shape-Shifting Multifunctional Mechanical Metamaterials 

12:10 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch

Afternoon Session

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Keynote talk

Ryan Vaughan, Project Manager VIPER, Ames Research Center

VIPER: NASA’s Lunar South Pole Reconnaissance Rover

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM Technical talks

Zhaodan Kong, Associate Professor, UC Davis

From Autonomous Deployment to Trust Inference: Perspectives on High-Consequence Aerospace Systems

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Matthew Foutter, Graduate Student, Stanford

Space-LLaVA: a Vision-Language Model Adapted to Extraterrestrial Applications

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Adrian Dumitrescu, Mission Design Engineer, Astera Institute 

A Mars Planetary Boundary Layer Explorer Mission Concept

2:45 PM - 3:05 PM Networking break

3:05 PM - 3:35 PM Keynote talk

Tonghun Lee, Professor, Stanford

Sustainable Single Stage Earth to Orbit

3:35 PM - 4:20 PM Technical talks

Ken Hara, Assistant Professor, Stanford

Partially ionized plasmas for spacecraft electric propulsion and microelectronics fabrication

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Christopher Spezzano and Brennan Birn, Graduate Students, UC Berkeley

Toward Closed-Loop Quality Control: High-Throughput Classification of Printing Anomalies in Binder Jetting

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Jesse Streicher, Research Staff, Stanford

Experimental Measurements of High Temperature, Hypersonic Air Chemistry

4:20 PM - 4:35 PM Poster lightning talks

4:35 PM - 6:00 PM Poster session and networking hour

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