2026

08/2026: Agnivo Ghosh's paper "Bayesian experimental design for non-equilibrium gas phase chemistry models" is accepted for publication in the journal Physical Review Fluids. Congrats, Agnivo!

08/2026: Prof. del Val presents research at the 16th Ablation Workshop in Las Cruces, NM.

08/2026: Graham Larson, Nicholas Colavecchio, Agnivo Ghosh, and Prof. del Val get their abstracts accepted for presentation at the 2027 AIAA SciTech for a total of 6 accepted talks from the Stochastic Hypersonics Group.

08/2026: Sean Gilomen presents his research at the 2nd Summer Research Mentorship Program poster showcase.

07/2026: Leonid Scott gives an invited talk at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics in Belgium.

07/2026: Leonid Scott presents his research at the 2026 ECCOMAS Congress in Munich, Germany.

07/2026: Prof. del Val and collaborators publish the article "Stochastic Reconstruction of Thermal Protection Material Properties from Arcjet Experiments" in the AIAA Journal.

06/2026: Agnivo Ghosh starts his summer internship in the Thermal Protection Materials Branch at NASA Ames in Mountain View, CA.

06/2026: Nicholas Colavecchio starts his summer internship at Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, NM.

06/2026: Agnivo Ghosh and Prof. del Val present their work at the AIAA Aviation 2026 conference in San Diego, CA.

05/2026: Sean Gilomen joins the Stochastic Hypersonics Research Group and participates in the Summer Research Mentorship Program (SRMP).

05/2026: Prof. del Val is invited to give a talk at the AIAA SciTech 2027 as "Rising Star in Thermophysics" by the AIAA SciTech 2027 Discipline Chairs.

05/2026: Prof. del Val gives an invited seminar to the Ablation Working Group led by Army researchers.

04/2026: Sandia National Laboratories has awarded funds to the Group as part of a Laboratory-Directed Research and Development Grand Challenge "Stormchasers" for simulating hypersonic vehicles flying through realistic weather environments.

04/2026: Nicholas Colavecchio, Agnivo Ghosh and Leonid Scott pass the Written Preliminary Exam. Congrats!

04/2026: Nicholas Colavecchio and Prof. del Val present at the DOE SAGEST Center Spring Review.

04/2026: Prof. del Val gives a talk and participates as panelist in the Predictive Science Symposium at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI.

04/2026: The Group is awarded a Seed Grant from the UMN's National Security Research Institute with Prof. del Val as PI and Prof. He as Co-PI to work on developing a generative Bayesian framework for fast probabilistic inference for hypersonic flows.

03/2026: Prof. del Val co-organizes a minisymposium at the SIAM UQ 26 conference in Minneapolis, MN.

03/2026: Prof. del Val teaches an invited AIAA Short Course titled: "Verification & Validation for High Temperature Material Modeling & Applications".

03/2026: Prof. del Val joins the AIAA Thermophysics Technical Committee.

03/2026: Prof. del Val gives the Aerospace Engineering Department Seminar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

02/2026: Prof. del Val gives a seminar to the Entry Systems and Technology Division at NASA Ames Research Center.

02/2026: Prof. del Val gives the Interdepartmental Fluid Mechanics Seminar at Stanford.

02/2026: Prof. del Val gives the Mechanical Engineering Department Seminar at UMN.

01/2026: Prof. del Val starts teaching a new class (AEM 8290 Uncertainty Quantification) to grad students at UMN.

01/2026: Nicholas Colavecchio, Vincenzo Romano, and Prof. del Val present their work at the AIAA SciTech 2026 conference in Orlando, FL.

2025

12/2025: Prof. del Val and collaborators publish the article "Combining Molecular Beam and Plasmatron Data for Robust Calibration of Nitridation Mechanism" in the AIAA Journal.

12/2025: Lainey Oliphant got awarded a UROP award, congratulations!

11/2025: Graham Larson and Prof. del Val present their research at the 15th Ablation Workshop in Las Cruces, NM.

10/2025: Prof. del Val gives an invited seminar to the High Temperature and Plasma Laboratory at UMN.

08/2025: Prof. del Val gives an invited seminar to the Ablation Working Group led by Army researchers.

08/2025: Prof. del Val gives an invited short course at the NASA Thermal and Fluids Analysis Workshop (TFAWS) in San Jose, CA.

07/2025: Prof. del Val delivers an invited talk at the AIAA Aviation in Las Vegas, NV.

06/2025: Prof. del Val delivers an invited talk at the DOE Inverse Methods for Complex Systems under Uncertainty Workshop in Washington DC.

06/2025: Frederick Rye and Graham Larson start their summer internships in the Aerothermodynamics Branch at NASA Ames in Mountain View, CA.

06/2025: Leonid Scott joins the Stochastic Hypersonics Research Group as graduate student.

05/2025: The Group gets awarded DOE PSAAP IV funds as part of the SAGEST Center led by the University of Virginia.

05/2025: Nicholas Colavecchio and Agnivo Ghosh join the Stochastic Hypersonics Research Group as graduate students.

04/2025: Prof. del Val delivers an invited lecture for the "Fundamentals of Hypersonic Flows" course at Politecnico di Milano.

04/2025: Graham Larson passes the Written Preliminary Exam. Congrats, Graham!

03/2025: Prof. del Val delivers an invited talk at the Machine Learning Seminar of the Data Science Initiative at UMN.

01/2025: Graham Larson joins the Stochastic Hypersonics Research Group as graduate student.

2024

12/2024: Madhurima Das got awarded a UROP award, congratulations!

12/2024: Vincenzo Romano gets awarded a FRIA Doctoral grant from the Belgian Government. Congrats, Vincenzo!

11/2024: Prof. del Val presents research at the 14th Ablation Workshop at the Applied Physics Lab at Johns Hopkins University.

09/2024: Prof. del Val becomes part of a NASA Ames CIF/IRAD grant as academic partner with Joseph Schulz and Georgios Bellas.

09/2024: Vincenzo Romano joins the Stochastic Hypersonics Research Group as graduate student.