Outreach,
Press & Talks

Death Valley, Arizona. Photo taken with my camera. 

Outreach events

• Bennu: An asteroid full of surprises. (SETI Talk series, Aug 2022)

• Dr. Saverio Cambioni Tells Us WHY Are There So Many ROCKS on Bennu (Weekly Space Hangout, Dec 2021)

• Earth Trojans: The Phantom Asteroids (SpaceDraft Tucson, Oct 2017)

• Looking for Asteroid Families using Machine Learning (Thank-you donor video, Nice Sep 2019)
  
  

Press activities

• Throwing a DART at an asteroid for planetary defense

  • 5 Questions with DART's Dr. Cambioni (Tech Briefs Magazine, 2023, link)

  • What we learned from the asteroid-smashing DART mission (MIT News, 2023, link)
    
    

• Asteroid Psyche: a mysterious metal-rich world

  • New maps of asteroid Psyche reveal an ancient world of metal and rock (MIT News, 2022, link)

  • Astronomers reveal the most detailed map of the asteroid Psyche yet (Ars Technica, 2022, link)

  • Highest-resolution measurements of asteroid surface temperatures ever obtained from Earth (Science Daily, 2021, link)

  • Mappa termica dell’asteroide metallico 16 Psyche (Media INAF, 2021, link)
    
    

• Asteroid Bennu: Why was its surface so rocky?

  • Most Asteroids Likely Have Rough, Rocky Surfaces Like Bennu, Says New Paper (Forbes, 2021, link)

  • Why there is hardly any dust on some asteroids (CNRS, 2021, link)

  • L'intelligenza artificiale risolve l’enigma degli asteroidi Bennu e Ryugu (ANSA Italy, 2021, link)

  • Highly Porous Rocks Responsible for Bennu's Surprisingly Craggy Surface (UArizona press, 2021, link)
    
    

Invited talks

• Oct 2022 ‘Collisional formation and evolution of metal-rich planetary bodies’. TAP Colloquium, The University of Arizona, AZ, USA 

• Sep 2022 ‘Collisional formation and evolution of metal-rich planetary bodies’. Giant Collisions Workshop, DLR, Berlin, Germany

• Sep 2022 ‘Formation and geophysics of metal-rich planetary bodies’. Department of Earth Science, University of Cambridge, UK 

• May 2022. ‘Fine-regolith production on asteroids controlled by rock porosity’. Dept. Earth and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, RI, USA

• April 2022. ‘Fine-regolith production on asteroids controlled by rock porosity’. Division of Planetary Sciences, Caltech, CA, USA

• Feb 2022.  ‘Studying the Geology of Asteroids with Machine Learning’. Dept. of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, VA, USA

• Nov 2021. ‘Rock Porosity Controls How Asteroids’ Surfaces Look’. IPAC, CA, USA

• Oct 2021. ‘Fine-regolith production on asteroids controlled by rock porosity’. Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice, France

• Oct 2021. ‘What drives planetary diversity?’. Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT, MA, USA

• Oct 2021. ‘DPS 53 Wednesday Press Conference’. DPS 53 meeting, virtual (presenting Cambioni et al. 2021, Nature)

• July 2021. ‘Planetary Science and Machine Learning’. Geodetic Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

• June 2021. ‘Small Bodies, Big Data, Big Science: Machine Learning as an Essential Tool’. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA

• June 2021. ‘Machine Learning: An Essential Tool for Future Discoveries in Small Body Science’. (Early Career talk), 25th NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group

• Feb 2021. ‘Planetary Diversity: What is the Role of Giant Impacts?’ Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, MA, USA

• Feb 2021. ‘Beyond Perfect Merging: The Application of Machine Learning to Giant Impacts’. Origins seminar series, Tucson, AZ, USA

• Nov 2018. ‘Machine Learning applied to Planetary Science’. Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Boulder, CO, USA

• July 2018. ‘Machine Learning applied to Planetary Science’. Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice, France

• Jul 2015, HORUS constellation - The celestial convoy, 3rd UNISEC-Global conference, Tokyo JP