NASA EPSCoR Technical Interchange Meeting

NASA EPSCoR will host a one-day Technical Interchange Meeting July 30 at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. The list below is an initial list of topics for which JPL can provide subject matter experts.

Please let SD NASA Director, Ed Duke, know if you would be interested in attending the meeting to explore specific topics on this list (send him your topics of interest). Once the final topic list is released, we will follow up and we can discuss partial travel support from SD NASA EPSCoR.

   1. SOLAR SYSTEM SCIENCE

• Solar System origin, structure and evolution
• Planetary Atmospheres and Geology
• Solar System characteristics and origin of life
• Primitive solar system bodies
• Lunar science
• Preparing for returned sample investigations

  2. EARTH SCIENCE

• Atmospheric composition and dynamics
• Land and solid earth processes
• Water and carbon cycles
• Ocean and ice
• Earth analogs to planets
• Climate Science

  3. ASTRONOMY and FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS   

• Origin, evolution, and structure of the universe
• Gravitational astrophysics and fundamental physics
• Extra-solar planets and star and planetary formation
• Solar and Space Physics
• Formation and evolution of galaxies

  4. SYSTEM LEVEL AUTONOMY

• Situational and self-awareness
• Onboard reasoning & decision making
• Advanced Architectures for spacecraft & instruments
• Fault detection & Recovery

   5. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and MACHINE LEARNING

•  Perception & Reasoning
•  Rule-based Algorithms
•  Deep Learning

   6. DATA SCIENCE

•   Data Acquisition & Storage
•   Data Analytics

   7. MINIATURIZED SYSTEMS

• Nano & micro devices
• Subsystem miniaturization
• System miniaturization

   8. ADV. MANUFACTURING DESIGN & MATERIALS

• Advanced manufacturing and materials
• Advanced design & analysis

   9. DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

• Networked distributed systems
• Precision synthetic apertures
• Swarms

10. COMMUNICATION & NAVIGATION

• RF & optical communications
• Disruption tolerant networks
• Navigation & mission design

11. INSTRUMENTS & SENSORS

• Direct detectors & optics
• Coherent detectors and arrays
• Active sensor systems
• In situ and life detection sensors

12. ROBOTICS & MOBILITY SYSTEMS

• Robotic perception & localization
• Mobility
• Manipulation & sampling systems
• Multi-robot teams & in-space assembly