• Dr. Sandeep Saha: Aerodynamics of Endurance

    33-206
    Hybrid Event
    Professor Sandeep Saha (Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering at IIT Kharagpur) will be giving a talk in 33-206 at 2:30 PM on April 22, 2026.
  • 2026 Master’s Thesis Showcase

    Neumann Hangar MIT Building 17, first floor
    The AeroAstro Dept. and Comm Lab are hosting a Master’s Thesis Showcase for SM students to share and celebrate their hard work. This will be an informal poster session for the wider AeroAstro community, faculty, and staff.
  • Dr.Minduli Wijayatunga Talk

    33-218
    Hybrid Event
    Minduli Wijayatunga is an adjunct and incoming Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, and is currently also a Visiting Scientist at MIT. Her research focuses on guidance, navigation, and control for spacecraft proximity operations, with particular emphasis on safety and machine learning, and spans control barrier functions, reinforcement learning, indirect methods, and convex-optimizationbased trajectory design. She is an Amelia Earhart Fellow and a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree. She received her Ph.D. in Astrodynamics from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and her B.Sc. and B.Eng. in Aerospace Engineering and Science from the University of Sydney, Australia.