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    • Comm Lab: Applying to Fellowships Workshop

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    Thinking about your research funding? Join our Applying to Fellowships Workshop to learn how to present your best self in your applications. We'll work on parsing prompts and how to approach writing personal statements and research proposals for different fellowships.

    • Dr.Minduli Wijayatunga Talk

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    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.

    • Comm Lab: Masters Thesis Workshop

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    Are you a master’s student who’s planning to write a thesis next spring/summer? If so, you’re in luck! The AeroAstro Communications Lab will be hosting a Master’s Thesis Writing Workshop over IAP! The workshop will feature general writing tips and an interactive session to help you get a jump start on the thesis-writing process.
    IAP Puzzle Box Engineering Workshop Series

    IAP Puzzle Box Engineering Workshop Series

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    In this IAP series, you will learn how to design, test, and iterate your own puzzle box while exploring what makes puzzles fun, challenging, frustrating, and/or rewarding. No previous experience with puzzles, engineering, or modeling is needed. We will provide supplies for prototyping and an introduction to digital prototyping.