Colby Merrill successfully passed their A exam on 7/30/2024, marking the entrance into the dissertation phase of their degree program. A recording of their talk can be viewed below.
Congratulations to Dr. Oliver!
On July 25th, 2024 Rachel Oliver successfully defended her B exam, completing the requirements for her PhD program. You can see a recording of her talk below.
Acta Astronautica Article Published!
Colby Merrill (2nd year PhD student) just published their first journal article! In their first year at Cornell, they produced a mission design to create a contact binary asteroid and observe its formation process. They presented the first iteration of
On Cython
Following up on our ‘compiling Python’ session, we recently did a quick tutorial on Cython. The materials for the tutorial are located here: https://github.com/dsavransky/cython_demo and you can watch the recording, below.
We’re Not Slacking Off, We’re Compiling Python
At a recent group meeting, we discussed how to compile the Python/OpenBLAS/Numpy toolchain from scratch (and why you might wish to do such a thing). See the recording, below, and the associated notes here: https://gist.github.com/dsavransky/a0e15fb3cf2dc40fbed9db1d2b481deb
Research Trip to NRC HAA
As a member of the GPI2.0 CAL2 team, Duan Li visited the NRC Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre (HAA) last week. She worked with William Thompson and Christian Marois, and conducted wavefront sensing and control experiments (e.g. speckle nulling) on
SIOSlab is Part of the CPP!
NASA recently announced the selections for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Research and Support Participation Opportunities, including the membership of the Coronagraph Community Participation Program (CPP). SIOSlab personnel will work alongside six other research groups (as well as the
Congratulations to Dr. Stojanovski!
On April 19th, 2023, Zvonimir Stojanovski successfully defended his B exam, completing the requirements for the PhD program. You can see a recording of his talk below.
Congratulations to Kaitlyn Summey on Completing her MS Degree!
On August 30th, 2022, Kaitlyn Summey successfully defended her MS thesis in Aerospace Engineering. You can view her talk below, and a copy of her slides here. Congratulations to Kaitlyn!
Astrodynamics Makes for Pretty Pictures
A particularly cool thing in preliminary orbit design is something called ‘Lambert’s Problem’. The problem consists of finding all of the trajectories around a central body (F) patching points P1and P2. The points are points in space, but can also be at two