BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Hongkong BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:19791021T023000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0900 TZOFFSETTO:+0800 TZNAME:HKT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20201225T103401Z UID:CC3FD484-B311-4E30-9200-CF2EF9ED4338 DTSTART;TZID=Hongkong:20200828T110000 DTEND;TZID=Hongkong:20200828T120000 DESCRIPTION:Seminar on\n\nAre We Alone? NASA Technologies to Find Life Beyo nd Earth and Answers to Other Science Questions\n\nDr. Goutam Chattopadhya y\n\nNASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory\, California Institute of Technology\n \n4800 Oak Grove Drive\, Pasadena\, USA\n\nDate: August 28\, 2020\n\nTime: 11:00 am to 12:00 noon (Hong Kong\, UTC+8:00)\n\nVenue: Online\n\nRegistr ation link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/event/register/237254\n\nAbstra ct\n\nNASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory\, which completed eighty years of its existence in 2016\, builds instruments for NASA missions. Exploring t he universe and our own planet Earth from space has been the mission of NA SA. Robotics missions such as Voyager\, which continues to go beyond our s olar system\, missions to Mars and other planets\, exploring the stars and galaxies for astrophysics missions\, exploring and answering the question \, “are we alone in this universe?” has been the driving force for NAS A scientists for more than six decades.\n\nFundamental science questions d rives the selection of NASA missions. We develop instruments to make measu rements that can answer those science questions. In this presentation\, we will present an overview of the state of the art instruments that we are currently developing and layout the details of the science questions they will try to answer. Rapid progress on multiple fronts\, such as commercial software for component and device modeling\, low-loss circuits and interc onnect technologies\, cell phone technologies\, and submicron scale lithog raphic techniques are making it possible for us to design and develop smar t\, low-power yet very powerful instruments that can even fit in a SmallSa t or CubeSat. We will also discuss the challenges of the future generation instruments in addressing the needs for critical scientific applications. \n\nThe research described herein was carried out at the Jet Propulsion La boratory\, California Institute of Technology\, Pasadena\, California\, US A\, under contract with National Aeronautics and Space Administration.\n\n Co-sponsored by: Department of Electrical Engineering\, City University of Hong Kong\n\nSpeaker(s): Prof. Goutam Chattopadhya\, \n\nHong Kong\, Hong Kong\, Hong Kong\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/237254 LOCATION:Hong Kong\, Hong Kong\, Hong Kong\, Virtual: https://events.vtools .ieee.org/m/237254 ORGANIZER:kfaichan@cityu.edu.hk SEQUENCE:8 SUMMARY:Seminar on Are We Alone? NASA Technologies to Find Life Beyond Eart h and Answers to Other Science Questions URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/237254 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><span style="font-size: 14pt\;"><strong><s pan style="color: #3366ff\;">Seminar on</span></strong></span></p>\n<p sty le="color: #000000\; font-family: Verdana\,Arial\,Helvetica\,sans-serif\; font-size: 14px\; font-style: normal\; font-variant: normal\; font-weight: 400\; letter-spacing: normal\; orphans: 2\; text-align: left\; text-decor ation: none\; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\; -webkit-text-strok e-width: 0px\; white-space: normal\; word-spacing: 0px\;"><span style="fon t-size: 18pt\;"><strong>Are We Alone? NASA Technologies to Find Life Beyon d Earth and Answers to Other Science Questions</strong></span></p>\n<p sty le="color: #000000\; font-family: Verdana\,Arial\,Helvetica\,sans-serif\; font-size: 14px\; font-style: normal\; font-variant: normal\; font-weight: 400\; letter-spacing: normal\; orphans: 2\; text-align: left\; text-decor ation: none\; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\; -webkit-text-strok e-width: 0px\; white-space: normal\; word-spacing: 0px\;">&nbsp\;</p>\n<p style="color: #000000\; font-family: Verdana\,Arial\,Helvetica\,sans-serif \; font-size: 14px\; font-style: normal\; font-variant: normal\; font-weig ht: 400\; letter-spacing: normal\; orphans: 2\; text-align: left\; text-de coration: none\; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\; -webkit-text-st roke-width: 0px\; white-space: normal\; word-spacing: 0px\;"><span style=" font-size: 14pt\;">Dr. Goutam Chattopadhyay</span></p>\n<p style="color: # 000000\; font-family: Verdana\,Arial\,Helvetica\,sans-serif\; font-size: 1 4px\; font-style: normal\; font-variant: normal\; font-weight: 400\; lette r-spacing: normal\; orphans: 2\; text-align: left\; text-decoration: none\ ; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px \; white-space: normal\; word-spacing: 0px\;"><span style="font-size: 14pt \;">NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory\, California Institute of Technology</s pan></p>\n<p style="color: #000000\; font-family: Verdana\,Arial\,Helvetic a\,sans-serif\; font-size: 14px\; font-style: normal\; font-variant: norma l\; font-weight: 400\; letter-spacing: normal\; orphans: 2\; text-align: l eft\; text-decoration: none\; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\; -w ebkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\; white-space: normal\; word-spacing: 0px\;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt\;">4800 Oak Grove Drive\, Pasadena\, USA</spa n></p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><span style="font-size: 12pt\;">Date: August 28 \, 2020</span></p>\n<p><span style="font-size: 12pt\;">Time: 11:00 am to 1 2:00 noon (Hong Kong\, UTC+8:00)<br /></span></p>\n<p><span style="font-si ze: 12pt\;">Venue: Online</span></p>\n<p><span style="font-size: 12pt\;">R egistration link: <a href="https://events.vtools.ieee.org/event/register/2 37254">https://events.vtools.ieee.org/event/register/237254</a><br /></spa n></p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><span style="font-size: 12pt\;"><strong>Abstrac t</strong></span></p>\n<p>NASA&rsquo\;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory\, which completed eighty years of its existence in 2016\, builds instruments for N ASA missions. Exploring the universe and our own planet Earth from space h as been the mission of NASA. Robotics missions such as Voyager\, which con tinues to go beyond our solar system\, missions to Mars and other planets\ , exploring the stars and galaxies for astrophysics missions\, exploring a nd answering the question\, &ldquo\;are we alone in this universe?&rdquo\; has been the driving force for NASA scientists for more than six decades. </p>\n<p>Fundamental science questions drives the selection of NASA missio ns. We develop instruments to make measurements that can answer those scie nce questions. In this presentation\, we will present an overview of the s tate of the art instruments that we are currently developing and layout th e details of the science questions they will try to answer. Rapid progress on multiple fronts\, such as commercial software for component and device modeling\, low-loss circuits and interconnect technologies\, cell phone t echnologies\, and submicron scale lithographic techniques are making it po ssible for us to design and develop smart\, low-power yet very powerful in struments that can even fit in a SmallSat or CubeSat. We will also discuss the challenges of the future generation instruments in addressing the nee ds for critical scientific applications.</p>\n<p>The research described he rein was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory\, California Institu te of Technology\, Pasadena\, California\, USA\, under contract with Natio nal Aeronautics and Space Administration.</p>\n<p><span style="font-size: 12pt\;">&nbsp\;</span></p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR