Raytheon Fall 2021 Symposium

Event

Raytheon Fall 2021 Symposium

When: Friday, September 17, 2021, 1:00 PM

Location: Hybrid: ENR2 S395/Online

Presenter: Program in Applied Mathematics and Raytehon Technologies

Raytheon Fall 2021 Symposium
Friday, September 17, 2021

1:00pm – 6:30 PM

Zoom: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/83981259768

Password: Math

In-person: UofA Campus: ENR2 building, Room S395

1:00 Welcome: Elizabeth “Betsy” Cantwell (UofA, Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation)and Mark Meisner (RMD, Technical Director)

1:20 Introduction to RMD Algorithm & Simulation (A&S) Directorate Nitesh Shah (A&S, Signal Processing Hiring Manager)

1:45 Break

2:00 Applied Mathematics Colloquium: Particle Flow for Filtering and Deep Learning

Fred Daum (A&S, Principal Engineering Fellow)

3:00 Break

3:15 Learning to Intercept: Guidance Algorithms and Reinforcement Learning

Vianella Spaeth (A&S GNC Engineer & UofA Applied Mathematics Graduate Student) Advisor: Roberto Furfaro (UofA, Systems & Industrial Engineering Faculty)

3:45 Numerical Laplace Transform Inversion and Machine Learning

Patrick Kano (A&S, Signal Processing Engineer)
Moysey Brio (UofA, Applied Mathematics Faculty)

4:30 Break

4:45 A Brief Historical Perspective of Radar with an Introduction to Angle Estimation
Rich Scholes (RMD, Principal Engineering Fellow)

5:30 Simulating THz generation with two-color pulses using the Bidirectional Pulse Propagation Equations
Jalen Cates (UofA, Applied Mathematics Graduate Student)

6:00 Question and Answer Session

Lexi Casarez (A&S, Signal Processing University Programs Recruiter) RMD Staff and UofA Faculty

6:15 Closing & Social Hour

Michael (Misha) Chertkov (UofA, Professor and Head, Graduate Program in Applied Mathematics)