The SPACE Economy Forecast
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
3:00 p.m. PT
Covel Commons, Grand Horizon Ballroom
330 De Neve Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90095
By 2040, the space economy could be the next trillion dollar industry. UCLA is a global leader in forecasting the state of that economy and in developing the science, exploration, and innovation that drives it. Join us for a fascinating presentation and panel discussion on the outlook of the space economy, featuring top leaders from academia, the investment and entrepreneurial communities, and workforce development with specific focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
SPACE Institute Seminar Series 2
The New Jupiter: Results from the Juno Mission
A presentation by Dr. Scott Bolton
Wednesday, March 22, 2023, 4:00 p.m. PT Lecture
Bolton is the principal investigator of NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter, which launched in 2011. The Juno spacecraft entered Jupiter orbit in 2016, making discoveries that have since rewritten the textbooks about the gas giant. Juno’s extended mission began in August 2021, and addresses both fundamental questions that arose during Juno’s prime mission and extends the mission to study the full Jovian system with close flybys of Jupiter’s ring system and three of the Galilean moons.
Prior to Juno, Bolton served on both the Galileo and Cassini missions to the outer planets. His research has focused on modeling the radiation environments of Jupiter and Saturn, the atmospheric and core structures of those planets, and the formation and evolution of the solar system. In addition to his work as a scientist, Bolton has collaborated with many artists to bring visual and musical interpretations of the outer solar system to a wide audience. He has consulted and appeared in numerous documentaries and strives to bring STEM outreach to students around the world. For his wide-ranging work, Bolton received the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Individual Award for Exceptional Excellence in Leadership in 2002, 2001 and 1996, as well as the Excellence in Management award in 2000. He has also received over 30 NASA Group Achievement Awards as well as numerous awards including the Space Pioneer Award for Science and Engineering in 2020 the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award in 2018, the AIAA Space Systems Award in 2017 and the Nelson P. Jackson Aerospace Award, from the National Space Club Foundation in 2017.
SMART Talk by Rob Redmon
AI-Ready to Solve Earth and Space Science Challenges.
2/15/2023, 1:00pm – 1:30pm, hosted on Zoom
We are delighted to announce that Rob Redmon of NOAA will give the next SMART Talk (via Zoom) on February 15. Dr. Redmon is the Lead of the newly established NOAA Center for Artificial Intelligence. Students and early-career scientists/engineers are especially welcome. The Zoom link can be found below.