School of Science, Technology and Health Speaker Series

You are invited to the School of Science, Technology and Health Speaker Series. Distinguished industry leaders will be sharing with the Biola community their diverse professional and personal insights. This event is free and open to all. 

All are welcome!

This week's speaker is Dr. Nahum Melamed a project leader at Aerospace Corporation. 

Talk Title: Planetary Defense from Asteroids and Comets

Talk Description: One of the hazards to life on Earth is the potential risk of being struck by asteroids or comets (essentially space rocks), known as Near Earth Objects (NEOs). The aerospace community would like to detect hazardous space objects in advance and deflect them before they impact Earth and cause damage. Dr. Melamed’s talk introduces the NEO threat, and demonstrates how a web-based NEO Deflection App (NDA), developed jointly by The Aerospace Corporation and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), can be used to design NEO deflection missions.