Related Filters: Virtual

2020 AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition (2020 AIAA AVIATION Forum)

The 2020 AIAA AVIATION Forum will be held as a virtual conference in an online-only format, 15–19 June. Information on the schedule, specific content, format, registration, refunds, and many other details will be available in the coming weeks. We appreciate your patience as we finalize the details for this virtual event.

AIAA recognizes that the face-to-face meeting is ideal for sharing research, ideas, and convening the community. Given the current challenges posed by COVID-19, we feel that the virtual forum format provides the best opportunity for the AIAA community to meet and share information. By removing some of the barriers to traditional forum attendance, including travel costs and time, the virtual forum format will enable greater participation from the aerospace community—traditional and nontraditional. We are excited to use this new format to accomplish AIAA’s mission of helping aerospace professionals and their organizations succeed.

Please see our initial FAQs, which will be updated regularly with additional details, and follow @AIAA on Twitter for real-time updates. Should you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected].

###

The AIAA AVIATION Forum is the only aviation event that covers the entire integrated spectrum of aviation business, research, development, and technology. The 2020 forum will bring together experts to share ideas on aeroacoustics; applied aerodynamics; fluid dynamics; multidisciplinary design optimization; air traffic operations, management, and systems; and much more.

ASCEND – Accelerating Space Commerce, Exploration, and New Discovery

Event: ASCEND
Venue: Virtual Event
Date: 16–18 November 2020
Location: Online
Official Website: ascend.events
Call for Content Website: Manage submission

As we embark on a bold new era of space exploration, AIAA’s ASCEND provides you with something few space events can: a seat at the table.

The new space economy is ready for takeoff. In the coming years, it’s anticipated to skyrocket from $4 billion today to more than $1 trillion. This phenomenal growth will be driven by a number of factors, but none more important than you.

Why should I attend?

At ASCEND you’ll:

Plot the course of the industry’s future
Pressure test ideas and forecast emerging trends
Advance your career and showcase your expertise
Reveal new ideas and technological prowess
Test new products and meet the people behind them
Connect and problem-solve with experts across every sector
Find non-endemic partners to expand your reach and broaden your market

Who should attend?

During ASCEND, you’ll have a roll-up-your sleeves, hands-on opportunity to influence the course and trajectory the space economy takes into the future. It’s the first event of its kind to convene the entire international space ecosystem—not just the traditional players like propulsion, commerce, and national security, but also sectors like hospitality, mining, venture capital, tourism, and other private enterprises that will play an important role in making space commerce commonplace. ASCEND is not about making history but the future.

This is the meeting of the minds that you can’t afford to miss.

Who is speaking?

ASCEND will feature leading voices from the space community and beyond. Stay tuned for our keynote announcements. Current speakers include representatives from:

Arizona State University
Bechtel
Bessemer Venture Partners
Bryce Space and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nanoracks
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA Science Mission Directorate
NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate
Office of the Secretary of Defense Research and Engineering
Pioneer Square Labs
The Aerospace Corporation
United Launch Alliance
University of Colorado Boulder
University of Michigan
University of Texas at Austin
Wave Capital

Meet the Speakers

What type of content will ASCEND cover?

The ASCEND program is built to leave you inspired and equipped with new tools, techniques, and ideas you can apply right away. You’ll experience a daily schedule that addresses big questions and challenges facing the entire space community.

Macro topics covered at ASCEND include:

How will we build a sustainable space economy?
How will we maintain a permanent off-world civilization?
How will we address national security and policy implications?

Explore the program

ASCEND’s Public Access

Are you part of the science interested public? Get a taste of ASCEND with public access registration. View limited sessions from our unique program and access to the Engagement Zone.

Public Access Registration information

In order to get the full benefits of ASCEND like access to the technical sessions, you’ll need to register for the full event.

Can I participate in the ASCEND program through a Call for Content?

The ASCEND Call for Content closed at 8pm ET 31 March 2020. Please contact us at [email protected] with any questions regarding submissions.

Explore the Call for Content

Are there Partnership Opportunities?

Become a partner today and join Lockheed Martin, Aerospace Corporation, Bastion Technologies, Boeing, United Launch Alliance, and the University of Colorado Boulder.

Contact [email protected] to request the Sales Kit and become an ASCEND partner

ASCEND

The Groundbreaking Experience of Sandra Durbin

Hosted by the AIAA Northern Ohio Section, in collaboration with the International Women’s Air and Space Museum.

The AIAA Northern Ohio Section is teaming up with the International Women’s Air and Space Museum to offer a dinner and program focused Sandra Durbin, who joined the U.S. Navy in 1966 and subsequently became the first Black female Air Traffic Controller in the U.S. Navy, while simultaneously becoming the first in the U.S. Durbin will explore her groundbreaking career and service at both Naval Air Stations Pensacola and North Island. She will also share her post-military service activities and her work as the 2022-2023 California AMVETS Commander engaging with and serving fellow veterans.

Stars in the Sky: Casey Grant’s Story

Hosted by the AIAA Northern Ohio Section, in collaboration with the International Women’s Air and Space Museum.

The AIAA Northern Ohio Section is teaming up with the International Women’s Air and Space Museum to offer a dinner and program focused on Casey Grant as she shares her story as one of Delta Airlines’ first Black female flight attendants and a new project—International Black Aviation Day.

2024 Regional Leadership Conference

AIAA’s Annual Regional Leadership Conference is back in person! The purpose of the Regional Leadership Conference (RLC) is to provide best practices, share across the sections, and inform officers about the latest updates from the Institute.

The in-person session will offer roundtable discussions, present the 2024 section award winners, and AIAA Immediate Past President Laura McGill will give a talk on “Leading with Influence.” This is your chance to learn best practices from other sections and exchange ideas. Please note that registration for the 2024 AIAA AVIATION Forum or 2024 ASCEND is not required in order to attend the 2024 AIAA Regional Leadership Conference.

The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens a Future of Limitless Possibilities

Hosted by the AIAA Orange County Section, via Zoom.

The Orange County Section is hosting a talk by Robert Zubrin, President of Pioneer Astronautics, an aerospace R&D company located in Lakewood, Colorado; and is the Founder and President of the Mars Society. Uniting the entrepreneurial genius of Silicon Valley with the hard-won technological expertise of the old aerospace industry, a new generation of space companies has been born whose upstart members are revolutionizing our prospects. In this talk, Zubrin will examine the possibilities. Starting with a discussion of the present-day breakthroughs, Zubrin will take a deeper look at where it leads: to ultrafast global travel through suborbital space, to new industries on orbit, and to human settlement of the Moon, Mars, the asteroids, the outer solar system, and ultimately the stars.

Surveillance Balloon or Breakaway Airship?: A Chinese Conundrum

Hosted by the AIAA Los Angeles-Las Vegas Section.

This talk, by Prof. Rajkumar S. Pant, will provide a short description of the recent incidents in which an un-authorized aerial object (claimed as a surveillance balloon by US authorities, and a breakaway civilian airship by Chinese authorities) was shot down by an F-22 aircraft. This was followed by further sightings and shooting down of several similar (and not so similar) objects. We will describe the incidents based on the reports available, and also provide our insights on the issue, to try and obtain a solution to this modern conundrum, which has lead to a worsening of the diplomatic relations between USA and China.

Building a Career on Tackling the Challenges of Hypersonic Flight (Member Exclusive Webinar)

Featuring Special Guest Lecturer, Kevin Bowcutt, principal senior technical fellow and chief scientist of hypersonics at The Boeing Company.

AIAA Members: make sure you are signed in to the site with your member credentials to be able to register for this event.

This webinar is offered exclusively to AIAA members. Want to learn more about the benefits of AIAA membership?

Join us as we discuss some of the toughest challenges of hypersonic flight, along with efforts by the presenter and his colleagues to tackle these challenges, advance the state of the art of hypersonics, and help enable current hypersonic system capabilities. Despite progress made, many challenges remain before hypersonic flight becomes routine and the full potential of hypersonics is realized, including capabilities such as global travel, reusable vehicles for defense applications, and truly routine and affordable access to space. Further advancement is needed in challenging research domains such as high-temperature materials and viable structures affordably built from those materials; design accounting for the strong interaction of disciplines, such as fluid dynamics, propulsion, thermal, structure, and control; and revolutionary increases in the fidelity and speed of multidisciplinary modeling and simulation required to support advanced vehicle design. These tough challenges provide excellent opportunities for engineers and scientists to advance their careers in hypersonics by helping to develop solutions to the challenges.

2022 AIAA Section Awards Presentation

1 September 2022 | 1800–1930 hrs EDT

Join AIAA as we celebrate the 2021-2022 winners for the annual section awards! There will also be an opportunity to network with peers and for section officers to swap best practices with one another.

2022 Yvonne C. Brill Lecture in Aerospace Engineering & Reception

This lecture is free and open to the public.

2022 Award Recipient:
Robert D. Braun
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL)

“Are We Alone? Grand Challenges in Solar System Exploration”

The lecture will discuss the search for signs of past or present life beyond Earth, a profound human endeavor that has occupied a place in our consciousness since humans first looked skyward. Braun will discuss how this quest requires an advance in space exploration capabilities, technologies, and knowledge that also informs our future on our home planet and the pace of human exploration beyond it. After decades of hard work, and through an interconnected set of missions, NASA stands poised to address this timeless question along multiple arcs. Braun will describe the scientific opportunities, locales, technologies, and missions from which we may advance our understanding of the potential for life elsewhere in the universe. The goals and present status of multiple astrobiology missions planned for the next decade will be highlighted.

About the Yvonne C. Brill Lecture in Aerospace Engineering

The Yvonne C. Brill Lecture in Aerospace Engineering was established in 2013 in memory of Yvonne Brill, pioneering rocket scientist, AIAA Honorary Fellow and NAE member. She was a trailblazer at a time when women were not encouraged to enter the science and technology fields. The Lecture emphasizes research or engineering issues for space travel and exploration, aerospace education of students and the public, and other aerospace issues such as ensuring a diverse and robust engineering community. This biennial lecture is held at the Nationa