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2011 TAC Meeting

North Dakota NASA EPSCoR TAC Meeting
April 28, 2011, 244 Odegard Hall, UND

Morning Session: Presentations by Principal Investigators
9:00 to 9:10 am Welcome and Introductions: Santhosh Seelan, Director ND NASA EPSCoR
9:10 to 9:20 am “Fabrication and Mechanical Testing of Nanowire Array Reinforced Nanocomposites” by Xinnan Wang, NDSU
9:20 to 9:30 am “Optimizing Galaxy Cluster Detections as a Probe of Dark Energy” by Wayne Barkhouse, UND
9:30 to 9:40 am “Investigation on Mechanical Properties of Coatings using Image analysis Techniques” by Fardad Azharmi, NDSU
9:40 to 9:50 am “An Intelligent Medical Health Monitoring for the NDX-2 Lunar Space Suit” by Reza Fazel, UND
9:50 to 10:00 am “Computational Study of Aerodynamics in Low Pressure Turbines” by Bora Suzen, NDSU
10:00 to 10:10 am “Scaling Remote Sensing Evapotranspiration over Heterogeneity” by Xiaodong Zhang, UND
10:10 to 10:20 am “Antennas for Spacesuit” by Sima Noghanian, UND
10:20 to 10:30 am “Chirality Dependent Carbon Nanotube Separation for Lightweight Electronics” by Muhammet Erkan Kose, NDSU
10:30 to 10:40 am “Flexible hybrid radio: making wireless communications cooperative and wearable” Hongxiang Li, NDSU (presented by Benjamin Braaten, NDSU)
10:40 to 10:50 am “A small wearable conformal phased array antenna for wireless communications” by Benjamin Braaten, NDSU
11:00 to 1:00 pm Tour of UND Aerospace Complex (optional)
1:00 to 2:00 pm Lunch break
Afternoon Session: Meeting of the Technical Advisory Committee
2:00 to 3:30 pm Business meeting of the Technical Advisory Committee (committee members listed in attached sheet)