Sergio Pellegrino, director of the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories and Joyce and Kent Kresa Professor of Aerospace and Civil Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, presents "Conceiving, Designing and Testing Ultralight Space Structures."

Tom I-P. Shih, professor in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University, presents "Advancing Fundamentals in the Age of Artificial Intelligence."

Justin Little, associate professor in the William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics at the University of Washington, presents "Mode Transition in Low-Temperature Aerospace Plasmas."

The Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering will host the Tony Chen Memorial Lecture on Thursday, March 26, honoring the late Chuan F. "Tony" Chen, professor emeritus and former department head. Guest speaker Guillermo Terrones, Scientist 5 at Los Alamos National Laboratory, presents "From Experiments to Simulations: Understanding the Dynamic Behavior of Metals."

K. T. Ramesh, the Alonzo G. Decker Jr. Professor of Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, presents "Hypervelocity Impact, High-Throughput Methods and AI-Driven Material Design."