JANUS Monthly Speakers: JANUS holds monthly membership meetings the third Thursday of every month. A featured speaker and a Lightning talk are usually part of each meeting. The featured speakers are JANUS PI's or guests from Industry and Academia. JANUS students present the lightning talks.
Year | Month | Topic | Speaker | Student Lightning Talk | Leadership Coach | |
2022 | January | Pillar Overviews | JANUS Leadership | NA | Mitchell Walker | |
2022 | February | Modeling | Iain Boyd (UCB) | NA | Richie Wirz | |
2022 | March | Diagnostics | Azer Yalin (CSU) | Matthew Byrne (UM) | John Williams | |
2022 | April | Modeling | Debbie Levin | David Jovel (GT) | Josh Rovey | |
2022 | May | Rescheduled | Rescheduled | Rescheduled | Rescheduled | |
2022 | June | Annual Report and IEPC | NA | NA | Mitchell Walker | |
2022 | July | Annual Review | Annual Review | Annual Review | Leadership Team | |
2022 | August | Diagnostics | Kristina Lemmer(WM) | Sean Clark (UI) | Josh Rovey | |
2022 | September | Administrative | Administrative | Administrative | Administrative | |
2022 | October | Career Talk | James Szabo-(Busek) | Seth Thompson (CSU) | Josh Rovey/ John Williams | |
2022 | November | PEM Team | Richie Wirz, Alex Gorodetsky, Ken Hara | NA | Richie Wirz | |
2022 | December | NASA-DART Mission | Jeremy Johns (NASA) | NA | Josh Rovey | |
2023 | January | Scitek meetups | Scitek meetups | Scitek meetups | Scitek meetups | |
2023 | February | Bi-annual review | see notes to side | NA | Leadership Team | Y2-mid-year review CHALLENGE TALKS |
2023 | March | Modeling | NA | Adnan Mansour (SU) | Ken Hara | Seth Thompson (CSU) "Diagnostics Challenges in High-Power EP Testing" |
2023 | April | Facilities | John Foster | Ajay Krishnan (GT) | Josh Rovey | Josh Eckels (UM) "PEM" |
2023 | May | ExoTerra HALO thruster development | Dr. Matt Glascock - ExoTerra | Jorge Fernandez-Coppel Velasco | Josh Rovey | Collin Whittaker (UM) "Backsputter" |
2023 | June | NRL Electric Propulsion Research Activities | Dr. Michael McDonald - NRL | Charles Lipscomb | Josh Rovey | |
2023 | July | Annual Review | Annual Review | Annual Review | Leadership Team | |
2023 | August | Administrative | NA | NA | Leadership Team | |
2023 | September | Climate Study | Lizanne DeStefano | NA | Mitchell Walker | |
2023 | October | Lightning Talk | NA (rescheduled) | Josh Eckels (UM) | Josh Rovey | |
2023 | November | NASA Nuclear Electric Propulsion Mars Missions | Steven Oleson (NASA) | Tyler Topham | Josh Rovey | |
2023 | December | NA | NA | NA | NA | |
2024 | January | MPD Thruster | Jay Polk (JPL) | NA | Josh Rovey | |
2024 | February | Bi-annual review | see notes to side | NA | Leadership Team | Y3-mid-year review focus was H9 test campaign) |
2024 | March | Electron Emission from EP Materials (short title) | Jaime Marian | NA | Josh Rovey | "Secondary electron emission and ion induced electron emission from electric propulsion materials" |
2024 | April | Hall thruster electron and discharge dynamics | Ken Hara | Seth Antozzi | Josh Rovey | |
2024 | May | RF thruster technology | Umair Siddiqui (Phase Four) | NA | Josh Rovey | |
2024 | June | IEPC 2024 Conference | NA | NA | Leadership Team | |
2024 | July | Annual Review | NA- Annual Review Planning | NA- Annual Review Planning | Leadership Team | |
2024 | August | NA- Annual Review Aug 6.7 | NA- Annual Review Aug 6.7 | NA- Annual Review Aug 6.7 | Leadership Team | |
2024 | September | Neumann Space | Paddy Neumann | NA | Josh Rovey | |
2024 | October | Administrative Meeting | NA | NA | Josh Rovey | |
2024 | November | Scaling 100-kW HET Test Discussion | Naia Butler-Craig | NA | Josh Rovey | |
2024 | December | NA | NA | NA | Josh Rovey | |
2025 | January | SETS Company | Aleksandr Petrenko | NA | Josh Rovey |