鶹ƷƵPresents ‘Mission to Mars: An Out of This World Proposition”
Wednesday, Sep 20, 2023
Image: PIA23302: First Humans on Mars (Artist's Concept), NASA
鶹ƷƵ’s School of Architecture in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters presents the panel discussion “Mission to Mars: An Out of This World Proposition,” on Tuesday, Oct. 24 at 3 p.m. in the FAU-BC Higher Education Complex, Gallery 131, 111 East Las Olas Blvd., in Fort Lauderdale.
The event is free and open to the public, with registration required at . Parking is available at the Riverwalk Center Parking Garage.
The mission to send humans to Mars, beginning with exploration but with a plan to eventually establish human settlement there, raises fundamental questions across many disciplines. The field of architecture, a design profession that is both art and science, collaborates with engineering and many other disciplines to imagine and propose such a reality while at the same time tackling the question of the meaning of architecture in space and on Mars.
The panel will be moderated by Anthony Abbate, professor, 鶹ƷƵSchool of Architecture. Panelists include Ted Krueger, Ph.D., associate professor, School of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dan Meeroff, Ph.D., professor, School of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatics Engineering, FAU; William H. Hahn, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences and co-director of the Machine Perception and Cognitive Robotics Laboratory and 鶹ƷƵAI Sandbox; Ata Sarajedini, Ph.D., professor and Bjorn Lamborn Endowed Chair in Astrophysics, FAU.
The event is cosponsored by FAU’s College of Science.