Events
Weekly Lab Meetings
Every week the lab holds informal aviation/environmental research and news updates. These are primarily aimed at lab members, sponsors, and collaborators. The current schedule is shown below. Please contact us for further information.
Upcoming LAE Meetings
6-December-2021, 12 PM EST, in person and Teams
Christoph Falter: PtL and LH2: A Global Assessment of Energy, Economics, Infrastructure, and Emissions Technical Feasibility and Economic Viability of Zero-impact Air Transport Systems
Previous LAE Meetings
30-November-2021, 3 PM EST, in person and Teams
Prashanth Prakash:Technical Feasibility and Economic Viability of Zero-impact Air Transport Systems
16-November-2021, 3 PM EST, in person and Teams
Nick Perovich: Improving Satellite Maneuver Detection Using Artificial Intelligence
2-November-2021, 3 PM EST, in person and Teams
Yang Chen: Modeling of Staged Combustor for EmissionsAnalysis
25-October-2021, 12 PM EST, in person and Teams
Carla Grobler: Air quality impacts of residential building electrification in the contiguous US
19-October-2021, 3 PM EST, in person and Teams
Nicolas Gomez Vega: Multi-staged ducted Electroaerodynamic Thrusters
5-October-2021, 3 PM EST, in person and Teams
Bang-Shiuh Chen: Introduction to Plasma / Electric Field Assisted Combustion
27-September-2021, 12 PM EST, in person and Teams
Sadia Afrin: Evaluating the Impacts of Prescribed Fire on Air Quality and Public Health in the Southeastern U.S.
21-September-2021, 3 PM EST, in person and Teams
Tae Joong Park: Climate and Air Quality Impacts of Electric Vehicles and Comparison to U.S. Tax Credits
23-August-2021, 12 PM EST, Teams
Ines Elisa Sanz Morere: Improving Climate Impacts Estimation from Future Aviation
17-August-2021, 12 PM EST, Teams
Thibaud Fritz: Plume to Global-Scale Atmospheric Impacts of Aviation Emissions
27-July-2021, 12 PM EST, Teams
Jad Elmourad
13-July-2021, 12 PM EST, Teams
James Abel: Modeling the Costs of a Transition to Hydrogen in Aviation
24-June-2021, 11 AM EST, Teams
LAE Software Tutorial
7-June-2021, 10 AM EST, Zoom
IDHR LAE Training
19-May-2021, 1 PM EST, Teams
Joonhee Kim
Chair: Shayan Zahid
13-May-2021, 8 AM EST, Teams
China Hagstrom
Chair: Stewart Isaacs
7-May-2021, 8 AM EST, Teams
LAE Diversity and Inclusion Meeting
14-April-2021, 8 AM EST, Teams
Shayan Zahid
Chair: Nicholas Perovich
6-April-2021, 10 AM EST, Teams
Stewart Isaacs
Chair: Nicolas Gomez Vega
31-March-2021, 8 AM EST, Teams
Nicholas Perovich
Chair: Prashanth Prakash
26-March-2021, 8 AM EST, Teams
Nicolas Gomez Vega: Electroaerodynamic thrusters for practical fixed-wing aircraft
Chair: Grace Wijaya
11-March-2021, 10 AM EST, Teams
Prashanth Prakash: Dominant formation pathways and impacts of aerosols resulting from aviation emissions
Chair: Akshat Agarwal
2-March-2021, 8 AM EST, Teams
Grace Wijaya: Estimating UAM Demand at the City Scale – Insights for 5 US Cities
Chair: Yash Dixit
12-February-2021, 11:00 AM, Zoom
Jon Gibbs: Inverse Aircraft Design: Achieving sustainability through market disruption
28-January-2021, 10:00 AM, Zoom
Yash Dixit: Estimating life cycle emissions of petroleum supply chains
18-December-2020, 9 AM, Zoom
Arthur Brown: Towards Practical Fixed-Wing Aircraft with Electro-Aerodynamic Propulsion
3-December-2020, 9:00 AM, Zoom
dREFS
The Diversity and Outreach team have invited the dREFS in our department to talk with the lab. This will have two parts – a short presentation on the resources available in the department and at MIT relating to easing stress and friction followed by a student only Q & A session.
20-November-2020, 9:00 AM, Zoom
Haofeng Xu
5-November-2020, 9:00 AM, Zoom
Thibaud Fritz: Identifying the ozone-neutral aircraft cruise altitude
Chair: Ines Sanz-Morere
23-October-2020, 9:00 AM, Zoom
Christoph Falter
Solar Fuels: An overview of different pathways as well as costs, emissions, and geographical potential of the solar thermochemical pathway.
8-October-2020, 9:00 AM, Zoom
GIT Tutorial with Prashanth Prakash and Thibaud Fritz
25-September-2020, 9:00 AM, Zoom
Akshat Agarwal
Chair: Thibaud Fritz
11-September-2020, 9:00 AM, Zoom
Vincent Meijer: Machine Learning workshop: An overview of machine learning and how you can apply it to improve your research
23-July-2020, 9:30 AM, Zoom
Lukas Brink: Modeling the Impact of Fuel Composition on Aircraft Engine NOx, CO and Soot Emissions
16-July-2020, 9:30 AM, Zoom
COVID-19 Impacts on Aviation and the Path Forward for the U.S. Aviation Industry
9-July-2020, 9:30 AM, Zoom
Carla Grobler: Air quality benefits of reducing residential combustion emissions in the US South
Chair: Arthur Brown
2-July-2020, 9:30 AM, Zoom
Diversity and Inclusion Lab discussion.
25-June-2020, 9:30 AM, Zoom
Inés Sanz-Morere: Future Scenarios for Commercial Supersonic Aviation
Chair: Cassandre Pradon
11-June-2020, 9:30 AM, Zoom
Reading Groups: Climate Change, Individual Behavior, and Local Action
12-May-2020, 12 pm, Zoom
- Laurens Voet: Noise footprint of clean-sheet engines for supersonic transport aircraft
- Chair: Lukas Brink
5-May-2020, 12 pm, Zoom
- Guillaume Chossiere: Air quality impacts of social distancing during the COVID 19 pandemic
- Chair: Vincent Meijer
30-April-2020, 12 pm, Zoom
- Nicholas Wilde: Optimization of a Surface-Integrated Electroaerodynamic Ion Source
- Chair: Ruoyu Lan
21-April-2020, 12 pm, ZOOM
- Ruoyu Lan: Designing interventions to mitigate the air quality impacts of Indian crop residue burning
- Chair: Yash Dixit
15-April-2020, 1 pm, ZOOM
- Vincent Meijer: Contrail coverage changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic
- Chair: Cassandre Pradon
9-April-2020, 12 pm, ZOOM
- Walter Kelso: GHG abatement cost associated with sustainable aviation fuels in the US
- Chair: Nicholas Wilde
2-April-2020, 12 pm, ZOOM
- Grace Wijaya: System-level optimization of urban air mobility (UAM)
18-March-2020, 1 pm, Zoom
- Cassandre Pradon: Environmental impact of rockets
12-March-2020, 12 pm, Webex
- Nicolas Gomez Vega: Characterizing the Thrust and Power Consumption of Decoupled EAD Thrusters
3-March-2020, 1 pm, Room 33-116
- Tae Joong ‘TJ’ Park: Co-Processing of Biogenic and Fossil Feedstocks for Fuel Production
- Chair: Guillaume Chossiere
27-February-2020, 12 pm, Room 33-116
- Guillaume Chossiere: Air quality trade-offs of a rapid expansion of personal electric vehicles in China
- Chair: Prakash Prashanth
19-February-2020, 1 pm, Room 33-116
- Wilhelm Enders: Performance assessment of turboelectric propulsion system
- Chair: Grace Wijaya
29-January-2020, 12 pm, Room 33-116
- Prakash Prashanth: Clean-sheet engine design for commercial SSTs
- Chair: Inés Sanz-Morère
11-December-2019, 11 am, Room 33-116
- Arthur Brown: Towards Practical Fixed-Wing Aircraft with Electro-Aerodynamic Propulsion
- Chair: Yash Dixit
04-December-2019, 12 pm, Room 33-218
- Akshat Agarwall: Exposing a fundamental flaw in contrail modeling-meteorological data
- Chair: Arthur Brown
26-November-2019, 3 pm, Room 33-116
- Ines Sanz-Morère: Reducing Uncertainty in Contrail Climate Impacts by Constraining Contrail Ice Optical Properties
- Chair: Thibaud Fritz
19-November-2019, 3 pm, Room 33-116
- Lukas Brink: Costs and Benefits of Naphthalene Removal from Jet Fuel
- Chair: Haofeng Xu
14-November-2019, 12 pm, Room 5-234
- Thibaud Fritz: Estimating sensitivity of the ozone layer to anthropogenic emissions
- Chair: Lukas Brink
06-November-2019, 12 pm, Room 33-116
- Haofeng Xu: Electroaerodynamic Propulsion: A Vision for Quiet, Emissionless Drones
- Chair: Laurens Voet
30-October-2019, 11 am, Room 33-116
- Yash Dixit: Mitigating life cycle emissions of petroleum value chains
- Chair: Ruoyu Lan
15-October-2019, 11 am, Room 33-116
- Laurens Voet: Mach cutoff modeling for the Aerion AS2 aircraft
02-October-2019, 11 am, Room 33-116
- Ruoyu Lan: Mitigating life cycle emissions of petroleum value chains
- Chair: Carla Grobler
26-September-2019, 12 pm, Room 33-116
- Carla Grobler: Marginal climate and air quality costs of aviation emissions
- Chair: Akshat Agarwal
19-September-2019, 12 pm, Room 37-252
- Raymond Speth, Sebastian Eastham, Ines Sanz Morère, Thibaud Fritz, Akshat Agarwal, Florian Allroggen
26-August-2019, 12 pm, Room 33-116
- TJ Park: Cost-Benefit Analysis of US State EV Subsidies
- Chair: Haofeng Xu
11-July-2019, 12 pm, Room 33-218
- Guillaume Chossiere: Air quality and climate impacts of the electrification of the personal vehicle fleet in China
Chair: Ines Sanz-Morere
15-August-2019, 12 pm, Room 33-116
- Nicholas Wilde: Power Optimization for Electroaerodynamic Thrusters
- Chair: Uyiosa Oriakhi
30-May-2019, 4 pm, Room 33-116
- Prashanth: Clean-sheet Supersonic Engine Design and Performance
21-May-2019, 3 pm, Room 33-116
- Carla Grobler: Assessment of commercial civil aviation’s cumulative climate impact
Chair: Prashanth
15-May-2019, 11 am, Room 33-116
- Kieran Strobel: EAD Surface Integrated Thrusters
- Chair: TJ Park
09-May-2019, 4 pm, Room 9-450A
- Ines Sanz Morere: Assessing future aviation climate impacts
Chair: Laurens Voet
30-April-2019, 3 pm, Room 35-310
- Stewart Isaacs: Environmental and economic characteristics of hybrid Power- & Biomass-to-Liquid (PBtL) Fuel Production in the U.S.
- Chair: Ruoyu Lan
24-April-2019, 11 am, Room 33-116
- Juju Wang: Quantitative Policy Analysis for Alternative Jet Fuel Technologies
Chair: Yash Dixit
16-April-2019, 3 pm, Room 33-206
- Liam Comidy: Liquid Fuel Production Onboard Aircraft Carriers
- Chair: Thibaud Fritz
11-April-2019, 4 pm, Room 9-450A
- Uyiosa Oriakhi: Stochastic life cycle and abatement cost assessment of renewable drop-in fuels
Chair: Luke Kulik
03-April-2019, 11 am, Room 33-116
- Arthur Brown: Design and Optimization of a Second-Generation Electro-Aerodynamic Aircraft Prototype
- Chair: Lukas Brink
02-April-2019, 11am, Room 33-116 [LAE/ICAT Seminar]
- Dr. Philippe Bonnefoy (BlueSky): “The Aviation CO2 Challenge: Analytics and Policy Perspectives”
21-March-2019, 4 pm, Room 9-450A
- Haofeng Xu: Experiments in Electroaerodynamic Propulsion
- Chair: Nicholas Wilde
12-March-2019, 3 pm, Room 33-206
- Akshat Agarwal: Assessing and mitigating the climate impact of contrails
- Chair: Carla Grobler
04-March-2019, 2 pm, Room 33-116
- Techno-Economic Optimization and Environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Microgrids located in the US using Genetic Algorithm and Artificial Neural Networks
27-February-2019, 3 pm, Room 33-116
- Model-based sustainability assessment of bioenergy systems
24-January-2019, 12 pm, Room 33-116
- Thibaud Fritz: A subgrid-scale model of aircraft emissions
17-January-2019, 12 pm, Room 33-116
- Luke Kulik: Finding the Needle in a Haystack: Dense semantic segmentation of highly-imbalanced contrail datasets
10-January-2019, 12 pm, Room 33-116
- Bert Lenaerts: Air connectivity and regional employment
10-December-2018, 4 pm, Room 33-116
- Yash Dixit: Mitigating life cycle emissions of petroleum value chains
- Jakobus Jooste: Rocket emissions inventory
03-December-2018, 4 pm, Room 33-116
- Lukas Brink: Costs and benefits of Naphthalene-removal from jet fuels
- Ruoyu Lan: Designing New Interventions to Mitigate Indian Agricultural Residue Burning Impacts on Air Quality
27-November-2018, 11 am, Room 33-116
- Laurens Voet: Clean Sheet Supersonic Design and Performance
- Nick Wilde: Will it fly (better)?
19-November-2018, 4 pm, Room 33-116
- TJ Park: Analysis of electric car subsidies in the US
13-November-2018, 11 am, Room 33-116
- Prashanth Prakash: Post-combustion Emissions Control for Aviation
05-November-2018, 4 pm, Room 33-116
- Guillaume Chossiere: Atmospheric impacts of rapid vehicle fleet electrification in China
29-October-2018, 4 pm, Room 33-206
- Irene Dedoussi: Ozone impacts of supersonic flight
22-October-2018, 4 pm, Room 33-206
- Ines Sanz Morère: Key challenges in assessing future climate impacts of aviation
15-October-2018, 4 pm, Room 33-116
- Kieran Strobel: EAD Wind Tunnel Tech Talk
11-October-2018, 11 am, Room 33-206
- Carla Grobler: Which is worse: aviation climate or air quality impacts?
01-October-2018, 4 pm, Room 33-116
- Liam Comidy: Jet fuel production onboard aircraft carriers
27-September-2018, 11 am, Room 33-116
- Stewart Isaacs: Electrifying Aircraft Fuel: Lifecycle Analysis of Electrofuel Pathways for Aviation
30-August-2018, 1 pm, Room 33-116
- Haofeng Xu: Will it Fly? Electroaerodynamic solid state propulsion for airplanes
06-August-2018, 3 pm, Room 33-116
- Juju Wang: A stochastic quantitative policy assessment of various alternative jet fuel pathways
17-July-2018, 3 pm, Room 33-206
Uyiosa Oriakhi: Stochastic Life Cycle Analysis for Alternative Jet Fuels
06-June-2018, 3 pm, Room 33-206
- Akshat Agarwal: The SCOPE11 method for estimating aircraft BC mass and particle number emissions
30-May-2018, 3 pm, Room 33-116
- Luke Kulik: Deep learning for contrail detection – how to spot largest man-made features from space
18-May-2018, 2 pm, Room 33-116
- Thibaud Fritz: A subgrid-scale treatment of aircraft emissions
08-May-2018, 4 pm, Room 33-116
- Irene Dedoussi: Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis of the Atmospheric Impacts of Combustion Emissions
03-May-2018, 12 pm, Room 33-116
- Cassandra Miller: NOx and Fuel Burn Tradeoffs in Commercial Aviation
24-April-2018, 4 pm, Room 33-418
- Carla Grobler: Air Quality and Climate Costs of Aviation Fuel Burn
20-April-2018, 3 pm, Room 33-206
- Ines Sanz Morère: Assessing uncertainties on contrails RF calculations
09-April-2018, 4 pm, Room 33-206
- Qian Di, Harvard School of Public Health: The Association between Air Pollution and Human Health: Recent Evidence at Low Concentrations
05-April-2018, 12 pm, Room 33-418
- Albert Gnadt: Technical and Environmental Assessment of All-Electric 180-Passenger Commercial Aircraft
19-March-2018, 4 pm, Room 33-206
- Prakash Prashanth: Post-combustion emissions control for aero-gas turbine engines
05-March-2018, 4 pm, Room 33-206 [Seminar]
- Guillaume Chossière: Emissions of diesel cars in Europe: Country and manufacturer attribution of air quality impacts from excess NOx emissions
28-February-2018, 11 am, Room 33-418
- Drew Weibel: Naphthalene Removal Assessment: Cleaning up Jet Fuel for Reduced Air Quality Impacts
22-February-2018, 12 pm, Room 33-116
- Kieran Strobel: EAD Propulsion-System/Vehicle Characterization
16-January-2018, 12 pm, Room 33-116
- Juju Wang: Waste Gas to Drop in Jet Fuel
- Liam Comidy: Jet Fuel Production Onboard Aircraft Carriers
11-December-2017, 4 pm, Room 33-116
- Irene Dedoussi: Assessing the environmental impacts of combustion emissions
05-December-2017, 2 pm, Room 33-116
- Paula do Vale Pereira: Lifecycle Analysis of the Air Quality Impact of Aviation Biofuels
01-December-2017, 12 pm, Room 33-206
- Kingshuk Dasadhikari: Updates to the GEOS-Chem Adjoint Model for Southeast Asia
20-November-2017, 4 pm, Room 33-116
- Luke Kulik: How deep learning could help us improve climate forecasts
- Stewart Isaacs: Electrofuels: A near-term solution for carbon neutral aviation
09-November-2017, 1 pm, Room 33-116
- Irene Dedoussi: Development of the adjoint of GEOS-Chem UCX
02-November-2017, 2 pm, Room 33-206
- Cassandra Miller: Evaluating CO2 Impacts from NOx Regulations using World Emissions
25-October-2017, 11 am, Room 33-116
- Tim Galligan: The potential of jet fuel from biomass and wastes to reduce aviation greenhouse gas emissions in the United States
19-October-2017, 1 pm, Room 33-319
- Albert Gnadt: Feasibility of All-Electric Aircraft in Commercial Aviation: Batteries and Geometry
10-October-2017, 2 pm, Room 33-116
- Ines Sanz Morère: Assessment of overlapping contrails’ climate impact
02-October-2017, 4 pm, Room 33-319
- Ray Speth: Aviation, Combustion, and the Environment
28-September-2017, 2 pm, Room 33-418
- Akshat Agarwal: Statistical model for global contrail modeling
18-September-2017, 4 pm, Room 33-116
- Carla Grobler: Current climate modeling approaches
22-August-2017, 10 am, Room 33-116
- Thibaud Fritz: Toward effective emissions of airplanes in global models
31-July-2017, 12 pm, Room 33-206
- Haofeng Xu: Electroaerodynamic Propulsion – Design for First Flight and Beyond
07-July-2017, 11 am, Room 33-116
- Seamus Bann: Progress Toward a Marginal Abatement Cost Curve for Alternative Jet Fuels
16-June-2017, 11 am, Room 33-116
- Robert Garner: Emissions of transatmospheric vehicles – Initial results
05-June-2017, 4 pm, Room 33-116
- Prakash Prashanth: Post combustion emission control in gas turbines
26-May-2017, 11 am, Room 33-116
- Albert Gnadt: Feasibility of All-Electric Aircraft in Commercial Aviation: Propulsion Components
- Sierk de Jong: Renewable jet fuel (RJF) – a realistic solution to reduce the climate impact of aviation?
17-May-2017, 3 pm, Room 33-116
- Luke Jensen: Noise Mitigation Efforts using Operational Modifications at Boston Logan Airport
05-May-2017, 11 am, Room 33-206
- Cassi Miller: Evaluating CO2 and NOx Climate Tradeoffs using World Emissions and APMT
24-April-2017, 4 pm, Room 33-116
- Tim Galligan: Long-term alternative jet fuel production in the United States
14-April-2017, 11 am, Room 33-206
- Kingshuk Dasadhikari: Development of the GEOS-Chem Adjoint Model for SE Asia: Preliminary Results & Updates
03-April-2017, 4 pm, Room 33-116
- Drew Weibel: Naphthalene Removal Assessment – Fuel optimization processes and economics
20-March-2017, 4 pm, Room 33-116
- Irene Dedoussi: Pollution exchange between the US states
17-March-2017, 11 am, Room 33-116
- Guillaume Chossiere: Air quality impacts of excess NOx emissions from passenger cars in Europe