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
Previous LAE Meetings
14-February-2022, 3 PM EST, in person and Teams
Jad Elmourad: Contrail avoidance, from theory to practice: experiment phase I results and experiment design
8-February-2022, 3 PM EST, in person and Teams
James Abel:The Pathway to Commercial Applications of EAD
18-January-2022, 4 PM EST, remote meeting via Teams
Arthur Brown: Towards Practical Fixed-Wing Aircraft with Electro-Aerodynamic Propulsion
25-January-2022, 3 PM EST, remote meeting via Teams
Vincent Meijer: Contrail avoidance, from theory to practice: how well can we predict where contrails will form?
11-January-2022, 3 PM EST, remote meeting via Teams
Syed Shayan Zahid: Water Injection as a Novel Combustion Concept to Reduce NOx Emissions
14-December-2021, 3 PM EST, in person and Teams
Stewart Isaacs: Investigating the Impact of Dust on Photovoltaic Systems in West Africa
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
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