At our next Transylvania Lectures event our guest speaker will present all NASA's major discoveries made via remote sensing: age of the universe, black holes, dark matter, exoplanets, galaxies, and supernovas. Astronauts and rovers represent the cutting-edge of human and robot in-situ activities, but in terms of knowledge contribution, they pale in the face of the importance of discoveries made by looking from afar. At this stage, finding life in other solar systems cannot be done with astronauts and rovers. The triumph of human existence has been to escape, through science and technology, the restraints that our limited senses have imposed on us. Remote sensing is one technique that made our escape possible.

The lecture’s guest speaker will be Virgil Adumitroaie, a Data Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, where at present time he develops outer planetary environment models and radiation monitoring tools for the Juno Mission and performs atmospheric composition retrievals for Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus. He is also a member of the ground software systems development team for the REASON instrument on the Europa Clipper mission. He received his PhD. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University at Buffalo in 1997, for research completed in simulation and modeling of high-speed turbulent reacting flows. Prior to joining the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a Senior Member of Technical Staff in 2004, and University of Southern California as Adjunct Lecturer in 2006, Dr. Adumitroaie served for six years as a Senior Engineer at the CFD Research Corporation, Huntsville, AL.

The moderator of the discussion will be Norbert Zsolt Rácz, Unitarian Minister.

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