ESM Assistant Professor Shane Ross to speak at British Science Festival

ESM Assistant Professor Shane Ross will speak at the British Science Festival to be held on September 10 at University of Surrey, see http://www.britishscienceassociation.org/forms/festival/events/showevent2.asp?EventID=144

The title of Dr. Ross' talk is Surfing the interplanetary transport network. He will explain how the competing gravitational pull between celestial bodies creates a vast array of fuel-efficient passageways that winds around the sun, planets and moons. Space travel along these corridors would slash the amount of precious energy needed to explore and develop our solar system.

As per the description provided on the festival website, Dr. "Ross is the author of several publications in the areas of mechanics and nonlinear dynamics, related to areas such as spacecraft control, bio-locomotion, transport and mixing in fluids, and chemical physics. He's received several certificates of recognition from NASA, and has coauthored a book on Dynamical Systems, the Three-Body Problem, and Space Mission Design. His work has been featured in Science, New Scientist, and American Scientist. Although he found math difficult until his early twenties when it finally 'clicked', he's had an interest in space missions and astronomy since childhood. In 2004, Dr. Ross earned a Ph.D. from Caltech in control and dynamical systems, a broad mathematical field which allows him to study a wide variety of problems in the engineering and natural sciences. He lives with his wife, son, and small dog in the lush mountains of Virginia."

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