Past TEDx event
TEDxCarnegie Hill Salon
TEDxCarnegieHill: Planetary Atmospheres
Speakers
Speakers may not be confirmed. Check the event website for the latest lineup.
Edward Belbruno
Artist and Astrophysicist
Edward Belbruno started painting when he was 7, with a landscape on Titan with Saturn in the sky. He has always been interested in space, and received a doctorate in mathematics in theoretical celestial mechanics from NYU's Courant Institute. He did two parallel careers in art and math/astrophysics , and went to work for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, finding trajectories for the Galileo mission to Juptier and the Cassini to Saturn, in the late 1980s. His work there led to revolutionary new routes to the Moon and beyond using chaos theory, spectacularly demonstrated by the rescue of Japan's Hiten spacecraft in 1991. As an artist, he has works in many collections including the NASA Smithsonian collection in Washington, DC. He has exhibits throughout the world, with a current exhibition sponsored the European Space Agency, being shown throughout the EU.
Keighley Rockcliffe
Postdoctoral researcher for the University of Maryland Baltimore County and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Dr. Keighley Rockcliffe is a postdoctoral researcher for the University of Maryland Baltimore County and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. She studies how exoplanets evolve over their lifetime through atmospheric escape. Dr. Rockcliffe is also devoted to making science accessible to all. She is a co-editor for NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day and volunteers as a pen pal for Letters to a Pre-Scientist and answering questions to NASA from the public via NASA’s Ask an Astrophysicist.
