UCI’s AMS Chapter, jointly with DECADE, will be hosting an industry talk by Dr. Gary Green, who works in aerospace.

We will be ordering pizza, please RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdcjXa50Jihe1XxXwhnbSQ7GDo-1UHRRN0v1lVomiC28c1RmA/viewform?usp=sf_link

• What: Gamma Guidance - Mathematics Applied to a Launch Vehicle
• When: Tuesday, October 29 at 12:30 - 1:30 pm
• Where: Natural Sciences II room 1201

Abstract: The Boeing Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) carried spacecraft from low earth orbits to their mission orbits from 1982 until 2004. Gamma Guidance provided the means of controlling the rocket engine firings in the presence of irregularities so that the spacecraft were injected into their desired orbits. I will discuss the basics of Gamma Guidance as well as selected collateral mathematics topics required for IUS success. Boeing analysts applied a number of techniques to solve a variety of problems in the face of challenging obstacles.

About the speaker: Dr. Gary Green holds mathematics degrees from the universities of Idaho, Michigan State, and Pennsylvania State. He taught mathematics at California State College Stanislaus before joining the Aerospace Corporation (www.aerospace.org), where he served as an applied mathematician and systems engineer in several capacities: employing numerical analysis to model launch vehicles, overseeing algorithm and software development for space systems, evaluating space system performance, and analyzing threats against space systems.