NAMS-2 presents “Air Time” – Talks by SMEs in Aviation
Hosted by Crown Innovations & CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
NASA Ames Research Center, Bldg. N210, Room 115 and Online
Crown Innovations, Inc., in collaboration with the University of California’s CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, will host a series of seminars on advanced aviation to share interesting research and ideas on pertinent topics and innovative methodologies with the Advanced Air Mobility and Air Traffic Management community. The seminar series will be dividied into chapters, each lasting approximately one month long, with new topics every week! All chapters feature leading experts on cutting-edge research to inspire innovation and collaboration. Air Time seminar speakers will include subject matter experts from UC Berkeley, Merced, Davis, and Santa Cruz. The seminars will take place weekly at NASA Ames Research Center, Building N210, Room 115 and online beginning in February.
Be sure to join our sessions live for the latest in aviation research. Not every session will be recorded, as some of our speakers present their findings to Air Time in advance of publications intended for general audiences.
More session details to be announced soon!
Chapter 1: Multimodal Integration
| Feb 3 | California Airlink Overview & Vision | Alexandre Bayen, UC Berkeley |
| Feb 10 | Advanced Air Mobility: Tools for System Analysis and Design | Raja Sengupta, UC Berkeley |
| Feb 18 | Irregular Operations, Flight Delay, and Passenger Delay: Some New(ish) Evidence | Mark Hansen, UC Berkeley |
| Feb 24 | Charting Policy Pathways for AAM | Susan Shaheen, UC Berkeley |
Chapter 2: Artificial Intelligence in Advanced Aviation
| Mar 4 (Wed.) | Designing Aircraft for Autonomy | Mark Mueller, UC Berkeley |
| Mar 10 | Predicting the Severity of Drone Intrusions into Controlled Airspace Using LLM and NLP-Augmented Bayesian Inference | Jasenka Rakas, UC Berkeley |
| Mar 17 | To be announced | |
| Mar 24 | To be announced | |
| Apr 1 (Wed.) | Controlling and motion planning for redundancy and safety | Mark Mueller, UC Berkeley |
| Apr 7 | Multi‑Modal Monitoring of Pilot–Controller Communication and Intent for Aviation Safety | Jasenka Rakas, UC Berkeley |
Chapter 3: Autonomous Intelligence in Aviation
Chapter 4: Hot Topics in Advanced Aviation
Interested in attending? Email nams2pmo@crownci.com
Crown Innovations, Inc. is the prime contractor for the NASA Academic Mission Services 2 (NAMS-2) contract. Contact the program management at nams2pmo@crownci.com for more information or to arrange a collaboration in your field.