AIAA Region I, YPSE-06 Young Professional, Student and Education Conference 10-11 November, 2006 Kossiakoff Center, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Laurel, MD =========================== REGISTER NOW! AIAA sections throughout Region I invite you to attend this valuable regional conference. Friday, November 10, will have presentations by young professionals; Saturday sessions will be devoted to presentations by undergraduate and graduate students, and education topics. Find out what research is being done by others in your field; meet students who are future hires for your company; talk to vendors; and find out what is new and exciting in aerospace education. There is something here for you! Session topics include: A schedule of presentations is now available. REGISTER NOW! Cost: $60 Professionals $0 Students (FREE!) (Bring student ID) Register online at http://www.aiaa-baltimore.org/YPSE-06/register.shtml AIAA Region I, YPSE-06
Program:	Friday, 10 November		8:00-9:00 AM 9:00 AM-12:30 PM 12:30 PM 2:00-5:00 PM 5:00 PM 6:00 -8:00 PM	Registration Technical Presentations Lunch Technical Presentations, Sponsor Exhibits, Recruiting Tables Keynote Address Hors d'oeuvres, Networking
	Saturday, 11 November		8:30 -9:00 AM 9:00 -10:30 AM 10:30 -11:00 AM 11:00-12:30 12:30-2:00 PM 2:00-4:00 PM	Registration Graduate Student Presentations Break Undergraduate Student Presentations Pizza and Presentation of Student Awards Education sessions, including Maplesoft web seminar
Conference Planning Committee:		Thomas D. Milnes, Director Region I Jonathan Malay, Immediate Past Chair, NCS Section Michael Wooster, Chair, NCS Section Pramud Rawat, Chair, Baltimore Section
Program Planning Committee:		Papers Registration Publicity Education Session		Dr. Surya Raghu, sraghu@aiaa-baltimore.org Pramud Rawat, prawat35@msn.com Carolyn Slivinski, slivinski@comcast.net Pramud Rawat, prawat35@msn.com

Keynote Speaker

Mr. Steven Brody, Vice President for North American Operations, International Space University (ISU)

Mr. Brody will speak on the opportunities for young space professionals to advance their education and careers by participating in ISU programs, either on its Strasbourg campus, within the beautiful Alsace region of France, or at other sites around the world, including the United States. Participants will learn about the "three I's" of ISU: International, Intercultural, and Interdisciplinary. He will also share his insights and experiences from a career of involvement in some of the most exciting science and human spaceflight programs at NASA. This promises to be a very interesting and informative presentation.

Before joining ISU, Mr. Brody held numerous senior positions with NASA in the U.S. and Europe. He served as Program Executive with the Science Mission Directorate, performing oversight of the Discovery Program of planetary science missions. Earlier, he developed space science tasks as precursors to human exploration, formulated strategic concepts supporting the commercial development of space, and implemented related education and outreach activities. He led a team to produce recommendations for NASA's investment in in-situ resource utilization. Mr. Brody spent four years in the Netherlands for NASA as its representative to the European Space Agency's (ESA) research and technology center (ESTEC), providing programmatic and technical interface to ESA for the Space Station Program.

Prior to his career at NASA, Mr. Brody was employed in the aerospace industry in several roles, including Director for Aerospace Planning, and Project Manager for a high-fidelity, integrated launch readiness test of the Space Shuttle for Shuttle launches STS-1 through STS-6. Mr. Brody received a Bachelor's degree in Physics, with a minor in Political Science (Drexel University); he also holds a Masters degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics (MIT). His Masters thesis involved radio astronomy research in solar system dynamics.

Mr. Brody is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA, and a member of the American Astronautical Society, the Planetary Society, and the National Space Society.

Technical Presentations Sessions are organized by topic. Each 90-minute long session will contain 3 papers: 20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for Q&A.

Student Presentations Two sets of 90-minute sessions in parallel, both undergraduate and graduate students. Each 90-minute long session will contain 3 papers: 20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for Q&A.

Education Presentation The webinar on Saturday afternoon will be run by Maplesoft, Ontario, Canada, on the use of Maple mathematical software in education. The webinar will be run by Dr. Robert Lopez, a well known educator and senior staff member at Maplesoft. There will be an opportunity for live Q&A over phone and internet.