Please join us this Friday, Sept. 25 at 3PM in NC 3405 for our next colloquium speaker. Dr. Kitaygorsky is a CU Denver Physics alum who is here to share her work in aerospace with us.
Electromagnetics in Practice:
How Airplanes Survive Lightning and Other Electromagnetic Environments
Abstract
In this talk, I will discuss how the field of electromagnetics
applies to aircraft and spacecraft design and aircraft certification. I
will focus on electromagnetic environmental effects such as lightning,
precipitation static, high intensity radiated fields, spacecraft
charging, and the broader field of electromagnetic compatibility. I
will also cover what it's like to be a scientist and a consultant for
the aerospace industry.
Bio
Jennifer Kitaygorsky received a
B.S. in Physics from the University of Colorado at Denver in 2001, and a
Ph.D. from the University of Rochester Electrical Engineering
Department in 2008. As an undergraduate, she was a recipient of
the National Institute of Standards and Technology Professional Research
Experience Program (PREP) Fellowship. It was followed by a fellowship
from the Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CFDR) Junior
Scientist Program when Jennifer was attending the University of
Rochester. Jennifer currently works for a consulting company, Electro
Magnetic Applications (EMA), as a scientist
Jennifer specializes
in validation and verification of computational electromagnetics codes,
making use of her extensive experimental experience. She is also an
expert in measuring electromagnetic properties of anisotropic composite
materials and nanomaterials. In addition, Jennifer has consulted for
major civilian and military aerospace prime integrators, as well as
evaluated inductive interference coupling on railroad tracks from high
voltage power lines. She has developed full-wave computational
electromagnetic (CEM) simulation, converted CAD drawings to
sophisticated numerical models, and performed measurements of RF
shielding and EM properties of novel and mission-critical materials. Jennifer has been with EMA since 2008.
