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During Tech Day, MIT faculty leaders shared their research on space, which included nanosatellites, manufacturing oxygen on Mars, using black holes to help test fundamental theories of our universe, and exploring the surface of Saturn’s moon, Titan.
Plus, two MIT alum astronauts—both in their reunion year—joined the program from the International Space Station, and new MIT president Sally Kornbluth participated in a fireside chat during her first Tech Reunions.
Learn more about the program and speakers at https://alum.mit.edu/events/tech-reunions/tech-day
0:00 Welcome from MITAA CEO Whitney Espich
4:40 Nanosatellites for Weather and Communications—Kerri Cahoy
13:34 Sustainability in Space and on Earth: Research Initiatives of the Space Enabled Research Group—Danielle Wood
21:25 Making Oxygen on Mars for Human Exploration—Jeff Hoffman
32:16 Q&A—moderated by Maria Zuber
59:53 Overview of MIT Better World Alumni Service Award and awards ceremony by Stephen Baker
1:07:40 Exploring Earth's Twin—Taylor Perron
1:16:12 Black Hole Echoes and Music of the Cosmos—Erin Kara
1:28:46 Q&A—moderated by Maria Zuber
1:50:52 A Conversation with the ISS
2:00:35 Fireside Chat with MIT President Sally Kornbluth
During Tech Day, MIT faculty leaders shared their research on space, which included nanosatellites, manufacturing oxygen on Mars, using black holes to help test fundamental theories of our universe, and exploring the surface of Saturn’s moon, Titan.
Plus, two MIT alum astronauts—both in their reunion year—joined the program from the International Space Station, and new MIT president Sally Kornbluth participated in a fireside chat during her first Tech Reunions.
Learn more about the program and speakers at https://alum.mit.edu/events/tech-reunions/tech-day
0:00 Welcome from MITAA CEO Whitney Espich
4:40 Nanosatellites for Weather and Communications—Kerri Cahoy
13:34 Sustainability in Space and on Earth: Research Initiatives of the Space Enabled Research Group—Danielle Wood
21:25 Making Oxygen on Mars for Human Exploration—Jeff Hoffman
32:16 Q&A—moderated by Maria Zuber
59:53 Overview of MIT Better World Alumni Service Award and awards ceremony by Stephen Baker
1:07:40 Exploring Earth's Twin—Taylor Perron
1:16:12 Black Hole Echoes and Music of the Cosmos—Erin Kara
1:28:46 Q&A—moderated by Maria Zuber
1:50:52 A Conversation with the ISS
2:00:35 Fireside Chat with MIT President Sally Kornbluth
![[AD] MITERS Alums Build Own Hackerspace](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7PWtYBGfPhk/mqdefault.jpg "[AD] MITERS Alums Build Own Hackerspace
Read more about the MITERS-West hackerspace on Slice of MIT: https://bit.ly/3YFNXgf
View the video without audio description: https://youtu.be/zkfRTSrjJ08
If you can’t stay at MIT forever, why not bring MIT with you?
Peter Krogen SM ’14, PhD ’16 and Ethan Perrin ’20 were so inspired by their experience in the MIT Electronics Research Society, better known as MITERS , that a couple years ago they decided to re-create it on the West Coast, where they live now.
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