Raytheon Day Fall 2023 Symposium

University of Arizona – Program in Applied Mathematics

Raytheon - Systems Effectors: Processing, Guidance, and Controls

Fall 2023 Symposium

Friday September 15th, 2023

2:00 PM – 6:30 PM

Location:  UofA Campus, ENR2 Building, Room S215

Zoom:  https://arizona.zoom.us/j/87104438814


2:00-2:20 Welcome  John O’Neil (UofA, Vice President for Research) and  Jon Marquis (RTX, Technical Engineering Fellow)

2:20-2:30  Refreshments 

2:30-3:30 Applied Mathematics Colloquium: Matt Young (RTX, Technical Engineering Fellow),  Sensitivity analysis of ResNet-based automatic target recognition performance using MuSES-generated EO/IR synthetic imagery

3:30-3:40  Break

3:40-4:20 Eric Anderson (RTX, Senior Principal Engineer) Covariances and the Eigenvalue Decomposition

4:25-4:55 Theodore Meissner (UofA, Applied Mathematics Graduate Student) Sparse Optimization Techniques for Differential Equation Discovery

5:00-5:40 Patrick Kano (RTX, Principal Engineer) Dempster-Shafer Evidential Theory for Optimal Contours in Talbot’s Method

5:40-5:50  Break

5:50-6:15 Nitesh Shah (RTX, Senior Principal Engineer) Introduction to RTX Processing, Guidance, and Control Center

6:15-6:30 Question and Answer Session with Lexi Casarez (RTX, Campus Programs Recruiter) RTX Staff and UofA Faculty

6:30 Closing Michael (Misha) Chertkov (UofA, Chair of Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics)

Social Hour with RTX Staff