People, Papers, Presentations

People, Papers, Presentations

Angelo Miele, the Foyt Professor
Emeritus of Engineering, Aerospace Sciences and Mathematical
Sciences, lectured on “Fundamental Issues of Orbital
Transfers for Mars Missions” at the 51st International
Aerospace Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 26. The
paper was co-authored by Tong Wang, senior research
scientist, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering & Materials
Science, and Salvatore Mancuso, guidance, navigation and
control engineer, European Space Agency, ESTEC Laboratory,
Nordwijk, Holland. Miele also delivered a one-hour opening
lecture on “Optimal Round-Trip Earth-Mars Trajectories
for Robotic Flight and Manned Flight” at the 11th Dynamics
and Control Workshop, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 9-11.

Hamid Naficy, associate professor, Film and Media
Studies, Dept. of Art & Art History, gave a plenary
talk at the “Writing Diasporas” conference held
at the U. of Wales Swansea, Oct. 20. His talk was titled
“Representing House, Home, Homeland in Transnational
Cinema.”

Stephen Zeff, the Herbert S. Autrey Professor of
Accounting, Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management,
spoke on “SEC vs. IASC: The Confrontation on International
Accounting Standards” at the 26th Annual Seminar on
Accounting Education of the Texas Society of Certified Public
Accountants in Houston Oct. 7. He delivered a similar address
to the HARMONIA Research Workshop, sponsored by the European
Union, at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuvan, Belgium, Oct.
13.

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