FAU Presents ‘Mission to Mars: An Out of This World Proposition”

Image: PIA23302: First Humans on Mars (Artist's Concept), NASA

Florida Atlantic University’s School of Architecture in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters presents the panel discussion “Mission to Mars: An Out of This World Proposition,” on Tuesday, Oct. 24 at 3 p.m. in the FAU-BC Higher Education Complex, Gallery 131, 111 East Las Olas Blvd., in Fort Lauderdale.

The event is free and open to the public, with registration required at The Mission to Mars: An out of this world proposition. Parking is available at the Riverwalk Center Parking Garage.

The mission to send humans to Mars, beginning with exploration but with a plan to eventually establish human settlement there, raises fundamental questions across many disciplines. The field of architecture, a design profession that is both art and science, collaborates with engineering and many other disciplines to imagine and propose such a reality while at the same time tackling the question of the meaning of architecture in space and on Mars.

The panel will be moderated by Anthony Abbate, professor, FAU School of Architecture. Panelists include Ted Krueger, Ph.D., associate professor, School of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dan Meeroff, Ph.D., professor, School of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatics Engineering, FAU; William H. Hahn, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences and co-director of the Machine Perception and Cognitive Robotics Laboratory and FAU AI Sandbox; Ata Sarajedini, Ph.D., professor and Bjorn Lamborn Endowed Chair in Astrophysics, FAU.

The event is cosponsored by FAU’s College of Science.