National Security Research and Innovation Day Conference
February 24, 2025

Morning Program

8:30AM - 9:30AM
Plenary Session

Location: Minnesota East Room

Agenda:

• Welcome from the University of Minnesota Vice President for Research and Innovation Shashank Priya
• Remarks from keynote speakers:
  • University of Minnesota President Rebecca Cunningham
  • US Representative Betty McCollum
  • US Representative Brad Finstad (recorded message)
  • Lockheed Martin Vice President and CTO, Dr. Steven Walker
  • NSWC Crane Trusted Microelectronics Chief Engineer for Flight Systems Division, Dr. Matt Kay
  • Cerberus Tech Solutions Managing Director and CTO, Mr. Pavan Arora

9:45AM - 11:30AM
Breakout Sessions 1 & 2

45 min: Context-setting technical presentations
60 min: In depth moderated discussion.

Session 1: Hypersonics
Location: Minnesota West Room

Topics:

• Challenges and Opportunities in CFD for Hypersonics
• Physical Modeling for Hypersonics
• Dynamics and Control for Hypersonics
• Minnesota Aerospace Complex
• Hypersonics at Lockheed Martin
• Hypersonics at Sandia National Laboratory

Session 2: Data Science & AI
Location: Minnesota East Room

Topics: 

• UMN’s leadership in AI and Data Science
• AI/Cybersecurity and communications
• Energy and Renewable Energy Security
• 5G security/NextG networked system security
• AI in Medicine

11:45AM - 12:30PM
Breakout Sessions 3 & 4 - 1st half

45 min: Context-setting technical presentations

Session 3: Geospatial Imaging
Location: Minnesota West Room

Topics:

• Accessing and disseminating geospatial remote sensing data: how can more people with more expertise utilize critical satellite imagery?
• Remote sensing data as a foundation for field preparation.
• Environmental and Water Resources—physical and data science hydrology, satellite hydrology, land-atmosphere interactions, climate intelligence, and big earth-data analytics
• Precision Agriculture, High-throughput Phenotyping, Drone Hyperspectral Imaging
• Mapping and modeling at landscape-to-regional scales
• GeoAI

Session 4: Microelectronics
Location: Minnesota East Room

Topics:

• Design enablement for novel analog, mixed-signal, and digital microelectronic circuits
• Spintronic technology for compute-in-memory and radiation hardened electronics
• New opportunities in power microelectronics for national security
• Technology requirements for electronics in space and strategic systems
• Quantum computing technology

12:30PM - 1:15PM | Lunch Buffet - 45 min
Location: Minnesota Court

Afternoon Program

1:15PM - 2:15PM
Breakout Sessions 3 & 4 - 2nd half

Moderated discussion

Session 3: Geospatial Imaging
Location: Minnesota West Room

Topics:

• Accessing and disseminating geospatial remote sensing data: how can more people with more expertise utilize critical satellite imagery?
• Remote sensing data as a foundation for field preparation.
• Environmental and Water Resources—physical and data science hydrology, satellite hydrology, land-atmosphere interactions, climate intelligence, and big earth-data analytics
• Precision Agriculture, High-throughput Phenotyping, Drone Hyperspectral Imaging
• Mapping and modeling at landscape-to-regional scales
• GeoAI

Session 4: Microelectronics
Location: Minnesota East Room

Topics:

• Design enablement for novel analog, mixed-signal, and digital microelectronic circuits
• Spintronic technology for compute-in-memory and radiation hardened electronics
• New opportunities in power microelectronics for national security
• Technology requirements for electronics in space and strategic systems
• Quantum computing technology

2:30PM - 4:15PM
Breakout Sessions 5 & 6

45 min: Context-setting technical presentations
60 min: In depth moderated discussion

Session 5: Materials in Extreme Environment
Location: Minnesota East Room

Topics:

• Experimental Simulation of Harsh Thermochemical Service Conditions
• Mechanical Response Across Length- and Time-scales
• Leveraging Computation for Accelerated Materials Discovery
• Materials for thermal protection systems

Session 6: Medical Solutions for Service Members
Location: Minnesota West Room

Topics:

• Biosensors
• Traumatic brain injury
• Organ on a chip
• Musculoskeletal injury and recovery
• Artificial organ support
• Warfighter mental health
• Telemedicine in the care of remote and rural trauma patients

4:30PM - 5:30PM
Report from Breakout Sessions & Concluding Remarks

Location: Minnesota East Room

Agenda:

• Session Highlights, Takeaways, and Q&A with Session Leads
• Concluding Remarks

5:30PM - 7:00PM
Social Hour & Poster Session

Location: Minnesota Court

Enjoy some food and beverages, network with colleagues, and meet with our poster presenters to explore the following exciting topics covering all thematic areas of NSRI Day:

1. Traumatic Brain Injury
2. Military Medic to Medical School program
3. Translational Preclinical Sepsis Work
4. Wound Healing
5. U-Spatial
6. UAV-based Hyperspectral Imaging for Field-Scale Detection and Quantification of Multiple Wheat Pathogens
7. Winter Damage Detection on Golf Courses through Drone-Based Multispectral Imaging
8. Minnesota National Security Ecosystem
9. The International Institute for BioSensing
10. The Data Science and AI Hub
11. The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
12. Collaborative Hypersonic Testing and Model Validation
13. Modeling and Simulation of the BOLT Flight Experiments
14. Dynamics and Control for Hypersonics
15. US3D CFD Code and Technology Transfer
16. Micromechanical approaches for evaluating materials in extreme service environments
17. Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation at Sandia
18. Materials design for extreme environments
19. The Minnesota Nano Center
20. Overview of UMN Microelectronics Research
21. Scalable Asymmetric Lifecycle Engagement (SCALE) - Workforce Development Partnership in Minnesota