Princeton Area Alumni Association

'Adventures in Astronautics: From Fusion Rockets to Pluto --- to Getting the Grants to Pay for Them!'

Second Tuesday Princeton Propeller Talk by Stephanie Miller, Princeton Satellite Systems, MIT '99 & *01

Tuesday Dec 12, 6 PM @ The Quadrangle Club, 33 Prospect Ave, Princeton, NJ

Cocktails & Hors d'oeuvres followed by this fascinating lecture. No charge, donations gratefully accepted.

Please CLICK HERE for PDF of the December 12th Propeller Flier.

Registration is required for this event at propellers.princetonaaa.org

PA3 INVITES YOU TO “SECOND TUESDAYS”

A PRINCETON PROPELLER EVENT

AT QUADRANGLE CLUB

FOR ENTREPRENEURS, NAVIGATORS & THE CURIOUS

Please Join Us for Cocktails & Hors d’oeuvres

33 PROSPECT AVENUE – PRINCETON, NJ

6 P, TUESDAY, December 12th, 2017

Speaker: Stephanie Thomas, MIT ’99 &*01

Vice President, Princeton Satellite Systems

“Adventures in Astronautics:

From Fusion Rockets to Pluto --- to Getting the Grants to Pay for Them”

Princeton Satellite Systems (PSS) develops commercial software and hardware for the

aerospace and energy industries and has won numerous small business research contracts from:

NASA, the Air Force, Navy, Army, NSF, DOE, DOD and the Missile Defense Agency. Following SB

and SM degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, Stephanie joined PSS in 2001, where

she is currently Principal Investigator of their ongoing grant from NASA’s Innovative Advanced

Concepts Program (NIAC). After detailing how PSS and NASA’s Space Technology Mission

Directorate (STMD) collaborate on vanguard technologies for future missions, she will showcase

PSS’s own Fusion-Enabled Pluto Orbiter, an integrated propulsive and power device for

explorations to deep space -- and beyond, to the stars.

Registration Required via propellers.princetonaaa.org

NEXT PRINCETON PROPELLER: Tuesday, January 9th (6 P)

The Greater Princeton Regional Alumni Schools Committee can use your help this year in its ongoing mission to identify and interview great applicants from our area.  ASC is open to all alumni, undergraduates, and graduate students. Contact Melanie Stein if you'd like to get involved. 

Evans Revere '76 Talk

(Tuesday, Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m., location: Friend Center, Convocation Room)

In 2012, Evans led PA3 members in a fascinating precept-like session discussing the complex diplomacy between the DPRK, the USA and China.  Clearly, this issue has moved to the forefront of foreign policy concerns, and Evans remains deeply involved. We're most fortunate that he has agreed to revisit this topic with PA3. Space is limited, so please RSVP to Tom Swift at tswift@alumni.princeton.edu.

More about Evans: Evans Revere '76 graduated with a degree in East Asian studies. He retired from the foreign service in 2007, having served in numerous capacities including  Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, managing U.S. relations with the Asia-Pacific region and leading an organization of 950 American diplomats and 2,500 Foreign Service National employees. He has been a visiting lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School and CEO of the Korea Society. He is currently a Senior Advisor to the Albright Stonebridge Group, a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has traveled to Pyongyang many times. He posts frequently on Brookings "Order from Chaos" blog, such as this September post.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2017/09/05/decision-time-north-koreas-nuclear-and-missile-threat-and-u-s-policy/

PA3 INVITES YOU TO
“SECOND TUESDAYS”

A PRINCETON PROPELLER EVENT

AT QUADRANGLE CLUB

FOR ENTREPRENEURS,

NAVIGATORS & THE CURIOUS

Please Join Us for Cocktails & Hors d’oeuvres

33 PROSPECT AVENUE – PRINCETON, NJ

6 P, TUESDAY, October 10th, 2017

Speaker:  Devin Walsh ’11

Strategy/Business Development,
uPort, ConsenSys

“Beyond Bitcoin: How Blockchain is  

Transforming Cryptocurrency, Commerce and the Arts”

After graduating from Princeton with a degree in Economics, Devin held several positions at BlackRock, concentrating on Platform Innovation.  This was followed by an internship, ongoing, at uPort, a self-sovereign identity solution built on the Ethereum blockchain, housed within ConsenSys. Concurrently, she is pursuing an MBA in MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where she has led an MIT Media Lab Digital Currency Initiative Working Group, as well as the first MBA Blockchain Venture Competition hosted by ConsenSys.  Devin’s talk will commence with a primer on Blockchain and its history. She will then delineate applications beyond cryptocurrency, and trace the decentralizing and disruptive impacts this technology is generating in all our lives --- from currency to IP to our very identity. 

Registration Required via propellers.princetonaaa.org

 
NEXT PRINCETON PROPELLER:  Tues, Nov 14^th (6 P)

Keep the Propellers Flying!

 The Propellers are entirely donations-funded.  

FULLY TAX-DEDUCTIBLE contributions can be made:

By check:  to “The Princeton Area Alumni Association (PA3)”
 ATTN:  Fouad J. Masrieh, Treasurer
1009 Barclay Blvd., Princeton, NJ  08540
(Please stipulate “for the Propellers”)  

OR by PayPal or Credit Card.

Princeton Alumni may add $30 "for PA3 Dues" 

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October 10 Propeller Event ( Tuesday, October 10, 2017 - 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM )

Speaker: Devin Walsh ’11

Strategy/Business Development, uPort, ConsenSys

Topic: “Beyond Bitcoin: How Blockchain is Transforming Cryptocurrency, Commerce and the Arts”

Location: Quadrangle Club, 33 Prospect Ave., Princeton, NJ 08544
Cost: Donations Accepted
Organized by: PA3

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