Join us for First Fridays, a monthly recurring event for undergraduate and graduate Princeton alumni, graduate students, and parents.  On the first Friday of each month, area alumni and their guests will meet to enjoy a prix fixe luncheon at the Nassau Club in downtown Princeton.  As a special bonus for PA3, a Princeton University PhD candidate will present his/her work to the group in this informal setting.  Topics vary monthly and are always interesting!  

Have a look at our impressive roster of previous luncheons. 

Mai Nguyen, PhD candidate in Psychology, will be the guest speaker.  How do we represent complex information in the brain over time and how do individual differences in understanding or behavior affect these neural representations? To answer these questions, Mai uses neuroimaging methods (fMRI) to measure brain activity while people are engaged in tasks such as watching movies, listening to stories, or even interacting with others. Her work generally shows that shared understanding is reflected in shared neural responses. 

Please join us.  As always, there is sure to be a lively discussion!

Specially priced at $25/person (or $30 if you choose not to pay PA3's annual dues).

Lunch includes three courses, a complementary soft drink and coffee/tea.  Wine/beer offered a la carte.

Pre-registration is preferred.

>> Looking forward to seeing you...in your orange and black! <<
 

Date: Friday, September 7, 2018
Time: 12 noon - 2 pm
Location: Nassau Club, 6 Mercer St, Princeton, NJ
Nassau Club membership is not necessary to attend this event.
Dress is business casual.

Join us for First Fridays, a monthly recurring event for undergraduate and graduate Princeton alumni, graduate students, and parents.  On the first Friday of each month, area alumni and their guests will meet to enjoy a prix fixe luncheon at the Nassau Club in downtown Princeton.  As a special bonus for PA3, a Princeton University PhD candidate will present his/her work to the group in this informal setting.  Topics vary monthly and are always interesting!  Have a look at our impressive roster of previous luncheons. 
 

Mayank Misra is a PhD candidate at the Woodrow Wilson School and the Levin Lab in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.  Mayank was formerly a civil rights lawyer in the High Courts of Delhi and Bombay, and the Supreme Court of India. He completed a masters in Public Administration from the Woodrow Wilson School in 2014, was a fellow at the New York Public Library, and consulted for the Open Society foundations, before returning to Princeton as a PhD student.

Mayank's research as an ecologist, focuses on the evolution of modularity in socio-ecological systems - or how human beings organize to endure in the face of shifting fortunes.

Axelrod and Hamilton suggested that every resource available to an individual is more readily available to cooperating individuals; and we see cooperation all around us. From the cells within our bodies, to near immortal ant colonies, lichen supra-organisms, and ecosystems arranged across scales in time and space, the story of life is one of cooperation writ large. 

In his talk Mayank will discuss socio-ecological systems in general, and his study system in the Banni grasslands in India in particular, tying together how the colonially inspired planting of a tree may have led to people behaving (and dressing) differently.  

Please join us.  As always, there is sure to be a lively discussion!

Specially priced at $25/person (or $30 if you choose not to pay PA3's annual dues), lunch includes three courses, a complementary soft drink and coffee/tea. [**Wine/beer offered a la carte**] 
Pre-registration is preferred.

>> Looking forward to seeing you...in your orange and black! <<

Date: Friday, March 2, 2018
Time: 12 noon - 2 pm
Location: Nassau Club, 6 Mercer St, Princeton, NJ
Nassau Club membership is not necessary to attend this event.
Dress is business casual.

Join us for First Fridays, a monthly recurring event for undergraduate and graduate Princeton alumni, graduate students, and parents.  On the first Friday of each month, area alumni and their guests will meet to enjoy a prix fixe luncheon at the Nassau Club in downtown Princeton.  As a special bonus for PA3, a Princeton University PhD candidate will present his/her work to the group in this informal setting.  Topics vary monthly and are always interesting!  Have a look at our impressive roster of previous luncheons.



Nicholas M. Risteen is a PhD candidate in the History and Theory of Architecture, conducting a research project on post-disaster reconstruction in Japan between 1923 and 1964 that focuses on Tokyo and its cycles of ruin and renewal after earthquake, war, and reinvention under the specter of emergency.  His dissertation is titled "After the Disaster: Architecture and Emergency in Extraordinary Time". 

Please join us.  As always, there is sure to be a lively discussion!

Specially priced at $25/person (or $30 if you choose not to pay PA3's annual dues), lunch includes three courses, a complementary soft drink and coffee/tea. [**Wine/beer offered a la carte**] 
Pre-registration is preferred.

>> Looking forward to seeing you...in your orange and black! <<

Date: Friday, February 2, 2018
Time: 12 noon - 2 pm
Location: Nassau Club, 6 Mercer St, Princeton, NJ
Nassau Club membership is not necessary to attend this event.
Dress is business casual.

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, February 13th, 2017

Speaker: Alain L. Kornhauser, *71

Professor, Operations Research & Financial Engineering

Princeton University

“Autonomous Vehicles: Where Are We Going & How Will We Get There?

De-Fogging Your Shift from a Drive to a Trip”

Now that ubiquitous mobility for everyone is no longer a distant hypothetical, it’s time to consider the impacts of this coming transition on most of our lives. No one is better equipped to guide us through the complexities of this multi-faceted subject than Professor Alain Kornhauser, Faculty Chair of PAVE (Princeton Autonomous Vehicle Engineering). After introducing us to the terms; the technologies & role of deep learning; the major players & early adopters, his talk will explore economic/social costs & gains; the challenge of scaling; the milestones necessary for market acceptance --- and finally, the mechanics of managing it all.

Registration Required via propellers.princetonaaa.org

NEXT PRINCETON PROPELLER: Tuesday, March 13th (6 P)

'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)