Welcome, my contact Information is: igorcarron@gmail.com
I have put my profiles and set up my network on both LinkedIn and FaceBook for those of you connected on these social networks. My presence there is mostly an attempt to stay in touch with the many folks I have known and interacted with for the past twenty years.
- A technical blog called Nuit Blanche, that is primarly geared toward focusing a community of worldwide experts, mathematicians and applied engineers on important aspects arising in a new technology called Compressive Sensing. The blog has a readership of several hundred people a day. I see the blog as a way to focus people's attention on the larger picture: How can we make this technology work in our every day lives ? This is no small feat as the field was born in 2004. There are few instances in the history of science and engineering where a theory could be somehow be accelerated through the use of a distributed means such as a blog. I hope it serves that purpose for a while. Also of interest to newcomers is the following site: Compressed Sensing: The Big Picture. Even though it may not look like it, I have no formal training in sampling theory, electrical engineering, computer science or machine learning. Some of these fields are too new to really be formal!
- Robust Mathematical Modeling.
- I fielded a small team on DARPA's Urban Challenge: Pegasus Team. We have a website and a blog. You can also find a video of the DARPA Grand Challenge 2004 race. This is now over but I learned much about what I needed to know. I can safely say that the two blogs above are a consequence of these competitions.
"Richard Hamming’s three questions for new hires at Bell Labs:
1- What are you working on?
2- What’s the most important open problem in your area?
3- Why aren’t they the same? (Ouch!)
“You and Your Research” --- Richard Hamming (1986)
Spacecraft Technology
- Franky De La Garza, Jay Gerber, Sara Guest, Raymond Mendoza, Ramon Rivera, Karen Villatoro, Pamela Withrow, Angelo Bianchini, Randy Doolittle, John Yezak, Ramon Rivera, Igor Carron, Pedro Davalos, "GeoCam - An off-the-shelf Imager for Rapid Response Remote Sensing Monitoring", Workshop on Unmanned Airborne Vehicle Imagery for Domestic Emergency Response & Natural Resource Survey, Lafayette, Louisiana, December 13-14, 2006.
- Hill, C., Boyle, D., Carron, I., Combs, N., Mortari, D., and Pollock, T. "2nd Look. Use of Star Trackers for Space Situational Awareness," Proceedings of the Space Readiness in a World of Surprises Conference, September 7-8, 2006, Maui, Hawaii.
- John Lee Junkins, Daniele Mortari, Thomas C. Pollock, David Boyle, Igor Carron, Ossama Omar Abdelkhalik, Iohan Ettouati,Charles Hill, and James Cantrell, Feasibility Study and System Concept Development for the Space Situational Awareness Camera System, TEES Final Report, October 5, 2006
I. Horbaczewski, J. Copley, D. Hurtado, I. Carron, P. Davalos, Wireless Coexistence Analysis For Space Applications, World Wireless Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2005
White paper on early StarNav results obtained during STS-107 / Columbia, April 2003
Addendum to Early Mission Starnav 1 data from STS-107 ( PDF), August 2003. (During the Columbia-STS-107 mission, we identified several "floaters" around the Orbiter and tried to analyze them. One may note that the debris found floating next to Columbia - according to volume 1 of the CAIB report- 2003-003B was located on January 17, 2003 at about the same time as our "alpha" pictures. Our "beta" series of pictures taken a day earlier - 10 hours into the flight - show a brighter "object" and is the reason for the addendum). In a public setting, Ted Molczan seems to have looked deeper in the issue here in this mystery object report made from orbital decay observations. The CAIB called it the FD 2 object ( Appendix E-3 volume III). [ Update Feb 2004: after comparing our data to trajectory analyses performed at NASA/JSC we have come to the conclusion that we did not image FD2 on the second day]
A. Hensley, U. Abbas, C. Akram, S. Shashikant, I. Carron, Near real time thermal model correlation of an external shuttle payload, TFAWS 2002, Houston, Texas.
I. Carron, A. Hensley, Shadowing Studies of External Sites on the International Space Station, International Conference On Environmental Systems, July 2001, Orlando, FL, USA. An amusing example of this technique can be found here.
Advisor to Student led experiments:
Multi-Layer Systems / Optimization Microsystems
- V. K. Ignatovich, I. Carron, Multilayers Chracterization Solution Method, Tex-MEMS VI, College Station, TX, 2004.
- I. Carron, V. K. Ignatovich, Algorithm for the preparation of multilayer systems with high critical angle of total reflection, Phys. Rev. A 67, 043610 (2003).
- Organization of Tex-MEMS I and Tex-MEMS VI at Texas A&M University
CFD/Multiphase Flow/Thermal Hydraulics
Because even in Space, you need a plumber. - R. Williams, I. Carron, D. Bray, C. Kurwitz, and F. Best, Zero-Gravity Test Results For Ultrasonic Sensing Of Air-Liquid Interface in a Vortex Separator, AIP Conf. Proc. 654(1) 239 , 28 Jan 2003, STAIF 2003, Albuquerque, N.M.
- Velev, O., Srinvasan, S., Appleby, A. J., Carron, I., Real Time Two-Phase Fluid Flow Visualization in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells Using Neutron Radiography, Electrochemical Society Meeting, pp. 232, 1997 Aug, Paris.
- Igor Carron, Frederick Best, Gas-liquid flow regimes: Can we compute them from first principles?, National Heat Transfer Conference, Houston, Texas, August 1996, pp. 92-99, n. 310, vol. 92. AIChE Symposium series.
- Igor Carron, Contribution to Gas-Liquid flows, Dissertation, Texas A&M University, December 1995.
- Igor Carron, Frederick Best, Gas-liquid annular flow under microgravity conditions: A temporal linear stability study, International Journal of Multiphase Flow, December 1994, v.20, n. 6, pp. 1085-1093
- Igor Carron, Frederick Best, Gas-liquid annular flow under microgravity conditions, linear stability as tool for flow regime identification ? American Nuclear Society Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 1994.
- Igor Carron, Frederick Best, Microgravity phase separation of rotating fluids in a fixed cylinder, American Nuclear Society Winter Conference Proceedings, San Francisco, California, November 1991.
- Acknowledged in a Corrigendum: Instability of a liquid jet surrounded by a viscous gas in a vertical pipe Lin, S.P. ; Ibrahim, E.A. Journal of Fluid Mechanics v 240 Jul. 1992 p 685-686.
Transport Theory / Radiative Transfer /Multiresolution
- I. Carron, "Dealing with Haze in Texas: Solving the transport equation with spline-wavelets", International Transport Theory Conference, Atlanta, GA, May 1999.
- Use of wavelets in neutron transport theory, Center for Approximation Theory Symposium, College Station, Texas, April 26, 1997.
- Relevant Funded Project: Novel Approaches to Adaptive Angular Approximations in Computational Transport, NEER, DOE.
Weapons-Plutonium Disposition
- Saxton Reactor Irradiations Presentation at the 7th U.S./Russia Meeting on Light Water Reactors/ U.S./Russia Weapons Plutonium Disposition Study, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge TN, Dec. 6-9, 1999
- Safety Issues Associated with Plutonium Involvement in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Theodore A. Parish, V. V. Khromov, Igor Carron Eds., Kluwer Academics Publishers. NATO Science Series. Disarmament Technologies, 1999.
- M. L. Adams, C. A. Beard, V. V. Bolyatko, I. Carron, E. F. Kryuchkov, H. Mahmassani, A. R. McFarland, P. Nelson, J. C. Rodgers, D. M. Roundhil, E. A. Scheikert, "University Contributions to Research in Nuclear Materials Safety", NATO Advanced Research Workshop, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 7-14, 1998.
- Naeem M. Abdurrahman, Georgeta Radulescu, and Igor Carron, "Benchmark Calculations of the Saxton Plutonium Program Critical Experiments" Nuclear Technology, Vol. 127, (3) pp. 315-331, September 1999.
- Pavel V. Tsvetkov, Sridhar Hari, Gabriel Cuevas-Vivas, Igor Carron Data for modeling the Irradiation of the Saxton Reactor Core
- Neutronics Benchmark for the utilization the utilization of mixed oxide fuel, Saxton Plutonium Program
- P.B. Fox, J.J. Lichtenwalter, B.D. Murphy, R.T. Primm III, N. M.N. M. Abdurrahman, I. Carron, G. Radulescu, Neutronic Benchmarks for the Utilization of Mixed-Oxide Fuel: Joint U.S./Russian Progress Report for Fiscal Year 1997, Volume 4, Part 2—Saxton Plutonium Program Critical Experiments, ORNL/SUB/00-XSZ175V-2, September 2000.
- Organizer of the NATO Nuclear Materials Safety Management Workshop in Amarillo and Volga'97