Contact Information: igorcarron@gmail.com
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"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)
Current Interests
- My blog: Nuit Blanche, a mostly technical perspective of different important open problems and the tools needed to solve them. Also of interest: Compressed Sensing: The Big Picture and Compressed Sensing as seen on Nuit Blanche
- GeoCam/ Hyper-GeoCam : an off-the shelf imager for rapid response remote sensing monitoring (blog, website). We are now integrated on the next flight on HASP: It will feature GeoCam and Hyper-GeoCam, an off-the-shelf hyperspectral imager using compressed sensing.
- Robust Mathematical Modeling with SCM.
- Compressed Sensing (in my blog), Dimensionality Reduction,Bayesian Cognition, Maxent. I have mapped most of my blog entries on a separate webpage in order to give a better perspective on that framework and associated technologies. It is located here: http://igorcarron.googlepages.com/compressedsensing (A freemind version of this file can be found here. The same list in reverse chronological order can be found here( freemind here)). After some time, the sum of all these entries has become unwieldy. I have therefore decided to produce some sort of living document on Compressed Sensing.
- Subjects I have blogged about (they are connected): thermal engineering space Applied Math cognition darpa AI business weather modeling mishap sleep energy geocam collaborative task manager maps remote sensing wow technology bayes python tex-mems google maps hasp medical wavelet GPU autonomous compressed sensing microsystems neuroscience scaling space debris space situational awareness DC law UAV exploration internet traffic lua mems microcontroller superresolution transport
- Past Interests/News: Chronicle of Higher Education article, the 150 km panorama.
- I had 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.
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.
Student Experiments/Websites creation
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,