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4/9/2007 International workshop dedicated to Rice's Angelo Miele The 14th International Workshop on Dynamics and Control will be held in May in Zdenigorov, a suburb of Moscow. The organizer is Felix L. Chernousko, director of the Institute of Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. “Angelo is a one-of-a-kind scholar,” said Enrique Barrera, professor and chair of mechanical engineering and materials science. “He is a pioneer in optimization and control. His fundamental research across several aero research areas had had a lasting impact on the aerospace industry.” Miele’s research focuses on various areas of flight mechanics, astrodynamics, applied aerodynamics, optimization theory and numerical methods. “I became emeritus professor in 1993, but I still teach classes and I’m still working on algorithms to solve optimal control problems of interest in atmospheric flight and space flight,” Miele said. Miele, also a professor emeritus in computational and applied mathematics, received degrees in civil engineering and aeronautical engineering from the University of Rome. He has taught for 43 years at Rice. He is an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a fellow of the American Astronautical Society and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the Russian Academy of Sciences and the International Academy of Astronautics. He has been principal investigator for more than 100 grants, and author or coauthor of some 250 journal articles and 400 technical reports and contributions to scientific meetings. He has been adviser to 85 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in aero-astronautics. His book “Flight Mechanics,” published in 1962 and translated into Russian in 1965, has influenced a generation of aerospace engineers. —Patrick Kurp is a science writer for the George R. Brown School of Engineering. |
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