Design of a Two-Sensor Camera for Near-Finfrared Aeiral Remote Sensing

The objective of this thesis was to design a color-infrared camera to be used for aerial remote sensing. The design process included obtaining requirements, modeling and analyzing the developed systems for mechanical and thermal stability, and optimization of the system for size and cost. Detailed analysis was required because of the harsh physical environment that airborne cameras are subject to. The solution involved constructing a housing within the limitations of the optical design and a set of chosen off-the-shelf components. These constraints significantly increased the difficulty of achieving the design goals. In the end the original optical design was altered, and all the initially specified components were replaced with pieces that allowed for a workable solution. This thesis is only one step in the evolution of this camera system. A method for future design optimization was also explored. Using ANSYS component mode synthesis analysis any future design changes can be evaluated without rebuilding the entire ANSYS model but by altering any of the subsystems. This work was supported in part by a Kodak Research Incubator Gift

On Journeys and Crossroads

In Part 1 of this lecture, Bobby Guev discusses the Exodus narratives and draws parallels between the plight of the enslaved Israelites in the story and the realities of our present day. In Part 2, he delves deeper into the concept of \u27fear\u27 in the context of the story and the state of our country today. Speaker: Dr. Guevara is an associate professor in the Department of Theology and was the recipient of the 2012 Henry Lee Irwn Memorial Teacher Award. He earned a doctoral degree in Theology, with a concentration in Sacred Scriptures. He has taught courses on the Theology of Liberation, the Catholic social vision, and the Old Testament, and served as the Associate Dean for Student Formation. In these various capacities, he has facilitated the engagement of students with various marginalized groups and communities, especially among the Dumagats of Nueva Ecija.https://archium.ateneo.edu/magisterial-lectures/1006/thumbnail.jp

Charged Lepton Masses as a Possible CPV Source

We realize a model-independent study of the so-called Tri-Bi-Maximal pattern of leptonic flavor mixing. Different charged lepton mass matrix textures are studied. In particular, we are interested in those textures with a minimum number of parameters and that are able to reproduce the current experimental data on neutrino oscillation. The textures studied here form an equivalent class with two texture zeros. We obtain a Tri-Bi-Maximal pattern deviation in terms of the charged leptons masses, leading to a reactor angle and three CP violation phases non-zero. These lastest are one CP violation phase Dirac-like and two phases Majorana-like. Also, we can test the phenomenological implications of the numerical values obtained for the mixing angles and CP violation phases, on the neutrinoless double beta decay, and in the present and upcoming experiments on long-base neutrino oscillation, such as T2K, NOvA, and DUNE