The ACE Network

• Aim and Mission

Astro-biology is a rapidly growing area of modern research. It is truly multi-disciplinary, covering the traditional areas of astronomy and bioilogy, of course, but also including geoscioence, atmospheric science, congitive science, artifical intelligence, advanced instrumentation, robotics and many more. It is an area currently moving from its historical background as a largely speculativeventure, to becomeing a solid quantitative science. It is thus an area of rapid movement, and very exciting. Our aim is to use the expertise of Monash staff to help each other keep up to date in an efficient manner. By sharing knowledge and insights we hope to make it possible for everyone to keep up to date with minimal effort.


• Upcoming Internal Events

If anyone wants to organsie an event please contact John Lattanzio with details. We welcome colloquia (accessible to people from many disciplines, please!) as well as more specialised research seminars.
• The Nova Rover Team's Mars Rover
  Daniel Ricardo, Monash University
  4pm Friday Feb 16
  Room 110, 10 College Walk, Building 27
  The Nova Rover Team is a group of undergraduate students currently developing a next generation Mars rover to compete at the University Rover Challenge (URC). Annually held at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, the URC has over 100+ teams from 13 countries applying to compete, only 30 are selected and this year the Nova Rover Team is aiming to be Australia's first and only team to compete - a huge milestone in the Australian space industry. Representing Monash University at an international stage, the overall goal of the URC is to simulate a manned mission on the surface of Mars with challenges each team must complete. Included in this is autonomous traversal, extreme terrain, equipment servicing and the science task.
  

  Following the talk you will be able to examine the rover!

  
  
  

• Upcoming External Events

• Mailing List

To be on our mailing list please contact John Lattanzio and provide us with your expertise and interests.

• Members

A list of some members and their broad interests is here.

• Recent Relevant Publications by ACE Members

Some publications are listed here.

• News and Recent Interesting Publications

Some publications and news items are listed here.

Professor John Lattanzio
Monash Centre for Astrophysics
School of Physics and Astronomy
10 College Walk
Monash University
Victoria 3800
Australia
Phone: +61 (0)3 9905-4428
Fax: +61 (0)3 9905-4403