Edward Belbruno
Professor
Department of Philosophy
Yeshiva University
United States of America
Biography
Received doctorate in mathematics from NYU's Courant Institute in 1980 specializing in celestial mechanics, dynamical systems. Went on to teach as an assistant professor of mathematics at Boston University 1980-85, then went to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1985 as a trajectory analyst, designing routes to Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Mars for US spacecraft. While there, formulated a new theory of space travel by using chaos theory to find low energy transfers to the Moon. Theory dramatically demonstrated in 1991 when I rescued a Japanese robotic lunar spacecraft, Hiten, and successfully got it to the Moon on a new type of route.
Research Interest
Research Interests: Enjoy teaching mathematics courses from freshman level to doctoral level. My research interests are in celestial mechanics, chaos dynamics, dynamical systems, aerospace engineering, cosmology(big bang singularity).
Publications
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Francesco T, Belbruno E (2012) Optimization of Low-Energy Transfers. 389-404.
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Francesco T, Belbruno Edward (2014) Earth--Mars Transfers with Ballistic Capture. Celest Mech Dyn Astron 121.
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Belbruno E, Francesco T, Gidea M (2008) Resonance transitions associated to weak capture in the restricted three-body problem. ADV SPACE RES 42: 1330-1351.
