[FRIAM] Tuesday Lecture: Peter Lissaman: Sailor of the Southern Skies

[Justin Lyon]

Stephen,

Would it be possible for someone to video record these talks and post  
them as a online video like we do with the Grey Thumb talks?

http://www.greythumb.org/cms/node/4

Even just audio like on http://www.biota.org/podcast would be helpful.

For those of us who cannot make it to Santa Fe!!

Best,
Justin Lyon
+44 781 480 2797 - Mobile
http://web.mac.com/justinlyon/

On 24 Mar 2008, at 17:14, Stephen Guerin wrote:
> ** Tomorrow **
>
> TITLE: Sailor of the Southern Skies
>
> SPEAKER: Peter Lissaman
>
> TIME: Tuesday, March 25 12:30p
>
> LOCATION: 624 Agua Fria Conference Room
>
> Lunch will be available for $5
>
> ABSTRACT
> This is a theoretical scientific seminar of the methods by which the  
> southern
> albatross (Diomedea  Exulans) extracts energy from the oceanic  
> boundary layer,
> as first noted by Lord Rayleigh and, poetically, by Coleridge in  
> "The Ancient
> Mariner".  This great bird flies many thousands of kilometers on  
> stationary,
> silent wings.  The primeval flight energy extraction procedure makes  
> its
> existence possible. The analysis involves optimization of nonlinear,  
> extreme
> angle flight mechanics in a spatially varying wind field, and some  
> simple
> variational techniques.  The results are supported by a short VCR  
> clip, showing
> the process.
>
> Many of the discussions of this topic on the web, and in  
> ornithological
> literature, including a recent authoritative volume by Oxford Univ.  
> Press,  are
> incorrect.
>
> The lecture has been presented at American Instit. of Aero- and  
> Astronautics,
> NASA, Caltech, Stanford, USC, UNM and other places.
>
> The Presenter
> Peter Lissaman has a Ph.D. in aeronautics from Caltech, and advanced  
> degrees in
> Math from Cambridge Univ., in ME from Natal University and an  
> Honorary Ph.D. in
> engineering design from Natal University. He was awarded the  
> Longstreth Gold
> Medal by the US Franklin Society (previous recipients were Orville  
> Wright and
> Thomas Edison) and the Kremer medal from the Royal Aeronautical  
> Society.  He has
> taught many students, from Navy test pilots to Grad students at  
> Caltech, USC,
> and Stanford.  Some of his students went far - two to the moon!  He  
> is a
> designer of operating aircraft, sailboats, wind turbines and  
> automobiles, and
> has published more than 160 papers on subjects ranging from wing  
> theory and bird
> flight to turbulence.
>
>
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