[FRIAM] Tuesday Lecture: Peter Lissaman: Sailor of the SouthernSkies

[Stephen Guerin]

Justin,

Yes, video archiving of talks is definitely high on our ToDo list. 

Though it may be faster if folks just moved here. The fidelity and 3D
head-tracking is better in person :-)

-S

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Lyon [mailto:justin at simudyne.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 1:16 AM
> To: stephen.guerin at redfish.com; The Friday Morning Applied 
> Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Tuesday Lecture: Peter Lissaman: Sailor 
> of the SouthernSkies
> 
> 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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