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. > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
