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The 2010 CAFE Foundation
Electric Aircraft Symposium Friday, April 23 and Saturday April 24, 2010
Doubletree Sonoma in Rohnert Park, California
The 4th Annual CAFE Electric Aircraft Symposium (EAS IV) is planned for April 23, 24, 2010 at the Doubletree Sonoma in the beautiful California Wine Country. The Preliminary Program below reveals an outstanding international faculty of experts in the technologies critical to the practical development of electric, hybrid and bio-fueled aircraft. This faculty and the rapidly-growing interest in electric aircraft is expected to quickly fill the limited number of seats for EAS IV.
EAS IV 2010 Program:
Preliminary Program: 5 minutes of Q&A per speaker; 20 min coffee; 50 min box lunch; Theme Dinners on site 4/23/10.
08:05 KEYNOTE: Jonathan Trent: Algal Bio-fuels: the OMEGA Project.
08:50 Dean Sigler: The Past as Prologue
09:10 Bill Dube, KillaCylcle: Lightweight High-power Battery Pack Design: Safe, Fault-tolerant, and Crash-resistant. Lessons Learned from Electric Drag Racing.
09:30 Eva Hakansson, Speed Record Electric Motorcycle
09:45 Calin Gologan, PC Aero, Germany: Electric Aircraft as Design Challenge – Present and Future
10:10 Coffee Break until 10:30
10:30 Geoffrey Long, Launchpoint Technologies: A high power density, high efficiency axial flux Halbach array motor/generator
10:55 Brien Seeley, CAFE Foundation: How and Why Electric Aircraft Should Transform Transportation
11:40 Dr. Key Dismukes, NASA Ames, Chief Scientist for Human Factors: Improving GA Safety - Not Just a Matter of Technology
12:05 Lunch until 13:00
13:00 TBD
13:25 Dr. Charlotte Whitfield, NASA Langley: Propeller Noise Reduction
13:55 Mark Moore, NASA Langley: Enabling Efficient Small VTOL Aircraft Through Electric Propulsion
14:20 JoeBen Bevirt: Can personal electric aircraft transform your commute?
14:55 Coffee Break until 15:15
15:15 KEYNOTE: Dr. Jaephil Cho, South Korea: High Density Electrode Materials with 1 and 3D Structures for Li-ion Cells
16:45 Eric Darcy, NASA JSC and NREL, Advanced Mitigating Measures for Preventing Catastrophic Li-ion Cell Internal Shorts
17:10 Zach Hoisington, Boeing Research & Technology: Airliners with Electric Propulsion
17:30 Adjourn, prepare for Theme Dinners
18:30 No-host cocktails in Foyer adjacent to Ballroom
19:15 Theme Dinners:
(Multiple 4 minute open-topic presentations
from attendees at each dinner)
Electrics: Batteries/Solar/Motors/Controller
Hybrids/Bio-fuel/Hydrogen
Aero/Props/Airframes
Saturday April 24
7:20 AM Continental Breakfast
08:00 Announcements
08:05 Michael Friend, Seattle: A Single Seat Electric Motorglider With a “Range Extender” Pod
08:25 KEYNOTE: Tyler MacCready, Aerovironment: Solar Wings
08:55 Josef Kallo, Germany: Fuel cell Systems for Aircraft Applications: Hyfish, Antares DLR H2, ATRA
09:20 Andrew Frank, UC Davis / Greg Stevenson, GSE engines: Hybrid Drives, Long Range Electric/Bio-Diesel Aircraft
09:55 Sebastian Thrun, Chair, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, Stanford & Dr. Nicholas Roy, M.I.T. : Advancing Autonomous Vehicles
10:15 Coffee Break
10:35 John W. McGinnis, Synergy: Aerodynamic Efficiency Near the Gabrielli - von Karman Limit
11:00 Joe Armstrong, Ascent Solar: Solar PV Technologies
11:20 Corey Ipollito, Paul Espinosa, Al Weston, NASA Ames, Swift UAS: A research platform for green aviation at NASA Ames Research Center
11:35 Steve Morris, MLB: Development and Flight Test of an Electric Powered SWIFT Ultralight Aircraft
11:50 Dr. Ajay Misra, Chief, Structures and Materials Division, NASA Glenn reserach Center: Saving Weight: Nano-structural and Other High Strength Material Technologies
Electric Aircraft