The 2010 CAFE Foundation Electric Aircraft Symposium Program

http://cafefoundation.org/v2/ea_eas_2010_main.php

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.

Friday April 23

• 07:30 Badge and Program pickup
• 08:00 Opening Remarks, Announcements, Thank you's, CAFE Board
• 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 Sebastian Thrun, Chair, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, Stanford: Advancing Autonomous Vehicles
• 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: VTOL Electrics
• 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 23

• 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 Steve Williams, CAFE Foundation: Intelligent, Reliable ePAVs: The Human/Computer Interface
• 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 Saving Weight: Nano-structural and Other High Strength Material Technologies
• 12:15 Adjourn for Saturday lunch and winery tours