1968 – 10th IACAS

3rd von Karman Lecture

1. Silverstein, NASA Lewis Res. Center, Cleveland, Ohio

Some Current Developments In Aerospace Propulsion

1969 – 11th IACAS No guest speakers

 

1970 – 12th IACAS

4th von Karman Lecture

1. Schijve, National Aerospace Lab., N.L.R., The Netherlands

Fatigue Of Aircraft Structures

1971 – 13th IACAS

1. Altman, United Technology Center, Sunnyvale, CA

Projected Space Applications Of Solid Rocket Motors

J.A. McDivitt, Manager, Apollo Spacecraft Program, NASA, Houston, Texas

The Apollo Lunar Landing Program

 

1972 – 14th IACAS

5th von Karman Lecture

I.E. Garrick, NASA Langley Res. Center, Hampton, Virginia

Perspectives In Aeroelasticity

S.S. Penner, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California

The Use Of Laser Techniques For Diagnostic Studies In Gas Dynamics

1973 – 15th IACAS

1. Stewartson, Dept. of Mathematics, University College, London

Some Aspects Of Non-Linear Stability Theory

 

1974 – 16th IACAS

6th von Karman Lecture

R.S. Shevell, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Selection Of The Fittest – The Evolution And Future Of Transport Aircraft

1975 – 17th IACAS

A.E. Bryson, Jr., Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA

Optimal Control Techniques Applied To Aeronautical Design

1. Sternberg, Div. of Eng. and Appl. Science, California Inst. of Tech., Pasadena, CA

Singular Stress Concentrations In Nonlinear Elasticity

 

1976 – 18th IACAS

7th von Karman Lecture

W.R. Sears, Aerospace and Mechanical Eng. Dept., Univ. Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

Modern Developments In Wind-Tunnel Testing

M.A. Zipkin, Advanced Eng. & Technol. Programs Dept., General Electric Co., Cincinnati, Ohio

Evolution Of The Aircraft Gas Turbine

 

1977 – 19th IACAS

D.T. McRuer, President, Systems Technology, Inc. California

New Trends And Problem Areas In Automatic Flight Control

1978 – 20th IACAS

8th von Karman Lecture

1. Poisson-Quinton, Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales, Chatillon

Slender Wings For Civil And Military Aircraft

1. Ashley, Dept. of Aeronautics, Stanford University, Stanford, California

Some Recent Developments And Prospects For The Future In Aeroelasticity And Related Unsteady Aerodynamics

P.R. Garabedian, Courant Mathematics and Computing Laboratory, New York University, New York

Transonic Flow Computations At The Courant Mathematics And Computing Laboratory

 

T.H.H. Pian, M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass.

Variational And Finite Element Methods In Structural Analysis

1979 – 21st IACAS

H.W. Withington, Boeing Airplane Co., Seattle, Washington

Commercial Air Transportation Developments In The Next Three Decades

1. Liebowitz, N. Subramonian and J. Lee, School of Eng. and Applied Sciences,

George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

Mechanics Of Fracture – Fundamentals And Some Recent Developments.

 

1980 – 22nd IACAS

9th von Karman Lecture

1. Summerfield, Princeton Combustion Res. Lab.

Recent Advances In Solid Rocket Propulsion

 

B.R. Rich, Lockheed California Co., Burbank, CA

Mach 3 Flight In Retrospect

K.B. Amer, Hughes Helicopters, Culver City, CA

Helicopter Design Technology – Past, Present And Future

1981 – 23rd IACAS

E.G. Fubini, Defense Science Board, Washington, D.C.

Military Technology, Present And Future – How Close Are We To The Technological Limits

B.L. Koff, Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Group, West Palm Beach, Florida

Advanced Technology For Augmented Turbo-Fan Engines

 

N.J. Krone, Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, Arlington, Virginia

Forward Swept Wing Aircraft

H.J. Hillaker, General Dynamics, Fort Worth Division, Fort Worth, Texas

The Technical Aspects Of The Yf-16/F-16 Configuration Development

1982 – 24th IACAS

 

10th von Karman Lecture

1. Erzberger, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

Automation Of On-Board Flight Path Management

 

J.F. McCarthy, NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio

Recent Advances In Aircraft Propulsion

1983 – 25th IACAS

1. Avidor, Israel Defense Force

Developments And Advances Of Mini Rpvs

J.E. Steiner, Vice President, Corporate Product Development, The Boeing Company

Aircraft Program Guidelines: Their Application To New Developments

R.T. Harper, Head, Flight Research Dept., Arvin/Calspan Advanced Tech. Center, Buffalo, N.Y.

Handling Qualities Of Flight Vehicles

 

S.S. Manson, Dept. Mech. & Aerospace Eng., Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH

G.R. Halford, Lewis Res. Center, NASA, Cleveland, OH

Complexities Of High Temperature Metal Fatigue: Some Steps Toward Understanding

1984 – 26th IACAS

11th von Karman Lecture

W.T. Koiter, Mechanical Eng. Dept., Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft, The Netherlands

Buckling Of Structures

1. Marshall, McDonnell Douglas, St. Louis, MO

The F/A-18a Hornet

W.F. Ballhaus, Jr., NASA Ames Res. Center, Moffett Field, CA

Computational Aerodynamics And Supercomputers

T.R. Logan, Advanced Composites CAD/CAM Integration,

Boeing Commercial Airplane Co., Seattle, WA

Integrated Cad/Cam – An Approach For Advanced Composite Primary Aircraft Structure

 

1985 – 27th IACAS

A.J. McDonald, Div. Manager, Morton Thiokol Inc., Wasatch Div., Brigham City, UT

Past Achievements And Future Trends In The Design And Development Of The Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters

J.R. Wertz, Microcosm Inc., Torrence, CA

Past Achievement And Future Trends In Spacecraft Control

 

Guest Lecturer Luncheon

Captain F.H. Hauck, Astronaut, Space Shuttle Mission Commander

M.J. Hemsch, Kentron International Inc., Hampton, VA

Recent Advances In Nonlinear Aerodynamics Of Tactical Missiles

R.A. Schapery, Dept. of Civil Eng., Texas A and M Univ., College Station, TX

Recent Experimental and Theoretical Results On Damage Growth In Composite Materials

1986 – 28th IACAS

12th von Karman Lecture

R.H. Battin, The Charles Start Draper Lab., Cambridge, USA

Space Guidance Evolution

J.A. Abrahamson, Strategic Defense, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Washington, D.C.

Strategic Defense Initiative

M.F. Card, Structures and Dynamics Div., NASA Langley Res. Center, Hampton, VA

Space Construction – The First Steps

1. Herman, Materials and Processes, Allison Gas Turbine Div., General Motors Co., Indianapolis

Advanced Materials For Aerospace Structures

 

1987 – 29th IACAS

B.S. Wygle, Boeing Co., Seattle, Washington

New Techniques In Flight Testing

C.J. Borenstein, RSBS Co., Canada

An Update In Aviation Products Liability

Captain J. O’Brien, E&AS Dept., ALPA, Washington, D.C.

Safety Overview Based On Alpa Pilot Safety Survey

 

1. Harari, Lavi Project Office, Israel Aircraft Industries

Advanced Technologies In The Lavi Program

 

J.E. Ffowcs-Williams, Dept. of Engineering, Cambridge Univ., England

Aeroacoustics

1988 – no conference

1989 – 30th IACAS

13th von Karman Lecture

1. Dat. Structures Dept., ONERA, Chatillon, France

Vibrations In Aerospace Structures: Prediction, Prevention And Control

D.C. Fraser, The Charles Stark, Draper Lab., Cambridge, MA

Twenty First Century Guidance And Control

1. Swihart, The Boeing Co., Seattle, WA, President Elect AIAA

Aeronautical Developments For The 21st Century

 

1. Wittenstein and M. Bar Lev, Space Technologies Dept., MBT – Systems & Space Technologies.

Offeq-1 Preliminary Flight Evaluation Results

 

1. Grina, Boeing Helicopter Co.

The Model 360 – Advanced Composite Helicopter

G.A.O. Davies, Imperial Coll. of Sci., Tech. and Medicine, London, U.K.

The Strength And Weakness Of Carbon Composite Structures

30th Conf. Commemorative Lecture

1. Singer, Faculty of Aerospace Eng., Technion

30 Years Of Aviation and Astronautics Mirrored By The Israel Annual Conference

1990 – 31st IACAS

1. Weizmann, Minister of Science and Technology

National And Political Developments In The Technological Age At The End Of The 20th Century

 

B.A. Cosgrove, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Seattle, WA

AGING FLEET: MAINTAINING AIRWORTHINESS

L.L. Regel, Lab. of Material Sci. in Space, Space Res. Inst., USSR Acad. Sci., Moscow

Results And Perspectives Of Gravitational Material Science

1. Dwoyer, Fluid Mechanics Div., NASA Langley Res. Center, Hampton, VA

Recent Advances In Hypersonic Technology

 

1. Jameson, Dept. of Mech. and Aerospace Eng., Princeton Univ., Princeton, N.J.

Computational Aerodynamics And Aircraft Design

W.W. Braithwaite, Renton Div., Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Seattle, WA

Integrated Computer Systems In Aircraft Design And Manufacture – Difficulties And Implications

1. Ryazantsev, Inst. for Problems in Solid Mechanics, USSR Acad. of Sci., Moscow

Convection Of Fluids And Microgravity Experiments

 

1991 – none – Gulf War

1992 – 32nd IACAS

14th von Karman Lecture

S.M. Bogdonoff, School of Eng. and Appl. Science, Dept. of  Mech. & Aerospace Eng.,

Princeton Univ., Princeton

Hypersonic Revisited

 

1. Rich, Lockheed Advanced Develop. Co.

The Development Of Aircraft In The Lockheed Skunk Works From 1954 To 1991

Udi Ben-Amitai Mem. Lecture

J.D. Engelland, General Dynamics, Fort Worth

Avionics Systems Architectures

 

J.-M. Luton, European Space Agency, France

European Space Programme

J.L. Speyer, Dept. of Mech., Aerospace and Nuclear Eng., UCLA, Los Angeles

Game Theoretic Synthesis For Robust Aerospace Controllers

D.L. Ferguson, Lockheed Advanced Develop. Co.

Yf-22a Prototype, Advanced Tactical Fighter Demonstration/Validation Flight Test Program Overview

1. Glassman, Dept. of Mech. and Aerospace Eng., Princeton Univ., Princeton, USA

Aerospace Applications Of Metal Combustion

 

 

 

 

 

 

1993 – 33rd IACAS

1. Bellan, Jet Propulsion Lab., Calif. Inst. of Technology

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory Space Exploration: Past, Present And Future

1. Rosenberg, Formerly Aerojet Propul. Div.

Liquid Rocket Propulsion, Retrospective And Prospects

 

1. Friedmann, Mech., Aerospace and Nuclear Eng. Dept., UCLA, CA

Aeroelastic, Aeromechanical and Vibration Problems In Helicopters

 

1. Harari, MALAT, Israel Aircraft Industries.

Uav Current Technology And Future Trends

1994 – 34th IACAS

R.W. Farquhar, Space Dept., Applied Physics Lab.,

The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, USA

Utilization Of Libration-Points Orbits, Lunar Gravity-Assist, And Earth-Return Trajectories

H.R. Jex, Chief Scientist, Systems Technol., Inc., Hawthorne, CA., USA

Creating A Free Flying Replical Of The Giant “Quetzalcoatuls Northropi” Pterodactyl

J.E. Sweeney and K. Sanders, Lockheed, Forth Worth, Texas, USA

F-16 Multi-Axis Thrust Vectoring Program

C.A. Rogers, Center for Intelligent Material Systems and Structures,

Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA

The Impedance Approach For Understanding Energy Transfer And Power Consumption Issues In Smart Structures

1. Miller, RAFAEL

Shaped Charges – Dynamic Modeling And Special Phenomena

1995 -35th IACAS

15th von Karman Lecture

Prof. Paul A. Lagace, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, M.I.T., 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MASS 02139, USA, FAX: 001-617-253-0361

Composite Materials: Still The Materials For The Future?

Prof. Adnan Akay, Head, Dept. of Mechanical Eng., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, USA Fax: 001 412 268 3348, Tel: 001 412 268 2501

Noise And Vibration In Aerospace Structures

 

Prof. Ashwani K. Gupta, Director of Combustion Lab., Dept. of Mechanical Eng., Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-3035, USA, FAX: 001 301 314 9477, Tel: 001 301 405 2410

Gas Turbine Combustion: Prospects And Challenges

Prof. Chung K. Law, Dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Eng., Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-5263, USA, FAX: 001-609-258-6233, Tel: 001-609-258-5271

Droplet Combustion Of High Energy Density Fuels

 

Dr. Kenneth M. Rosen, Vice President for Research & Engineering, Sikorsky Aircraft, 6900 Main Street, Stratford, CT 06601-1381, USA, FAX: 001 203 386 4403, Tel: 001 203 386 4626

An Overview Of Technologies Embodied In The Comanche Program

 

Mr. Robert J. Whalen, Vice President Technology, Martin Marietta Corporation, 15250 Avenue of Science, Rancho Bernardo, CA 92128, USA, FAX: 001 619 673 6400, Tel: 001 619 673 3410

Missile/System Technology

 

KEY NOTE LECTURE

Prof. Gabi Ben-Dor, Pearlstone Center for Aeronautical Engineering Studies, Dept. of Mechanical Eng., Ben Gurion Univ. of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, Beer Sheva 84105

Reconsideration Of The Shock Wave Reflection Phenomenon In Steady Flows

1996 – 36th IACAS

A.E. Bryson, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, U.S.A. e-mail bryson@sun-valley.stanford.edu

Linear-Quadratic Worst Case Controllers

 

D.G. Crighton, Department of Applied Mathematics

and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge

Silver Street, Cambridge CB3 9EW, England, email: dgc@damtp.cam.ac.uk

Aeroacoustics Of High-Speed Propellers And Fans

 

1. Leschziner, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Univ. of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester M60 1QD, England, Fax. 0044 161 200 3733

On The Role Of Advanced Turbulence Modelling In Computational Aerodynamics

 

P.D. Ronney, Department of Mechanical Engineering

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1453, USA

ronney@rcf.usc.edu

Combustion Experiments In Space

 

1. Haftka, Department of Aerospace Engineering

Mechanical & Engineering Sciences, 231 Aerospace Building, University of Florida

Gainesville, FL 32611-2031, USA. e-mail haftka@ufl.edu

Multidisciplinary Optimization Via Response Surface Technique

 

V.J. Modi, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

University of British Columbia, 2324 Main Hall, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z4, fax. 001 604 822 2403

Dynamics and Control Of Large Flexible Space Structures

Dr. Har-Even, Israel Space Agency, P.O. 17185, Ramat Aviv 61171

Space Utilization Activities In Israel

 

 

 

 

1997 – 37th IACAS

16th Von Karman Lecture

Prof. Kenneth K. Kuo, Director of High Pressure Combustion Lab.

Propulsion Engineering Res. Center, The Pennsylvania State University

140 Research Building East-Bigler Road, University Park, PA 16802, USA

KKKPER@engr.psu.edu

Importance And Characteristics Of Hybrid Rocket Propulsion Beyond Year 2000

Mr. Irving Abel, Chief, Structures Division

NASA – Langley Res. Center, Hampton, VA 23681-0001, USA

Irving_Abel@qmgate.larc.nasa.gov

Aerospace Structures

 

Professor Robert G. Loewy

School of Aerospace Engr, Georgia Institute of Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332-0150

Tel: 001 404 894 30002, Fax: 001 404 894-2760

Smart Structures With Aeronautical Applications

Dr. Allen R. Atkins, Vice President Product Application Technologies

Advanced Systems and Technology – PW, McDonnell Douglas Aerospace

Mailcode 1067126, P.O. Box 516, St. Louis, MO 63166-0516

aatkins@mdc.com

Developments In Aerospace Technology

Dr. Meyer Benzakein, General Manager, Advanced Engineering Programs

General Electric Company, 1 Neumann Way, MD G407, Cincinnati, OH 45215-6301,USA

mike.benzakein@ae.ge.com

Aircraft Engines

 

1. Lurie, A. Rosenfeld, C. Oiknine, Israel Aircraft Industries

Satellites And Launchers

1. Dubester, M. Suchowolsky, S. Tamir, M. Neugarten, Israel Aircraft Industries

Uavs And Electrooptical Payloads

1998 – 38th IACAS

1. Gai, Tactical Systems, Charles Stark Draper Lab., Inc., Mail Stop 79,

55 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139-3563, USA

Guiding Munitions With Micromechanical Ins/Gps System

1. Pound, Airbus Industries, 1 Rond Point Maurice Bellonte, 31707 Blagnac Cedex, France

R.L. Wurdack, Boeing, MS 05-MK, 3003 W. Casino Rd, Everett, WA 98203, USA

Richard.Wurdack@PSS.Boeing.com

Panel: Trends And Developments Of Commercial Aircraft In The Near Future

Prof. Brian Spalding, CHAM Ltd., Bakery House 40 High Street, London SW19 5AU, England

tel: 0181-947 7651, Fax: 0181-879-3497

Cad To Solid-Fluid Thermal (Sft) With Aeronautical Applications

1. Anafi, IMI, P.O. Box 66/1044, Ramat Hasharon 47100, Israel

Development Of Large Solid Boosters At Imi

1. Boness, Dept. 4000, IAI, Ben Gurion Airport 70100, Israel

Israel Aircraft Industries Business Jet, Past, Present And Future

 

1. Rosen, RAFAEL, Dept. 35, P.O.B. 2250, Haifa 31021, Israel

Air To Air Missiles Development In Israel

 

 

1999 – 39th IACAS

17th Von Karman Speaker

Dr. Jean-Pierre Marec, Director ONERA

BP-72 – 29 avenue de la Division Leclerc, 92322 Chatillon Cedex, France

debruyer@onera.fr

Medium/Long Term Research: A 3D Approach

 

Dr. Orlando Figuera, Office of Earth Science

NASA Headquarters, Office of Earth Science, Room 5A70

Washington, DC 20546-0001, USA, Tel: 00 1 202-358-2165, Fax: 00 1 202 358 3092

Small Satellites For Space And Earth Science

 

Prof. Vittorio Giavotto, Dipartmento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale, Politechnico di Milano

Via Golgi 40, 20133 Milano, Italy,

giavotto@aero.polimi.it

Crashworthiness

Prof. Anthony R. Ingraffea

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

College of Engineering, 371 Hollister Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

ari1@cornell.edu

How Long Can They Fly. Computer Simulation And The Aging Aircraft

Dr. Shanon Lucid, NASA Astronaut

c/o Ms. Linda Kennedy, CB/Astronaut Appearances Office, Building 4 South, Room 6303

NASA Johnson Space Center, 2101 NASA Road , Houston, TX 77058, USA

linda.kennedy@jsc.nasa.gov

The Benefits of Mir To The International Space Program

 

Prof. Israel Wygnanski

Dept. of Fluid Mechanics & Heat Transfer, Faculty of Engineering

Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, wygy@tau.ac.il,

Active Flow Control

 

Prof. Ben T. Zinn

School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0150, USA, bzinn@mail.ae.gatech.edu,

Intelligent Propulsion Systems

 

 

2000 – 40th IACAS

Prof. Satya N. Atluri (Cancelled Last Miniute)

Mechanical & Aerospace Eng. Dept.

School of Engineering & Appl. Science, 7704 Boelter Hall, UCLA

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1600, USA

atluri@seas.Ucla.edu

Prof. Sebastien Candel

EM2C CNRS, Ecole Centrale Paris, 92295 Chatenay-Malabry Cedex, France

candel@em2c.ecp.fr

Relationship Between Experimentation and Modeling in Combustion

 

Dr. Joel Ferziger

Dept. Mechanical Eng., Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

ferziger@ecoule.stanford.edu

Simulation of Turbulent Flow: State of the Art and Prospects

 

Dr. F. Landis Markely

Guidance, Navigation and Control Center, Code 571, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA, Landis.Markely@gsfc.nasa.gov

Apacecraft Attitude Determination Methods

 

Mr. Uzi Rubin

Ministry of Defense, Kiriya, Tel Aviv, email: uzirubin@isdn.net.il

The Arrow Program – Threat and Response

 

Dr. Patricia Sanders

Director of Test, Systems Eng. & Evaluation, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense

3000 Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301-3000, USA

Mary.Stewart-contractor@bmdo.osd.mil

Test, Evaluation and Systems Engineering in the USA

Dr. N.A. Shneydor, 2 Heine Pl., Haifa 34485

Formerly RAFAEL

The First Air-to-Air Missile

2001 – 41st IACAS

18^th Von Karman Lecture

Colonel Michael S. Francis

Director of Integrated Mission Analysis, M/S 370, Lockheed Martin Corporation

6801 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20817, USA

email: michael.s.francis@lmco.com

Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAV) including Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (MUAV

 

Mr. John Bates, Chief Engineer, 777 Customer Engineering

Commercial Airplanes Group, The Boeing Company

P.O.B. 3707 MC 03-XP, Seattle, WA 98124-2207, USA

Email: John.Bates@PSS.Boeing.com

More Than Just An Airplane

Dr. Josef Shwartz

TRW Space and Electronics Group, One Space Park, Redondo Beach, CA 90278, USA

Joe.Shwartz@trw.com

Nautilus Project

Professor William A. Sirignano, Dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California,S3202 EG, MC 3975, Irvine, CA 9269, USA

sirihnan@uci.edu

Spray Combustion – Propulsion

Professor Tayfun Ersin Tezduyar

Mechanical Eng. & Material Science, 106 Mechanical Eng. Bldg., MS 321

Rice University, 6100 Main, Houston, TX 77005, USA, tezduyar@mems.rice.edu

Computational Mechanics                                          

 

Professor Terrence A. Weisshaar

School of Aero & Astro, 1282 Grissom Hall, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1282, USA

weisshaa@ecn.purdue.edu

Aeroelasticity

 

 

 

 

2002 – 42nd IACAS

Prof. Itzhack Y. Bar-Itzhack

Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel

The Evolution of Inertial Navigation

 

Dr. Christos C. Chamis, Senior Aerospace Scientist

NASA Glenn Research Center, M/S 49-7, 21000 Brookpark Rd, Cleveland, OH 44135, USA

Christos.C.Chamis@grc.nasa.gov

Probabilistic Structural Analysis and Its Applications

Professor Norman Chigier

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

Scaife Hall 320, Frew Street, Pitssburgh, PA 15213-3890, USA

chigier@andrew.cmu.edu

Problems and Challenges in the Development of Micro-Propulsion Devices

Mr. Ovadia Harari

Dept. 9002, Israel Aircraft Industries, Ben Gurion Airport, Lod 70100, Israel

Lean Philosophy in Aircraft Industry

 

Mr. Yoram Shmuely, General Manager

Helmet Mounted Systems, Elbit, Advanced Technology Center, P.O.B. 539, Haifa 31053, Israel

Tel: 04-8315482, Fax: 04-8316890

Helmet Mounted Systems – Optimal Interface between Operator and Platform

 

Professor Sir Martin Sweeting

Chief Executive, SSTL, Surrey Space Center, University of Surrey,

Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, UK, M.Sweeting@SSTL.co.uk

Micro/Nanosatellites – Revolution in Space

 

2003 – 43^rd IACAS

Professor Minking K. Chyu

Chairman, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 649 Benedum Engineering Hall

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA

mkchyu@engrng.pitt.edu

Gas turbine cooling

 

Dr. Paul Kamoun, Head

Strategy and Business Dev. Science, Environment and Meteorology Sat Directorate

Alcatel Space, 100 Blvd. du Midi – BP99, 06322 Cannes La Bocca, France

paul.kamoun@free.fr

Worldwide Survey of Novel Spaceborne Earth Observation Payloads

 

Mr. Moshe Keret

President and CEO, Israel Aircraft Industries

Ben Gurion Airport, Lod 70100

IAI Jubilee Anniversary – Past, Present and Future

Mr. N.R. Mohanty, Chairman

Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd., 15/1 Cubbon Road

Post Box #5150, Bangalore 560 001, INDIA

chairman@hal-india.com

Indigenous Development of Aircraft and Helicopters in Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd., India

 

Prof. Jason Speyer

Mechanical & Aerospace Eng. Dept.

Henry Samueli School of Eng. & Appl. Sci., 48-121 Engineering IV, Box 951597, UCLA

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597, USA, speyer@seas.ucla.edu

Recent Results in the Processing of Code and Carrier Phase GPS Data

 

 

2004 -44^th IACAS

19^th Von Karman Lecture

Prof. Inderjit Chopra

Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Professor & Director Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center

Dept. of Aerospace Eng., University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA

chopra@eng.umd.edu

Review of State of Art of Smart Structures and Integrated Systems

 

Prof. Oscar Biblarz

Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Naval Postgraduate School

Mail Code: AA/Bi, Monterey, CA 93943, USA, obiblarz@monterey.nps.navy.mil

Electric Propulsion for Space

 

Mr. Yair Ramati, General Manager

MLM, IAI, Ben Gurion Airport, Israel

Large Scale Missile System Development – SoS System of Systems

 

Prof. Kazuyoshi Takayama, Director

Shock Wave Research Center, Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University

2-1-1 Katahira, Sendai 980-8577, Japan, takayama@rainbow.ifs.tohoku.ac.jp

Multidisciplinary Applications of Shock Wave Research to Medicine, Geophysics and Industry

Mr. Shlomo Tsach, Director

Flight Sciences Eng. Div., IAI, Ben Gurion Airport, Israel

stsach@iai.co.il

Thirty Years of UAV Development in IAI and Future Directions

2005 -45^th IACAS

Dr. Bertrand Aupoix, Research Director

ONERA, Dept. of Models for Aerodynamics and Energetics

Head of TMP Research Unit, B.P. 4025, F-31055 Toulouse Cedex 4, France

Bertrand.Aupoix@onecert.fr

Turbulence Modeling and Validation Activities at ONERA/DMAE

CANCELLED

Prof. Israel Borovich, Chairman of the Board EL AL

Tel: 03-6902221, Fax: 03-69991512, Email: Israel.borovich@knafaim.com

The Impact of Global Terrorism on Civil Aviation

Prof. John Loth, Dept. of MAE, West Virginia University

P.O.B Box 6106, Morgantown, WV 26506-6106, USA, John.Loth@mail.wvu.edu

Three Decades of Progress in Circulation Control High Lift Systems

Prof. Roddam Narasimha, FRS, Chairman, Eng. Mechanics Unit

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Res.

Jakkur PO, Bangalore 560 064, INDIA, roddam@caos.iisc.ernet.in

Indian Aerospace in a Globalizing World

Mr. Shri Prahlada, Director, Defense Res. & Development Laboratory (DRDL)

Kanchanbagh PO, Hyderabad – 500 058, INDIA, hyd2_prahlada@sancharnet.in

Technologies and Management of Tactical Missile System

 

Mr. Uzzi Rozzen, Corporate VP for Strategic Planning

IAI, Ben Gurion Int. Airport, ISRAEL 70100, urozzen@iai.co.il

R&D Innovation and System Engineering

Prof. Daniel Weihs, Distinguished Professor

Fac. of Aerospace Eng., Technion, Haifa 32000, ISRAEL, dweihs@tx.technion.ac.il

Aerodynamics in the Biological Realm

Prof. Israel Wygnanski, AME Department, College of Engineering

The University of Arizona, PO Box 210119, 1130 N. Mountain

Tucson AZ 85721-00119, USA, wygnanski@ame.arizona.edu

Periodic Excitation and the Quest for Runway Independent Aircraft

2006 – 46^th IACAS

20^th Von Karman Lecture

Mr. Dennis M. Bushnell, Chief Scientist

NASA Langley Research Center, 100 NASA Road, Hampton, VA 23681, USA

d.m.bushnell@larc.nasa.gov

Civilian Aeronautical Futures

Prof. Alan H. Epstein

R.C. Maclaurin Professor or Aeronautics & Astronautics

Director, Gas Turbine Laboratory, MIT. Cambridge, MASS 021239-4307, USA

Epstein@mit.edu

The Growing Importance of Shrinking Engines

 

Mr. Hezi Grizim, General Manager

ELTA AEW Div, ELTA Systems Ltd., P.O.B. 330, Ashdod 77102, jgrizim@elta.co.il

The Tightly Coupled Design of Rada and A/C for AEW Application

Dr. Dan Nale, Vice President

Gulfstream G100, G150, and G200 Programs, Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, P.O.B. 2206, Savannah, Georgia 31402, USA, dan.nale@gulfstream.com

Continuous Renewal of the Gulfstream Product Line

 

Professor Sergio Pellegrino, Professor of Structural Engineering

Dept. of Engineering, Univ. of Cambridge, Trumpington St., Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK

sp28@hermes.cam.ac.uk

New Concepts for Spacecraft Antenna and Radar Structures Based on Ultra-Thin Composites

Prof. Mark Psiaki

Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Eng., 206 Upson Hall, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY 14853-7501, USA, mlp4@cornell.edu

Global Navigation Satellite Systems: Genesis, State of the Art and Future Directions

2007 – 47^th IACAS

Prof. Mark Balas

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, College of Engineering, University of Wyoming, 1000 E. University Ave, Laramie, WY 82071, USA, mbalas@uwyo.edu

Evolving Systems: A Framework for Self-Assembling Space Structures

Prof. Isaac Ben-Israel, Head, The Security Studies Program

The Gershon H. Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978

itzik@post.tau.ac.il

Missile Warfare: From the Ballistic Missile to the Katiusha Rockets in Lebanon

 

Dr. Fayette S. Collier, Principal Investigator, Subsonic Fixed Wing Project

NASA Langley Res. Center, Hampton, Virginia 23681, USA

Emal: Fayette.S.Collier@nasa.gov

Recent Advances in Performance, Noise and Emissions of Subsonic Transport Aircraft

 

Prof. Alon Gany, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion, 32000 Haifa

gany@tx.technion.ac.il

Solid Fuel Ramjets and Scramjets – A promising High-Speed Long-Range Propulsion Solution

 

Mr. Arieh Halsband

General Manager, MBT Space Division, P.O.B. 105, Yehud 56000, ahalsband@iai.co.il

The Israel Space Industry – Its History and Future Forecast

2008 – 48^th IACAS

21^st Von Karman Lecturer

Prof. Terry Alfriend

Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University

744A H.R. Bright Building, 3141 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-3141, USA

alfriend@aero.tamu.edu

Dynamics and control of formation flying satellites

Keynote Lecture

Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Former President of India

World knowledge platform: Aerospace vision

 

Prof. Earl H. Dowell, J.A. Jones Professor

Dept. of Mechanical Eng. And Material Scienc, School of Engineering, 185 Hudson Hall, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA, dowell@ee.duke.edu

Nonlinear aeroelasticity of current and future flight vehicles

 

Prof. Peretz Friedmann, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor

Univ. of Michigan, Dept. of Aerospace Eng., 1320 Beal Ave, 3001 FXB Bldg., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2140, USA, Email: peretzf@umich.edu

Aeroelastic and aerothermoelastic analysis of hypersonic vehicles – a multidisciplinary challenge

 

Prof. Hans P. Geering

Measurement and Control Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH-Zentrum, ML K37.3, CH-8092, Zurich, Switzerland, geering@imrt.mavt.ethz.ch

Robust control in aerospace applications

 

Jacque Samla

Dept. 2700, MALAT, Israel Aerospace Industries,  Lod 70100

IAI UAV Systems

 

2009 – 49^TH IACAS

Mr. Moshe Arens

2 Kerem Hazeitim, Savyon 56536, Israel, arens@netvision.net.il

The Birth of Israeli Aerospace Industry

Prof. Gary Balas

Faculty of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics

University of Minnesota, 107 Akermann hall, 110 Union St. SE

Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA, balas@aem.umn.edu

Cyer-Aerospace Systems: The Challenges Ahead

 

Dr. Dror Ben David

Matrix Defense Co., P.O.B. 2062, Herzlia Pituach 46120, drorbe@matrix-defense.co.il

Unmanned Aerial Systems – Trends and Challenges

 

Dr. Robert H. Liebeck

The Boeing Company, 5301 Bolsa Ave, MC H45N-E405

Huntington Beach, CA 92627-2099, USA robert.h.liebeck@boeing.com

History of the Development and Flight Test of the Blended Wing Body (BWB X-48B)

 

Mr. Bjarni Tryggvason

Department of Mechanical and Material Engineering, Spencer Engineering Building

University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B9, btryggvason@eng.uwo.ca

Flight: Fast and High; Low and Slow

 

2010 – 50^th  IACAS

Prof. Gabi Ben-Dor, Morton and Toby Mower Professor of Shock Wave Studies

Dean of the Engineering Sciences Faculty

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O.B. 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, bendorg@exchange.bgu.ac.il

Hysteresis Phenomena in the Interaction of Shock Waves

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Norbert Peters

Head of Department, ITV, RWTH Aachen University

Templergraben 64, 52056 Aachen, Germany, N.Peters@itv.rwth-aachen.de

Universal Scaling in the Entire Inertial Range of Turbulence

Professor Wei Shyy, Clarence L. “Kelly” Johnson Collegiate Professor

3000 FXB, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, 1320 Beal Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2140, USA, weishyy@umich.edu

Aerodynamics and Aeroelasticity of Flapping Wings       

Panel:

Shimon Sarid, Elbit – UAVs Road Map & Technologies

Zvi Genisher: IAI -50 Years of Business Jets Development at IAI

Alex Axelrod: RAFAEL – Iron Dome Anti Rocket System

2011 – 51^st  IACAS

22nd Von Karman Lecturer

Professor Anthony Leonard, Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics, Emeritus

Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories, California Institute of Technology

1200 East California Boulevard, Mail Code 301-46, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

axleonard@gmail.com

Micro Air Vehicles with Fluidic Control

 

First Memorial Josef Singer Lecture

Prof. George Springer, Professor Emeritus; Paul Pigott Professor of Engineering

Huang Engineering Center, Durand 367

Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4035, USA, gspringer@stanford.edu

Composite Materials from Spacecraft to Symphony Halls

Dr. Marvin E. Goldstein, NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field

21000 Brookpark Road, Cleveland, OH 44135, USA, marvin.e.goldstein@nasa.gov

Basic Theory of Airplane Noise

Maj. Gen. (Res.) Giora Rom, Director General

Israel Civil Aviation Authority, P.O.B. 8, Ben Gurion Airport 70100, rommg@mot.gov.il

Israeli Civil Aviation – Status and Prospects

Prof. Tom I.-P. Shih

Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering, 701 W. Stadium Ave., Rm 3317

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2045, USA, tomshih@purdue.edu

Computational Analysis of Turbine Cooling – Challenges and Opportunities

Professor Richard Yetter

Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering

The Pennsylvania State University, 111 Research Building East, University Park, PA 16802, USA

ray8@engr.psu.edu

Advances in Micropropulsion and Nanoenergetics

 

Panel on Space

1. Bergmann, IAI, The Peculiarity of the Israeli Satellite Launch Program
2. Shahar, MoD, Current Activities of Israel Space Agency
3. Guelman, Technion, Small Nations in Space Exploration
4. Herscovitz, RAFAEL, Small Thrust – Big Challenges: RAFAEL’s Advanced Technologies for the Venus Mission

 

 

2012 – 52nd  IACAS

Hanin Memorial Lecture

Ben T. Zinn, Georgia Tech., USA

Are Smart Combustors in our Future

Daniel Inman, University of Michigan, USA

Smart Materials for Aerospace Structures: Harvesting and Morphing

 

Avraham Brot, Israel Aerospace Industries

Developing Strategies to Combat Threats Against the Structural Integrity of Aircraft

Christina Amon, University of Toronto, Canada

Hierarchical Thermal Transport Modeling and Simulation in Semiconductors from

Nano to Macro Scales

Ilan Kroo, Stanford University, USA

Future Aircraft Concepts for Sustainable Aviation

Moshe Attar, Israel Aerospace Industries

Considerations for Fly by Wire (FBW) Systems Design Fly By Wire

Panel: UAVs in Civil Applications

1. Yoeli, Urban Aeronautics: The Airmule Internal Rotor UAV: Civil and Para-Military Applications
2. Tsach, Israel Aerospace Industries: Civil Applications for UAS – Future Development Trends
3. Gottesman, Elbit Systems: UAS in Civil Applications: Technology and Certification
4. Schwachter, Israel Aerospace Industries: Maritime UAVs for Civilian Applications

2013 – 53rd  IACAS

Von Karman Lecture

Rafi Haftka, University of Florida, USA

Multidisciplinary Design Optimization in the Presence of Uncertainty

Avraham Ardman, Bombardier Aerospace, Canada

More Electric Aircraft (MEA) Technology Update

Kenneth Breuer, Brown University, USA

The Aeromechanics of Bat Flight

Alessandro Gomez, Yale University, USA

Highly Turbulent Counterflow Flames: A Laboratory Scale Benchmark for Practical Combustion Systems

Moshe Guelman, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Electric Propulsion for Space Flight

Ilan Porat, Elbit Systems, Israel

Electro-optical Space Systems – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

 

 

 

 

 

 

2014 – 54^th IACAS

Hanin Memorial Lecture

Prof. Israel J. Wygnanski, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona

Can Active Flow Control Provide a Paradigm Shift in Airplane Design

 

Armona Brandl, Chief  DIRCM System Engineer, Elbit Systems, ELOP

Development of Direct Infrared Countermeasure System for Civil Aviation

Ari Glezer, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech

Aerodynamic Flow Control using Fluidic Actuation

Mr. Boaz Levy, Executive Vice President & General Manager, Systems Missiles & Space Group
Israel Aerospace Industries

Multi-Layer Air Defense System As a System of Systems

 

Dan Scheeres, A. Richard Seebass Endowed Chair Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder

The Mechanics of Exploring Asteroids

 

Anthony M. Waas, Felix Pawlowski Collegiate Professor of Aerospace Engineering,

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan

Virtual Testing of Composites and Its Role in Composite Aerospace Structures

2015 – 55^th IACAS

Von Karman Lecture

John L. Junkins, PhD, PE, NAE,

Distinguished Professor, Royce E. Wisenbaker ’39 Chair, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University; Founding Director, Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study

Astrodynamics for Modern Space Operations:  Recent Analytical, Computational and Experimental Research

Norman R. Augustine, Retired Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Aerospace in the 21st Century:  New Challenges, New Opportunities

 

Yaakov Bar-Shalom, Distinguished IEEE AESS Lecturer

Recipient of the 2008 IEEE Dennis Picard Medal for Radar Technologies, University of Connecticut

TARGET TRACKING AND DATA FUSION: How to Get the Most Out of Your Sensors (and make a living out of this)

Dan Henningson, Linné FLOW Centre, KTH Mechanics,

Director Swedish e-Science Research Centre

Drag reduction on airplanes using Laminar Flow Control (LFC)

Naira Hovakimyan, Professor and Schaller faculty scholar Mechanical Science and Engineering ,

Affiliate Professor of Aerospace Engineering , Affiliate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

L₁ Adaptive Control for Safety Critical Aerospace

 

Tuvya Ronen, Senior Vice President; Head, Research, Development & Engineering Division,

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Israel

The Development of Iron Dome – the Success from an R&D Perspective

2016 – 56^th IACAS

Hanin Memorial Lecture

Prof. Peretz P. Friedmann, François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering,
University of Michigan
Vibration and Noise Reduction in Rotorcraft Using On-Blade Control: from Theoretical Concept to Flight Ready Hardware

Mr. Uys Jonker, Jonker Sailplanes, South Africa
The Birth of a Dream – the High Performance JS1 Revelation Glider

Mr. Uzi Rubin, Begin Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar Ilan University
The High-Tech Revolution and its Impact on Air Power

Dr. Mark B. Tischler, Senior Scientist (ST), Flight Control Group Leader, Aviation Development Directorate – AFDD (Moffett Field, CA), US Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center
Aircraft and Rotorcraft Flight Control Technologies and Challenges

Prof. Paul Weaver, Advanced Composites Centre for Innovation and Science (ACCIS),

Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol
Lighter aircraft structures using variable angle tow composites

 

2017 – 57^th IACAS

Von Karman Lecture

Prof. Edward M. Greitzer, H. N. Slater Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Gas Turbine Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Subsonic Civil Transport Aircraft for a 2035 Time Frame: An Industry-NASA-University Collaborative Enterprise

 

Prof. Emeritus Alon Gany, Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Techion – Israel Institute of Technology
From a Ramjet to an Afterburner in Marine Two-Phase Jet Propulsion

Prof. Ephraim (Effie) Gutmark, PhD, DSc, Distinguished Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Cincinnati
Rotating Detonation – The future of propulsion”

Prof. Daniele Mortari, Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University
From Art to Science: The Satellite Constellation Design Evolution

Prof. Emeritus Yossi Leshem, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University
Director, International Center for the Study of Bird Migration, SPNI
Migrating Birds Know No Boundaries; The Israeli Air Force as a Test Case

 

2018 – 58^th IACAS

The Meir Hanin International Aerospace Prize

Prof. Ephraim (Effie) Gutmark
Distinguished Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Cincinnati
“From Jet Engines to Vocal Cords – The Synergy of Aerospace, Voice, Sleep, and Cardiovascular Research“

B.GEN. (Res.) Amnon Harari
Head of Space Program / Directorate of Defense R&D
Israel Ministry of Defense
“How Long Can Satellites Live, and Beyond”

Prof. Arnon Karnieli
Head of the Remote Sensing Laboratory, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
“The VENµS Program and Scientific Mission“

Prof. Dimitri Mavris
S.P. Langley NIA Distinguished Regents Professor
School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Tech
“A Physics-based, Probabilistic Approach for Aircraft Technology Assessments and Uncertainty Quantification”

Ms. Esti Peshin
General Manager, Cyber Division
Israel Aerospace Industries
“Cyber Safety and Flight Safety – An Inseparable Coupling in Modern Airplanes”

Prof. Philippe R. Spalart
Senior Technical Fellow, Boeing Commercial Airplanes
College of Engineering & Applied Science, University of Colorado Boulder
“Turbulence Prediction in CFD: From One-Equation Models to Large-Eddy-Simulation Hybrids”

2019 – 59^th IACAS

Von Kármán Lecture

Prof. Elaine Oran
Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering
Department of Aerospace Engineering
University of Maryland
“Turbulence and Transition in High-Speed Reactive Flows“

Prof. Juan J. Alonso
Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics
Stanford University
“Industrial Shape Optimization Applications Using Adjoints and HPC: A 25-Year Perspective“

 

Prof. Penina Axelrad
Joseph T. Negler Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences
Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences
University of Colorado Boulder
“Scientific Applications of Global Navigation Satellite Systems“

 

 

 

Prof. Carlos Cesnik
Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Director, Center for Aero-Servo-Elasticity of Very Flexible Aircraft
University of Michigan
“Aeroelastic Challenges on Very Flexible Aircraft“

 

Mr. Opher Doron
VP & GM Space Division
Israel Aerospace Industries
“The Role of Established Space Industry in a New Space Environment“

 

Prof. Susan Ying
President, International Council of Aeronautical Sciences
VP Technology Strategy and International Relations, Ampaire
“Aviation’s Third Revolution:  Challenges and Opportunities“

2020 – 60^th IACAS

Keynote: Langford, John S.

Aurora Life Sciences Corporation

Rapid Prototyping of Modern Aerospace Vehicles: The Aircraft and Technology of Aurora Flight Sciences, 1989-2017

Plenary Lecture I – The Meir Hanin International Aerospace Prize Lecture:

Psiaki, Mark L. , Virginia Tech

How Could I Figure That Out? Functionality and Fun with Kalman Filtering

Idan, Irit

Rafael – Advanced Defense Systems

Rafael – a Look into the Future

Tilmann, Carl

Aerospace Vehicles Division, Aerospace Systems Directorate, US Air Force Research Laboratory

Air Vehicle Research at the US Air Force Research Laboratory: Yesterday, Today, and a Peek into Tomorrow

Martins, Joaquim R. R. A.

University of Michigan

Multidisciplinary Design Optimization for the Next Generation of Aircraft

Bisagni, Chiara

Delft University of Technology

Buckling of Aerospace Composite Structures: New Challenges and Opportunities

Livne, Eli

University of Washington

Active Flutter Suppression – Vision, Potential, and the Current State of the Art

2021 – No IACAS – COVID 19 Pandemic

2022 – 61^st IACAS

 

Brig. Gen. (Res.) Dr. Daniel Gold

Head of the Israeli Defense Research and Development Directorate

Mafat – from vision to mission

Prof. Anthony M. Waas

Richard A. Auhll Department Chair, Aerospace Engineering, Felix Pawlowski Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Validated Computational Models for Progressive Damage and Failure

of Aero-structural Laminates

Prof. Gil Iosilevskii

Department of Aerospace Engineering, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology

Can aerospace sciences explain animal behavior? Optimal strategies in aquatic locomotion

Mr. Ami Weisz

Director of Development and Experiments, Initial Airworthiness,

Israeli Civil Aviation Authority

The Israel National Drone Initiative (INDI) – Regulatory and Engineering Challenges

Prof. Richard B. Miles

University Distinguished Professor and O’Donnell Foundation Chair V in Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M and Robert Porter Patterson Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University.

Unravelling the Properties of Unsteady and Nonequilibrium Flows with New Laser Based Stand-Off Methods

Tal Shakked

Aircraft Engineering Director in ELTA Ltd., Israel Aerospace Industries

Mission Aircraft in IAI – Past, Present and Future

Hilla Haddad Chemlnik

Director General of the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology

New Space – National Challenge

2023 – 62^nd IACAS

 

Keynote Lecture: Major General (Retired) Amikam Norkin

Former commander of the Israeli Air Force

The Middle East from the Cockpit

Mr. Douglas R. Graham

VP Strategic Initiatives, Lockheed Martin

New Age Threats Require New Age Defenses

Prof. Massimiliano Vasile

University of Strathclyde

Trajectory Optimisation Under Uncertainty

Dr. Judith Hocherman-Frommer

Executive Vice President Research and Development, RAFAEL

Strategic design for defence- Future technologies perspective

Prof. Thomas Corke

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Notre Dame

Turbulent Boundary Layer Viscous Drag Reduction –  Characteristics and Mechanisms

Prof. Steve Brunton

University of Washington

Machine learning for Fluid Mechanics