Animal Flight Mechanics & Muscle Performance: a symposium in honour of Prof. Charlie Ellington FRS

20-21 September 2010, Clare College, Cambridge, UK

The symposium will begin with a buffet lunch from 12.30pm on September 20th and will end after lunch at 1.00pm on September 21st. A provisional schedule of talks follows below.

 

Monday 20 September

Arrival from 12:00

12:30 Buffet Lunch (Garden Room)

13:30 Welcome (Elton-Bowring Room)

13:40 Robert Dudley From gliding ants to Andean hummingbirds: the evolution of animal flight performance

14:20 Geoff Spedding Special K, UAVs and birds

15:00 Jamie Gundry Two remarkable flying machines: the 3D kinematics of the hoverflies Episyrphus and Eristalis

15:40 Tea

16:00 Hao Liu Computational biomechanics in bio-flight: aerodynamics, flight dynamics and maneuvering stability

16:40 Graham Taylor Raptor flight dynamics and control

17:20 Robin Wootton How to design an insect wing

18:00 Drinks reception (Garden Room)

 

Tuesday 21 September

08:00 Breakfast

08:40 Fritz-Olaf Lehmann Flight insights from flies - aerodynamic ploys and muscular control

09:20 Tom Daniel Myosins in moth muscle: making movies of motor motions

10:00 Graham Askew Flight energetics of insects and birds

10:40 Coffee

11:00 Jim Usherwood Some physical limits to animal locomotion

11:40 Johan van Leeuwen Super-contraction of the retractor muscle of the chameleon tongue revisited

12:20 James Wakeling Power and efficiency of mammalian skeletal muscle

13:00 Lunch