59th Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences (IACAS)

Invitation to the media: 59th Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences (IACAS)

Some 600 engineers, scientists and aviation experts from Israel and abroad are due to attend the 59th Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences (IACAS) – Israel’s most important event in the field of aviation and space – this week on March 6 and 7, 2019.

The event will take place on Wednesday, March 6 at the Dan Panorama Hotel in Tel Aviv and on Thursday, March 7 at the Churchill Auditorium and the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Technion in Haifa. The 59th IACAS Organizing Committee is headed by Prof. Emeritus Mordechai (Moti) Karpel of Technion’s Faculty of Aerospace Engineering.

New research and up-to-date technologies will be presented at the event, including innovative projects in the space industry – the launch of SpaceIL’s Beresheet spacecraft, currently on its way to the moon; and the Elbit and Technion autonomous drone swarm. The annual competition will also be held for the student final projects of Technion’s Aerospace Engineering Faculty.

The plenary lectures will be delivered by: Dr. Amiram Appelbaum, Chief Scientist and chairman of the board of the Israel Innovation Authority on “Innovation Beyond the Horizon”; aerospace engineering Prof. Elaine Oran of the University of Maryland on “The Beauty of Turbulence and Transitions in Reactive Flows”; Prof. Juan Alonso of Stanford University on “Industrial Shape Optimization Applications Using Adjoints and HPC: A 25-Year Perspective”; Opher Doron, VP & General Manager of Israel Aerospace Industries Space Divison; Prof. Penina Axelrad of the University of Colorado at Boulder on “Scientific Applications of Global Satellite Navigation Systems”; and Prof. Carlos Cesnick of the University of Michigan on “Very Flexible Aircraft: Performance Promises and Aeroelastic Challenges.”

Dr. Susan Ying, President of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS), will speak about “Aviation’s Third Revolution: Challenges and Opportunities” She has vast experience in the aerospace industry, and her illustrious career includes work at NASA, McDonald Douglas, Boeing and more recently at the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC). She is currently the Vice President of Technology Strategy and International Relations at Ampaire, a startup company which is developing electric aircraft to reduce operating costs and the environmental impact of commercial air travel.  

Dr. Ying, a pilot, and certified flight instructor, completed her degree at Cornell University in mechanical engineering and aeronautical engineering. She went on for her master’s and doctoral degrees in aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University, where she received the Distinguished Doctorate Prize in 1986.

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