Schedule for 2nd Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop - "Let's Get Started!" Sunday evening, 03 February 2013 Start Time Event 17:00 Baen / Ultimax Reception budding artists can bring their work and their own easels for display; they must setup and take down themselves Monday all day, 04 February 2013 Start Time Speaker/Event 7:00 setup Title of Presentation 8:00 Les Johnson Welcome and Opening Remarks (Les Johnson) 8:15 Jan Davis 9:00 Lucas, William 9:20 Long, Kelvin 9:50 Long Coffee Break OPENING KEYNOTE by astronaut JAN DAVIS regular plenary presentation #1 Black Hole Devours Star over Huntsville (The Draco Kill Shot) (20 min) plenary presentation #2 - The Institute for Interstellar Studies & Catalyzing Starship R&D (30 min)
10:20 Hampson, Robert E., PhD. 10:45 Fields, David; lds, David; Vacaliuc, Bogdan; Kurtz, Stan; Oxley, Paul plenary presentation #3 - Things We Need to Know About the Brain Before We Go plenary presentation #4 - Evolving Algorithmic Communication Structures for Interstellar Travel and SETI 11:10 Lightfoot, Robert plenary presentation #5 - Sorry We Didn t Mean to Break Your Culture 11:35 Covey, Stephen plenary presentation #6 - Destinations for Colonization 12:00 Lunch & Plenary Panel I (E.Hughes, S.Lightfoot, R.Kennedy, L.Johnson, S.Fleming; PoC=Robert) 14:00 14:25 Roy, Ken plenary presentation #7 - Colonizing Brown Dwarfs and Orphans Sloop, Fred plenary presentation #8 - The Search for Man 2.0 14:50 Long Coffee Break/Group Picture 15:20 Driggers, Gerald 15:45 Kennedy, Robert, Hughes, Eric 16:10 Woodcock, Gordon, Ph.D plenary presentation #9 - Martians Will Make the Best Interstellar Voyagers plenary presentation #10 - Dyson Dots: A Longer View plenary presentation #11 - Interstellar Travel Without Magic (30 min)
16:40 17:05 17:30 17:55 Obousy, Richard Herring, Amy L., JD Mongo, Mike plenary presentation #12 - Interstellar Flight: From Conception to Reality plenary presentation #13 - Private Funding of Space Ventures plenary presentation #14 - Build A Star Ship 100 Year Starship and the application of Messaging, Audacity, Timeline, and Deliverables towards Interstellar Accomplishments Dinner on your own; transit to hotel = 7 min.s Monday night, 04 February 2013 Start Time Topic 20:00 BoFs I (or SIGs) Parallel tech focus sessions with all attendees participating
21:30 Dessert or whatever break 22:00 BoF II (or synthesiswg) in "consuite" (PoC=Robert) reconvene parallel tech sessions, or, synthesis working group (need 7 members & a writer) Tuesday all day, 05 February 2013 Start Time Speaker/Event 7:00 setup 8:00 Title of Presentation (25 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A) Claudio Maccone 8:45 Laue, Greg, Ewing, Tony 9:10 Maxwell, James, et al. 9:35 Jackson IV, Al, Ph.D. 10:00 Coffee Break KEYNOTE by CLAUDIO MACCONE "Mathematical SETI" plenary presentation #15 - utting it all together Lessons Learned and Capabilities for Large Scale Next Generation Solar Sails plenary presentation #16 - High Temperature Nanocomposites for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion by Hyperbaric Laser Chemical Vapor Deposition plenary presentation #17 - Looking for Ultra-ships 10:30 Robertson, Tony plenary presentation #18 Growing Spaceships?
10:55 Osborn, Stephanie, Andrews, Arlan, Ligon, Tom 11:20 Taylor, Travis, Osborn, Stephanie 11:45 Kiker, Ed 11:45 Lunch & Plenary Panel II (E.Hughes, R.Lightfoot, R.Kennedy, L.Johnson; PoC=Robert) plenary presentation #19 - Developing a Single-Person Emergency Atmospheric Re- Entry Device (SPEARED) for Use in Catastrophic Failures of Entry Vehicles plenary presentation #20 - Initial base development using current modular techniques: a study plenary presenation #21 - The Hub Hab: A Self Sufficient Planetary Habitat and Lander 14:00 Space Industry Plant Tour I JWST Sunshield Tour (PoC = Les/Greg Laue) 16:00 Coffee Break Tuesday night, 05 February 2013 Start Time Event Location
19:00 Public / Press Interstellar Forum w/hal5 (Huntsville NSS chapter, PoC=Yohan Lo) Location: Calhoun Community College (Huntsville Campus) Papers: Using Video to Engage the Interstellar Community, Government Agencies and the Public - Cress, Bill Slow Boat to Centauri: A Millennial Route to Interstellar Expansion - Gilster, Paul Panel Discussion: Les Johnson - Gordon Woodcock - Kelvin Long - Paul Gilster - Bill Cress 22:00 close public sessions, transit to hotel Wednesday all day, 06 February 2013 Start Time Event Location Depart HSV transit to 08:00 Decatur AL 9:00 Space Industry Plant Tour II Location: Holiday Inn, Research Park, 5903 University Drive, Huntsville, AL 35806, 1-256- 830-0600 Location: Delta IV assembly facility in Decatur, AL; 45-minute drive + 2-hour tour + lunchtime invitees: all but you must register by January 18 11:00 depart & transit to Huntsville For "on your own" tour of the US Space and Rocket Center