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Pre-symposium — A conversation with David Brin

Keynote #1: Esther Dyson

1 — James Benford – Is ET Lurking in Our Cosmic Backyard?

2 — Marc Millis – Breakthrough Propulsion Study – Assessing Interstellar Challenges and Prospects

3 — Alan Stern – An Overview and Plan for an Interstellar Mission Study

4 — Ronald Turner – Overview of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program

5 — Jeffrey Greason – Wind-Pellet Shear Sailing

6 — Lynn Rothschild – Synthetic biology as the enabling technology for NASA’s missions

7 — Kenneth Roy – The Solar Shield Concept: Current Status and Future Possibilities

8 — Ronald S. Polidan – FarView – An In-Situ Manufactured Lunar Far Side Radio Observatory

9 — Gerald Jackson – Deceleration of Interstellar Spacecraft Utilizing Antimatter

10 — Mike McCulloch – Using New Physics to get to Alpha Centauri in a Human Lifetime

11 — Matthew Gorban – Variable Mass Propellantless Propulsion Drive

12 — Christopher Morrison – Extrasolar Object Intercept and Sample Return Mission

Keynote #2: Avi Loeb

13 — Philip Mauskopf – Communications challenges for the exploration of nearby star systems

14 — Gabriele Rizzo – On moving faster than light

15 — Jekan Thanga – Cryopreservation of Organisms in Space in Preparation for Interstellar Travel

16 — Fatima Ebrahimi – Reconnecting Plasmoid Propulsion

17 — Jeremy Dietrich – Orbital Architectures of Nearby Planetary Systems

18 — Brian McConnell – The Interstellar Communication Relay (What If SETI Succeeds, Now What?)

19 — Geoffrey A Landis – Power Generation from Interplanetary, Interstellar Plasma, Magnetic Fields

20 — S. Pete Worden – Alpha Centauri: getting there – and what to expect when we do

21 — Geoffrey A. Landis – Bussard’s Fusion Ramjet: the Impossible Dream

22 — David G Messerschmitt – Mass and propulsion implications for interstellar observation by flyby

23 — Andrew Higgins – Dynamic Soaring as a Means to Exceed the Solar Wind Speed

24 — Louis Friedman – Visiting an Exoplanet
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