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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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