| Thursday, September 23, 2021 pre-Symposium events | |
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| Time | Title |
| 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | (optional) On-campus Tours of Mirror Lab, TRRL |
| 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Joint NASA NIAC / IRG reception at TAPS art show (Kuiper building) |
| Friday, September 24, 2021 IRG Seminars | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Title | ||
| 8:30 AM | Registration opens in lobby | ||
| 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Morning Seminar Terraforming Planets: Why and How | Morning Seminar Astrobiology and the Search for Nearby Habitable Worlds | (optional) Tours of Mirror Lab, TRRL, Paragon SDC, etc. |
| 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch (on your own) | ||
| 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM | Afternoon Seminar Space Law: An Overview, Past, Present, and Future | Afternoon Seminar The Challenge of Closed-loop and Bioregenerative Life Support for Long Duration Space Exploration | (optional) Tours of Mirror Lab, TRRL, Paragon SDC, etc. |
| 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM | Networking on the Terrace | Art show preview | |
| 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Opening Reception (Arizona Historical Society) | ||
| 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM | A conversation with David Brin (followed by book signing) | Hospitality open until late | |
| Saturday, September 25, 2021 IRG 7th Interstellar Symposium | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Title | |
| 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM | Registration table opens | |
| 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Welcome to plenary sessions | |
| 9:00 AM - 9:40 AM | Keynote #1: Esther Dyson | |
| 9:40 AM - 10:00 AM | James Benford - Is ET Lurking in Our Cosmic Backyard? | |
| 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | Marc Millis - Breakthrough Propulsion Study – Assessing Interstellar Challenges and Prospects | |
| 10:20 AM - 11:00 AM | Morning Break | |
| 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | Alan Stern - An Overview and Plan for an Interstellar Mission Study with the novel Helicity Drive fusion propulsion concept | |
| 11:20 AM - 11:40 AM | Ronald Turner - Overview of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program | |
| 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM | Working Tracks kickoff | |
| 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch with a speaker ( Jim Bell) | |
| 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM | Jeffrey Greason - Wind-Pellet Shear Sailing | |
| 1:50 PM - 2:10 PM | Lynn Rothschild - Synthetic biology as the enabling technology for NASA’s missions | |
| 2:10 PM - 2:30 PM | Kenneth Roy - The Solar Shield Concept: Current Status and Future Possibilities | |
| 2:30 PM - 2:50 PM | Ronald S. Polidan - FarView – An In-Situ Manufactured Lunar Far Side Radio Observatory | |
| 2:50 PM - 3:20 PM | Afternoon break | |
| 3:20 PM - 3:40 PM | Gerald Jackson - Deceleration of Interstellar Spacecraft Utilizing Antimatter | |
| 3:40 PM - 4:00 PM | Mike McCulloch - Using New Physics to get to Alpha Centauri in a Human Lifetime | |
| 4:00 PM - 4:20 PM | Matthew Gorban - Variable Mass Propellantless Propulsion Drive | |
| 4:20 PM - 4:40 PM | Christopher Morrison - Extrasolar Object Intercept and Sample Return Mission Using Ultra Power Dense Radioisotope Electric Propulsion | |
| 4:40 PM - 6:00 PM | Posters on display | |
| 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Poster Session with Authors | |
| 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM | Eridani Awards dinner -- Homer Hickam speaking | |
| 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM | Working tracks | Hospitality open until late |
| Sunday, September 26, 2021 IRG 7th Interstellar Symposium | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Title | |
| 8:15 AM - 8:45 AM | Registration table opens | |
| 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM | Welcome to plenary sessions | |
| 9:00 AM - 9:40 AM | Keynote #2: Avi Loeb | |
| 9:40 AM - 10:00 AM | Philip Mauskopf - Communications challenges for the exploration of nearby star systems with low mass probes | |
| 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | Gabriele Rizzo - On moving faster than light | |
| 10:20 AM - 11:00 AM | Morning Break | |
| 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | Jekan Thanga - Cryopreservation of Organisms in Space in Preparation for Interstellar Travel | |
| 11:20 AM - 11:40 AM | Fatima Ebrahimi - Reconnecting Plasmoid Propulsion | |
| 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM | Jeremy Dietrich - Orbital Architectures of Nearby Planetary Systems | |
| 12:00 PM - 12:10 PM | Group Photo | |
| 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch with a speaker (Brent Ziarnick) | |
| 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM | Brian McConnell - The Interstellar Communication Relay (What If SETI Succeeds, Now What?) | |
| 1:50 PM - 2:10 PM | Geoffrey A. Landis - Power Generation from Interplanetary and Interstellar Plasma and Magnetic Fields | |
| 2:10 PM - 2:30 PM | S. Pete Worden - Alpha Centauri: getting there – and what to expect when we do | |
| 2:30 PM - 2:50 PM | Geoffrey A. Landis - Bussard’s Fusion Ramjet: the Impossible Dream | |
| 2:50 PM - 3:20 PM | Afternoon break | |
| 3:20 PM - 3:40 PM | David G Messerschmitt - Mass and propulsion implications for interstellar scientific observation by flyby | |
| 3:40 PM - 4:00 PM | Andrew Higgins - Dynamic Soaring as a Means to Exceed the Solar Wind Speed | |
| 4:00 PM - 4:20 PM | Louis Friedman - Visiting an Exoplanet | |
| 4:20 PM - 4:40 PM | Chris Limbach - Phenomenology and Capabilities of Mutually Guided Laser and Neutral Particle Beams for Deep Space Propulsion | |
| 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Volunteer reception (TBD) | |
| 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Outreach / Author event | |
| 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM | Working tracks | Hospitality open until late |
| Monday, September 27, 2021 IRG 7th Interstellar Symposium | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Title | |
| 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM | Registration table opens | |
| 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM | Welcome to plenary sessions | |
| 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM | Update from I4IS | |
| 9:00 AM - 9:40 AM | Keynote #3: Mark Shelhamer | |
| 9:40 AM - 10:00 AM | Kai Staats - SAM: Construction of a hi-fidelity, hermetically sealed Mars habitat analog at Biosphere 2 | |
| 10:00 AM - 10:40 AM | Morning Break | |
| 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM | Troy Howe - Pulsed Plasma Rocket- Developing a Dynamic Fission Process for High Specific Impulse and High Thrust Propulsion | |
| 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | Harold "Sonny" White - LSI Overview and Eagleworks Research and Development Activities | |
| 11:20 AM - 11:40 AM | Gregory Benford - A Gravitational Wave Transmitter | |
| 11:40 AM - 12:10 PM | Working Track Readouts | |
| 12:10 PM - 12:20 PM | Adjourn | |
| 12:20 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch (on your own) | |
| 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM | (optional) Tours of Mirror Lab, TRRL, Paragon SDC, etc. | |
| 1:30 PM - 6:00 PM | (optional) Backstage Tour of Biosphere 2 and SAM -- will require most of afternoon -- possible Mirror Lab tour afterwards | |
| 4:30 PM - 9:00 PM | Hospitality suite open | |
| 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM | Birds of a Feather Dinners on your own (optional) | |