TVIW 2011 Agenda Monday, November 28, 2011 TimeTitle 5:00 PMOpening Reception (Hosted by Robert Kennedy) Tuesday, November 29, 2011 (Doubletree Hotel Oak Ridge) TimeTitle 8:00 AMWelcome and Opening Remarks (Les Johnson) 8:15 AMSun Focus Comes First; Interstellar Comes Second (Dr. Claudio Maccone) 9:00 AMInterstellar Travel: Realistic Ideas and Fanciful Dreams (Les Johnson) 9:30 AMHuman and Institutional Barriers to Large Scale Scale Geoengineering and Interstellar Spaceflight (Dr. Kent Williams) 10:00 AMWarp Drive Now (Tony Robertson) 10:30 AMPower and Propulsion: An Informal Survey of Opportunities Within Particle Physics (Dr. Jim Woosely) 11:00 AMProject Icarus (Dr. Richard Obousy) 11:30 AMAntimatter Propulsion (Harold Gerrish) 12:00 PMLunch 1: 00 PMInterstellar Light Sails (Dr. Gregory Matloff) 1:30 PMInterstellar Light Sails (Dr. Gregory Matloff) 2:00 PMJovian Tesla Radio (Dr. David Fields) 2:30 PMLasers Revisited: Their Superior Utility for Interstellar Beacons, Communications and Travel (Dr. John Rather) 3:00 PMInterstellar Exploration Through Art (C Bangs) 3:30 PMHumanity in the Outlands: Anthropological and Sociological Concerns in the Face of Touching the Universe (Dr. Robert C. Lightfoot) 4:00 PMShell Worlds (Robert Kennedy) 4:30 PMSublight Colonization of the Galaxy (Ken Roy) 5:00 PMThe Search for Earth 2.0 (Fred Sloop) 5:30 PMThe Fermi Paradox: A Roundtable Discussion (Stephanie Osborn) 6:30 PMDinner 9:00 PMLate Night Panel on the Future of Space Exploration (Les Johnson, moderator)