| Sunday, February 3, 2013 | |
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| Time | Title |
| 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. | Reception by Baen Books and The Ultimax Group Inc. |
| Monday, February 4, 2013 (NeXolve Corporation, 655 Discovery Drive, Huntsville) | |
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| Time | Title |
| 8:00 AM | Welcome and Opening Remarks (Les Johnson/NASA, chair, TVIW) |
| 8:15 AM | Monday’s keynote: astronaut Dr. Jan Davis "Flying Astronauts in Space - Challenges & Oppos" |
| 9:00 AM | Black Hole Devours Star over Huntsville (The Draco Kill Shot) (William Lucas Jr./self) |
| 9:20 AM | Institute for Interstellar Studies & Catalyzing Starship R&D (Kelvin Long/British Interplanetary Society) |
| 9:50 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:20 AM | Things We Need to Know about the Brain Before We Go (Dr. Robert Hampson/Wake Forest School of Medicine) |
| 10:45 AM | Evolving Algorithmic Communication Structures for Interstellar Travel & SETI (Dr. David Fields/Tamke-Allan Observatory & Oak Ridge Isochronous Observation Network, Dr. Stan Kurtz/Autonomous National University of Mexico, Dr. H.Paul Shuch/SETI League, Dr. Susan Hogle/ORNL, Dr. Paul Oxley/SARA, Bogdan Vacaliuc/ORNL, R.Kennedy/Ultimax, K.Roy/Ultimax) |
| 11:10 AM | Sorry We Didn’t Mean to Break Your Culture (Dr. Robert "Sam" Lightfoot/South Georgia State College) |
| 11:35 AM | Dyson Dots: A Longer View (Robert G Kennedy III PE/The Ultimax Group, Eric Hughes/Narthex) |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch and Workshop Plenary Panel I (E. Hughes, S. Lightfoot, R. Kennedy, L. Johnson) |
| 2:00 PM | Colonizing Brown Dwarfs and Orphans (Ken Roy PE/Ultimax) |
| 2:25 PM | Destinations for Colonization (Stephen Covey/Deep Space Industries) |
| 2:50 PM | Coffee Break and Group Picture (Carol Johnson/self) |
| 3:20 PM | Martians Will Make the Best Interstellar Voyagers (Gerald Driggers/ret’d High Frontier) |
| 3:45 PM | The Search for Man 2.0 (Dr. Frederick Sloop/ORNL & ORION) |
| 4:10 PM | Interstellar Travel Without ‘Magic’ (Dr. Gordon Woodcock/L5) |
| 4:40 PM | Interstellar Flight: From Conception to Reality (Dr. Richard Obousy/Icarus Interstellar) |
| 5:05 PM | Private Funding of Space Ventures (Amy L. Herring Esq., JD) |
| 5:30 PM | Adjourn |
| 8:00 PM | Evening Workshop: parallel Birds-of-a-Feather sessions ("BoFs") |
| 9:30 PM | Nighttime Dessert Break (in suite # TBA onsite) |
| 10:00 PM | reconvene 3 parallel BoFs, OR (dep. progress) plenary Work Group for Synthesis Report |
| Tuesday, February 5, 2013 (NeXolve Corporation, 655 Discovery Drive, Huntsville) | |
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| Time | Title |
| 8:00 AM | Tuesday’s keynote: Dr. Claudio Maccone, chair/IAA SETI Perm. Cmte.: "Mathematical SETI" |
| 8:45 AM | Build A Star Ship–100YSS & Application of Messaging, Audacity, Timeline, & Deliverables towards Interstellar Accomplishments (Mike Mongo/Icarus) |
| 9:10 AM | Putting It All together - Lessons Learned & Capabilities for Large Next-Gen Solar Sails (Greg Laue, Tony Ewing/Mantech-NeXolve) |
| 9:35 AM | High Temperature Nanocomposites for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion by Hyperbaric Laser Chemical Vapor Deposition (Dr. James Maxwell/Dynetics, et al.) |
| 10:00 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 AM | Looking for Ultra-ships (Dr. Al Jackson IV/NASA JSC) |
| 10:55 AM | Growing Spaceships? (Tony Robertson/IASSPES) |
| 11:20 AM | Developing a Single-Person Emergency Atmospheric Re-Entry Device (SPEARED) for Use in Catastrophic Failures of Entry Vehicles (Stephanie Osborn, Arlan Andrews Sc.D., Tom Ligon/SIGMA) |
| 11:45 AM | Lunch and Workshop Plenary Panel II (E.Hughes, R.Lightfoot, R.Kennedy, L.Johnson) |
| 2:00 PM | Initial Base Development Using Current Modular Techniques: A Study (Travis Taylor, S.Osborn) |
| 2:25 PM | The Hub Hab: A Self-Sufficient Planetary Habitat and Lander (Ed Kiker/Kepler Space Inst.) |
| 2:50 PM | Coffee Break and second? Group Picture (C.Johnson) |
| 3:20 PM | (approx.) Space Industry Plant Tour I: walk/ride to NeXolve's Webb solar shield facility |
| 5:20 PM | (approx.) adjourn for dinner on your own |
| 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM | Interstellar Forum for the Public & the Press w/HAL5 (Huntsville NSS chapter) |
| Location: Calhoun Community College - Huntsville Campus | |
| Intro by Lisa Callihan/host, Calhoun Comm.Coll. & Les Johnson/NASA; | |
| "Using Video to Engage Interstellar Comm’ty, Gov’t Agencies & Public" (Bill Cress/Icarus); | |
| "Slow Boat to Centauri: A Millennial Route to Interstellar Expansion" (Paul Gilster/Tau Zero); | |
| Forum panel continues inc. B.Cress, P.Gilster, R.Obousy, K.Long, G.Woodcock); | |
| Wednesday, February 6, 2013 (NeXolve Corporation, 655 Discovery Drive, Huntsville) | |
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| Time | Title |
| Morning | United Launch Alliance (ULA), Decatur Alabama Facility. |