| Sunday, 28 February 2016 | |
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| Time | Title |
| 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM | “Terraforming 102” taught by Ken Roy PE/TVIW |
| “Conflict in Space” taught by MAJ Brent Ziarnick/USAF | |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Pizza lunch and drinks sponsored by The Ultimax Group, Inc. |
| 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM | “Geoengineering 101” taught by Robert G. Kennedy III, PE/Ultimax Group Inc. |
| “Space Propulsion 101” taught by Les Johnson/TVIW/author | |
| 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM | Sunday Night Reception by Baen Books |
| Monday, 29 February 2016 | |
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| Time | Title |
| 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM | Continental breakfast |
| 7:30 AM | Registration opens in Gallery Foyer |
| 8:00 AM | Introduction and Orientation by General Chair, Les Johnson/TVIW/author Keynote Speaker: “Cutting the Umbilical Cord to Earth” (Dr. John Lewis/University of Arizona, Deep Space Industries) |
| 9:00 AM | “Propulsion Technology Assessment: Science and Enabling Technologies to Explore the Interstellar Medium” (Ben Beers/NASA MSFC) |
| 9:30 AM | “Advanced Ion Propulsion Systems for Interstellar Precursor Probes” (Angelo Genovese/I4IS) |
| 9:55 AM - 10:25 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:25 AM | “Invited Remarks Concerning America’s Far Future in Deep Space” (Lt.-General Steven L. Kwast, commander & president, Air University, Maxwell AFB, AL) |
| 10:55 AM | “Conceptual Filters in Space Exploration: Rethinking the Rationale for Planetary Protection” (Dr. James Schwartz/Wichita Univ) |
| 11:25 AM | “A Lunar Settlement as a Prototype for Eventual Interstellar Settlements” (Ken Roy, PE/TVIW) |
| 11:55 PM | “Power Beaming Leakage Radiation as a SETI Observable” (Dr. Jim Benford/100 YSS & Microwave Sciences) |
| 12:20 PM - 1:20 PM | Buffet Lunch |
| 1:20 PM | “Human Health in Space: What’s Being Done? What Needs to be Done?” (Dr. Robert Hampson/Wake Forest Med School) |
| 1:40 PM | “An Adaptive Framework for Permanent Human Space Settlement” (Dr. Cameron Smith/Portland State University) |
| 2:00 PM | “In-space Manufacturing: Pioneering the Next Frontier” (Niki Werkheiser/NASA MSFC) |
| 2:30 PM | “Proton Beam Reduction – Primary Extraction from Generic Asteroid Material” (Eric Hughes/TVIW & Narthex Enterprises) |
| 2:55 PM - 3:20 PM | Coffee Break |
| 3:20 - 6:00 PM | Parallel events commence: Working Tracks and Kaffeeklatsches Homo Stellaris (co-leaders: Dr. Robert Hampson, Wake Forest Med School, dep. Cathe Smith, moderated by Sandra Medlock) |
| Life System Engineering in the Worldship (leader: Cassidy Cobbs/Sloan-Kettering Memorial, moderated by Michel Lamontagne, P.Eng./Icarus Interstellar) | |
| Space Solar Power & Orbital Industry (leader/moderator: LTC Pete Garretson/Air University-USAF & deputy Robert G Kennedy III, PE/TVIW & Ultimax Group) | |
| Space Mining: Primary Processing of Olivine-based Asteroidal Material (co-leaders: Eric Hughes/TVIW & Narthex & Matt Ernst) | |
| Kaffeeklatsches | |
| 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Banquet sponsored by Digital Oilfield Solutions dinner presentation: “SETI, Interstellar Diffusion & Stability Equilibrium Hypothesis in Galactic Civilizations” (Kelvin Long, Executive Director, Initiative for Interstellar Studies, United Kingdom) |
| 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM | Parallel Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) Sessions BoF for Homo Stellaris |
| BoF for Life System Engineering in the Worldship | |
| BoF for Space Solar Power and Orbital Industry | |
| BoF for Space Mining: Primary Processing of Olivine-based Asteroidal Material | |
| Kaffeeklatsches | |
| Tuesday, 01 March 2016 | |
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| Time | Title |
| 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM | Continental breakfast |
| 8:00 AM | 2nd day Greetings by General Chair, Les Johnson/TVIW/author “Electric Sail Propulsion to Enable Quick Heliopause and Beyond Scientific Missions of Discovery” (Bruce Weigmann/NASA MSFC) |
| 8:40 AM | “Progress in Fusion Propulsion Research at the University of Alabama in Huntsville” (Jason Cassibry, UAH) |
| 9:10 AM | “Matter-Antimatter Propulsion via QFT Effects from Parallel Electric and Magnetic Fields” (Dr. Gerald Cleaver, Baylor) |
| 9:35 AM - 10:05 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:05 AM | “The Laser Powered Interstellar Ramjet (LPIR) revisited” (Dr. Al Jackson/NASA JSC ret’d) |
| 10:35 AM | “The LightSail Program: Solar Sailing from a CubeSat Platform” (Rex Ridenoure/Ecliptic Enterprises) |
| 11:05 AM | “Interplanetary Exploration: Application of the Solar Sail and Falcon Heavy” (Dr. Greg Matloff/CUNY) |
| 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Buffet Lunch |
| 12:30 PM - 3:10 PM | Parallel events: Working Tracks and KaffeeKlatsches Homo Stellaris (co-leaders: Dr. Robert Hampson, Wake Forest Med School, dep. Cathe Smith, moderated by Sandra Medlock) |
| Life System Engineering in the Worldship (leader: Cassidy Cobbs/Sloan-Kettering Memorial, moderated by Michel Lamontagne, P.Eng./Icarus Interstellar) | |
| Space Solar Power and Orbital Industry (leader/moderator: COL Pete Garretson/Air University-USAF & deputy Robert G Kennedy III, PE/TVIW & Ultimax) | |
| Space Mining: Primary Processing of Olivine-based Asteroidal Material (co-leaders: Eric Hughes/TVIW/Narthex & Matt Ernst/WSU) | |
| Kaffeeklatsches | |
| 3:10 PM - 3:35 PM | Coffee Break |
| 3:35 PM - 4:15 PM | Parallel Working Tracks Report to full audience |
| 4:15 PM - 5:00 PM | “Roadmap to Interstellar Flight” (Dr. Philip Lubin/UCSB) closing remarks and announcements for TVIW 2017 by Les Johnson. |
| 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Dinner on your own, or just meet and snack in the Consuite, potent potables sponsored by The Ultimax Group, Inc. |
| 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM | Offsite Public Event SF Authors & Publishers Panel Book Fair by Barnes & Noble welcome remarks by Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke, panel moderated by Toni Weisskopf, publisher, Baen Books; authors: Les Johnson, (Rescue Mode, Going Interstellar), Gregory Benford (Bowl of Heaven, Shipstar), Charles Gannon (Trial By Fire, Raising Caine), Sarah Hoyt (Darkship Thieves, Darkship Renegades), Geoff Landis, Jack McDevitt (Thunderbird, Coming Home) |
| Wednesday, 02 March 2016 | |
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| Time | Title |
| 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Feedback Breakfast on your own. Meet the OrgComm and tell them what you think about TVIW-2016. |
| 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM | local tours of Tennessee Aquarium, Chattanooga Whiskey distillery across the street, Rock City, etc. |
| 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM | Lunch on your own, or just meet and snack in the Consuite, potent potables sponsored by The Ultimax Group, Inc. |
| 3:00 PM - till ? | Dead Dog Session still in the Consuite, potent potables sponsored by The Ultimax Group, Inc. |