| Tuesday, October 3, 2017 TVIW | ||
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| Time | Title | |
| 8:30 AM | Seminar Registration On 2nd Floor |
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| 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Morning Seminar Conflict in Space | Morning Seminar Laser Propulsion |
| 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Lunch Consuite will be Open |
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| 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Afternoon Seminar Humans in Space | ULA Tour (pre-registered guests only) |
| 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Conference Registration In ballroom lobby (hospitality suite open) |
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| 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM | Baen Reception Hotel Ballroom (hors d'oeuvres included) |
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| Wednesday, October 4, 2017 Starship Century | ||
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| Time | Title | |
| 8:00 AM | Welcome: Les Johnson, General Chair | |
| 8:15 AM | Welcome: Jim Benford, Starship Century | |
| 8:30 AM - 9:15 AM | Pete Klupar - Are We Alone? | |
| 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM | Kevin Parkin - Breakthrough Star Shot System Model and Trade Studies | |
| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM | Robert Fugate - Starshot Laser Driver | |
| 11:1 AM - 12:00 PM | Jim Benford - Our First Starships | |
| 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM | David Messerschmitt - Data Return from Star Shot Probes | |
| 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM | Lunch (provided, in atrium dining area) |
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| 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM | Al Jackson - Wafersat Trajectories | R. London & J. Early - Dust Impact Hazard |
| 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM | Benjamin Diedrich - NEA Guidance | Stacy Weinstein-Weiss - Exoplanet Mission Concept |
| 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM | Coffee Break | |
| 3:15 PM - 5:00 PM | Working Tracks First Contact/SETI Security & Intel in Space Step by Step to the Stars | Sagan Meeting Likelihood of Biosignature Detection in the Spectra of Exoplanets (Gilster, J. Benford, Tanner) |
| 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Break (dinner on your own) | |
| 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM | Art Show & Reception Marshall Room (hors d'oeuvres included) |
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| Thursday, October 5, 2017 Tau Zero Foundation | ||
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| Time | Title | |
| 8:00 AM | Welcome: Les Johnson, General Chair | |
| 8:15 AM - 9:00 AM | Mark Millis - About the Grant | |
| 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | Jonathan Barr - Transportation Supporting a Self-Sustaining Space Economy | |
| 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Jeff Greason - Missions Enabled by Plasma Magnet Sails | |
| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Marc Weber - Trapping Charged Particles | |
| 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Gerald Jackson - Antimatter Fuel Production | |
| 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | George Hathaway - Measurements and Methods | |
| 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Lunch (provided, in atrium dining area) |
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| 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Pauli Laine - Fission Fragment Rockets | Ken Roy - Problem of Alien Life |
| 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM | Gary Pajer - Direct Fusion Drive | Ore Koren - Worldship Conflict |
| 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Brent Ziarnick - Nuclear Lessons | Giancarlo Genta - Preliminary Analysis of the Deformed Shape of an Inflated Light Sail |
| 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Coffee Break | |
| 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Working Tracks First Contact/SETI Security & Intel in Space Step by Step to the Stars | Sagan Meeting Flyby vs. Deceleration for Interstellar Missions (Weiss, Messerschmidt, G. Jackson) |
| 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM | Break | |
| 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM | Symposium Event U. S. Space and Rocket Center Biergarten (opens at 4:30 PM) (dinner on your own) 7:00 PM - Pass the Torch talk: The Search for Ourselves Among the Stars, Andrew Siemion, UC Berkeley (must leave by 9:00 PM) |
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| Friday, October 6, 2017 TVIW | ||
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| Time | Title | |
| 8:00 AM | Welcome: Les Johnson, General Chair | |
| 8:15 AM - 9:30 AM | Leadership Panel Breakthrough Star Shot Engineering Dir. Pete Klupar Congressman John Culberson (R- TX) Congressman Mo Brooks (R-AL) Lt. General Steven Kwast, Air University, MAFB NASA MSFC Assoc. Dir. Dr. Paul McConnaughey |
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| 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Philip Lubin - Enabling Interstellar Missions | |
| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Slava Turyshev - Direct Exoplanet Imaging via Solar Gravity Lens | |
| 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Geoffrey Landis - Solar Gravity Lens Critique | |
| 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Pontus Brandt - Interstellar Precursors | |
| 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Lunch (on your own) |
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| 1:00 PM - 1:20 PM | Olga Starinova - Interstellar Solar Sailing | Angelle Tanner - Exoplanets |
| 1:20 PM - 1:40 PM | Sandy Montgomery - Space Tow Sails | James Schwartz - Worldship Ethics 101 |
| 1:40 PM - 2:00 PM | Grover Schwartzlander - Diffractive Sails | Tracy Prater - In-Space Manufacture |
| 2:00 PM - 2:20 PM | Jason Cassibry - Pulsed Magnetic Nozzle | Kelly Smith - METI |
| 2:20 PM - 3:00 PM | Coffee Break | |
| 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Working Tracks First Contact/SETI Security & Intel in Space Step by Step to the Stars | Sagan Meeting 550 AU FOCAL Missions: Arguments for and Against (Matloff, Landis, Turyshev, Brandt) |
| 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Working Tracks - Concluding Reports | |
| 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM | Paul Gilster Meeting Summary & Closure |
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| 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Informal Social in Hospitality Suite (dinner on your own) |
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| 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM | SF Writers Panel Larry Niven Allen Steele Greg Benford James Cambias Geoff Landis |
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