TVIW 2017 Agenda Tuesday, October 3, 2017 TVIW TimeTitle 8:30 AMSeminar Registration On 2nd Floor 9:00 AM - 12:00 PMMorning Seminar Conflict in SpaceMorning Seminar Laser Propulsion 12:00 PM - 1:00 PMLunch Consuite will be Open 1:00 PM - 4:00 PMAfternoon Seminar Humans in SpaceULA Tour (pre-registered guests only) 4:00 PM - 5:00 PMConference Registration In ballroom lobby (hospitality suite open) 5:00 PM - 9:00 PMBaen Reception Hotel Ballroom (hors d'oeuvres included) Wednesday, October 4, 2017 Starship Century TimeTitle 8:00 AMWelcome: Les Johnson, General Chair 8:15 AMWelcome: Jim Benford, Starship Century 8:30 AM - 9:15 AMPete Klupar - Are We Alone? 9:15 AM - 10:00 AMKevin Parkin - Breakthrough Star Shot System Model and Trade Studies 10:00 AM - 10:30 AMCoffee Break 10:30 AM - 11:15 AMRobert Fugate - Starshot Laser Driver 11:1 AM - 12:00 PMJim Benford - Our First Starships 12:00 PM - 12:45 PMDavid Messerschmitt - Data Return from Star Shot Probes 12:45 PM - 1:45 PMLunch (provided, in atrium dining area) 1:45 PM - 2:15 PMAl Jackson - Wafersat TrajectoriesR. London & J. Early - Dust Impact Hazard 2:15 PM - 2:45 PMBenjamin Diedrich - NEA GuidanceStacy Weinstein-Weiss - Exoplanet Mission Concept 2:45 PM - 3:15 PMCoffee Break 3:15 PM - 5:00 PMWorking Tracks First Contact/SETISecurity & Intel in SpaceStep by Step to the StarsSagan 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 PMArt Show & ReceptionMarshall Room(hors d'oeuvres included) Thursday, October 5, 2017 Tau Zero Foundation TimeTitle 8:00 AMWelcome: Les Johnson, General Chair 8:15 AM - 9:00 AMMark Millis - About the Grant 9:00 AM - 9:30 AMJonathan Barr - Transportation Supporting a Self-Sustaining Space Economy 9:30 AM - 10:00 AMJeff Greason - Missions Enabled by Plasma Magnet Sails 10:00 AM - 10:30 AMCoffee Break 10:30 AM - 11:00 AMMarc Weber - Trapping Charged Particles 11:00 AM - 11:30 AMGerald Jackson - Antimatter Fuel Production 11:30 AM - 12:00 PMGeorge Hathaway - Measurements and Methods 12:00 PM - 1:00 PMLunch(provided, in atrium dining area) 1:00 PM - 1:30 PMPauli Laine - Fission Fragment RocketsKen Roy - Problem of Alien Life 1:30 PM - 2:00 PMGary Pajer - Direct Fusion DriveOre Koren - Worldship Conflict 2:00 PM - 2:30 PMBrent Ziarnick - Nuclear LessonsGiancarlo Genta - Preliminary Analysis of the Deformed Shape of an Inflated Light Sail 2:30 PM - 3:00 PMCoffee Break 3:00 PM - 5:30 PMWorking Tracks First Contact/SETISecurity & Intel in SpaceStep by Step to the StarsSagan MeetingFlyby vs. Deceleration for Interstellar Missions(Weiss, Messerschmidt, G. Jackson) 5:30 PM - 6:00 PMBreak 6:00 PM - 9:00 PMSymposium EventU. 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) Friday, October 6, 2017 TVIW TimeTitle 8:00 AMWelcome: Les Johnson, General Chair 8:15 AM - 9:30 AMLeadership Panel Breakthrough Star Shot Engineering Dir. Pete KluparCongressman John Culberson (R- TX)Congressman Mo Brooks (R-AL)Lt. General Steven Kwast, Air University, MAFBNASA MSFC Assoc. Dir. Dr. Paul McConnaughey 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM Philip Lubin - Enabling Interstellar Missions 10:00 AM - 10:30 AMCoffee Break 10:30 AM - 11:00 AMSlava Turyshev - Direct Exoplanet Imaging via Solar Gravity Lens 11:00 AM - 11:30 AMGeoffrey Landis - Solar Gravity Lens Critique 11:30 AM - 12:00 PMPontus Brandt - Interstellar Precursors 12:00 PM - 1:00 PMLunch(on your own) 1:00 PM - 1:20 PMOlga Starinova - Interstellar Solar SailingAngelle Tanner - Exoplanets 1:20 PM - 1:40 PMSandy Montgomery - Space Tow SailsJames Schwartz - Worldship Ethics 101 1:40 PM - 2:00 PMGrover Schwartzlander - Diffractive SailsTracy Prater - In-Space Manufacture 2:00 PM - 2:20 PMJason Cassibry - Pulsed Magnetic NozzleKelly Smith - METI 2:20 PM - 3:00 PMCoffee Break 3:00 PM - 5:00 PMWorking Tracks First Contact/SETISecurity & Intel in SpaceStep by Step to the StarsSagan Meeting550 AU FOCAL Missions: Arguments for and Against(Matloff, Landis, Turyshev, Brandt) 5:00 PM - 5:30 PMWorking Tracks - Concluding Reports 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM Paul GilsterMeeting Summary & Closure 6:00 PM - 8:00 PMInformal Socialin Hospitality Suite(dinner on your own) 8:00 PM - 10:00 PMSF Writers PanelLarry NivenAllen SteeleGreg BenfordJames CambiasGeoff Landis