This agenda will be filled in as speakers and presentations are confirmed. Check back regularly to see who else will be speaking!
| Sunday, November 10, 2019 TVIW Seminars | ||
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| Time | Title | |
| 8:30 AM | Registration opens in lobby | |
| 9:00 AM | Morning Seminar Life in Space, People of the Stars | Morning Seminar Preparing for First Contact: Protocols and Implications |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch (on your own) | |
| 1:00 PM | Afternoon Seminar In-Space Manufacturing: The Gateway to the High Frontier and an Enabling Technology for Human Space Exploration | Afternoon Seminar Space Law: An Overview, Past, Present, and Future |
| 4:00 PM | Registration moves to lobby | |
| 4:30 PM | Hospitality Suite open | |
| 7:00 PM | Opening Reception | |
| Wednesday, November 13, 2019 TVIW 6th Interstellar Symposium | ||
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| Time | Title | |
| 8:00 AM | Welcome Remarks (Nick) | |
| 8:15 AM | Steve Durst - An Interstellar University in the Ad Astra State | |
| 8:45 AM | Gerald Jackson - Antimatter-Based Interstellar Propulsion | |
| 9:15 AM | Artur Davoyan - Light Sails for Interstellar Travel | |
| 9:45 AM | Coffee Break | |
| 10:15 AM | Jacob Erlikhman - Analysis of Light Sail Geometries and Stability for Directed Energy Interstellar Propulsion | |
| 10:45 AM | Joseph Meany - Metamaterial-Enhanced Graphene as a Beamed Energy Sail for Interstellar Probes | |
| 11:15 AM | Report from the Working Track: Terraforming (After: Group Photo) |
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| 11:30 AM | Lunch at Distillery 244 | |
| Wednesday, November 13, 2019 NASA Propulsion Workshop | ||
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| Time | Title | |
| 1:00 PM | Welcome Remarks | |
| 1:30 PM | Andrew Higgins - Overview of Directed Energy Propulsion | |
| 2:00 PM | Jason Cassibry - Reaching the Stars Utilizing Fission and Fusion Power | |
| 2:30 PM | Adjourn | |
| 4:00 PM | Depart for Cosmosphere Tour and Dinner | |
| 10:00 PM | Return to the hotel | |
| Thursday, November 14 2019 NASA Propulsion Workshop | |||
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| Time | Title | Time | Title |
| 8:00 AM | Welcome Remarks (together) | ||
| Parallel Session A (Keen Kutter A & B) | Parallel Session B (Keen Kutter C & D) | ||
| 8:15 AM | Philip Lubin - Overview of Directed Energy for Relativistic Flight | 8:15 AM | Introductory comments |
| 8:20 AM | Jason Cassibry - The ALPHA Plasma Liner Experiment (PLX) - First Steps towards a Plasma Jet Driven Magneto-Inertial Fusion Reactor | ||
| 8:45 AM | Prashant Srinivasan, Peter Krogen - Directed Energy - Sources (moderator: Philip Lubin) | 9:00 AM | Theodore Mouratidis - QUELLER drive: Q Uranium Enhanced Linear Long Endurance and Range Drive |
| 9:30 AM | Will Hettel, Jon Suen - Directed Energy - Beam Control (moderator: Philip Lubin) | 9:40 AM | Uri Shumlak - Fusion space propulsion system based on the sheared flow stabilized Z pinch |
| 10:20 AM | Coffee Break | 10:20 AM | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 AM | Grover Swartzlander, Artur Davoyan, Geoffrey Landis, James Pearson - Reflectors and Spacecraft (moderator: Jon Suen) | 10:50 AM | Hafiz ur Rahman - Staged Z-pinch: a target for fusion and a possible source for interstellar propulsion |
| 11:30 AM | Charles Swanson - Beyond Pluto: Status of Direct Fusion Drive | ||
| 12:00 Noon | Lunch at Distillery 244 | 12:10 PM | Lunch at Distillery 244 |
| 1:00 PM | James Early, John Brophy, Andrew Higgins, Alexander Cohen, Chris Limbach - Intermediate Steps and Milestones and Hazards (moderator: Geoffrey Landis) | 1:10 PM | Thomas McGuire - Overview of the Lockheed Martin Compact Fusion Reactor (CFR) Project |
| 1:50 PM | Ryan Weed - Fusion and Antimatter: A Hybrid Approach to Reaching 0.1c | ||
| 2:30 PM | Rob Adams - State of Research in a Pulsed Hybrid Nuclear Propulsion Engine | ||
| 3:00 PM | Break | 3:10 PM | Break |
| 3:30 PM | Jeff Sheehy, Les Johnson, Ron Litchford - Panel: Roadmap and needed NASA and other agency Support (moderator: Philip Lubin) | 3:40 PM | Ray Sedwick - Direct Drive Fusion Propulsion with Centrifugal Plasma Confinement |
| 4:30 PM | Adjourn | 4:20 PM | Adjourn |
| 7:00 PM | Science Fiction Author's Panel - Public Outreach Night | ||
| Friday, November 15, 2019 NASA Propulsion Workshop | ||
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| Time | Title | |
| 8:00 AM | Welcome Remarks (together) | |
| Parallel Session A (Keen Kutter A & B) | Parallel Session B (Keen Kutter C & D) | |
| 8:15 AM | Developing the Directed Energy Roadmap - Open Discussion with Directed Energy group (moderator: Andrew Higgins) | Highly Energetic Nuclear Processes Roadmap Development |
| 10:30 AM | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 AM | Developing the Directed Energy Roadmap - Open Discussion with Directed Energy group (moderator: Grover Swartzlander) | Highly Energetic Nuclear Processes Roadmap Development |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch at Hotel | |
| 1:00 PM | Directed Energy Roadmap Presentation (moderator: Philip Lubin) (together) | |
| 2:30 PM | Break | |
| 3:00 PM | Highly Energetic Nuclear Processes Roadmap presentation (moderator: Ray Sedwick) (together) | |
| 4:30 PM | Closing Remarks | |
| 5:00 PM | Adjourn | |