Interstellar Exploration

Jun 20, 2019, 9:00 AM → Jun 21, 2019, 6:00 PM Europe/Amsterdam

Erasmus Highbay (ESA ESTEC)

Marlies Arnhof (ESA), Leopold Summerer (ESA), Dario Izzo (ESA)

workshop program.pdf

Day 1 - Input Session 1: Technologies

• Directed Energy Propulsion - Philip Lubin.pdf
• Fusion Propulsion - Rob Swinney.pdf
• Interstellar Communication - Michael Hippke.pdf
• Interstellar Philosophy - Michael Waltemathe.pdf
• Interstellar Probe - Pontus Brandt.pdf

Day 1 - Input Session 2: World Ships

• Evolving Asteroid Starships - Angelo Vermeulen.pdf
• GTOC-X_Our (failed) plan to colonize the Galaxy - ESA-ACT Team.pdf
• Socilogy of World Ships - Elke Hemminger.pdf
• World Ship Linguistics - Jeffrey Punske.pdf
• World Ships - Andreas Hein.pdf

Day 2 - Input Session 1: Keeping Humans Healthy

• Artificial Gravity - Theodore Hall.pdf
• Habitability - Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger.pdf
• Hibernation - Jürgen Bereiter-Hahn.pdf

Day 2 - Input Session 2: Keeping Humans Alive

• Life Support Systems - Marco Volponi.pdf
• Plant Cultivation for Space Exploration - Javier Medina.pdf
• Self-Healing Materials - Ugo Lafont.pdf

Unconference Sessions Traversable Wormholes - Remo Garattini.pdf

Thu, June 20

9:00 AM → 9:45 AM Registration, unconference sign-up, poster mounting

9:45 AM → 10:00 AM Welcome

10:00 AM → 11:40 AM Input session: Technologies

Technologies for unmanned interstellar exploration

10:00 AM Interstellar Communication

Speaker: Michael Hippke (Gentleman Scientist)

10:20 AM Fusion Propulsion Technology for Interstellar Missions

Speaker: Rob Swinney (Initiative for Interstellar Studies)

10:40 AM A Pragmatic Interstellar Probe in the 2030s

Speaker: Pontus Brandt (The Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Laboratory)

11:00 AM Philosophical Aspects of Interstellar Exploration

Speaker: Michael Waltemathe (Ruhr Uni Bochum)

11:20 AM Photon Propulsion

Speaker: Philip Lubin (UC Santa Barbara - Experimental Cosmology Group)

11:40 AM → 12:45 PM Unconference session

12:45 PM → 1:15 PM Panel discussion and Q&A

Panel discussion and Q&A for morning sessions

1:15 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 3:40 PM Input session: World ships

Concepts and ideas surrounding world ships: sociology, ethics, anthropology, language development

2:00 PM World Ships

Speaker: Andreas Hein (Institute for Interstellar Studies)

2:20 PM Evolving Spacecraft

Speaker: Angelo Vermeulen (TU Delft)

2:40 PM Language Development on Generation Ships

Speaker: Jeffrey Punske (Southern Illinois University)

3:00 PM Sociology of Human Interstellar Exploration

Speaker: Elke Hemminger (EVH Bochum)

3:20 PM The Absurdly Complex Problem of Galaxy Colonization - GTOCX

Speaker: Advanced Concepts Team (ESTEC)

3:40 PM → 5:00 PM Unconference session

5:00 PM → 6:00 PM Panel discussion and Q&A

Panel discussion and Q&A for afternoon sessions

Fri, June 21

9:30 AM → 10:30 AM Input session: Sustaining Health

Technologies and measure to keep humans healthy and productive during long duration spaceflight

9:30 AM Human Factors and Habitability

Speaker: Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger (Vienna University of Technology)

9:50 AM Artificial Gravity

Speaker: Theodore Hall (University of Michigan)

10:10 AM Hibernation

Speaker: Jürgen Bereiter-Hahn (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main)

10:30 AM → 11:20 AM Poster presentations

11:20 AM → 12:20 PM Unconference session

12:20 PM → 1:00 PM Panel discussion and Q&A

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 3:00 PM Input session: Sustaining Life

2:00 PM Closed Loop Life Support

Speaker: Marco Volponi (ESA-ESTEC)

2:20 PM Cultivation Systems for Long Duration Human Spaceflight

Speaker: Javier Medina (Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas - CSIC)

2:40 PM Self-Healing Materials

Speaker: Ugo Lafont (ESA ESTEC)

3:00 PM → 4:30 PM Unconference session

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM Panel discussion and Q&A