Interstellar Exploration

20 Jun 2019, 09:00 → 21 Jun 2019, 18:00 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

Thursday 20 June

09:00 → 09:45 Registration, unconference sign-up, poster mounting

09:45 → 10:00 Welcome

10:00 → 11:40 Input session: Technologies

Technologies for unmanned interstellar exploration

10:00 Interstellar Communication

Speaker: Michael Hippke (Gentleman Scientist)

10:20 Fusion Propulsion Technology for Interstellar Missions

Speaker: Rob Swinney (Initiative for Interstellar Studies)

10:40 A Pragmatic Interstellar Probe in the 2030s

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

11:00 Philosophical Aspects of Interstellar Exploration

Speaker: Michael Waltemathe (Ruhr Uni Bochum)

11:20 Photon Propulsion

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

11:40 → 12:45 Unconference session

12:45 → 13:15 Panel discussion and Q&A

Panel discussion and Q&A for morning sessions

13:15 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:40 Input session: World ships

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

14:00 World Ships

Speaker: Andreas Hein (Institute for Interstellar Studies)

14:20 Evolving Spacecraft

Speaker: Angelo Vermeulen (TU Delft)

14:40 Language Development on Generation Ships

Speaker: Jeffrey Punske (Southern Illinois University)

15:00 Sociology of Human Interstellar Exploration

Speaker: Elke Hemminger (EVH Bochum)

15:20 The Absurdly Complex Problem of Galaxy Colonization - GTOCX

Speaker: Advanced Concepts Team (ESTEC)

15:40 → 17:00 Unconference session

17:00 → 18:00 Panel discussion and Q&A

Panel discussion and Q&A for afternoon sessions

Friday 21 June

09:30 → 10:30 Input session: Sustaining Health

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

09:30 Human Factors and Habitability

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

09:50 Artificial Gravity

Speaker: Theodore Hall (University of Michigan)

10:10 Hibernation

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

10:30 → 11:20 Poster presentations

11:20 → 12:20 Unconference session

12:20 → 13:00 Panel discussion and Q&A

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:00 Input session: Sustaining Life

14:00 Closed Loop Life Support

Speaker: Marco Volponi (ESA-ESTEC)

14:20 Cultivation Systems for Long Duration Human Spaceflight

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

14:40 Self-Healing Materials

Speaker: Ugo Lafont (ESA ESTEC)

15:00 → 16:30 Unconference session

16:30 → 17:00 Panel discussion and Q&A