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

Registration, unconference sign-up, poster mounting

Welcome

Input session: Technologies

Technologies for unmanned interstellar exploration

1 Interstellar Communication

Speaker: Michael Hippke (Gentleman Scientist)

2 Fusion Propulsion Technology for Interstellar Missions

Speaker: Rob Swinney (Initiative for Interstellar Studies)

3 A Pragmatic Interstellar Probe in the 2030s

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

4 Philosophical Aspects of Interstellar Exploration

Speaker: Michael Waltemathe (Ruhr Uni Bochum)

5 Photon Propulsion

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

Unconference session

Panel discussion and Q&A

Panel discussion and Q&A for morning sessions

13:15 Lunch break

Input session: World ships

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

6 World Ships

Speaker: Andreas Hein (Institute for Interstellar Studies)

7 Evolving Spacecraft

Speaker: Angelo Vermeulen (TU Delft)

8 Language Development on Generation Ships

Speaker: Jeffrey Punske (Southern Illinois University)

9 Sociology of Human Interstellar Exploration

Speaker: Elke Hemminger (EVH Bochum)

10 The Absurdly Complex Problem of Galaxy Colonization - GTOCX

Speaker: Advanced Concepts Team (ESTEC)

Unconference session

Panel discussion and Q&A

Panel discussion and Q&A for afternoon sessions

Friday 21 June

Input session: Sustaining Health

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

11 Human Factors and Habitability

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

12 Artificial Gravity

Speaker: Theodore Hall (University of Michigan)

13 Hibernation

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

Poster presentations

Unconference session

Panel discussion and Q&A

13:00 Lunch break

Input session: Sustaining Life

14 Closed Loop Life Support

Speaker: Marco Volponi (ESA-ESTEC)

15 Cultivation Systems for Long Duration Human Spaceflight

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

16 Self-Healing Materials

Speaker: Ugo Lafont (ESA ESTEC)

Unconference session

Panel discussion and Q&A