Program Schedule
Please note: This was the planned schedule for our cancelled April 2020 dates.
| TIME | FRIDAY | PRESENTATIONS |
| 9:30 | Jim Funaro | Welcome to CONTACT 2020 |
| 10:00 | Don Scott | The Ranger and the Astronaut - Introduction |
| 10:30 | Jay Cole | The Ranger and the Astronaut - The Impact of Science Fiction on Public Opinion |
| 11:00 | Bruce Damer | The Ranger and the Astronaut - Practicing Science in a National Park |
| 11:30 | Bruce Damer | The Quest for the Origin of Life on Earth, Mars and elsewhere in the Universe |
| 12:00 | LUNCH | |
| 1:30 | Gus Frederick | Looking Backward - Twenty Years After What Could Have Been |
| 2:00 | Melanie Swan | Quantum Computing, Black Holes, and the Problem of Time |
| 2:30 | Robert Zubrin | Artificial Singularity Power: A Basis for Developing and Detecting Advanced Spacefaring Civilizations |
| 3:00 | Michael Sims et al | Next Stop the Stars - well, at least the planets! |
| 3:30 | BREAK | |
| 4:00 | David P. Miller | Stereo vs. 3D for Teleoperation in Space |
| 4:30 | Zac Zimmer | Firstness as Knot: The Entanglements of Contact and Colonialism |
| 5:00 | Nora Bateson | Warm Data |
| 5:30 | DINNER on your own | |
| 8:30 | Art Gallery Reception & Wine Tasting | |
| AFTER | Gathering | |
| TIME | SATURDAY | PRESENTATIONS |
| 9:00 | Kelly Smith | Is Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI) Ethical? Implications of Informed Consent and Public Opinion |
| 9:30 | Douglas Raybeck | Likely Sensory Receptors of Extraterrestrials |
| 10:00 | William Clancey | What Can We Learn from the Octopus about the Nature of Intelligence and its Evolution? |
| 10:30 | Jim Funaro | Outside the Box: Musings on the Worlds of Perception |
| 11:00 | Carlo Séquin | Geometrical Conversation Pieces in ET Contact |
| 11:30 | Seth Shostak | A Better Way to Find E.T.? |
| 12:00 | LUNCH | |
| 1:30 | Chris McKay et al | Human Exploration of the Entire Solar System |
| 2:30 | Penelope J. Boston | Transport of Biosignatures and Life Across the Solar System and Beyond |
| 3:00 | David Morrison | What Really Killed the Dinosaurs? |
| 3:30 | BREAK | |
| 4:00 | Steve McDaniel | Fix Earth or Fix Mars...Why Not Both? |
| 4:30 | Joel Hagen | I know who I am... I’m not so sure about you |
| 5:00 | Nora Bateson | Warm Data II |
| 7:00 | BANQUET | |
| 8:30 | KEYNOTE: Andrew Fraknoi | Inspiration from the Cosmos: Music, Astronomy, and Popular Culture |
| AFTER | Socializing in Hospitality Room | |
| TIME | SUNDAY | PRESENTATIONS |
| 10:00 | Keith Doyle | Mars and Space Themes in Board Games |
| 10:30 | Jeroen Lapré | Maelstrom II and Exoplanets |
| 11:00 | Michael Waltemathe | Biocentric Perspectives and Biodiversity in Space Exploration. Religious and theological aspects of our relation to possible environments |
| 11:30 | CHECK-OUT TIME | |
| 12:00 | LUNCH | |
| 1:00 | Barr, Nordley and Read | Epona Returns |
| 2:30 | Israel Zuckerman: Coordinator | Contact! |
| 3:30 | Jim Funaro | Closing Remarks and Discussion |
