CONTACT XXVIII MARCH 21-23 2014
8:00 pm -10:00 pm
Early Registration
8:30
Registration
9:30
CONTACT Welcome - Joel Hagen
9:45
SETI Welcome - Seth Shostak
10:00
Bill Boruki - "Kepler's Exoplanet Discoveries"
10:40 Rob McCann - "How Common is Intelligent life in the Universe?
What Kepler's Really Telling Us"
11:15 Gerald Nordley - "The Human Invasion: A Scenario for Visitation of an
Extrasolar Planetary System"
12:00 Lunch
01:30
Allen Taylor- "Travel to the Nearest Stars within a Human Lifetime"
2:00 Penny Boston - "The Pattern of the Beast: Are There Universal
Biosignatures?"
2:30 David Morrison - "How to Search for Life on Other Worlds"
2:30 Break
3:30 Bruce Damer - "The Genesis Engine: A New World in the
Quest for Life's Origins"
4:00 Chris Ford - "New Models of Reality: What is Really Real?"
4:30 Bill Clancey - "Why It's Okay to Say We Take Pictures on Mars for
Fun, and Why We Must Say It More"
5:00 Seth Shostak - Tour of SETI
5:00 Bruce Damer - Spaceship Ideas
6:00 Dinner - On Your Own
8:30 on - Gathering at Domain Hotel Hospitality Suite 301
9:00 Jim Pass - Coordinator "Social Science Space Education and
Research Panel"(With Jim Pass, Kathleen D. Toerpe, & Jim Funaro)
10:00 Jim Funaro - "On the Origins and Future of Love"
10:30 Break
11:00 Seth Shostak - "Looking for the Galaxy s Best and Brightest"
11:30 William R. Kramer - "Giving Voice to the Extraterrestrial --
Providing legal standing to the unknown"
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Jim Funaro, Organizer - "The Critters of CONTACT: A panel"
(With Jim Funaro, Joel Hagen, Gerald Nordley and
Israel Zuckerman)
2:30 Kathleen Toerpe - "Creating a Contact-Ready Earth"
3:00 Break
3:30 Pat McEwen - "Possible Solutions to Global Warming "
4:00 Jeroen Lapre - "Stories of the Dome"
4:30 Joseph Buchman - "Highlights and Initial Conclusions
of The 2013 Citizen Hearing on Disclosure"
5:00 Art Show & Reception
6:00 Banquet
8:00 Keynote Speaker: Chris McKay - "Mars, what else?"
9:00 on - Gathering at the Domain Hotel Hospitality Suite
9:00 Peter Jenniskens - Chelyabinsk Meteorite Expedition
10:00 COTI for Us: Panel (With Team Alpha and Team Omega)
12:00 Hotel Check Out
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Contact! (Plus discussion)
3:00 Closing Remarks - Jim Funaro
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