CONTACT XXIX
2016 Conference Schedule As Of 3 April 2016
All paper sessions were held in the Peak Room at the Domain Hotel.
FRIDAY, APRIL 1
9:30 Welcome: JIM FUNARO
10:00 BEN SIBELMAN: Biospheric Communionism: A Utopian Vision of Contact
10:30 ALLEN TAYLOR: Mixed Reality: A New Way to Make Contact
11:00 LARRY NIVEN: The Legacy Of Heorot
11:30 GERALD NORDLEY: Anticipation and The Limits of Nature
12:00 Lunch
1:30 PENNY BOSTON: Can Exoplanet Studies Inform Astrobiology and SETI?
2:00 DAVID MORRISON: The Continuing Search for Life within our Solar System
2:30 JIM FUNARO: The Evolution of Star Trek as an American Mythos
3:00 ANDY WEIR What will commercial spaceflight cost in the future?
3:30 BRUCE DAMER: The SHEPHERD concept for sustainable spaceflight & Mars exploration
4:00 JIM MOORE: We are not alone, but there's probably nobody to talk with.
4:30 BILL CLANCEY: Designing for the Methanians on Arcturus IV: The Creative Engineering Approach of John E Arnold
5:00 GUS FREDERICK: The Golden Age of Free Thought
5:30 Art Gallery Opening & Reception Apex Room
6:00 Dinner on your own
8:30 Gathering in the Peak Room
Al Harrison, A Celebration of Life
9:30 Gathering in the Hospitality Suite
SATURDAY, APRIL 2
9:00 JIM PASS: The Human Dimension of Space Exploration
9:30 MELANIE SWAN: Joining a Cloudmind Collaboration: the Future of Human-Machine Partnership in Digital Smartnetwork Society
10:00 SETH SHOSTAK: SETI Searches For Intelligence That's Not Alive
10:30 KIM STANLEY ROBINSON: Science and Science Fiction, an Eccentric Orbit
11:00 DON SCOTT: On Enlightenment; and how one of California's Lost Enlightenments is Helping Us Reach Mars
11:30 MICHAEL SIMS: The Great Earth Uplifting Event
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Mars! CHRIS McKAY, Moderator
2:00 Writers and Scientists on the Red Planet
2:30 Panel: Weir, Niven, Robinson, McKay, Sims
3:00 CHRIS FORD: The Super Realistic Movie Revolution
3:30 DAVID MILLER: Some non-threatening forms of human-robot interaction: Assistive Robotics
4:00 JEROEN LAPRÉ: Maelstrom Revisited
4:30 JOEL HAGEN: 3-D Printing: A Personal Journey through Art, Science and Education
5:00 Art Show (all day) Apex Room
7:00 Banquet Quantum Room
8:00 RICK STERNBACH: Keynote Address in Peak Room "Alien Civilizations - What Lies Beyond Our Imaginations?"
9:00 Gathering in the Hospitality Suite
SUNDAY, APRIL 3
10:00 ZAC ZIMMER: First Contact: Rewriting The Conquest Of The Americas
10:30 DOUG RAYBECK: Literacy Lost Redux
11:00 STEVE McDANIEL: Self-Sterilizing Coatings and Planetary Protection
11:30 Check-out Time
12:00 Lunch
1:00 COTI FOR US: Panel Team Alpha & Team Omega
2:00 ISRAEL ZUCKERMAN, COTI Coordinator Contact!
3:00 JIM FUNARO: Closing Remarks
