2014 NIAC Symposium Live

[GIThruster]

http://www.livestream.com/niac2014

[AcesHigh]

where can I find symposium program, to see which speaches I want to see? I did not find it anywhere...

[AcesHigh]

2014 NIAC Symposium

Tuesday, February 4

8:30
Welcoming Remarks
Prof. Charbel Farhat Chair of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Stanford University

Introduction & Overview
Jay Falker, NIAC Program Executive

9:00
Keynote Address
Jamie Hyneman, Host & Executive Producer of Mythbusters
“Innovation, Explosives and the Benefit of Adolescent Behavior”

10:00
Break

10:10
Special Address
S. Pete Worden, Center Director, NASA Ames Research Center

10:30
Robert Winglee, University of Washington, Seattle, 2013 Phase II Fellow
Sample Return Systems for Extreme Environments

11:00
David Wettergreen, Carnegie Mellon University, 2013 Phase II Fellow
Nomadic Exploration: Following routes of solar sustenance and temperate climate

11:30
Invited Speaker
Gary Hudson, Space Studies Institute
“A Matter of Some Gravity"

12:00
Lunch

1:30
S. J. Ben Yoo, University of California, Davis, 2013 Phase I Fellow
Low-Mass Planar Photonic Imaging Sensor

2:00
Christopher Walker, Univ. of Arizona, 2013 Phase I Fellow
10 meter Sub-Orbital Large Balloon Reflector (LBR)

2:30
Adrian Stoica, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2013 Phase I Fellow
Transformers For Extreme Environments

3:00
Joshua Rovey, University of Missouri, Rolla, 2013 Phase I Fellow
Plasmonic Force Propulsion Revolutionizes Nano/PicoSatellite Capability

3:30
Break

4:00
Bong Wie, Iowa State University, 2012 Phase II Fellow
An Innovative Solution to NASA's NEO Impact Threat Mitigation Grand Challenge and Flight Validation Mission Architecture Development

4:30
William Whittaker, Astrobotic Technology, Inc., 2012 Phase II Fellow
Cavehopping Exploration of Planetary Skylights and Tunnels

5:00
Shayne Westover, NASA Johnson Space Center, 2012 Phase II Fellow
Radiation Protection and Architecture Utilizing High Temperature Superconducting Magnets

Wednesday, February 5

8:30
NIAC Plans and Announcements
Jay Falker, NIAC Program Executive

9:00
Keynote Address
Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google Inc.

10:00
Break

10:30
Babak Saif, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 2013 Phase II Fellow
A Gravitational Wave Detector Based on an Atom Interferometer

11:00
Vytas SunSpiral, NASA Ames Research Center, 2013 Phase II Fellow
Super Ball Bot - Structures for Planetary Landing and Exploration

11:30
Lunch

1:00
Lynn Rothschild, NASA Ames Research Center, 2013 Phase I Fellow
Biomaterials out of thin air: in situ, on-demand printing of advanced biocomposites

1:30
Thomas Prettyman, Planetary Science Institute, 2013 Phase I Fellow
Deep Mapping of Small Solar System Bodies with Galactic Cosmic Ray Secondary Particle Showers

2:00
Mark Moore, NASA Langley Research Center, 2013 Phase I Fellow
Eternal Flight as the Solution for 'X'

2:30
Anthony Longman, Anthony P. Longman, 2013 Phase I Fellow
Growth Adapted Tensegrity Structures - A New Calculus for the Space Economy

3:00
Break

3:30
Berok Khoshnevis, University of Southern California, 2012 Phase II Fellow
ISRU-Based Robotic Construction Technologies for Lunar and Martian Infrastructures

4:00
John Slough, MSNW LLC, 2012 Phase II Fellow
The Fusion Driven Rocket: Nuclear Propulsion through Direct Conversion of Fusion Energy

4:30
Kendra Short, NASA JPL, 2012 Phase II Fellow
Printable Spacecraft: Flexible Electronic Platforms for NASA Missions

5:00
Joe Ritter, Neoteric Physics, Inc., 2012 Phase II Fellow
OCCAMS: Optically Controlled and Corrected Active Meta-material Space Structures

Thursday, February 6

8:30
NIAC Phase II Q&A and Other Topics
Jay Falker, NIAC Program Executive

9:00
Keynote Address
Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute
“Finding Cosmic Company: A Transformative Event of the 21st Century”

10:00
Break

10:30
Robert Hoyt, Tethers, Unlimited, Inc., 2013 Phase II Fellow
SpiderFab: Architecture for On-Orbit Construction of Kilometer-Scale Apertures

11:00
Young K. Bae, Y.K. Bae Corporation, 2013 Phase II Fellow
Propellant-less Spacecraft Formation-Flying and Maneuvering with Photonic Laser Thrusters

11:30
Lunch

1:00
Nathan Jerred, Universities Space Research Association, 2013 Phase I Fellow
Dual-mode Propulsion System Enabling CubeSat Exploration of the Solar System

1:30
Hamid Hemmati, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2013 Phase I Fellow
Two-Dimensional Planetary Surface Landers

2:00
John Bradford, SpaceWorks Engineering, 2013 Phase I Fellow
Torpor Inducing Transfer Habitat For Human Stasis To Mars

2:30
Rob Adams, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, 2013 Phase I Fellow
Pulsed Fission-Fusion (PuFF) Propulsion System

3:00
Break

3:30
David Miller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012 Phase II Fellow
High-Temperature Superconductors as Electromagnetic Deployment and Support Structures

4:00
Dmitry Strekalov, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2012 Phase II Fellow
Ghost Imaging of Space Objects

4:30
Kevin Duda, The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., 2012 Phase II Fellow
Variable Vector Countermeasure Suit (V2Suit) for Space Habitation and Exploration

[Skipjack]

Very cool! I cant wait to see John Slough tomorrow!
Glad to be in EST zone

[GIThruster]

Yup! Look too for Gary Hudson today at 11:30 Pacific.

So far, the Q&A with Jamie Hyneman has been excellent. Surprise right out of the gate.

[AcesHigh]

"A Matter of Some Gravity"

can you elaborate on that, GI?

[GIThruster]

I can't. Don't know more than you except that Gary Hudson has had an interest in Mach's Principle for years and I'm hoping he'll be talking about Jim's work.

Just finished watching Gen. Worden's presentation. What a great guy. Makes you want to have a beer with him.

Gary has been and continues to be an extraordinary free-thinker with an amazing ability to turn dreams into realities, and I am always fascinated by what he thinks and says.

[Skipjack]

Oh yes, Gary! I absolutely have to see him too!

[GIThruster]

If memory serves, Gary has contributed to this forum in the past. I'm near certain he posts over at NSF. He still runs SSI and they intend to support Jim's work.

http://ssi.org/

[Skipjack]

Yes, Gary posts over at NSF as HMXHMX.

[GIThruster]

Is it me or is the "nomadic" idea a really bad idea? Just seems one rock in the way and you can kiss your whole program goodbye. Better to build a more robust system that can manage temp extremes, given transporting the rover is the most expensive thing. And what do you do when you find something interesting? You have to move on anyway? What use is that?

[ladajo]

Skip,
You were like a kid in a candy store, all giggles. Saw your posts.
Interesting, although unfortunate they broke for lunch and we got nothing for Q&A or anything out of Jim Woodward.

[Skipjack]

Yeah, Gary and his work get me all emotional. I have been an admirer ever since "Peter Mosleitner's" (popular science) magazine had a picture of his Phoenix SSTO design in it. That must have been some time in the 80ies and I was maybe 10 or so.
I still get all dreamy when I look at the picture, which is a painting made by a painter called Paul Hudson for Gary. It has Maxwell Hunter, Gary and Paul in it too.

Its the future, I always wanted to see...
Anyway, was great to hear him talk about Woodward and his work. Cool overlap of interests there.

[GIThruster]

Well Skip if you get that emotional join SSI!

Back in 1977 my high school aeronautics class took a field trip to the Smithsonian and I picked up a copy of O'neil's Space Settlements. It had a life-changing impact on me. Much of the good stuff went into The High Frontier. I highly recommend both of them though, the former is out of print now for decades and very hard to find. I wore mine out 25 years ago.

I did not know what Gary planned, and when he launched into the discussion of lesser g explorations, I was disappointed. It's obvious he's right and this work is essential but I was hoping to see him include Woodward's work. When he finally got round to it, I was excited as can be.

To see just Gary and not the two preceding addresses, skip to time index 1 hour 4 minutes. The address is less than half an hour long but focused on what the real challenges before us are in space exploration and exploitation.
http://www.livestream.com/niac2014/vide ... m=ui-thumb

[GIThruster]

I watched Slough's fusion rocket presentation and I'm not thrilled. First is this 13s pulse. That really is going to drive the inhabitants nuts. Second are the mass fractions. You can see the complaints in the vid. Third is the cost and consequence of tons of lithium. It's so long since we thought about the cost of a propellant that it seems folks have just decided to ignore it and once you have to look afresh at Beryllium liners and such, these costs start to skyrocket. Just the processing for such things is going to be enormous. But my biggest complaint is, I don't see any advantage over TRITON. This thing doesn't even produce electricity. They need to add solar panels. TRITON has the trouble that since its fission, people will complain about that alone, but these days with climate change such a concern, people are more open to fission. So that political hurdle reconsidered, I think TRITON is a better way to go, and that technology is way passed this. Likewise for a nuclear lightbulb.

Not a fan of putting shock absorbers on rocket motors and calling that real engineering.