NIAC 2012 Spring Symposium
The 2012 NIAC Spring Symposium will be held on March 27-29, 2012, at the Westin Hotel in Pasadena, CA. Current NIAC Fellows will attend and give presentations about their Phase I research. The conference will feature exciting keynote speakers and information about NIAC's program status and plans. The public is encouraged to attend.
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Agenda for the 2012 NIAC Spring Symposium March 27-29, 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Time |
Title |
Speaker |
8:25 |
Introduction and Welcome |
Jay Falker NIAC Program Executive |
8:40 |
NIAC Overview |
Jay Falker NIAC Program Executive |
9:00 |
Keynote Address
Innovation and Infusion in a Structured World |
Gentry Lee NASA JPL |
10:00 |
Break |
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10:20 |
Steering of Solar Sails Using Optical Lift Force |
Grover Swartzlander Rochester Institute of Technology |
10:45 |
SPS-ALPHA: The First Practical Solar Power Satellite via Arbitrarily Large PHased Array |
John Mankins Artemis Innovation Management Solutions |
11:10 |
Non-Radioisotope Power Systems For Sunless Solar System Exploration Missions |
Michael Paul Pennsylvania State University |
11:35 |
Lunch |
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1:00 |
Atmospheric Breathing Electric Thruster for Planetary Exploration |
Kurt Hohman Busek Co. Inc. |
1:25 |
Economical Radioisotope Power |
Steven Howe Universities Space Research Association |
1:50 |
Space Debris Elimination (SpaDE) |
Daniel Gregory Raytheon BBN Technologies |
2:15 |
Optimal Dispersion of Near-Earth Objects |
Bong Wie, Iowa State University |
2:40 |
Break |
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3:00 |
Metallic Hydrogen: A Game Changing Rocket Propellant |
Isaac Silvera Harvard University |
3:25 |
The Potential for Ambient Plasma Wave Propulsion |
James Gilland, Ohio Aerospace Institute |
3:50 |
Nuclear Propulsion Through Direct Conversion of Fusion Energy |
John Slough, MSNW LLC |
4:15 |
Aneutronic Fusion Spacecraft Architecture |
Alfonso Tarditi, University of Houston at Clear Lake |
4:40 |
Proposal for a Concept Assessment of a Fission Fragment Rocket Engine (FFRE) Propelled Spacecraft |
Robert Werka, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center |
5:05 |
Adjourn |
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Time |
Title |
Speaker |
8:25 |
Introduction and Welcome |
Jay Falker NIAC Program Executive |
8:40 |
NIAC Program Plans |
Jay Falker NIAC Program Executive |
9:00 |
Keynote Address Looking Upward - The Most Human Trait |
David Brin Futures Unlimited |
10:00 |
Break |
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10:20 |
Enabling All-Access Mobility for Planetary Exploration Vehicles via Transformative Reconfiguration |
Scott Ferguson North Carolina State University |
10:45 |
Spacecraft/Rover Hybrids for the Exploration of Small Solar System Bodies |
Marco Pavone Stanford University |
11:10 |
Low Power Microrobotics Utilizing Biologically Inspired Energy Generation |
Gregory Scott Naval Research Laboratory |
11:35 |
Break |
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1:00 |
Printable Spacecraft |
Kendra Short, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
1:25 |
Interplanetary CubeSats: Opening the Solar System to a Broad Community at Lower Cost |
Robert Staehle NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
1:50 |
Laser-Based Optical Trap for Remote Sampling of Interplanetary and Atmospheric Particulate Matter |
Paul Stysley, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
2:15 |
Technologies Enabling Exploration of Skylights, Lava Tubes and Caves |
William (Red) Whittaker Astrobotic Technology Inc. |
2:40 |
Break |
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3:00 |
Entanglement-assisted Communication System for NASA's Deep-Space Missions: Feasibility Test and Conceptual Design |
Paul Kwiat University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
3:25 |
Ghost Imaging of Space Objects |
Dmitry Strekalov, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
3:50 |
High-Temperature Superconductors as Electromagnetic Deployment and Support Structures in Spacecraft |
David Miller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
4:15 |
Ultra-Light “Photonic Muscle” Space Structures |
Joe Ritter, University of Hawaii |
4:40 |
In-Space Propulsion Engine Architecture based on Sublimation of Planetary Resources: from Exploration Robots to NEO Mitigation |
Laurent Sibille, NASA Kennedy Space Center |
5:05 |
Adjourn |
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
Time |
Title |
Speaker |
8:25 |
Introduction and Welcome |
Jay Falker NIAC Program Executive |
8:35 |
Radiation Shielding Materials Containing Hydrogen, Boron, and Nitrogen: Systematic Computational and Experimental Study |
Sheila Thibeault, NASA Langley Research Center |
9:00 |
Meeting the Grand Challenge of Protecting Astronaut's Health: Electrostatic Active Space Radiation Shielding for Deep Space Missions |
Ram Tripathi, NASA Langley Research Center |
9:25 |
Radiation Protection and Architecture Utilizing High Temperature Superconducting Magnets |
Shayne Westover, NASA Johnson Space Center |
9:50 |
Break |
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10:10 |
Regolith Derived Heat Shield for a Planetary Body Entry and Descent System with In-Situ Fabrication |
Michael Hogue, NASA Kennedy Space Center |
10:35 |
Contour Crafting Simulation Plan for Lunar Settlement Infrastructure Build-Up |
Behrokh Khoshnevis, University of Southern California |
11:00 |
Variable Vector Countermeasure Suit (V2Suit) for Space Habitation and Exploration |
Kevin Duda, The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory |
11:25 |
Phase II Proposal Q and A |
Jay Falker NIAC Program Executive |
11:45 |
Symposium Wrap-up and Summary |
Jay Falker NIAC Program Executive |
12:00 |
Adjourn |
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