2015.symposium.100yss.org2015 SYMPOSIUM – finding earth 2.0

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In a rich, energetic, unique, transdisciplinary, engaging environment a global ambition, commitment and network blossoms to meet the grand challenge of human travel beyond our solar system and enjoy the benefits to enhance life on Earth today. Learn more about the 100YSS Public Symposium 2015 All the capabilities needed for successful human travel to another star are required to enhance and sustain human life here on Earth. Read more about our Technical Tracks Space isn’t just for rocket scientists and billionaires…it is collective human journey. Register today and join the journey! "The future never just happened, it was created." -Will & Ariel Durant 2015 Symposium Program The Marriott is offering SPECIAL RATES for all 100YSS Guests Limited Space. Hurry and Book Your Room Today! Interested in Sponsorship? Join our growing list of sponsors today! As we build capabilities for sustainable human travel and life outside our solar system ...we will find solutions for the most pressing scientific, technological and cultural problems we face here on Earth. See our Tech Tracks Coming October 31st! 100 Year Starship 100YSS is an independent, non-governmental, long-term initiative which explores radical leaps in knowledge. 100YSS Principal, Dr. Mae Jemison, leads this audacious journey. Learn More Canopus Award The Canopus Award recognizes writing contributions that promote the dream and goal of interstellar travel. Meet Canopus Award Judge, J.Daniel Batt, Science Fiction Author. LEARN MORE Register Now! George Whitesides is responsible for guiding all aspects of building the world’s first commercial spaceline including our spaceflight program as well as our small satellite launch capability. REGISTER Be the First to Know about 100YSS Activities! Speakers & Special Guests Mickey Fisher Creator of the CBS sci-fi event series EXTANT Pat Murphy, PhD Writer, Scientist, Entreprenuer George Whitesides CEO and President of Virgin Galactic Mmboneni Muofhe DDG Technology for Republic Of South Africa Louis Friedman, PhD Co-Founder of The Planetary Society, Author, Human Space Flight: From Mars to the Stars J. Daniel Batt Science Fiction Author Program Overview Click here to see Full Program Overview FINDING EARTH 2.0 100 Year Starship Public Symposium 2015 The Symposium’s theme “Finding Earth 2.0” is extremely timely and focuses on how both the process to definitively find and the indisputable discovery of an exoplanet capable of supporting Earth-evolved or terran life—an Earth analog or Earth 2.0 so to speak—are game changing. The Symposium asks and seeks answers to what specific capabilities and systems—scientific, technical and societal—will be needed over the next 5-25 years; not to merely suggest or catalog earth analogue candidate exoplanets, but to identify at least one definitive Earth 2.0 Finding Earth 2.0 has profound implications for technology, knowledge and systems across the spectrum of human experience, skills, capacities, perspectives and ambitions. Program Highlights Below The conference will be held at the Santa Clara Marriott in Silicon Valley, CA | View Full Program Day 1 30 Oct 2015 Day 2 31 Oct 2015 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm California Ballroom Special Event: 100YSS Canopus Awards 100YSS celebrates the Inaugural year of our Canopus Awards for Writing. Meet the finalists in the Original Fiction and Non-Fiction writing and Previously Published Original Fiction and Non-Fiction categories. We... Read More 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm California Ballroom and Foyer Science Fiction Stories Night, Canopus Awards for Excellence in Interstellar Writing, & Author Book signing hosted by Borderlands Bookstore (Open to the Public- Tickets Available) Science fiction frequently leads to science fact. And the extremes of scientific discovery today fuel the imagination and possibilities that science fiction writers catapult... Read More 6:30 pm - 11:00 pm California Ballroom & Foyer & Secret Salons Dr. Mae C. Jemison Mickey Fisher Karl Aspelund, PhD Accelerating Creativity: Reception Program: Artificial Intelligence & Seeking New Worlds: Mickey Fisher, creator of the CBS space drama series EXTANT, in conversation with Dr. Mae Jemison and Dr. Karl Aspelund consider the potential... Read More Dr. Mae C. Jemison Mickey Fisher Karl Aspelund, PhD Technical Tracks 2015 Tech Track Topics Designing for Interstellar Presenters in Designing for Interstellar are asked to consider parameters for designing probes, and vehicles or habitats for robotic or human crews –Earth, Earth orbit and deep space based—that will actively accelerate finding an analogue Earth and which may be implemented within the next 5, 10, 15 and 25 years. What aspects of design will be impacted by the various methodologies instituted to discover a planet outside of our solar system capable of supporting terran life? What are the design parameters that should be met to optimize the chances and rapidity in which such a planet may be identified? Designs for probes and crewed vehicles must address the unique characteristics and extreme conditions of isolated research bases, deep space and interstellar space. The equipment, structures, tools, materials, cleaning and maintenance processes—the accoutrements of life and work— surround and create an operating environment or habitat. Such an environment protects, nourishes and facilitates daily activities. For living things, the environment must support the myriad physical needs. For higher order creatures, physical, mental and emotional requirements must be met as well. Understanding, optimizing and manufacturing design for sustainability are critical for success—with a living crew or robotic probes. Propulsion and Energy A major aspect of discovering details of exoplanets is to get closer to them, to take samples and test actual physical properties beyond our solar system. Profound breakthroughs in the generation, storage and control of energy for propulsion, as well as communications and data gathering instruments are required to get to the interstellar medium in 10-20 years, much less to reach another star. Such breakthroughs are accompanied by robust leaps in theory and technology paradigms, and also incremental advances in engineering technology deployable in the next 5, 10 and 15 years. Presenters in Propulsion and Energy are asked to present research and supportable ideas on how to address the design and deployment of instruments, probes and vehicles that will accelerate travelling beyond our solar system and closer to exoplanets within the next 25 years. Data Communications and Information Technology Whether enroute or having arrived at a destination, robust capabilities to gather, analyze, compile, store, retrieve, transmit and receive information is essential to any deep space journey. Information, communication and data transmission capacity are constrained by vast distances, signal degradation, energy availability, bandwidth, data management, time delays, direction and pointing accuracy, instrumentation as well as existing earth based and deep space networks. Presenters in Data Communications and Information Technology are asked ...