2019 Presentation Video Archive

A Greg Matloff – Starflight Review (Keynote address)

1 Marc Millis – Breakthrough Propulsion Study: Assessing Interstellar Flight Challenges / Prospects

2 Geoffrey Landis – Power System for Miniature Interstellar Flyby Probe

3 Dave Messerschmitt – Some Challenges in Low-Mass Interstellar Probe Communication Downlinks

B Pete Klupar – Breakthrough Starshot Status

4 Deana Weibel – Inevitability, Adaptability, Destiny: Religious and Non-Religious Arguments

5 Kelly Smith – Can a Complex Universe Provide “Religious” Inspiration Without Religion?

6 David Burke – Human-Machine Ethics: Experiments in Moral Responsibility

7 Michael Massa – Securing the Stars: The Security Implications of Human Culture for Crewed Flight

8 Alexander Cohen – Damage to Relativistic Interstellar Spacecraft by ISM Impact Gas Accumulation

9 Andrew Higgins – Strategies for Dust Mitigation and Charged Ion Impact on Laser-Driven Lightsails

C Joel Mozer – Future Challenges for National Security in Space

10 Geoffrey Landis – Physics of Negative Mass: Applications for Propulsion and Interstellar Travel

11 Gerald Cleaver – Calculation of the Curvature Invariants for Transversable Lorentzian Wormholes

12 Brian McConnell – The Spacecoach

13 Cathe Smith – Farmers in the Sky

14 Timothy Swindle – Interstellar Material Within the Solar System

15 James Schwartz – Near-Earth Resources: Short-Term Limitations with Interstellar Consequences

16 Ken Roy – Terraforming Venus, and Similar Planets, using a Pneumatically Supported Shell

17 Katelyn Greene – Assessing Crewmember Musculoskeletal Health with Long-Duration Spaceflight

18 Jeff Greason – A Reaction Drive Powered by External Dynamic Pressure

19 Les Johnson – The NEA Scout and Solar Cruiser Missions

20 Jamey Jacob – Inflatable Technologies for Interstellar Missions: Bounce House to the Stars

21 Steve Durst – An Interstellar University in the Ad Astra State

22 Gerald Jackson – Antimatter-Based Interstellar Propulsion

23 Artur Davoyan – Light sails for Interstellar Travel

24 Jacob Erlikhman – Light Sail Geometries and Stability for Directed Energy Interstellar Propulsion