31 Oct 2015
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
California Ballroom
Plenary: Radical Leaps
These are the researchers, technologies and systems pushing the very sharp edge of knowledge, engineering and capabilities. Stroll through an overview of the tech and then take a Deep Dive in breakout sessions!
Radical Leaps Facilitator: Peter Swan, Ph.D., President International Space Elevator Consortium.
“Critical Resource Replenishment at Exotic Destinations – Mining at the Next Star” Swan,
“Technological Approaches that can search for Life Close Up in Exotic Destinations”
Seth Shostak, Ph.D
Achieving Relativistic Speeds
Phillip Lubin, Ph.D.
Professor, Physics
Univ. California Santa Barbara