CONTACT 2006 Schedule of Events


nasa ames conference center

Friday

9:00-9:30
Jim Funaro & Joel Hagen: Welcome and Announcements

9:30-12:00
Keith Doyle: "Musical Complexity: Echoes of the Past, Glimpses of the Future"
Andrew Fraknoi: "The Music of the Spheres: Astronomically Inspired Music"
Gerald Nordley: "Orbital and Acoustic Resonance"
Kathryn Denning: "The Adjacent Possibility of Music"
Sandy Stone: "Kwamina to Kesh and Beyond: Real Music of Imagined Cultures"

12:00-1:15 - Lunch

1:15-2:45
Doug Raybeck: "Music and the Brain: What Music Says about Us and Possible Others"
Seth Shostak: "E.T.'s Music"
DouglasVakoch: "A Primer of Basic Musical Concepts for Interstellar Communication"

2:45-4:30 Phil Aaberg: "Would Alien Music Sound like the Bar Scene in Star Wars?"
Kim Stanley Robinson: "I Tried to Write Science Fiction About Music"
Marsha Ivins: "Life and Music in Orbit"

5:00-7:00 - Party
(Location to be arranged)

7:00-10:00 - Dinner on your own

10:00 - SolSys - 'Tweaking the Scenario'
(1st Floor Lodge Lobby)

10:00 - Hospitality Room Open
(2nd Floor Lodge Lobby)


Saturday

9:00-10:30
Lara Battles: "Where the Aliens Roam…"
Al Harrison: "The Right Stuff: From Kitty Hawk to Mars"
Jaroen Lapré: "Arthur C. Clarke Maelstrom II film short project: Work in Progress"

10:30-12:00
Joel Hagen: "Backyard Mars: Notes From An Optical Vagabond"
Michael Sims: "Update on Mars: The MER Mission"
Bruce Damer: "Cyber-Space-Exploration"

12:00-1:15 - Lunch

1:15-2:30
Reed Riner: "Retrospect on CONTACT: What Have We Learned?"
Jim Funaro: "Simulations of ET Contact: What Have We Learned?"
Panel: First CONTACT and Beyond

2:30-4:30
Carlo Séquin: "Music of the Spheres in More Than 3 Dimensions"
Yvonne Clearwater: "Everything I Need to Know I Learned From my Robot"
Carol Oliver: "Getting Connected to The Future of Science Education: It's Virtually Here"
Dave Tamori: "Drumming as an Educational Experience in Team Building"

4:30-5:30
COTI: Team Progress Reports

6:00-6:30 - Preprandial Party

6:30 - Banquet

8:00-9:30 - Keynote
Phil Aaberg

10:00 - Hospitality Room Open
(2nd Floor Lodge Lobby)


Sunday

10:00-11:30
Jim Pass: "The Astrosociological Implications of Astrobiology"
Dave Miller: "The Sooner Lunar Schooner"
Gus Frederick: "Movie Music: The Second Half of the Picture"

11:30-12:45 - Lunch

12:45-2:30
COTI HI - CONTACT!: Israel Zuckerman, Carol Anderson and Dave Tamori
Jim Funaro & Joel Hagen: Farewell

 


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