2010 Ames CONTACT:
Conference Schedule
| Friday, March 26 | |
| 8:30 | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 | Welcome - Jim Funaro |
| 9:15 | Ames Welcome - Steve Zornetzer, Ames Associate Director |
| 9:30 | COTI Classic - Israel Zuckerman (Co-ordinator) |
| 10:00 | Todd Klaus - An Overview of the Kepler Mission, a Search for Earth-Size Exoplanets in the Habitable Zone |
| 10:30 | Carol Stoker - The Habitability of the Phoenix Landing Site |
| 11:00 | Jeroen Lepré & Matthew Blackwell - Epsilon Aurigae Dome Show |
| 11:30 | Bruce Damer - The EvoGrid: An Artificial Origin of Life Experiment & CONTACT Challenge |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 1:30 | Michael Sims - Human 2.0 |
| 2:00 | Melanie Swan - Revolutionizing Biology with Personal Genomes |
| 2:30 | Bill Clancey - Consciousness, Schemas, and SETI: The Search for Human Intelligence |
| 3:00 | Human-rating Automated and Robotic Systems - A Panel Lynn Baroff & Andrew Mishkin (Organizers) Panelists - Bill Clancey, Carol Stoker, Darrel Jan, Mark Lupisella Click Here for additional details! |
| 4:30 | COTI Classic - Reports from the Teams |
| 5:00 | Closing Remarks |
| 5:30 | Building Closes;Dinner on your own |
| 9:00 | Gathering at Ames Lodge - on into the night! |
| Saturday, March 27 | |
| 8:30 | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 | Don Scott - The Ecologist, the Mythologist, and the Poet |
| 9:30 | Reed Riner - What Anthropology Brings to the Study of Futures |
| 10:00 | Yvonne Clearwater - Space Exploration: Art, Science or Entertainment? |
| 10:30 | Larry Lemke - Flying on Titan |
| 11:00 | Randall Hayes - Cognitive Dissonance as a Cognitive Universal |
| 11:30 | Rob McCann - Mission Operations Beyond the Earth-Moon System |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 1:30 | Seth Shostak - Broadcasting to ET: A Dangerous Thing to Do? |
| 2:00 | Jim Funaro - Small Town Monkeys in the Big City: Problems of Scale |
| 2:30 | Jim Moore - What's The Difference Between A Chimpanzee And A Bonobo? |
| 3:00 | Chris Ford - Simulating Humans in Super Reality |
| 3:30 | AVATAR: The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful - A Panel Jim Funaro (Organizer) Panelists - Seth Shostak,Chris Ford, Joel Hagen, Gus Frederick, Howard Heard, Ken Koenig and Bruce Damer Click Here for additional details! |
| 4:30 | COTI Classic - Reports from the Teams |
| 5:00 | Artshow & Reception |
| 6:00 | Banquet |
| 8:00 | Keynote Speaker: Al Harrison - Are We Prepared? Fifty Years of Waiting for ET |
| 10:00 | Gathering at Ames Lodge - on into the night! |
| Sunday, March 28 | |
| 9:30 | Continental Breakfast |
| 10:00 | Jim Pass - Progress in Astrosociology |
| 10:30 | Donna Duerk - Moon Habitats: Sausages, Tuna Cans, Or Doughnuts? |
| 11:00 | Checkout Time at the Ames Lodge is 11:00! |
| 11:00 | Roberta Goodman - Talking with Dolphins: Who's Testing Whom? |
| 11:30 | Gus Frederick - Space and Time Warps (Remote via Skype) |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 1:30 | COTI Classic - Contact! |
| 3:00 | Closing Remarks - Jim Funaro |