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
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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
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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 Reminder: 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