NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts -- March 2005 Fellows Meeting

March 2005 Fellows Meeting

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Shahla Abdi, a 16 year old art student, gives her impressions of the NIAC Fellows Meeting, March 15-16, 2005, at NIAC Headquarters in Atlanta.

Dr. Robert Cassanova	Welcome and Status of NIAC Activities	NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts
Richard Wassersug	Keynote Speaker - What Do We Really Know about How Animals Develop and Behave in Weightlessness?	Dalhousie University
Roger Angel	A Deep Field Infrared Observatory Near the Lunar Pole	University of Arizona
Webster Cash	New World Imager	University of Colorado
Joel Achenbach	Keynote Speaker - Whatever Happened to the Space Age?	Washington Post
Andrew Bingham	Deployment of an Interstellar Electromagnetic Acceleration System	Clarkson University
Wendy Boss	Redesigning Living Organisms to Survive on Mars	North Carolina State University
Charles Buhler	Analysis of a Lunar Base Electrostatic Radiation Shield Concept	ASRC Aerospace Corporation
Jeffrey Hoffman and Peter Fisher	Use of Superconducting Magnet Technology for Astronaut Radiation Protection	MIT
Chris Moore	Keynote Speaker - Overview of NASA's Space Technology Program	NASA HQ
Jerome Pearson	Lunar Space Elevators for Cislunar Space Development	Star Technology & Research, Inc.
Robert Winglee	Magnetized Beamed Plasma Propulsion (MagBeam)	University of Washington
Ivan Bekey	Extremely Large Swarm Array of Picosats for Microwave/RF Earth Sensing, Radiometry & Mapping	Bekey Designs Incorporated
Craig Woolsey	A Self-Sustaining, Boundary-Layer-Adapted System for Terrrain Exploration and Environmental Samplling	Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Ricky Morgan	Wide Bandwidth Deep Space Quantum Communications	Morgan Optics Corporation
Richard Fork	Efficient Direct Conversion of Sunlight to Coherent Light at High Average Power in Space	University of Alabama, Huntsville
Chris Phoenix	Large-Product General-Purpose Design and Manufacturing Using Nanoscale Modules	Center for Responsible Nanotechnology