ISDC2008 Conference Program: Speaker's Information

There will be oral presentations during the conference. All those who wish to speak must submit an abstract. Abstracts should be between 300 and 500 words. Abstracts not in the appropriate format will not be considered.

Authors, by submitting, agree to let NSS publish their abstracts and manuscripts in a Proceedings document, if one is generated. All accepted abstracts and manuscripts will be made permanently available on the NSS Web site.

Abstract Submittal Requirements (abstract deadline: Friday, March 16, 2008)

All authors must use the abstract submission form at the conference Web site. Authors will be prompted for information about themselves (name, email address, web URL), the conference track at which they would like to present, and information about their paper (title, and abstract). Formats are:

Title: text, up to 12 words.

Abstract: text, between 300 and 500 words.

If the abstract is accepted, the authors will be notified.

Manuscript/Presentation Submittal Requirements

All authors in the "Peer-Reviewed Papers" Track must submit submit their manuscripts. Other presentations do not require a manuscript to be submitted. However, submission of Power Point presentations are encouraged to allow compatibility checking with the audio/visual equipment to be used at the Conference. Manuscripts, if any, and presentations should be submitted via the paper submission form. Authors will be prompted for information about themselves (how they would like to be introduced, and a short bio for the conference publication), and a copy of their manuscript and/or presentation. Formats are:

Introduction: text, up to 150 words.

Bio: text, up to 300 words.

Manuscript: file, PDF format.

Presentation: file, MS PowerPoint format.

Special A/V Requirements: contact us if you need overhead projectors, slide projectors, or computer formats other than IBM Microsoft Power Point 2003 or later.

Unless previous alternative arrangements have been made, speakers must bring their presentation to the conference on CD-ROM or memory stick (with CD-ROM as a backup) in a format compatible with IBM-PC Microsoft Power Point 2003 or newer software.

Conference Scheduling

Except for special symposia, the conference daily schedule will consist of an Announcements and Plenary Session which starts at 9:00 AM and lasts for two to three hours each day (Friday - Sunday). The Plenary will be followed by a 2 hour long break for lunch (all rooms). Programming on Thursday for the Aerospace Technology Working Group Symposium and the Space Venture Financing Symposium may follow a slightly different schedule and Thursday and Monday will not have an opening Plenary Session. The conference will conclude at Noon, Monday, May 28, 2007. Most days will have a Noon luncheon meal function and an evening dinner meal function.

The ISDC track schedule (beginning after lunch) will be programmed in 50 minute blocks starting on the hour with a 10 minute break before the next hour begins. Tracks will be programmed in 50 minute blocks (including Q&A), which can be one 50-minute talk, two 25-min talks, or several short talks lasting a total of 50 minutes (including Q&A). Longer topics can be spread over multiple hours. For example, for a panel discussion, Part I in the first hour might have five 10-minute talks by the panel members followed in Part II by a second 50-minute panel discussion by the five speakers from the previous hour.

Questions

Authors are welcome to email their questions and comments to ISDC2007Papers@nss.org.

Tracks

The ISDC 2007 website http://isdc.nss.org/2007/program.html has a list of tracks with a large number of topics for each track. The topics shown are proposed topics, not submitted papers. Please use them as guidelines and feel free to propose alternative topics. In addition, the following is provided to give speakers a general guide for what is appropriate in each track.

1) Living on the Frontier & Space Development.

001 The Frontier Transportation – to space – in space – from space. This track explores the principles and practice of transport in the new frontier. From suborbital to interstellar, this track is about the means of traveling to and from the many destinations in space: everything from COTS resupplying the International space Station to the Constellation program to the Moon and Mars to the entrepreneurs and Virgin Galactic. If it gets people or payloads into space, this is your track.
002 The Lunar Frontier: Moon & Cislunar Space Development. If it has to do with the Moon it goes here. This track explores the varied destinations between here and the Moon, the many things to be done, and the infrastructure we'll need to become a space-faring, and not just space-visiting civilization. Cyclers between the Earth and Moon, colonies between the Earth and Moon, along with base siting, resource utilization, and many more are appropriate topics here. Presented in association with the Moon Society.
003 The Martian Frontier: Mars or Bust. If it has to do with Mars, it goes here. This track explores the ways and means of going to Mars, and what is needed to stay there. Mars analogs, Martian resource utilization, base/colony site selection, base/colony construction, manned and unmanned exploration and many more topics should be included here. Presented in association with the Dallas Mars Society.
004 The Solar System Frontier & Beyond. This is the place for manned or unmanned study of the rest of the solar system and beyond. Hubble Space telescope (and follow-on projects), Cassini, Galileo, probes to asteroids and comets, and other topics would fit here.
005 International Space Station (ISS) Science. This is the place for the ISS to shine. An overview of microgravity science, the research completed thus far, the on-going and proposed research for ISS, the benefits for people on the Earth and for future space crews are just some of the possible topics. We also hope to have participation from international partners. Medical research on ISS may also crossover to the Space Medicine Track. This track is scheduled for Friday, May 25 and Saturday, May 26.
006 Space Medicine. This track is the place for Space Medicine. Everything from how the body is affected by microgravity and concerns for long term spaceflight posed by medical problems to requirements for medical training and equipment on long-term space flight to psychological considerations on space crew selection would fit in this track. There may be crossover talks between this track and the ISS Science and the Moon and Mars tracks. Some speakers may want to propose papers in multiple tracks.
007 Space Law. This track can encompass a wide variety of topics from the state of space law now, to changes needed to Earth law to encourage space exploration, to proposals for Moon and/or Martian law when we have a chance to start from scratch and many more topics. Propose your ideas.
008 Space Business. This track can be about any aspect of space business from how to start a space business, to setting up a space port, to how to invest in a space business, to insurance and/or financing concerns, to legal liability from space flight and space ports.
014 Aerospace Technology Working Group (ATWG) Symposium. This track is limited to ATWG members and will be used to allow the ATWG to present the finding from its meetings on May 22-23 at the ISDC 2007 Conference on Thursday, May 24, 2007.
015 Peer-Reviewed Papers Track. The talks from this track may be dispersed in the various other tracks for presentation, but the papers submitted in this track will be subjected to peer-review for approval and will be “published” in a new on-line journal sponsored by the National Space Society.

2) Space for the People.

009 Space Education. This track is geared toward educators. It is intended to give teachers concrete examples of how to use space topics to excite children in the classroom and to help children be more interested in careers in math and science. It is hoped that some of the sessions will have continuing education credits for teachers. If there is enough interest, we can support two educator tracks: 1) for teachers of K-12 and 2) for college and above. This can be changed to K-8 and 9-college or other breakdowns depending on the papers proposed. The 9-college education track can also have talks on space research opportunities and/or how a school can apply to do research using the “vomit comet” or other NASA/ government facilities. We also hope to have a Moon Rock Certification course at the Conference completion of which will allow educators to check out lunar material from Johnson Space Center for teaching purposes. We will also have two levels of children’s programming at the conference.
010 Space Outreach/Activism. This track is geared toward National Space Society and other space groups to network about approaches for public outreach and education and how to be effective activists for space. Talks about successful projects, approaches, etc. would be welcome in this track.
011 Space 101 - Space Basics. This track is geared toward the general public with little or no knowledge about space and space topics. Introductory talks on a variety of space topics are sought for this track.
012 Children's' Program. The conference will have two children’s programs, one for younger children ages 3-11 and another for teens ages 12-18. If speakers wish to make a presentation to one of the Children’s Programs, they can propose a topic here.
013 Space Humanities Activities. The conference will have a space art show, a movie room, a game room, a scheduled flik-singing night, and hopefully a space music concert. If you have a proposal for an activity please contact us with additional proposed activities or specifics you would like to have included in the activities outlined above. We can also support a Theological/Philosophical track if someone wants to do it.