The workshop started off with an amazing social-cultural night at the Harvard Club of New York City, with around 50 people in attendance, to see the exhibits of eight different artists, C Bangs, Carmela Tal Baron, Kari Weatherbee, David A Hardy, Adrian Mann, Alex Storer, Rick Sternbach, Alexandra Limpert. In addition, Carmela did a gorgeous […]
Announcing Social-Cultural event Monday 12 June 2017 New York City
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Announcement I4IS United States: New President
The US Institute for Interstellar Studies was first incorporated in 2014 as a non-profit corporation in the State of Tennessee. It follows the set-up of the original company constituted in the UK and reflects the global ambitions of our strategic aims. It was set up to facilitate interactions of the global institute with US companies, industry […]
Fourth Announcement of the Workshop on Foundations of Interstellar Flight, 13-15 June 2017, New York, USA
We are pleased to announce the final paper selection for the Foundations of Interstellar Flight workshop to take place 13-15 June 2017 in New York City. The workshop program includes 27 talks that have been selected through a review process. In no particular order, these are: 1. The Fusion Fuel Resource Base in our Solar […]
Third Announcement of the Workshop on Foundations of Interstellar Flight, 13-15 June 2017, New York, USA
Dear fellow researchers, Following many requests, we would like to inform you that the submission deadline for the Workshop on Interstellar Flight has been extended until the 25th of March. You have still time to submit your abstract, the template is available on the website: http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/physicsworkshop/ The workshop on Foundations of Interstellar Flight, that will take place next June 2017, 13th-15th, at the CUNY […]
Announcement: Workshop on the Foundations of Interstellar Studies
First Announcement, Workshop on the Foundations of Interstellar Studies, 13-15 June 2017, New York, USA Dear Friends, We are very pleased to invite you to a unique workshop on the Foundations of Interstellar Studies. This is to take place 13-15 June 2017 at City Tech, the City University of New York. It is a meeting […]
The Infinite Horizon of Discovery
In the ages of old, people thought that if you kept going out into the Atlantic Ocean, you would eventually fall off the edge of the Earth. Indeed, there were also tales of monsters that lurked there, waiting to snatch the sailor and his ship and drag them down into the abyss below. Well, there […]
Project Dragonfly competition workshop
Four international teams, almost exclusively consisting of students, are going to present their design for an interstellar probe. And this time, things get small.
The emergence of the Starship
A technological transition occurred when the real lunar ship emerged into our world, and crystallised from a thing of thought, to a thing of matter and energy. Today, we imagine what a future starship may look like.
The starship – what is it for anyway?
By the time the Starship reached its destination after centuries of travel time, what history would have passed by back on Earth? Indeed, how would the culture on board the Starship have evolved?
I4IS presents at the Scottish Dark Sky Observatory
Rob Swinney and Terry Regan attended a special event at the Scottish Dark Sky Observatory in August. Over two evenings the pair, representing both i4is and the British Interplanetary Society discussed the prospects of real interstellar flight in the near future.
The interstellar minimum
As a part of our educational initiatives, our team has recently put together a small test paper for starship design, known as ‘the interstellar minimum’ after the famous Russian physicist Lev Landau and his ‘theoretical minimum’ entrance exam for university degree programs.