12:30 - 2 KEYNOTE

// Jeffrey Nesbit Assistant Professor, Temple University School of Art + Architecture

Ground Control: Technical Lands for Departing Earth


2 - 3:30 PANEL 2: ABOUT SPACE, ON EARTH

// Daniela Radu Professor and Interim Chair,
    FIU Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

    TITLE [topic: solar energy harvesting in space]

 

// Luis Cendan Ph.D. Candidate,
    FIU Department of Earth and Environment

    TITLE [topic: seeds in space]

 

// James Webb, Professor, FIU Department of Physics

"Finding Extraterrestrial life in the universe"

 

// Neil Leach, Professor, FIU Department of Architecture 

    “Is AI the New Space Race?”

 

// Ozan Atalan Assistant Teaching Professor,
    FIU  Department of Art + Art History

   “Xenopoetics”


3:30 - 3:45 BREAK


3:45- 5:15 KEYNOTE

// Erika Nesvold Co-Founder, JustSpace Alliance

    TITLE [topic: space and ethics]


5:15 - 5:45 CLOSING REMARKS 

// Rhona Trauvitch Associate Teaching Professor,
    FIU Department of English

    TITLE [Harnessing the imagination, new directions]


5:45 - 6:30 TOUR OF STOCKER ASTROSCIENCE CENTER WITH JAMES WEBB