LIVE VIDEO WEBCAST

Starship Century is now full, but we will be offering a live webcast of the symposium via streaming Flash video! Click here beginning at 9am Tuesday and Wednesday to watch all the proceedings and even comment or ask questions through our interactive discussion forum or via Twitter (#starship).

Starship Century, May 21 - 22
UC San Diego, Qualcomm Institute (Calit2), Atkinson Hall Auditorium

Is this the century we begin to build starships?

Why go to the Stars?

Can we?

Should We?

Starship Century is a symposium coordinated by the new Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination in collaboration with Gregory and James Benford, presenting ideas from their anthology of science and science fiction.

• Scientists address the challenges and opportunities for our long‐term future in space, with possibilities envisioned by: Freeman Dyson, Paul Davies, Peter Schwartz, John Cramer and Robert Zubrin.
• Science fiction authors Neal Stephenson, Allen Steele, Joe Haldeman, Gregory Benford, Geoffrey Landis and David Brin discuss the implications that these trajectories of exploration might have upon our development as individuals and as a civilization.

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Related Clarke Center Public Launch Events

All Events are Free and Open to the Public.

• May 1-30 Remembering Arthur C. Clarke - Remembering and celebrating the diverse genius and joie de vivre of Sir Arthur C. Clarke. Artifacts and items from the Collection of Wayne & Gloria Houser. During reception only: special display of original paintings of Clarke book cover art on loan from Naomi Fisher, and space science posters by Jon Lomberg.
• May 14, 1-5PM Visions of the Future Symposium - A half-day symposium will discuss futuristic visions of science 33 years from now, a tribute to Arthur C. Clarke’s own imagining of 2001 in 1968. Location: Qualcomm Institute, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego.
• May 14, 7PM The Literary Imagination - A conversation between authors Jonathan Lethem and Kim Stanley Robinson presented in partnership with UCSD Extension’s Helen Edison Lecture Series. Location: Price Center West Ballroom, UC San Diego.