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The Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop (TVIW) is a non-profit space advocacy and educational organization that facilitates interstellar research and exploration by hosting regular symposia, encouraging educational advances, publishing technical and scientific papers, and supporting literature and culture, all in the service of enhancing public attitudes and dialogue toward interstellar exploration[1]. TVIW assists in building a technological, philosophical, and economic infrastructure that advances the goal of establishing outposts throughout the Solar System and, finally, achieving a pathway to the stars.

TVIW sponsors symposia[2], awards scholarships[3][4], and provides opportunities for researchers to present and publish their work.

History

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TVIW arose from collaborations on Interstellar topics that lead to several proposals and papers about radio astronomy[5], insolation control for climate stabilization[6], and off-world colony development[7]. The collaborators became Directors of TVIW when the organization incorporated in Tennessee in 2014[8] and registered as a 501(c)(3) organization.

Growth

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Although the original TVIW concept was explicitly intended to be regional (viz., the American Southeast), it is now, in fact, an internationally recognized event, with major speakers and attendees drawn from the worldwide science and engineering community[9].  International participation is growing with participation and support of the British Interplanetary Society[10], the Initiative for Interstellar Studies[11][12] and the International Space University[13]

Productivity

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TVIW Symposia are opportunities for relaxed sharing of ideas in directions that stimulate and encourage Interstellar exploration in areas including propulsion, communications, and research[14]. Five well-attended TVIW Symposia have been held:

Year Symposium Theme Venue Seminars and Public Presentations
2011 'The Start of Something New'[15] Oak Ridge, TN ORNL Contributions to NASA programs; ORNL SETI Presentations
2013 ‘Let’s Get Started'[16] Huntsville, AL James Webb Space Telescope; Atlas and Delta Programs
2014 'Long-Term Thinking–Present-Day Action'[17] Oak Ridge, TN Seminars on 'Kepler Mission'; 'Terraforming'; 'Space Propulsion'; and well-attended public 'RSCC SETI' presentation at Roane State Community College
2016 'From Iron Horse to Worldship:

Becoming an Interstellar Civilization'[18]

Chattanooga, TN Seminars on 'Geoengineering'; 'Conflict in Space'; 'Space Propulsion',‘Homo Stellaris’, ‘Life System Engineering’, ‘Space Solar Power’, and ‘Space Mining’
2017 'Step by Step: Building A Ladder to the Stars'[19] Huntsville, AL Seminars on 'LASER Propulsion'; 'Conflict in Space'; 'Humans in Space'

The TVIW 2017 Symposium was presented in partnership with Starship Century[20] and Tau Zero Foundation[21][22].

These Symposia, which include seminars[23], discussion-oriented Sagan Seminars[24], and public lectures[25][26], have been reviewed in some detail in Centauri-Dreams[27], the news forum of the Tau Zero Foundation[28]. Areas of emphasis have included worldship considerations[29], the Kepler planetary search, SETI, probable human evolution paths[30], wormholes and exotic propulsion[31], long-duration space exploration missions[32][33] , Breakthrough Starshot, gravitational lensing[34], and science fiction writing[35]

Presentations have been archived in 63 video recordings on YouTube:The TVIW Channel[36], on the TVIW Internet site, and in symposium Proceedings[37]. Written versions of these presentations are frequently published in the open literature[38][39]. For example, some of the 2013 papers were published in the a special proceedings issues of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. These include the following examples from the 2013 TVIW Symposium:

  • Slow Boat to Centauri: A Millennial Journey Exploiting Resources Along the Way[40]
  • Sorry, We Didn’t Mean to Break Your Culture[41]
  • Colonizing the Plutoids: The Key to Human Expansion into the Galaxy[42]
  • High Temperature Nanocomposites For Nuclear Thermal Propulsion and In-Space Fabrication by Hyperbaric Pressure Laser Chemical Vapor Deposition[43]
  • Interstellar Travel without ‘Magic’[44]
  • Dyson Dots & Geoengineering: The Killer App Ad Astra[45]

The following examples are taken from the special proceedings issue of the 2014 TVIW Symposium, published in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society:

  • Space Radiation and the Brain[46]
  • Space 2100: A Shared Visioning Exercise for the Future Space Economy[47]
  • Starfleet Deferred: Project Orion in the 1962 Air Force Space Program[48]
  • An Interstellar Sail Before 2020?[49]

In association with the symposia, TVIW has presented several graduate and undergraduate scholarships[50][51].

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References

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  2. ^ "The Far-Out Summit Where Geniuses Learn to Build Starships". WIRED. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  3. ^ Scholarships.com. "Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop Scholarship". www.scholarships.com. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
  4. ^ "Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop Scholarship | The University Network". The University Network. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  5. ^ Fields, D.E., Robert G. Kennedy, Kenneth I. Roy, Bogdan Vacaliuc. “Interplanetary radio transmission through serial ionospheric and material barriers”, Acta Astronautica,Volume 82, Issue 2, Pages 251-256 (February 2013).  Published online at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576512002123
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  11. ^ "TVIW Field Report" (PDF). Principium. 11. 2015 – via Institute for Interstellar Studies.
  12. ^ "TWIW 2014: i4is SF design Workshop" (PDF). Principium. 11. November 2015 – via Initiative for Interstellar Studies.
  13. ^ "Sponsors of TVIW 2017". Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop. 2016-12-09. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
  14. ^ Leahy, Bart (Summer 2013). "LONG-TERM THINKING: THE TENNESSEE VALLEY INTERSTELLAR WORKSHOP". Ad Astra. 25(2).
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  23. ^ "Incredible Technology: How to Use 'Shells' to Terraform a Planet". Space.com. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  24. ^ "Homo Stellaris: Becoming the People of the Stars by Robert E. Hampson, Ph.D. - Baen Books". www.baen.com. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  25. ^ "This astrophysicist is on the search for extraterrestrial life". WHNT.com. 2017-10-29. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  26. ^ "Renowned Astrophysicist, SETI director Andrew Siemion Gives Free Talk at U.S. Space & Rocket Center | U.S. Space & Rocket Center". www.rocketcenter.com. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  27. ^ "Closing Remarks at TVIW 2017". www.centauri-dreams.org. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  28. ^ "Tau Zero Foundation - Pioneering Interstellar Flight". tauzero.aero. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  29. ^ "TVIW 2016: Worldship Track". www.centauri-dreams.org. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  30. ^ "TVIW 2016: Homo Stellaris Working Track". www.centauri-dreams.org. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  31. ^ "TVIW: From Wormholes to Orion". www.centauri-dreams.org. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  32. ^ "TVIW: Caveats for Long-Duration Missions". www.centauri-dreams.org. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
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  34. ^ "Gravitational Lensing: Untangling an Image". www.centauri-dreams.org. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
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  36. ^ "TVIW". YouTube. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
  37. ^ Fields, D.E.; Sherriff, A., eds. (2017). Proceedings of TVIW 2016. https://tviw.us/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Proceedings-TVIW-2016.pdf: Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop. {{cite book}}: External link in |location= (help)CS1 maint: location (link)
  38. ^ Cleaver, Gerald B. (2016-09-13). "Matter-Antimatter Propulsion via QFT Effects from Parallel Electric and Magnetic Fields". arXiv:1609.08426 [physics].
  39. ^ Ferguson, C. K. (2015). "Space 2100: A Shared Visioning Exercise for the Future Space Economy". JBIS. 68: 10–16.
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  41. ^ Lightfoot, R. C. "Sorry, We Didn't Mean to Break Your Culture". Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. 66.
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  43. ^ Maxwell, J.; et al. "High Temperature Nanocomposites For Nuclear Thermal Propulsion and In-Space Fabrication by Hyperbaric Pressure Laser Chemical Vapor Deposition". Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. 66. {{cite journal}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |first= (help)
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  49. ^ al., G. L. Matloff et. "An Interstellar Sail before 2020?". Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. 68.
  50. ^ Scholarships.com. "Scholarships.com - Free College Scholarship Search Financial Aid Grants Scholarships College Scholarship Scholarships". www.scholarships.com. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  51. ^ "Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop Scholarship | The University Network". The University Network. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  52. ^ "Tau Zero Foundation - Pioneering Interstellar Flight". tauzero.aero. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
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