Events
Past Events
Summer Course: Human Exploration of the Far Solar System and on to the Stars- Online
- 26 – 30 June 2021
- The Limitless Space Institute has commissioned the Initiative for Interstellar Studies to create a new course to educate and inspire the next generation to explore and travel beyond our solar system. | More info »
Talk Series: Humanity’s Power Basis for Starfaring
- Online
- 20 July 2021
- Members Only (Join i4is today!)
- Robert Kennedy III presents a talk on the role of humanity’s power basis for starfaring. Members of i4is can attend this talk live! | More info »
Talk Series: The Role of In-Space Resource Utilisation (ISRU) as an Enabler for Human Expansion into the Solar System and Beyond
- Online
- 13 July 2021
- Members Only (Join i4is today!)
- Satinder Shergill presents a talk on the role of In-Space Resource Utilisation (ISRU) as an enabler for human expansion into the solar system and beyond. Members of i4is can attend this talk live! | More info »
Talk Series: Optimisation of Photon-Sail Trajectories in Alpha Centauri using Evolutionary Neurocontrol
- Online
- 06 July 2021
- Members Only (Join i4is today!)
- Frederic Schoutetens presents a talk on optimisation of photon-sail trajectories in Alpha Centauri using evolutionary neurocontrol. Members of i4is can attend this talk live! | More info »
Talk Series: Scratch Modelling Conventional and Interstellar Spacecraft
- Online
- 29 June 2021
- Members Only (Join i4is today!)
- Terry Regan from the Initiative for Interstellar Studies presents a talk on scratch modelling conventional and interstellar spacecraft. Members of i4is can attend this talk live! | More info »
Talk Series: Visions of our Interstellar Future
- Online
- 22 June 2021
- Members Only (Join i4is today!)
- John Davies from the Initiative for Interstellar Studies presents a talk on visions of our interstellar future. Members of i4is can attend this talk live! | More info »
Talk Series: New Limitless Space Institute Course
- Online
- 15 June 2021
- Rob Swinney from the Initiative for Interstellar Studies presents a talk on the new Limitless Space Institute course. Everyone can attend this talk live! | More info »
Talk Series: Guidance of the Ariane 4 Launch Vehicle
- Online
- 08 June 2021
- Members Only (Join i4is today!)
- Adam Hibberd from the Initiative for Interstellar Studies presents a talk on guidance of the Ariane 4 launch vehicle. Members of i4is can attend this talk live! | More info »
Talk Series: Debate — The Case for Interstellar
- Online
- 02 March 2021
- Members Only (Join i4is today!)
- Patrick Mahon and John Davies from the Initiative for Interstellar Studies presents a structured debate on the case for interstellar. Members of i4is can attend this talk live! | More info »
Talk Series: Interstellar Travel using Einsteinian Physics
- Online
- 23 February 2021
- Dan Fries from the Initiative for Interstellar Studies presents a talk on interstellar travel using Einsteinian physics. Everyone can attend this open talk live! | More info »
Talk Series: Assuring Humanity's Interstellar Mission Capability for Posterity, or, Learning from Bronze Age Mistakes
- Online
- 16 February 2021
- Members Only (Join i4is today!)
- Robert G. Kennedy III from the Initiative for Interstellar Studies presents a talk on "Assuring Humanity's Interstellar Mission Capability for Posterity". Members of i4is can attend this talk live! | More info »
Talk Series: 'Optimum Interplanetary Trajectory Software', from Interplanetary to Interstellar
- Online
- 09 February 2021
- Members Only (Join i4is today!)
- Adam Hibberd from the Initiative for Interstellar Studies presents a talk on interstellar trajectories. Members of i4is can attend this talk live! | More info »
Talk Series: Advanced Propulsion 2 (Nuclear etc.)
- Online
- 02 February 2021
- Members Only (Join i4is today!)
- Olivia Borgue from the Initiative for Interstellar Studies presents a talk on propulsion technologies including nuclear propulsion. Members of i4is can attend this talk live! | More info »
Talk Series: The Interstellar Downlink
- Online
- 26 January 2021
- John Davies from the Initiative for Interstellar Studies presents a talk on The Interstellar Downlink. Everyone can attend this open talk live! | More info »
Talk Series: Interstellar Starships in Science Fiction
- Online
- 01 December 2020
- Patrick Mahon from the Initiative for Interstellar Studies presents the last talk in our new series. Everyone can attend this talk live! | More info »
Talk Series: Interstellar Precursor Missions
- Online
- 24 November 2020
- Members Only (Join i4is today!)
- Robert Swinney from the Initiative for Interstellar Studies presents a talk on interstellar precursor missions. Members of i4is can attend this talk live! | More info »
Talk Series: Advanced Propulsion 1
- Online
- 17 November 2020
- Members Only (Join i4is today!)
- Dan Fries from the Initiative for Interstellar Studies presents the fourth talk in our new series. Members of i4is can attend this talk live! | More info »
Talk Series: Worldship Design
- Online
- 10 November 2020
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- Andreas Hein from the Initiative for Interstellar Studies presents the third talk in our new series. Members of i4is can attend this talk live! | More info »
Talk Series: Missions to Interstellar Objects — An i4is Initiative
- Online
- 03 November 2020
- Marshall Eubanks from the Initiative for Interstellar Studies presents the second talk in our new series. Everyone can attend this talk live! | More info »
Talk Series: Introduction to Interstellar Studies
- Online
- 27 October 2020
- Members Only (Join i4is today!)
- Robert Swinney from the Initiative for Interstellar Studies presents the first talk in our new series. Members of i4is can attend this talk live! | More info »
2nd Foundation of Interstellar Studies Workshop
- Bone Mill, New Street, Charfield, GL12 8ES
- 27-30 June 2019
- Workshop featuring 3 main themes across the 3 days: Living in Deep Space; Advanced Propulsion Technology and Missions; and Building Architectural Mega-structures. | More info »
A Supper Club with words & music for a celestial visitor
- Coventry Pod 31 Far Gosford Street
- FRIDAY, 12 APRIL 2019 FROM 17:30
- A Supper Club with words & music for a celestial visitor | More info »
Public presentation - David Hardy's 'To the Stars on the Paintbrush'
- Bone Mill, New Street, Charfield, GL12 8ES
- Friday 14th December 2018 6pm
- David A. Hardy has been producing astronomical art since 1952, and became freelance in 1965. Since then he has illustrated dozens of books – some of them co-written with Patrick Moore, and some written by himself. His work has also been included in international exhibitions. This talk, illustrated mainly with his own art but with examples of the work of earlier artists, shows how space art has developed over the years, and how our increasing knowledge about space as a result of robotic and manned exploration has been reflected in the work of artists. | More info »
Cassini at Saturn: The End of an Era
- Bone Mill, New Street, Charfield, GL12 8ES
- Friday 30th November 2018 6pm
- Public Lecture by Professor Carl Murray, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London "Cassini at Saturn: the End of an Era" | More info »
Public Symposium on the Philosophy of Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- Bone Mill, New Street, Charfield, GL12 8ES
- Saturday 27th October 2018
- This event is not about the technology that we may use to search for intelligent life in the Cosmos, but more a discussion on what we mean by life, intelligence, and the philosophy of our approach to finding those things external to the Earth. It is about the assumptions we make in our lines of reasoning which may have an influence on our strategies. Multiple speakers! | More info »
Public Lecture - Avoiding Intellectual Stagnation: The Starship as an Expander of Minds
- Bone Mill, New Street, Charfield, GL12 8ES
- Friday 26th October 2018 at 6pm
- Lecture by Professor Ian Crawford, Professor of Planetary Science and Astrobiology, Birkbeck, University College London | More info »
Public Lecture - Holographic Photon Sails: a Merger of Science and Art
- Bone Mill, New Street, Charfield, GL12 8ES
- Saturday 29th September 2018 at 1pm
- Professor Greg Matloff, City University of New York, and C Bangs, artist, will give a lecture on the merger of science and art in the field of holographic photon sails and show the propulsive possibilities of holography in space. | More info »
Starship Engineer Summer School
- The Bone Mill, i4is HQ, Gloucestershire
- 15-19 August 2018
- The world's first ever dedicated interstellar summer school. | More info »
Extreme Deep Space Exploration: A Personal Perspective
- The Bone Mill, i4is HQ, Gloucestershire
- 27 July 2018 at 6 PM
- A public presentation starting at 1800, doors open 1700. | More info »
A Presentation by Kelvin F. Long - The Apkallu Initiative: A Project to build a Minilithic Artefact to Preserve the Knowledge of Human Civilization into Deep Time In the Event of Global Cataclysm
- The Bone Mill, i4is HQ, Gloucestershire
- 29 June2018
- A public lecture starting at 1800, doors open 1700.
New i4is Symposium on Future Space Activities featuring Mark Hempsell: The Stellar Challenger - A Concept Study
The Bone Mill, i4is HQ, Gloucestershire, 01 June 2018
Mark Hempsell, President of the BIS, has kindly agreed to replace David Baker at our HQ lecture - 1 June 2018; doors open from 5pm, presentation starts 6pm.
6pm: "The Stellar Challenger- A Concept Study" - presented by Mark Hempsall, President of the BIS. Proposes a nuclear rocket engine combining thermodynamic and electrical heating yielding exhaust velocities above 12 km/sec - about twice the maximum for a chemical rocket." Contact us at info@i4is.org to attend. More info.
1:30pm - 5pm: I4is public Symposium on Future Space Activities. The Initiative for Interstellar Studies presents an afternoon of public talks on the near and far future of space activities: Kelvin F Long, Rob Swinney, Patrick Mahon, David Johnson and Stephen Ashworth on Current and Proposed Space Telescope Missions Post Hubble, Sustainability and Resource Utilisation in Space, Proposal for a Trans-Neptunium object mission design study, Derivation of Equation for Application to Mass Drivers, A Strategic Goal for Humanity on Earth and in Space in 2061 - followed by a discussion and summary.
HQ Lecture (4): David Ashford
- The Bone Mill, i4is HQ, Gloucestershire
- 11 January 2018
- David spoke about Bristol Spaceplanes and sub-orbital tourism.
HQ Lecture (3): Robert Kennedy III
- The Bone Mill, i4is HQ, Gloucestershire
- 08 December 2017
- Robert spoke about his work in geothermal engineering.
HQ Lecture (2): Dr Pete Worden
- The Bone Mill, i4is HQ, Gloucestershire
- 20 October 2017
- Pete Worden gave the second public lecture on Breakthrough Initiatives Project Starshot.
HQ Lecture (1): Al Worden
- The Bone Mill, i4is HQ, Gloucestershire
- 08 October 2017
- Apollo 15 Astronaut Al Worden gave the first ever public lecture to a packed out room at the new HQ opening on the subject of Apollo 15 and his thoughts about the future exploration of deep space by humankind.
Foundations of Interstellar Studies
- City University New York, New York, USA
- 13, 14, 15 June 2017
- A theoretical physics workshop on interstellar flight, a collaboration between the Institute for Interstellar Studies and the theoretical physics department of the University.
Interstellar Challenge (STEM)
- Imperial College
- 05 December 2016
- Science Technology Engineering Mathematics event organised by i4is Educational Academy Committee with 8 schools.
Science Fiction Starships
- British Interplanetary Society, London
- 13 November 2016
- One day workshop exploring the science and engineering of science fiction starships, building on from the Starship Engineer workshop.
Starship Engineer
- British Interplanetary Society, London
- 12 November 2016
- One day workshop exploring the science and engineering of spacecraft design.
Interstellar Spaceflight
- Scottish Dark Sky Observatory, Scotland
- 14-15 August 2015
- Public lectures by team members.
UK Space Conference
- Liverpool, UK
- July 2015
- BIS organised event on 75th anniversary of the society.
Project Dragonfly Workshop
- British Interplanetary Society, London, UK
- July 2015
- Student design competition for laser-sail study and associated presentations and awards.
Interstellar Travel
- Cotswold Astronomical Society, Gloucestershire, UK
- 11 July 2015
- Presentation by Gill Norman.
Starfest 2015
- North Essex Astronomical Society, Essex, UK
- 15 April 2015
- Trade stand and lectures by team members.
Eastercon 2015 (Dysprosium)
- Heathrow Airport
- 03-05 April 2015
- Trade stand and presentations by team members.
Interstellar Wormholes: Physics and Practical Realisation
- British Interplanetary Society, London, UK
- 24 November 2014
- Workshop event organised in conjunction with showing of film 'Interstellar' to discuss the physics.
3rd Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop
- Tennessee, USA
- 09-12 November 2014
- i4is facilitated the first science fiction workshop.
World Science Fiction Convention (Loncon3)
- London, UK
- 14-18 August 2014
- Trade stand, exhibition and entire talks session by i4is.
BIS Space History Conference
- Charterhouse, Surrey, UK
- 24-26 July 2014
- Annual BIS space conference.
Starfest 2013
- Essex, UK
- 02 November 2013
- Trade stand and presentations at the North Essex Astronomical Society.
14th Sci-Fi London
- London, UK
- October 2013
- Lectures plus the running of a film competition.