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July 10-12, 2015
Radisson Hotel, High Point, NC 
www.con-gregate.com 

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Saturday, July 11 • 12:00am - 12:50am
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Sci-Fi has many methods of traveling fast through space: warp, jumps, wormholes, FTL drives, folding space… What method makes the most sense? Or are we willing to suspend our disbelief as long as the method sounds plausible? What makes a technology plausible? What are things that pop a reader out of the story?

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Matthew Foster

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Matthew Foster Ph.D. transited from a budding physicist into rebellious operations research scientist. He has journeyed from the high desert of Los Alamos, NM, through the picturesque views of Bagram, Afghanistan, and ending at shores of Hampton Roads, VA. In 2008, Matthew semiofficially... Read More →

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Jim Beall

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Jim Beall (BS-Math, MBA, PE) has been a nuclear engineer for over 40 years, a war gamer for over 50, and an avid reader of science fiction for even longer. His experience in nuclear engineering and power systems began as a naval officer, shortly after surviving one of Admiral Rickover’s... Read More →
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JT the Enginerd

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JT the Enginerd has a background in Engineering from Virginia Tech but jumped ship slightly in order to teach Engineering Design at the high school level.  She has been teaching two levels of engineering for the past six  years and is currently working on obtaining National Board... Read More →

Saturday July 11, 2015 12:00am - 12:50am EDT
Provincial B
  Panel (Experts Talk)

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