ConGregate 4/DeepSouthCon 55: Full Schedule

*Gaming Schedule is available on OGRe

(AP) = Audience Participation, (ET) = Experts Talk
Note: Barbara Hambly’s Reading & QandA will be on Sunday at 11am in Suite 215!

10:00pm EDT

Design an Alien (AP)

Paula Jordan moderates this panel on how to properly design your alien so that it will be realistic in accordance with known science.

Moderators

Paula S. Jordan

Science Guest, The Wordshop

Paula S Jordan, a former orbit analyst, writes moderately hard, character-driven science fiction, with three stories (so far) in Analog. Her first novel, a present-day alien contact story set in western North Carolina, is nearing completion. Working title: Of Seas and the Stars... Read More →

Guests

Jim Beall

Science Guest

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 →

Glenda Finkelstein

Literary Guest

Glenda has a wide and varied career as a writer having published song lyrics, human-interest articles, poems, short stories, novels, and screenplays. Her interest in writing was not just a happenstance having a great-grandfather who was a wonderful poet, and aunts and uncles who nurtured... Read More →

Randall Hayes

Science Guest

Randall Hayes, Ph.D., your friendly neighborhood neuroscientist, co-organizes the Greensboro Science Cafe, where we corner -- ah, informally interview -- a working scientist at Gibb's Hundred Brewing every month, as well as an ongoing science book club at Scuppernong Books... Read More →

Friday July 14, 2017 10:00pm - 10:50pm EDT
Victorian B

Science, Audience Participation

10:00pm EDT

Ask a Mad Scientist (AP)

You know those panels where a bunch of stuffy scientists talk about science in fancy language that goes over your head but everyone comes out feeling 20 IQ points smarter? Yeah, didn't think so, and that's good, because this is not one of those panels. Science - it's confusing, mysterious, and sometimes you just have to wonder what the scientists were thinking when they came up with the ideas. Here's your chance to corner some scientists in a panel room for a Q&A on new, funny, important, weird and/or confusing science. It's late in the evening, so let's see if we can have some fun with it!

Moderators

Dr. Tedd Roberts

Science Guest

Dr. Tedd Roberts (aka Speaker to Lab Animals) claims he was born to wonderful parents, grew up in Texas, attended university then went on to grad school. He is a Professor at a medical school where his research focuses on the drug and radiation effects on hippocampus and memory... Read More →

Guests

Jim Beall

Science Guest

JT "The Enginerd"

Science Guest

JT “The Enginerd” is an all-purpose geek. She obtained her Masters of Science in Engineering Mechanics with a focus in biomechanics from Virginia Tech in 2013. Her research focused on animal locomotion and included the analysis of beetle respiration and helping construct a platform... Read More →

Randall Hayes

Science Guest

Paula S. Jordan

Science Guest, The Wordshop

Darin Kennedy

Author

Darin Kennedy, born and raised in Winston-Salem, NC, is a graduate of Wake Forest University and Bowman Gray School of Medicine. After completing family medicine residency in the mountains of Virginia, he served eight years as a United States Army physician and wrote his first novel... Read More →

Stephen J. Simmons

Science Guest

Stephen J. Simmons was raised by a feral pack of English teachers in a tiny hamlet in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York, and went to high school in Albany. He spent twenty-one years in the Navy, both as a nuclear operator on five fast-attack submarines and as an instructor... Read More →

William C. Tracy

Science Guest

William C. Tracy is a North Carolina native with a masters and BS in mechanical engineering. He also has a BA in toy design. As such, he has both designed and operated heavy construction machinery (big toys) and is an expert in linkage design and optimization. He has been a Professional... Read More →

Saturday July 15, 2017 10:00pm - 10:50pm EDT
Victorian B

Science, Audience Participation