OryCon 44: Full Schedule

Welcome to the not-quite-ready-for-prime-time schedule for OryCon 44! Seriously - we’re still hard at work on the schedule, but we want to give you an idea of what wonders await you in just a few more weeks. Please check back frequently for changes and additions, and see you in October!

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1:00pm PDT

Jay Cole: Science Fiction Science Fact

Friday October 18, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm PDT

Mt Hood

Teaching at the Intersection of Science Fiction and Radio Astronomy This presentation will recap my experience teaching an undergraduate honors seminar about the intersection of science fiction and radio astronomy in books and films. This presentation will also invite discussion and ideas about expanding curricular opportunities on this exciting topic.

Moderators

G. David Nordley

Friday October 18, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm PDT
Mt Hood

EVENTS (SOLO)

2:00pm PDT

Gus Frederick: The Capthraw

Friday October 18, 2024 2:00pm - 2:50pm PDT

Mt Hood

Ancient Bird Lizards WTF were the Capthraw? An elaborate work of my personal imagination; noodling over what if there were other technological civilizations that had popped up over the millions of years of this planet's history? This is a thought experiment which assesses modern science's ability to detect evidence of a prior advanced civilizations, millions of years ago. This will be a presentation regarding my own thoughts on this concept, as the basis of a potential future story.

Moderators

G. David Nordley

Friday October 18, 2024 2:00pm - 2:50pm PDT
Mt Hood

EVENTS (SOLO)

3:00pm PDT

Israel Zuckerman: Introduction to COTI

Friday October 18, 2024 3:00pm - 4:50pm PDT

Mt Hood

Cultures of the imagination Participants will begin to design an integrated world, alien and its way of life. They will construct a world and its ecology, an intelligent native life form and its culture, basing each step on the previous one and utilizing the principles of science as a guide to imagination. They will finish this design at the Saturday session and conclude on Sunday in a live action roleplay of the meeting of two alien cultures.

Friday October 18, 2024 3:00pm - 4:50pm PDT
Mt Hood

EVENTS (SOLO)

6:00pm PDT

Exotic Volcanoes of the World

Friday October 18, 2024 6:00pm - 6:50pm PDT

Mt St Helens

Imagine a volcano that erupts lava that glows hot pink in the night. Imagine a lava flow two inches wide that you can straddle. See a lava lake that boils like a pot of water set on high heat. Dr. Torley takes you on a few trips around the world to visit volcanoes that are distinctively different from those that we know. And no, you will not get scorched in the process!

Moderators

Roy Torley

Friday October 18, 2024 6:00pm - 6:50pm PDT
Mt St Helens

EVENTS (SOLO)

7:00pm PDT

Israel Zuckerman: COTI Cultures of the Imagination

Friday October 18, 2024 7:00pm - 9:50pm PDT

Mt Hood

Alien Development – PART 1 of 3 Participants will begin to design an integrated world, alien and its way of life. They will construct a world and its ecology, an intelligent native life form and its culture, basing each step on the previous one and utilizing the principles of science as a guide to imagination. They will finish this design at the Saturday session and conclude on Sunday in a live action roleplay of the meeting of two alien cultures.

Moderators

G. David Nordley

Friday October 18, 2024 7:00pm - 9:50pm PDT
Mt Hood

EVENTS (SOLO)