June 12th, 2018 - Dr. Greg Matloff and C Bangs - Interstellar Travel and Alien Megastructures
													
													
Dr. Greg Matloff -

Dr. Gregory L. Matloff, emeritus associate and adjunct associate professor of physics at New York City College of Technology, has coordinated the astronomy program at that institution, has consulted for the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, is a Fellow of the British interplanetary Society, is a Hayden Associate at the American Museum of Natural History and is a Corresponding Member of the International Academy of Astronautics. His pioneering research in solar-sail technology has been utilized by NASA in plans for extra-solar probes and in consideration of technologies to divert Earth-threatening asteroids. He served as guest professor at the University of Siena, Italy, in 1994, has chaired many technical sessions and was honored by NYCCT as Scholar-on-Campus during the 2008-2009 academic year. In 1998, he was a winner of a SETI competition sponsored by the National Academy of Discovery Science. 

He has authored or co-authored more than 100 research papers and nine books, which have been cited about 400 times. One of his books, The Starflight Handbook (Wiley, NY, 1989), was co-authored with MIT science-writer Dr. Eugene Mallove and helped establish interstellar-propulsion studies as a sub-division of applied physics. More recent books such as Living Off the Land in Space, (Springer, NY, 2007) and Paradise Regained, (Springer, NY, 2009) co-authored with his artist wife C Bangs and NASA manager Les Johnson, have dealt with human space habitation and utilization. His 2008 book with Les Johnson and Italian researcher Dr. Giovanni Vulpetti, Solar Sails: A Novel Approach to Interplanetary Travel, (Springer, NY) received an excellent review in Nature. Most recently he has published an artist’s book with C Bangs, Biosphere Extensions: Solar System Resources for the Earth. Dr. Greg Matloff was appointed an adviser to Yuri Milner’s Breakthrough Initiative Project Starshot in April 2016. In January 2017, he presented a Frontiers Lecture on interstellar travel at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan.

C Bangs - 

It is said that a picture can tell a story that cannot, as quickly, be told in words. The Symbolist figurative paintings of Brooklyn artist C Bangs are testament to the power of Imagery to convey at a glance ideas that might take a speaker hours to talk or an author countless pages to articulate in words. Bangs'; work is a marriage of the artists vision and frontier science on many levels - energized through her union with Astronomer & Physicist Dr. Gregory L. Matloff. The collaborative atmosphere of her relationship with Dr. Matloff has impacted the nature and future direction of their work. The ongoing conversations about the laws of physics that underlie the Universe serve as a passionate inspiration. A broadening of awareness of what makes Earth and the larger cosmos tick and inspire her paintings. Through their work and travels together, she has met many other scientists and visionary thinkers. Their ideas about everything from nature of consciousness to the birth and death of stars have deeply influenced her work.  
https://www.gregmatloff.com
https://www.cbangs.com
https://www.conscious-stars.com