Balticon 37 Tentative Program Schedule

This is a tentative schedule. Several entire program tracks are missing. Titles have been shortened in some cases to the point of lacking meaning. Please use this program for reference only. An enhanced program will be posted when available. This schedule posted 4-23-03.



Event Rooms
EventDate EventTime International Ballroom Adams Carroll Douglass Jefferson Lincoln Peale Poe Washington Calhoun Pratt A&B Menken Preston
5/23/2003 12:00 PM                       Anime (24x7 until 3PM Monday) Video (Until 3 AM)
5/23/2003 4:00 PM Setup (Main Tent) Setup (Mars Landing) Open (General) Open (General) Setup (Mars Landing) What's Wrong with Celtic Lore in Fantasy Worlds? Open (Costuming) Open (General) Open (General) Gaming (Until Close)   Anime Video
5/23/2003 5:00 PM Setup (Main Tent) Setup (Mars Landing) Open (General) Open (General) Setup (Mars Landing) Open (General) Welcome To Our House! (Costuming) "Journey Through the Universe - Inge Heyer, Hubble Space Telescope Facility" Beatrix Potter Panel   Open Computer Gaming Anime Video
5/23/2003 6:00 PM Setup (Main Tent) Mars Landing SF Movies That Flopped Open (General) Mars Landing Fandom 101: Welcome to Balticon And the Award for Best Presentation Population Implosion? Consequences of a Declining # of People Fiction of C.J. Cherryh   Open Computer Gaming Anime Video
5/23/2003 7:00 PM Opening Ceremonies 7:30 start. Mars Landing (continued) Open (General) How to Write Technobabble Mars Landing (continued) Filk Panel (TBA) And the Award for Best Presentation The Future of Reading & Writing How to Make Non-Human Sentients Really Alien   Counter Strike Anime Video
5/23/2003 8:00 PM Radio Play: The Arbiter Chronicles Mars Landing (continued) TV Show Recap --Smallville Knossos -- DC Area Mythepoeic Society Meeting Mars Landing (continued) Filk Concert (TBA) And the Award for Best Presentation Science Guest Small Presses, Print On Demand -- New Trends in Publishing   Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds Anime Video
5/23/2003 9:00 PM Laura Lingle Concert: Start 9:30 SETI Sneak Attack: Lessons Learned from the Pearl Harbor Hoax JRR Tolkien's Friends-- the Inklings Smofteens -- Fandom TNG Open (General) Open (General) Credit Cards: How to Protect Yourself When Did Tomorrow Get So Far Away? Fanzines & SF Fandom   Open Computer Gaming Anime Video
5/23/2003 10:00 PM Laura Lingle Concert continue The Greatest Forgotten SF Authors TV Show Recap : Enterprise Discussion: Define Good Mental Health Open (General) Filk to close Open (General) Food in SF: Don't Bolt Your Pills, Dear! Filk to close   Open Computer Gaming Anime Video
5/23/2003 11:00 PM Setup (Main Tent) Alien Sex: "In Spring. One's Fancy Turns to Budding" Open (General) Open (General) Open (General)   Open (General) Litter on the Milky Way: Trash in Space     Adults Only Computer Gaming Until Close Anime Video
5/24/2003 9:00 AM Setup (Main Tent) Costuming Your Kids Open (General) Writers' Workshop Setup (Art) Open (General) Open (General) Open (General/Science) Setup (Childrens) Gaming (Until Close) Kids Only Computer Gaming Anime (Until 3PM Monday) Video (Until 3 AM)
5/24/2003 10:00 AM Tech University Setup for Glamorous Glitz and Glitter Auction TV Show Recap: Farscape Writers' Workshop Photoshop 101: Using the Tools A Code of Honor for Women Open (General) "Artificial Intelligence - Hugh Loebner" Ming Diaz   Kids Only Computer Gaming Anime Video
5/24/2003 11:00 AM Tech University (continued) Glamorous Glitz and Glitter Auction LARP -- Let the Game Begin Writers' Workshop Studio Rayyan Art Academy Hour Ninjas, Ronin, Sensei, Asian Icons in SF Open (General) "Time & Time Travel - John Ashmead" "Prepare for ""Why Can't they just lose the RING in the sink?"" skit: be cast in a part, make costumes & props; rehearse for Sunday 11AM"   Unreal Tournament Anime Video
5/24/2003 12:00 PM Setup (Main Tent) Glamorous Glitz and Glitter Auction   KaffeeKlatsch Introduction to Watercolor Slide show by Steve Stiles Setup (Pop Tart Cafe) "Health & Surgical Risks for Aging & Supersized Fans - Dr. Richard Katz, Professor of Anesthesiology" "Decorate a Cookie or Cupcake (and Spoil Your Lunch)"   Unreal Tournament Anime Video
5/24/2003 1:00 PM Filk GoH Concert: Steve Macdonald; Start 1:30 Evolution of the Jedi Costumes Does Harry Potter Movie #2 Live Up to #1 Poetry Workshop:1;30 Fantasy Drawing Techniques Literary Scams-- Writers Beware. Protect Yourself   Lunch Break (Science) Ernie Silversmith - "Mr. Polymer"   Medal of Honor Anime Video
5/24/2003 2:00 PM Filk GoH Concert: Steve Macdonald-cont. Terrifically Teased Tresses TV Show Recap: Buffy the Vampirte Slayer Poetry Workshop-cont. Dueling Easels Peace XI: Can GeneticTechnology Produce Better Fighters, or are good soldiers raised and trained? Pop Tart Cafe to Closing The Journey (Through The Universe) Continues - Inge Heyer, Hubble Space Telescope Facility "Balloon Workshop with J. Jagi Lamplighter-Wright"   Medal of Honor Anime Video
5/24/2003 3:00 PM Play: An Odd Spacedy: start 3:30 Fantasy Film Costuming Art GoH Event - Sheila and Omar Rayyan KaffeeKlatsch: Start 3:30 Ron Miller Presentation (Art) Filk Concerts Pop Tart Cafe "TBA - Dave Theison UM Astronomy Department" Carpathian: Tales of the Macabre   Introduction to Bryce Anime Video
5/24/2003 4:00 PM Setup (Main Tent) Readings/Papers     Metal with Mettle Filk Concerts Pop Tart Cafe "Dinosaurs - Dr. Thomas R. Holtz, Jr., Vertebrate Paleontologist,Dept.of Geology Director, Earth, Life & Time Program, U. of M." "Wacky Robics: Get Your Energy Out - France Niaba"   Very Best of Free Software Anime Video
5/24/2003 5:00 PM Setup (Main Tent) Readings/Papers LOTR: How Tolkien Made a Myth and a Legend KaffeeKlatsch Preserving Your Art Media Concentration & the Future of Mass Media Pop Tart Cafe The Active Militarization of Space Dave Kratz: Make a Spectroscope   Command and Conquer:Generals Anime Video
5/24/2003 6:00 PM Setup (Main Tent) Readings/Papers Costume Green Room & Party to Closing   Balticon Sketch Club Self Promotion for Authors Pop Tart Cafe Open (General/Science) Cleanup (Childrens)   Command and Conquer:Generals Anime Video
5/24/2003 7:00 PM Setup (Main Tent) Readings/Papers     Villains and Opponents for Your Games & Stories Beyond Voice & Guitar: Other Instruments in Filk Pop Tart Cafe Open (General/Science) Surgery in Space   Star Craft Anime Video
5/24/2003 8:00 PM Young Writer's Contest Awards
Comptom Crook Award
Masquerade
RIF Auction
Readings/Papers   BWSmof Meeting -- Conrunning as a Red Queen's Race How to Write Media Tie-Ins & Sell Them SF & F Trivia Quiz, run by Brick Barrientos Pop Tart Cafe Open (General/Science) The Internet in Communications Among Scholars   Open Computer Gaming Anime Video
5/24/2003 9:00 PM Masquerade
RIF Auction
George Orwell's Centenary   Masquerade Judging Portrayal of Motherhood in Fantasy Stories SF & F Trivia Quiz, run by Brick Barrientos (continued) Pop Tart Cafe Masquerade Photography Fan History Panel -- Dinosaurs & Others Describe the Social Patterns of SF   Open Computer Gaming Anime Video
5/24/2003 10:00 PM Masquerade
RIF Auction
Librarians & SF & Fantasy   Masquerade Judging Islam and Islamic Fantasy Filk to Closing Pop Tart Cafe   Filk to Closing   Open Computer Gaming Anime Video
5/24/2003 11:00 PM Masquerade
RIF Auction
Books Worth Reading Twice   If I Ran the Zoo -- Worldcon Game run by Hal Haag Seduced by the Monster: the Intimate Embrace of Love and Death   Pop Tart Cafe       Adults Only Computer Gaming Until Close Anime Video
5/25/2003 9:00 AM Setup (Main Tent)           Pop Tart Cafe   Setup (Childrens) Gaming (Until Close)   Anime (Until 3PM Monday) Video (Until 3 AM)
5/25/2003 10:00 AM Tech University Readings/Papers TV Show Recap: Stargate KaffeKlatsch Judging the Book by Its Cover Blurb Motherhood as a Job Pop Tart Cafe TBA - Tom Livengood, Challenger Center Ming Diaz   Kids Only Computer Gaming Anime Video
5/25/2003 11:00 AM Tech University Readings/Papers The Hong Kong-Harlem Connection: Why & What Hong Kong Films Make it in the US Improvisation in Writing:How It's Done, Then Practice-start 11:30 Meet the Crook Winners How Role Playing is Used in Different Professions Pop Tart Cafe TBA - Ron Miller Closed (Children's)   Kids Only Computer Gaming Anime Video
5/25/2003 12:00 PM Boogie Knights Concert-Start 1:30 Readings/Papers Setup (Art Auction)   Artists, Costumers & Writers Exchange Views The Analog Mafia Explain It All Pop Tart Cafe Introduction to the Sky and Satellite Observing Dave Kratz, NASA, Langley "Tim Livengood - Master Teller of Silly Stories"   Open Computer Gaming Anime Video
5/25/2003 1:00 PM Boogie Knights Concert-cont. End 1:30 Readings/Papers Art Auction Insurance for Cons Potrayal of the Military in SF Open (General) Pop Tart Cafe Goddard in the Past Year - Dr. Yoji Kondo, Goddard "Dragons & Beasties, Oh My! Sketching with Sheila and Omar Rayyan, Art GoH"   Open Computer Gaming Anime Video
5/25/2003 2:00 PM GoH Presentation: Sharon Lee & Steve Miller Readings/Papers   Poetry Awards & Readings with Patti Kinlock & the Lite Circle Writing Screenplays and How to Get the Jobs Filk Pop Tart Cafe Exoskeletons & Combat Armor - Philip Thorne "Fractured Fairy Tales - Don Sakers"   File Sharing on the Internet Anime Video
5/25/2003 3:00 PM GoH Presentation-cont. til 3:30 Readings/Papers Charles Sheffield Tribute   Masquerade PostMortem SacredHarp: Ted Rosenberg's Local Group Pop Tart Cafe UMBC Incubator Program Lynn Woodward leads Line Dancing   Introduction to Bryce Anime Video
5/25/2003 4:00 PM Setup (Main Tent) Readings/Papers Does Our Genre Admit Religious Fantasy? KaffeeKlatsch Editing Anthologies Music in the Future? How It will be Defined & Performed Pop Tart Cafe Crazy Science Ideas - Robert Ehrlich, Physics Professor, George Mason U. "Steve Macdonald Has Some Songs A E I O U (Filk GoH)"   Unreal Tournament Anime Video
5/25/2003 5:00 PM Setup (Main Tent) Readings/Papers TV Show Recap: Charmed   Use of Horror in SF Meet Our Local Filmmakers! Pop Tart Cafe Scientific Ideas Worth Telling the Future About - Andrew E.Love , Navigation Systems / Electrical Engineer at JHU-APL "Gaming: Try Munchkin, Aquarius, Harry Potter Quiddich or Bring Your Own Games"   Unreal Tournament Anime Video
5/25/2003 6:00 PM Film Festival: Start 6:30 Readings/Papers Identity Theft: A Crime in SF & Reality   Dinner Break Dinner Break Pop Tart Cafe So You Want to be a Jedi? Cleanup (Childrens)   Battlefield 1942 Anime Video
5/25/2003 7:00 PM Film Festival Readings/Papers Mystery in Fantasy Comics as Literature -- Dialogue, Background Descriptions Why Did It Take So Long for Urban Fantasy to Catch On? Bellydancing Panel Pop Tart Cafe So You Want to be a Jedi? "Story Telling Workshop for All Ages"   Counter Strike Anime Video
5/25/2003 8:00 PM Film Festival Readings/Papers Star Trek as Mythology -- or Fairy Tale? Is It Possible for SF to be Literature? (Repeated from Balticon One) SF Looks at Sailing -- Weather Control, the Sun… Lyrics in Filk. More Than SF & F? Pop Tart Cafe Open (General)     Command & Conquer: Generals Anime Video
5/25/2003 9:00 PM Film Festival Your Child: ADD or Gifted? Or Both? Homeland Security -- Everyday Safety & Avoiding Hysteria Creative Ways to Research your Novel Why I Would Rather Be In ___ Than Literary / Film / Discussions Filking: Steve McDonald Pop Tart Cafe Tall Tales in Science Balticon Sketch Club   Open Computer Gaming Anime Video
5/25/2003 10:00 PM Film Festival Alien Theology Setup (Dance) Discussion: Is Feudalism the Natural State of Humanity? The Internet as a Support Group Steve Macdonald Performance Workshop Pop Tart Cafe The Effect of Recent Changes in Copyright Law: Filk to Close   Open Computer Gaming Anime Video
5/25/2003 11:00 PM Film Festival-Continues to 2:00am Fans: Are You Hopelessly Typical? Learn how to be weird and wonderful! Safe Rave     Filk to Closing Pop Tart Cafe Why Don't We Eat Insects?     Adults Only Computer Gaming Until Close Anime Video
5/26/2003 9:00 AM         Gaming (Until 3 PM)           Anime (Until 3 PM) Video (Until 3 PM)
5/26/2003 10:00 AM LEGO Building Contest   Do People Really Talk to the Dead? Fantasy? Urban Legend? What's Really Happening? Building Fantasy Worlds for Stories or Games     Taboos in SF Fandom -- Too Far even by Our Standards Science's Faustian Dilemma: How economics and politics influence research - Jim Kling, science & SF writer     Kids Only Computer Gaming Anime Video
5/26/2003 11:00 AM LEGO Building Contest   LARP -- Closing the Game Balticon Sketch Club     Beleivable Telepathy & Empathy Massive Multi-Player Gaming - Lt Col Chuck Riechers (USAF, Retired)     Kids Only Computer Gaming Anime Video
5/26/2003 12:00 PM Amtgard/Darkon/Dagorhir   Guilty Pleasures: TV Shows We Shouldn't Like Weights & Measures for Fantasy Writers: Rods, Hectares, Cubits, Journals…     Bheer! Fans & the Microbrew Revolution Extrasolar Planets (updated) - Dr. Helen Hart, FUSE Science Operations, JHU     Open Computer Gaming Anime Video
5/26/2003 1:00 PM Amtgard/Darkon/Dagorhir   SteveMcDonald, Filk continued from Last Night SF About Costume or Clothing     The Fine Art of Scheduling a Con Program Science Educator's discussion Jim Kling, Andrew Love, Dr. Helen Hart,Dave Theison, Hal Clement     Counter Stike Anime Video
5/26/2003 2:00 PM     Filk 2x10's Art as a Response to Tragedy -- Explanation & Examples     Vampires Ancient & Modern -- Dracula vs.Buffy Trans Orbital Company Plans - Paul Blasé, Trans Orbital Co.     Counter Stike Anime Video
5/26/2003 3:00 PM     Liar's Poker Open (General)     Fantasy Before & After LOTR High Tech Rock Throwing - Karl Ehrlich     Battlefield 1942   Video
5/26/2003 4:00 PM     Improving Balticon (Gripe Session)         Remembering Cool Science Projects on Columbia     Single Players - Myst, Black & White, Starship Titanic    

2003 BALTICON SCIENCE PROGRAM

Friday, May 23, 2003
PM in POE ROOM
5:00 Journey Through the Universe.  Inge Heyer, Hubble Space Telescope
PM in JEFFERSON / ADAMS ROOMS
6:00 Mars Simulation        Tom Hill & Mars Society & AIAA crew
7:00 " " "
8:00 " " "
9:00  SETI Sneak Attack: Lessons Learned from the Pearl Harbor Hoax  Dr Paul Shuch, SETI League

Saturday, May 24, 2003 in POE ROOM
AM
10:00 Artificial Intelligence…. Hugh Loebner
11:00   Time & Time Travel   John Ashmead
NOON Health & Surgical Risks for Aging &
Supersized Fans Dr. Richard Katz, Professor of Anesthesiology
PM
01:00  Lunch break   
02:00 The Journey (Through The Universe) Continues  Inge Heyer, Hubble Space Telescope
03:00 ………………………….. Dave Theison UM Astronomy department
04:00 Dinosaurs - Dr. Thomas R. Holtz, Jr., Vertebrate Paleontologist,Dept.of Geology Director, Earth, Life & Time Program, U.of MD.,
05:00 The Active Militarization of Space    John Hemry, Dana Carson, Helen Hart, Karl Ehrlich

Sunday, MAY 25, 2003 in POE ROOM
AM
10:00 "Them's the Breaks: Modern Astronomy Is Still a Field Science"  Tim Livengood, Challenger Center
11:00 …………………………….Ron Miller
NOON Introduction to the Sky and Satellite Observing   Dave Kratz, NASA, Langley
PM
01:00 Goddard in past year      Dr. Yoji Kondo, Goddard
02:00 Exoskeletons & Combat Armor     Philip Thorne
03:00 The 48th Balto. Science Fair NSS winners
            Brick by Brick: Nanowire - Mediated Heart Cell Assembly Mitali Thakor:                                               
             Self-Replicating Robots           Andres Cushing;
            OB Star Formation in Galactic Halo       Jeff Donatelli

04:00 Crazy Science Ideas        Robert Ehrlich, Physics Professor, George Mason U.
05:00 Scientific Ideas Worth Telling the Future About". ..Andrew E.Love ,  Navigation Systems / Electrical Engineer at JH-APL

Monday, MAY 26, 2003 in POE ROOM
AM
10:00 Science's Faustian Dilemma: How economics and politics influence research
…………………………………. Jim Kling, science & SF writer
11:00 Massive Multi-Player Gaming   Lt Col Chuck Riechers (USAF, Retired)
NOON  Extrasolar Planets (updated)  Dr. Helen Hart, FUSE Science Operations, JHU
PM
1:00 Science Educator's discussion Jim Kling, Andrew Love, Dr. Helen Hart,
Dave Theison, Hal Clement
2:00  Trans Orbital Company plans       Paul Blasé, Trans Orbital Co.
3:00 "Throwing High Tech rocks at the Enemy"  Karl Ehrlich
4.00 "NASA's Earth Science Program and Environmental" Ernest Hilsenrath

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