European Mars Conference 2019

We are hosting the 2019 European Mars Conference (EMC19) in London at the Institute of Physics (IOP) 4th-6th November 2019.

The European Mars Conference is the pre-eminent forum on Mars. With a track record of attracting the most enterprising and distinguished figures in the industry, the event this year will be themed around ‘Arrive, Survive and Thrive’.

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In partnership with the Institute of Physics, the conference is opened to the general public for three days of Mars talks, rovers and events featuring some of the world’s leading experts on the planet Mars.

We have confirmed plenary speakers from Airbus, Lockheed Martin, Cranfield University, Oxford University, plus, Mars Society European delegates have been invited from Spain, Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland, Poland, Austria, Scandinavia and the Netherlands. Hear what Europe has been up to in forwarding humans to Mars through exploration and research.

The conference will include a networking event, dinner, special guest speakers Anastasia Stepanova from NASA/NEK Lunar Analog Mission SIRIUS-19, AMADEE Mars Analogue graduates, rover teams from the UK and the EU who participated in Mars Society rover challenges: the University Rover Challenge (URC) in the USA and the European Rover Challenge (ERC) in Europe. In addition, Dr. Robert Zubrin, Founder of the Mars Society and author of The Case for Mars and his most recent book, The Case for Space, will present on how the benefits of a competitive space industry will have a positive impact on our future.

Concurrently on Monday and Tuesday the Mars Society UK and the IOP have invited students from local secondary schools and sixth form colleges to attend the event for free and meet with rover teams from the University College of London (UCL) and University of Sheffield for close-up Q&A sessions and demonstrations of remote science first-hand. 2019 URC winners Team IMPULS from Poland will also be there to share their experiences competing for first place.

Optional excursions include a dinner with Dr. Zubrin and Anastasia Stepanova at Camino restaurant, an opportunity to experience a bit of British culture and see some fireworks as the nation celebrates Guy Fawke’s Night and a group tour of the Design Museum’s new exciting exhibit, Moving to Mars!

Find out more at the Mars Society UK website: https://marssocietyuk.org/events

We hope you will join us!

Schedule

The schedule for Monday 4th, Tuesday 5th and Wednesday 6th.

Monday 4th November

9:00 am

Registration/Coffee 9:30 am

MS:UK Introduction – Lucinda Offer and Patrick Rennie 10:00 am

Anastasia Stepanova (Russia) – SIRIUS19 Lunar Analog Mission 11:00 am

Dr. Jorge Pla-Garcia (Spain) – Mars Atmosphere: Weather, Methane and Implications for Human Exploration 12:00 pm

AMADEE Graduation Ceremony 12:30 pm

** LUNCH BREAK and European Mars Society Delegates Meeting ** 2:00 pm

Abbie Hutty (Airbus) – ExoMars/Rosalind Franklin rover update 3:00 pm

Ryan Smith (RAL Space) – Semi Automating the Creation of a Martian Base Using Engineering Rovers 3:30 pm

Stephan Gerard (France) – The Evolution of the Telecommunication Infrastructure with the Planet Mars 4:00 pm

Dr. Robert Zubrin (USA) – The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Unlimited Possibilities –

– 5:00 pm

Mars mixer with wine at IOP – Meet and greet 6:30 pm

Dinner at Camino restaurant (option)

Tuesday 5th November

9:00 am

Registration/Coffee 9:30 am

Pierre Brisson/Richard Heidmann (Switzerland/France) – Logistics and Economic Challenges to Realize a Martian Settlement 10:30 am

Professor Dave Cullen (Cranfield University) – Evidence of Martian Life Detection Using Pregnancy Tests and Space Resource Utilisation to Support Human Exploration 11:30 am

Gernot Gromer (Austria) – AMADEE Mars Analog Program 12:00 pm

Rochelle Velho (Austria) – A Mars Analog Mission: A Medical Perspective for the AMADEE18 Mission 12:30 pm

** LUNCH BREAK ** 2:00 pm

Ruth Bamford (RAL Space) – Active Mars Shielding 3:00 pm

Antonio Del Mastro (Italy) – Motigravity: A VR Treadmill for Medical Applications, the Exploration of Mars, and Education 3:30 pm

Matej Poliaček (Slovakia) – Mars Colony Population Simulator 4:00 pm

Paolo Guardabbasso (Italy) – Autonomous Drones: A Critical Asset for Earth and Mars 4:30pm Team IMPULS (Poland) – Winners of the University Rover Challenge (URC) 2019 –

– 6:00 pm

Bonfire Night! – Join us for Fireworks Night in London! (option)

Wednesday 6th November

9:00 am

Registration/Coffee 9:30 am

Myles Johnson (Lockheed Martin) – Mars Sample Return 10:00 am

Alex Owens (UKAM) – The Case for UK Analogue Missions 10:30 am

Magdalena Pfaffl (Sweden) – Remote Villages as Heterotopias Utilizing Analogue Case Studies of Remote Villages on Earth 11:00 am

Dr. Anna Horleston (JPL) – Marsquake! NASA’s InSight Mission to Mars 11:50 am Mars Anthem “Rise to Mars” Singing lead by Oscar Castellino 12 pm

** Closing ** –

– 12:30 pm

Design Museum Tour – Moving to Mars exhibit (option)

Location

The Institute of Physics is conveniently located just five minutes’ walk from the excellent transport links of King’s Cross, St Pancras and Eurostar stations.

Speaker Bios

Dr Robert Zubrin President of The Mars Society Bio 🠮 Professor Dave Cullen Professor, Astrobiology & Space Biotechnology Bio 🠮 Abbie Hutty Delivery Manager, ExoMars, Airbus Bio 🠮

Dr Ruth Bamford Plasma Physicist Bio 🠮 Anastasia Stepanova Research, InstituTe of Biomedical Problems Bio 🠮 Dr Jorge Pla-Garcia Planetary Scientist, Centre of Astrobiology Bio 🠮

Myles Johnson Graduate Systems Engineer, Lockheed Martin Bio 🠮 Rochelle Velho Medical doctor, Anaesthesia and ICM Bio 🠮 Ryan Smith Electronic Engineer, RAL Space Bio 🠮

Pierre Brisson President, Mars Society Switzerland Bio 🠮 Matej Poliaček Rover technologies, RoboTech Vision Bio 🠮 Gernot Groemer Astrobiology research, Leopold-Franzens University, Innsbruck Bio 🠮

Richard Heidmann Space propulsion engineer Bio 🠮 Magdalena Pfaffl Mining and Tunneling Engineer, James Cook University Bio 🠮 Alexander Owens Electronic Engineer, RAL Space Bio 🠮

A special thanks to all our amazing sponsors.

Volunteer

Be a part of the EMC! If you’d like to volunteer for this event, email us at volunteer@marssocietyuk.org