{"id":2156,"date":"2014-12-18T00:05:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T06:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2015-02-18T22:59:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T04:59:49","slug":"research-mini-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=2156","title":{"rendered":"Research Mini-Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"At the previous two ISEC Space Elevator conferences<\/a>, several workshops were held as part of the daily proceedings.\u00a0 These workshops, each devoted to a specific topic, were focus on advancing our understanding of the space elevator.\u00a0 Dr. Peter Swan, the president of ISEC, has been instrumental in organizing these workshops and finding a leader for each of them.\u00a0 Conference attendees participated in each of the workshops and the end result of each of them was a written summary of the discussion and an action plan to move forward.<\/p>\n

The Summaries from most of these workshops were posted on the ISEC website (I had previously blogged about that here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

A new workshop summary has now been posted on the ISEC website – this from the 2014 Conference.\u00a0 This workshop<\/a> was held as part of the activities of the ISEC Research Committee.\u00a0 The purpose of this committee, chaired by Dr. John Knapman<\/a>, is to categorize and prioritize the issues which must be addressed as part of the effort in defining the parameters of a space elevator.<\/p>\n

The goals of the workshop were specified as:<\/p>\n