Jun 26, 2007 - Archived - This is the archive of the I-CON 26 website, it will no longer be updated. For the latest I-CON news, please visit the main I-CON site at http://iconsf.org

Apr 30, 2007 - Indie Movies - The final list of indie movies shown at I-CON26 has been updated, check it out at the films page.

Apr 17, 2007 - AeroSith at I-CON 26 on Youtube - You can find a video of AeroSith performing at I-CON 26 on youtube here. Enjoy!

Apr 3, 2007 - Charity Auction - A video of Spat doing some creative auctioning for charity at I-CON 26 can be found on youtube here. Our charity auction this year benefited Breast Cancer Help, find more info here!

Mar 25, 2007 - I-CON 26 Photo Highlights - A small photo gallery has been added here. It will be updated as frequently as possible. Enjoy the pics!

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Fred Walter is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University. He has an SB in Physics from MIT (1976) and a PhD in Astronomy from the University of California at Berkeley (1981). Prior to moving to Stony Brook in 1989, he spent 8 years at the University of Colorado, where he was a member of the Instrument Development Team for the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph, one of the original scientific instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope.

Prof. Walter's research interests encompass stars, from neutron stars and white dwarfs to star formation and stellar weather. He is particularly interested in time-variable phenomena, such as accreting and exploding stars. He is primarily an observer who uses the Chandra and XMM X-ray obervatories, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the FUSE satellite, as well as observatories in Hawaii and Chile.

At present he organizes the Stony Brook effort in the SMARTS consortium at the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory. He also serves on various NASA advisory panels, and has chaired the Space Telescope Users Committee.

Prof. Walter has been reading science fiction for over 40 years, and has recently been exploring how to use science fiction in a classroom setting as a vehicle to teach scientific concepts, as well as to speculate about the nature of the universe, of humanity, and on our place in the universe. In the Spring of 2007 his course (co-developed with Prof. Videbaek of English) on Science Fiction will have its debut.