Dr. Andrew Siemion will give a Pass the Torch talk at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center Oct. 6 at 7 p.m
Renowned Astrophysicist, UC-Berkeley Center for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Director Dr. Andrew Siemion at Pass the Torch
Internationally renowned astrophysicist Dr. Andrew Siemion will give a Pass the Torch talk at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. Siemion teaches and conducts research at the University of California-Berkeley and is the director of UC-Berkeley Center for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Research. Dr. Siemion is the guest speaker for the fifth Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop, set for Oct. 3-6 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Huntsville, Alabama.
Event 1:
UC-Berkeley Center for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Director Dr. Andrew Siemion at Pass the Torch This Thursday at 7 pm
For his Pass the Torch talk, “The Search for Ourselves Among the Stars," Dr. Siemion will discuss the current state of interstellar research and exploration in his address, " Highlighting recent discoveries in astrobiology that guide and motivate the search for intelligent life beyond Earth.
SETI: Searching for Ourselves Among the Stars
Is life common throughout the universe? We now know that Earth-like planets are common. Could other worlds have developed intelligence and technological capabilities far exceeding our own?
We will begin to answer such fundamental questions soon, powered by the next generation of telescopes and Moore’s Law growth in computing technology. The Breakthrough Listen project is now collecting vast amounts of data from several powerful radio telescopes and sorting it out. The goal: finding signals from other civilizations.
We now know that planets roughly like our own exist around at least 1/5 of all the stars in the galaxy. For the first time in humanity’s history, we have the capacity to detect a civilization like our own around nearby stars.. We will soon begin to know our place as intelligent beings in the universe..
The lecture is free and open to members of the general public. The National Geographic Theater is located in the Rocket Center’s Davidson Center for Space Exploration.
About Andrew Siemion
As director of the UC Berkeley Center for SETI Research, Dr. Siemion is jointly affiliated with The Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy at Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands, and with the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. He is one of the leaders of the "Breakthrough Listen Initiative," a 10-year, $100-million effort sponsored by Yuri Milner’s Breakthrough Prize Foundation, which is conducting the most sensitive search ever made for advanced extraterrestrial life.
Dr. Siemion was a recipient of the Josephine De Kármán Fellowship for Undergraduate Studies at UC Berkeley; the Dorothea Klumpke Roberts Prize for outstanding scholarship as a UC Berkeley undergraduate major in astrophysics; and the UC Berkeley Mary Elizabeth Uhl Dissertation Prize for his work on searches for exotic radio phenomena. He is an elected member of the International Union of Radio Science and committee secretary for the International Academy of Astronautics' SETI Permanent Committee. He serves on the Science@Cal advisory board, co-chairs the Cradle of Life Science Working Group for the forthcoming Square Kilometer Array telescope, and sits on the board of directors of the Foundation for Investing in Research on SETI Science and Technology (FIRSST). He appears frequently on TV and radio, discussing the search for life beyond Earth and the prospects for detection.
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