Wednesdays at 12PM ET
This seminar series will include presentations related to technosignature science. Talks will be broadcast live and recorded on Zoom. Please contact Ravi Kopparapu (ravikumar.kopparapu@nasa.gov) for more information.
Upcoming seminars
TBD
James Green, NASA HQ
September 7, 2022
When Is The Evidence Sufficient To Claim The Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life?
Jill Tarter, SETI Institute
September 21, 2022
TBD
Kathryn Denning, Dept. of Anthropology, York University
September 28, 2022
Previous seminars
Moving beyond definitions in the search for extraterrestrial life
Carol Cleland, UC Boulder
May 11, 2022
A proposal for five landmarks for the emergence of exocivilizations
James Howell, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
April 27, 2022
Searching for technosignatures with high-contrast imaging
Bruce Macintosh, Stanford University
March 30, 2022
Hong-Ying Chen, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Science
January 26, 2022
A real-world evolutionary perspective to understanding alien life, via Star Trek
Mohamed Noor, Duke University
November 10, 2021
The Breakthrough Listen Signal-of-Interest 'blc1': Analysis, Origin, and Lessons Learned
Sofia Sheikh, Pennsylvania State University
October 13, 2021
Ready or Not, Here We Come: Seeking Technosignatures in Exoplanet Characterization Observations
Thomas Beatty, University of Arizona
October 6, 2021
Live Long and Prosper: Why Technosignatures Longevity Matters
Amedeo Balbi, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università Tor Vergata
September 29, 2021
Challenges for Advanced Life in the Habitable Zone and Implications for Technosignatures
Eddie Schwieterman, UC-Riverside
September 8, 2021
Looking Beyond the Human: Using the diversity of life on earth to inform the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
Erica Cartmill, UCLA
June 16, 2021
The VASCO project: the 2021 status update
Beatriz Villarroel, Nordic Institute of Theoretical Physics
May 12, 2021
The Breakthrough Listen Search For Intelligent Life Near the Galactic Center
Vishal Gajjar, SETI-Berkeley
May 5, 2021
20th Century CETI/SETI: A Scientific, Technical, and Political History
Ken Kellermann, NRAO
March 10, 2021
Service Worlds - what are they and why may they matter?
Manasvi Lingam, Florida Institute of Technology
March 3, 2021
Experiments of Expectation: Technosignatures and the Search for Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
Claire Isabel Webb, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
February 10, 2021
Solar Gravitational Lens (SGL) for Biosignatures, SETI and Interstellar Telecommunications
Claudio Maccone, International Academy of Astronautics and Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica Torino (Turin) Italy
December 2, 2020
Structural Technosignatures: How can they be spatially resolved?
Svetlana Berdyugina, Leibniz Institute for Solar Physics / University of Freiburg, Germany
November 18, 2020
Learning from the Anthropocene: Techosignatures in geological archives?
Gavin Schmidt, NASA GISS
October 21, 2020
Atmospheric Chemical Reaction Network Topology as a Potential Technosignature for Exoplanets
Theresa Fisher, Arizona State University
October 14, 2020
LIFE - the Large Interferometer For Exoplanets
Daniel Angerhausen, University of Bern
October 7, 2020
Technosignatures: Why, What and How. The Science of Emerging Sciences
Adam Frank, U. Rochester
September 30, 2020
Escaping the Great Filter: The Future of Civilization and the Search for Technosignatures
Jacob Haqq-Misra, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science
September 9, 2020