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
Anamaria Berea, George Mason University
January 22, 2025
TBD
Mark Williams, U. Leicester, UK
February 5, 2025
TBD
Nicholas Tusay, Penn State
February 19, 2025
TBD
Jacob Haqq-Misra, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science
March 5, 2025
TBD
Amedeo Balbi (U. Rome) & Manasvi Lingam (Florida Tech)
March 12, 2025
TBD
Brian Lacki, Breakthrough Listen
May 7, 2025
The Zoo Hypothesis or Nothing
Ian Crawford (U. London) and Dirk Schulze-Makuch (Technische Universität Berlin)
May 21, 2025
Previous seminars
2024
David Catling, U. Washington-Seattle
October 16, 2024
Information Gain as a Tool for Assessing Biosignature and Technosignature Missions
McCullen Sandora, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science
September 25, 2024
Eddie Schwieterman, U. C. Riverside
September 11, 2024
A Machine Learning Based Search for Lunar Anomalies
Daniel Angerhausen, ETH in Zürich, Adam Lesnikowki, UC Berkeley, Valentin Bickel, Bern University, and Daniel Angerhausen, ETH Zurich
June 26, 2024
The 2821 Star HARPS Southern Hemisphere Optical SETI Survey
Benjamin Fields, Wheaton College
May 15, 2024
Intellectual Humility as a Scientific Virtue
Michael Dickson, University of South Carolina
May 1, 2024
Tracing the Shadows of Civilizations: Advanced Tools for Hunting Megastructures in Transits
Vikram Khaire, IIST, India
March 6, 2024
Philip Mauskopf, Arizona State University
February 7, 2024
Ramiro Saide, SETI institute
January 17, 2024
2023
The Oxygen Bottleneck and Thoughts On The Evolution of Technology
Adam Frank, Univ. of Rochester
December 6, 2023
Fully Fluorinated Non-Carbon Compounds NF3 and SF6 as Ideal Technosignature Gases
Sara Seager, MIT
November 15, 2023
Technosignature Searches at Low Frequencies (10 - 190 MHz)
Owen Johnson, Trinity College Dublin
November 8, 2023
Measuring Earth's Technosignature: Updates from the Moonbounce Project
Julia De Marines, UC Berkeley
October 11, 2023
Planetary Complexity and Agnostic Biosignatures using Epsilon Machines
Stuart Barlett, Caltech
September 13, 2023
'Un-natural' planetary systems as SETI beacons
Sean Raymond, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux
May 24, 2023
A deep learning search for radio technosignatures of 820 nearby stars
Peter Ma, University of Toronto
May 10, 2023
Confidence of Life Detection: The Problem of Unconceived Alternatives
Peter Vickers, Durham University
March 29, 2023
Maneuvering Interstellar Light Sails
René Heller, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
March 15, 2023
2022
Breakthrough Listen on the Green Bank Telescope - Big Data SETI with a Big Dish
Steve Croft, U. California-Berkeley
December 7, 2022
Close Stellar Encounters and the Chances of Interstellar Migration
Brad Hansen, UCLA
October 26, 2022
Lazarus Stars: Numerical investigations of stellar evolution with star-lifting
Matthew Scoggins, Columbia University
October 19, 2022
Technosignatures from a Bird's Eye View
Clément Vidal, University of California Berkeley
October 12, 2022
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
2021
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
2020
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