Lecture Date: 10/5/23
Speaker: Dan Werthimer
Full Title: Is Anybody Out There? What’s New in the Search for Extraterrestrial Civilizations
Summary: What is the possibility of other intelligent life in the universe?
Can we detect radio, infrared, or optical signals from other civilizations?
Current and future SETI projects may provide an answer. Berkeley SETI Research Center chief scientist Dan Werthimer will describe the rationale for past and future searches and will show how new technologies are revolutionizing SETI. Dan will describe Breakthrough Listen, SETI@home, the new PANOSETI wide field allskyallthetime project, as well as concepts for future SETI.