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Dates: July 10-12
The theme of Week 4 is “How to Find and Recognize Life”. We will focus on the search for life in our Solar System through robotic space missions searching for life or its building blocks in situ, as well as life beyond our Solar System using telescopes to search for biosignatures on planets around nearby stars and possibly technosignatures from more distant civilizations. We will review the methods proposed to search for life, outline the path forward, and discuss how to avoid pitfalls like false positive detections.
In addition to the daytime events this week, on Thursday, July 12 Dr. Jill Tarter of the SETI Institute will be speaking in Mulva Auditorium (room EER 0.904). More information coming soon.
Location: This week we will be meeting in EER 0.904 on UT Austin’s Main Campus.
Week 4 Organizers: Michael Endl, Brendan Bowler, and Andrew Vanderburg
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Speakers:
Shawn Domagal-Goldman, Research Scientist, Goddard
Scott Gaudi, Associate Professor, The Ohio State University
Sarah Johnson, Assistant Professor, Georgetown
Jill Tarter, Emeritus Chair for SETI Research, SETI Institute
Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
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9:00 - 9:30 AM Coffee and snacks | 9:00 - 9:30 AM Coffee and snacks | 9:00 - 9:30 AM Coffee and snacks |
9:30 - 10:00 AM Welcome - Summary of week 3 and overview of week 4 | 9:30 - 10:00 AM Introductory Background Material: Biochemistry of Life David Hoffman | 9:30 - 10:30 AM SETI: Past, Present, and Future Searches for Technosignatures Jill Tarter |
10:00 - 10:30 AM Introductory Background Material - Techniques for finding exoplanets Brendan Bowler | 10:00 - 10:30 AM Chemical and energy requirements for life on Earth and in the Solar System Reinaldo Alcalde | 10:30 - 11:00 AM Group Discussion |
10:30 - 11:00 AM Introductory background material - characterizing exoplanets with spectroscopy Mike Endl | 10:30 - 11:00 AM Viruses: From Inner Space to Outer Space Jackie Dudley | 11:00 - 11:30 AM Coffee break |
11:00 - 11:30 AM Coffee break | 11:00 - 11:30 AM Coffee break | 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Can We Recognize Intelligence On Earth William Lawson and Taft Broome |
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM The recent and near-term pathway to characterizing planets Andrew Vanderburg | 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Searching for life from a mineralogical and geological perspective Elizabeth Catlos | 12:00 - 12:30 PM Group Discussion |
12:00 - 12:30 PM GMT status and exoplanet science Taft Armandroff | 12:00 - 12:30 PM Hidden life in caves: the case of spectacular mineral deposits in Asperge cave (France) Nicola Tisato | 12:30 - 1:30 PM Lunch |
12:30 - 1:30 PM Lunch | 12:30 - 1:30 PM Lunch | 1:30 - 2:30 PM The Time is Now: Beginning the Search for Life Outside our Solar System Scott Gaudi |
1:30 - 2:30 PM The Future of Biosignature Theory: Moving from Intuition to Quantification of Certainty Shawn Domagal-Goldman | 1:30 - 2:30 PM Agnostic Approaches to Life Detection Sarah Johnson | 2:30 - 3:30 PM Discussion |
2:30 - 3:30 PM Discussion | 2:30 - 3:30 PM Discussion | 3:30 - 4:00 PM Coffee break |
3:30 - 4:00 PM Coffee break | 3:30 - 4:00 PM Coffee break | 4:00 - 5:00 PM Wrap-up discussion |
4:00 - 4:30 PM Chirality as a Biosignature Gene McDonald | 4:00 - 4:30 PM Optofluidic concentration, enantiodiscrimination and enantioselective separation of chiral molecules for in-situ life detection Yuebing Zheng | 7:00 PM Public Talk A Cosmic Perspective: Searching for Aliens, Finding Ourselves Jill Tarter |
4:30 - 5:00 PM Wrap-up discussion | 4:30 - 5:00 PM Wrap-up discussion | |
Evening activity Group dinner an drinks at Scholz Garden |