Do Any Exoplanets Have Intelligent Occupants? (SETIcon 2)
Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 10 Οκτ 2014
Panelists:
Jon M. Jenkins -
Jon is the Analysis Lead for Kepler, which means that he heads up a
group of about two dozen scientists and programmers who designed and
built the software that makes this dramatic search for other worlds
possible. With a brightness precision of 20 parts per million, Kepler
should be able to discover planets that are the same size as the rocky,
inner orbs of our own solar system. By making an inventory of such
worlds, Kepler will answer one of the most intriguing questions in
astrobiology: are Earth-size planets abundant or rare?
Jill
Tarter - Jill directs the SETI Institute’s searches for intelligent life
elsewhere, and is the holder of the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI.
She is one of the few researchers to have devoted her career to hunting
for signs of sentient beings elsewhere, and led Project Phoenix, a
decade-long SETI scrutiny of about 750 nearby star systems, using
telescopes in Australia, West Virginia and Puerto Rico. She has also
been the motive force behind the construction of the Allen Telescope
Array, an instrument able to increase both the speed and the spectral
search range of the Institute’s hunt for radio signals. There are few
aspects of the modern SETI effort that have not been affected by Jill’s
work.
Margaret Turnbull- Margaret is an American astronomer. She
received her PhD in Astronomy from the University of Arizona in 2004.
Turnbull is an authority on "Habstars," solar twins and planetary
habitability. In 2002, Turnbull developed the HabCat along with Jill
Tarter, a catalog of potentially habitable stellar systems. The
following year Turnbull went on to further identify 30 particularly
suitable stars from the 5,000 in the HabCat list that are within 100
light years of Earth. In 2007, Turnbull was named a "Genius" by CNN for
her work cataloging stars most likely to develop planets that could
support life and intelligent civilizations.
Dan Werthimer - Dan
is co-founder and chief scientist of the SETI@home project and directs
other UC Berkeley SETI searches at radio, infrared and visible
wavelengths, including the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Radio Emissions
from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations (SERENDIP). He is also the
principal investigator for the worldwide Collaboration for Astronomy
Signal Processing and Electronics Research (CASPER). Werthimer has
taught courses at universities in Peru, Egypt, Ghana, Ethiopia,
Zimbabwe, Uganda and Kenya. He has published numerous papers in the
fields of SETI, radio astronomy, instrumentation and science education;
he is co-author of "SETI 2020" and editor of "Astronomical and
Biochemical Origins and the Search for Life in the Universe".
Moderator:
Gerry
Harp - Trained as quantum mechanic, Gerry found the possibilities of
using the multiple antennas of the Allen Telescope Array to generate
beams on the sky – beams that could be far smaller than any single
antenna could produce – remarkably exciting. Lured to the SETI Institute
by this instrument’s intriguing possibilities, he’s undertaken many
studies on beam formation (for SETI research). These include the Array’s
ability to produce “negative” beams – useful for cancelling out, or
“rejecting”, signals from such man-made noise makers as
telecommunications satellites and the on-site, observatory computers.
Jon M. Jenkins -
Jon is the Analysis Lead for Kepler, which means that he heads up a
group of about two dozen scientists and programmers who designed and
built the software that makes this dramatic search for other worlds
possible. With a brightness precision of 20 parts per million, Kepler
should be able to discover planets that are the same size as the rocky,
inner orbs of our own solar system. By making an inventory of such
worlds, Kepler will answer one of the most intriguing questions in
astrobiology: are Earth-size planets abundant or rare?
Jill
Tarter - Jill directs the SETI Institute’s searches for intelligent life
elsewhere, and is the holder of the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI.
She is one of the few researchers to have devoted her career to hunting
for signs of sentient beings elsewhere, and led Project Phoenix, a
decade-long SETI scrutiny of about 750 nearby star systems, using
telescopes in Australia, West Virginia and Puerto Rico. She has also
been the motive force behind the construction of the Allen Telescope
Array, an instrument able to increase both the speed and the spectral
search range of the Institute’s hunt for radio signals. There are few
aspects of the modern SETI effort that have not been affected by Jill’s
work.
Margaret Turnbull- Margaret is an American astronomer. She
received her PhD in Astronomy from the University of Arizona in 2004.
Turnbull is an authority on "Habstars," solar twins and planetary
habitability. In 2002, Turnbull developed the HabCat along with Jill
Tarter, a catalog of potentially habitable stellar systems. The
following year Turnbull went on to further identify 30 particularly
suitable stars from the 5,000 in the HabCat list that are within 100
light years of Earth. In 2007, Turnbull was named a "Genius" by CNN for
her work cataloging stars most likely to develop planets that could
support life and intelligent civilizations.
Dan Werthimer - Dan
is co-founder and chief scientist of the SETI@home project and directs
other UC Berkeley SETI searches at radio, infrared and visible
wavelengths, including the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Radio Emissions
from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations (SERENDIP). He is also the
principal investigator for the worldwide Collaboration for Astronomy
Signal Processing and Electronics Research (CASPER). Werthimer has
taught courses at universities in Peru, Egypt, Ghana, Ethiopia,
Zimbabwe, Uganda and Kenya. He has published numerous papers in the
fields of SETI, radio astronomy, instrumentation and science education;
he is co-author of "SETI 2020" and editor of "Astronomical and
Biochemical Origins and the Search for Life in the Universe".
Moderator:
Gerry
Harp - Trained as quantum mechanic, Gerry found the possibilities of
using the multiple antennas of the Allen Telescope Array to generate
beams on the sky – beams that could be far smaller than any single
antenna could produce – remarkably exciting. Lured to the SETI Institute
by this instrument’s intriguing possibilities, he’s undertaken many
studies on beam formation (for SETI research). These include the Array’s
ability to produce “negative” beams – useful for cancelling out, or
“rejecting”, signals from such man-made noise makers as
telecommunications satellites and the on-site, observatory computers.
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