“Where is everybody?” - Signal coverage approach to SETI”
Event details
| Date | 05.06.2018 |
| Hour | 14:00 |
| Speaker | Claudio Grimaldi, Laboratory of Physics of Complex Matter, EPFL |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
The discovery of thousands of extrasolar planets and the inferred astronomical number of Earth-like planets in the Galaxy have recently fueled an intense activity in Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). The “Breakthrough Listen” initiative, the largest and most comprehensive search ever, and other ongoing and upcoming SETI research programs in the radio and optical spectrum offer the unprecedented opportunity of a systematic investigation in the vast domain of the SETI search space. I will give an overview of SETI and discuss its “physics” from the viewpoint of a condensed matter physicist.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Prof. Paolo De Los Rios, Laboratory of Statistical Biophysics, Institute of Physic and Institute of Bioengineering
Contact
- Céline Burkhard, Laboratory of Statistical Biophysics (LBS)