Seminars : Documents

Are We Alone? Search for Life in the Universe
Pete Worden (Breakthrough Initiatives)

Pete Worden, Chairman of the Breakthrough Initiatives, will lead a talk on the work the Breakthrough Foundation is doing to help humanity investigate the possibility of life forms on other planets, and how scientists can get involved. He will present the Star Shot initiative—a plan to send a spacecraft to another star system in the next 25 years. Dr. Worden will also discuss the Foundation’s other major initiatives: Listen and Watch. Listen is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence using RF (1 GHz to 30Ghz) and visible light. Watch is the search for earth-sized planets in the habitable zone of nearby stars.