Science Cafe: Is Anybody Out There?:
Lafayette Library and Learning Center
3491 Mt Diablo Blvd, Lafayette
Tuesday, November 17th, 2015
7:00pm – 8:30pm | $10Science Cafe Presents: Is Anybody Out There: the search for ET with help from eight million volunteers, with speaker Dan Werthimer, University of California, Berkeley.
What is the possibility of other life in the universe and can we detect radio and optical signals from other civilizations? Berkeley’s SETI@home project analyzes data from the world’s largest radio telescope using desktop computers from millions of volunteers. These volunteers have the small but captivating possibility their computer will detect the first signal from a civilization beyond Earth.
Dan Werthimer is principal investigator of SETI@home and several radio and optical SETI programs at the University of California, Berkeley. Werthimer also directs the Center for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics Research (CASPER), and is associate director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC).
$5 current donors. $10 general admission, payable at the door.