From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Wed Jun 25 2008 - 08:05:34 PDT
First IAA Symposium on
SEARCHING FOR LIFE SIGNATURES
UNESCO, Paris, France, September 21-26, 2008.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
*******************************************
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21ST,
AT "LE BOURGET" AIRPORT
PUBLIC OUTREACH EVENT IN FRENCH
AT ??? P.M.
("???" RER STATION)
Organized by Païvi Jukola, Philippe Jung, et al. (IAA)
******************************************
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22ND,
AT UNESCO, 7, Place de Fontenoy, Paris
8:30 - 9:30 Registration of Participants
Monday Morning Session: OPENING SPEECHES
9:30 - 10:30 Opening Ceremony
9:30 - 9:35 Claudio Maccone: Welcome to Participants
9:35 - 9:50 Jean-Michel Contant: IAA and SETI - Historic Introduction
9:50 - 10:10 Didier Queloz: TBD
10:10 - 10:30 Frank D. Drake: TBD
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:10 Jill Tarter: The Allen Telescope Array: a better
pitchfork for exploring the Cosmic Haystack
11:10 - 11:30 Alan Boss: Formation of Giant Planets, Super Earths and
Habitable Planets
11:30 - 11:50 Alain Leger: Future Exoplanet Detections from Space, and
SETI
11:50 - 12:10 Jean Schneider: Biosignatures on Exoplanets: beyond the
standard views
12:10 - 12:30 Andre' Brack: Extraterrestrial life: what are we looking
for ?
12:30 - 12:50 Alexander Zaitsev: European radio message: origin and
concept
********** Lunch Break, 13:00 - 15:00 **********
Monday Afternoon Session:
PASSIVE SETI: "Listening to Them"
15:00 - 15:30 Dan Werthimer: New SETI sky survey for radio and optical
pulses
15:30 - 16:00 H. Paul Shuch: Project Argus Progress Report: t plus
twelve years and holding
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 17:20 Dick Carrigan: Extended IRAS-based whole-sky upper limit
on Dyson spheres and the implication for future Dyson spheres searches
17:20 - 17:40 Stelio Montebugnoli and Jader Monari: SETI Italia 2008:
On-going Searches and Future Prospects
17:40 - 18:00 Guillermo Lemarchand: A new 256 million channel
spectrometer for SETI observations in Argentina
18:00 - 18:20 Jean-Michel Martin: The new SETI in France
18:20 - 18:40 Claudio Maccone: The Statistical Drake Equation
*******************************************
PUBLIC OUTREACH EVENT IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH
AT ??? P.M.
ON MONDAY EVENING,
SEPTEMBER 22ND,
AT THE ???
IN PARIS
NEAR THE "???"
METRO STATION
STARRING
DAN WERTHIMER
AND THE FRENCH "SETI_at_HOME" GROUP
(TITLE OF THE EVENT)
(Event organized by Elisabeth Piotelat)
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23RD,
AT UNESCO, 7, Place de Fontenoy, Paris
Tuesday Morning 1st Session:
ACTIVE SETI: "Sending Messages to Them"
9:00 - 9:20 Seth Shostak: SETI: The Compact and the Controversy
9:20 - 9:40 Stephane Dumas and Yvan Dutil: Crypto analysis applied to
Active SETI
9:40 - 10:00 Doug Vakoch: Active SETI: Scientific Experiment,
Diplomatic Action or Artistic Expression?
10:00 - 10:20 Alain Labeque: Active SETI and the Zoo hypothesis
10:20 - 10:40 Paolo Musso: Active SETI and Its Possible Dangers: An
Overview
10:40 - 11:00 Alexander Zaitsev: Overcome the Great Silence!
(documentary movie)
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee Break
Tuesday Morning 2nd Session:
EXOPLANETS from the GROUND
11:20 - 11:40 Grigorij Beskin: Timing of Stellar Brightness Periodic
Variations as a Method of Earth-Like Planet Detection
11:40 - 12:00 Luc Arnold: Stars as semaphore light towers: Artificial
transit and SETI
12:00 - 12:20 Stephane Dumas, G. Joncas and Yvan Dutil: Detection of
Biomarkers using Infrared Spectroscopy
********** Lunch Break, 13:00 - 15:00 **********
Tuesday Afternoon 1st Session:
EXOPLANETS from SPACE
15:00 - 15:20 V. N. Tsytovich and G. N. Morfill: Searching for
Inorganic Life in Universe
15:20 - 15:40 Danielle Briot: LUCAS Experiment: searching for
vegetation and other biosignatures on planet Earth
15:40 - 16:00 Dave Latham: Super Earths and Life, and the role of
NASA's Kepler Mission
16:00 - 16:20 Margaret Turnbull: Exploring Habitable Exoplanets with
New Worlds Observer
16:20 - 16:40 Coffee Break
Tuesday Afternoon 2nd Session:
EXOPLANETS and LIFE
16:40 - 17:00 Jean-Pierre Rospars: SETI in the light of Terrestrial
Biological Evolution
17:00 - 17:20 Satadal Das: Our search for extraterrestrial life may be
modified considering the unique group of silicon-utilizing micro-
organisms
17:20 - 17:40 Arvydas Tamulis: Self-Assembly of Complex Systems:
Artificial Living Cells?
*******************************************
PUBLIC OUTREACH EVENT IN ENGLISH
AT ??? P.M.
ON TUESDAY EVENING,
SEPTEMBER 23RD,
AT THE ???
IN PARIS
NEAR THE "???"
METRO STATION
STARRING
MICHAEL SHERMER
(TITLE OF THE EVENT)
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24TH,
AT UNESCO, 7, Place de Fontenoy, Paris
Wednesday Morning 1st Session:
EXOPLANETS, ASTROPHYSICS and SETI
9:40 - 10:00 Nikos Prantzos: Galactic Habitable Zone
10:00 - 10:20 Grigorij Beskin et al.: Two-laser system to transmit
optical images to ET civilizations
10:20 - 10:40 Y. F. Kutaev, S. K. Mankevich, O. Y. Nosach, E. P.
Orlov: Laser transition in atomic iodine for passive and active SETI
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Wednesday Morning 2nd Session:
HISTORICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, and SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF SETI
11:00 - 11:20 Florence Raulin Cerceau: Historical review of the first
interplanetary communication attempts: a scientific and literary
overview
11:20 - 11:40 Dominique Lestel: Evolution, history & SETI: Some
philosophical observations
11:40 - 12:00 Guillermo Lemarchand: The importance of Active SETI
Strategies to Solve Synchronization Uncertainties in Time and Space
among Galactic Civilizations - Ethical Issues
12:00 - 12:20 Doug Vakoch & Claudio Maccone: An Iconic Approach to
Communicating Musical Concepts in Interstellar Messages
12:20 - 12:40 Jeffrey Lockwood: Interstellar Message Composition:
Learning about ETs and ourselves through writing
12:40 - 13:00 Yvan Dutil: What a billion years civilization looks
like ?
********** Lunch Break, 13:00 - 15:00 **********
Wednesday Afternoon 1st Session:
DETECTING & DECIPHERING in SETI
15:00 - 15:20 Grigorij Beskin et al: Search for extraterrestrial
civilizations in the optical range
15:20 - 15:40 William Edmonson: Targets and SETI - I
15:40 - 16:00 William Edmonson: Targets and SETI - II
16:00 - 16:20 Coffee Break
Wednesday Afternoon 2nd Session:
DETECTING & DECIPHERING in SETI
16:20 - 16:40 John Elliott: Detecting the Signature of Intelligent
Life
16:40 - 17:00 Claudio Maccone: The KLT (Karhunen-Loève Transform) to
extend SETI searches to broad-band and extremely feeble signals
17:00 - 17:20 Husrev T. Ilhan & Ivan Linscott: Using Fractional
Derivative as Degree of Symmetry to Characterize Natural Shapes
17:20 - 17:40 Alexander Ollongren: On the signature of LINCOS
17:40 - 18:00 Jean Schneider: The linguistic pre-requisits of SETI: a
critical analysis of H. Freudenthal's book "LINCOS"
*******************************************
PUBLIC OUTREACH EVENT
AT ??? P.M.
ON WEDNESDAY EVENING,
SEPTEMBER 24TH,
AT THE ???
IN PARIS
NEAR THE "???"
METRO STATION
STARRING
ANNE JAFFRENNOU & MARIE CUISSET
(TITLE OF THE EVENT)
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25TH,
AT UNESCO, 7, Place de Fontenoy, Paris
Thursday Morning 1st Session:
AT THE EDGE OF KNOWLEDGE
9:20 - 9:40 James N. Gardner: Virtual Interstellar Cloning
9:40 - 10:00 Philippe Ailleris: The lure of local SETI. Fifty years of
field experiments
10:00 - 10:20 Pierre Lagrange: (no title) SETI & "Ufology"...
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee Break
Thursday Morning 2nd Session:
AT THE EDGE OF KNOWLEDGE
10:40 - 11:00 Stephen Baxter: Science vs. Revelation: the Timescale of
ETI Signal Interpretation
11:00 - 11:20 Kathryn Denning: Unpacking the Great Transmission Debate
Thursday Morning 3rd Session:
LEGAL INTERNATIONAL ISSUES & SETI
11:20 - 11:40 Claudio Maccone: PAC: Protected Antipode Circle at the
center of the Far Side of the Moon for the Benefit of all Humankind
11:40 - 13:00 PARIS 2008 SETI DECLARATION
********** Lunch Break, 13:00 - 15:00 **********
Thursday Afternoon
September 25th
FREE AFTERNOON
FOR ALL SYMPOSIUM ATTENDEES
TO VISIT PARIS
*******************************************
SYMPOSIUM DINNER
AT ??? P.M.
ON THURDSAY EVENING,
SEPTEMBER 25TH,
AT THE "LE BOUILLON RACINE" RESTAURANT
IN PARIS
NEAR THE SORBONNE
(Organized by Jean Schneider)
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26TH,
VISIT TO NANÇAY RADIOTELESCOPE
by bus: leaving at ??? from ???
returning at ??? at ???
*******************************************
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.6 : Wed Jun 25 2008 - 09:11:26 PDT