You might already know about this Web site, but
just in case to help you with your project:
http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~nv91-asa/dysonFAQ.html
Good luck!
Larry
At 11:13 PM 04/26/1999 +0000, Amanda Baker wrote:
>Greetings,
>
> This probably sounds like more of a big deal than it is, but... I'm
>pleased to report that I have been accepted to present two poster papers on
>SETI at the upcoming Royal Astronomical Society 'Ordinary Meeting' on that
>subject. One is on a little project I'm doing with my day job: searching for
>infrared sources with blackbody temperatures consistent with liquid water,
>which might be Dyson Spheres. The other is to be about the SETI League:
>
>>----- Forwarded message
>>
>>Dear Amanda
>>
>> The programme should be on the RAS web pages. You can have a square metre
>of wall > space per poster. Posters are mentioned but not detailed. You can
>get into to Scientific > Societies Lecture Theatre off Savile Row from 09:00
>on the day of the meeting, Fri 14 > May.
>>
>>Barrie
>>
>>--------
>
> Obviously, I will draw upon the copious resources of the SETI League
>Web page to create the second poster :-) I will probably use something like
>Powerpoint to produce it, and it will not be very verbose since I find that
>very difficult to read on a wall. I will be sending hardcopy as well as
>electronic versions to HQ.
>
>>Royal Astronomical Society Astronomy and Geophysical Joint Discussion
>>Meeting on THE SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE
>>
>>Organiser: Dr Barrie W JONES (Open University)
>>
>>_____________________________________________________________________
>>
>> The search for extraterrestrial life has emerged as one of the great
>scientific quests > that will surely dominate the early decades of the new
>millennium. This meeting will > explore the likelihood of finding potential
>habitats beyond the Earth, the likelihood > that any such habitats are
>populated with some form of life, and the likelihood that any > such life
>has evolved to become technologically intelligent. Observational programmes
>> for finding extraterrestrial habitats and extraterrestrial life will be
>described.
>>
>>
>> 10:00 Registration (no fee)/Coffee/Posters
>>
>> 10:30 Dr Don Cowan (University College London)
>> 'Extremophilic micro-organisms and the search for exobiology'
>>
>> 10:50 Prof Colin Pillinger (Open University)
>> 'Beagle 2'
>>
>> 11:10 Dr Monica Grady (Natural History Museum)
>> 'The outer Solar System: habitable niches on inhospitable hosts'
>>
>> 11:30 Prof John Papaloizou (Queen Mary and Westfield College)
>> 'Formation of short period giant planets, orbital migration and
>> terrestrial planets'
>>
>> 11:50 Dr Alan Penny (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
>> 'Spectroscopic search for life on nearby exoplanets - the future'
>>
>> 12:10 Prof Paul C W Davies (Imperial College London; University of
>> Queensland) 'SETI and biological determinism'
>>
>> 12:35 Dr Ian Crawford (University College London)
>> 'How common are extraterrestrial civilisations?'
>>
>> 12:55 Dr Ian Morison (NRAL, Jodrell Bank)
>> 'Jodrell Bank=92s role in the Project Phoenix SETI experiment'
>>
>> 13:25 End of meeting/Lunch/Posters
>
> Regards to you all,
>
> Amanda Baker
>
>Chair, SETI League Membership Services Committee
>
>