From: Dr. H. Paul Shuch (n6tx@setileague.org)
Date: Thu Mar 21 2002 - 15:14:40 PST
SETIzens,
A fortnight ago, the Ministry of Tourism for the Republic of San Marino
very graciously hosted its first major European SETI Congress. EuroSETI1
was held in that beautiful medieval city's new Tourist Theater, and
attended by about two hundred SETI enthusiasts from all over Europe. The
SETI League was very well represented (see this week's Featured Photo on
the website), and also dominated the technical program. A sampling of the
papers presented:
I was privileged to give the Keynote Address, "Searching for Life among
the Stars".
Jenny Bailey introduced her SETISearch Linux software suite.
Bernie Wright showed off some of his very clever receiver designs.
Allen Tough discussed some of the implications of extremely advanced
extra-terrestrial intelligence, and also voiced his concerns about the
immediate post-contact environment.
Claudio Maccone gave *three* separate presentations, one each on Lunar
radio astronomy, gravitational lensing, and the use of the KLT as a signal
detection transform.
Peter Wright outlined the activities and accomplishments of the European
Radio Astronomy Club.
Marko Cebokli discussed receiver chirping to compensate for Doppler shift.
In all, our SETI League members stole the show, and significantly
impressed our professional colleagues with how much high-level science can
be accomplished by amateurs. Our friends from the SETI Institute, the
Planetary Society, the International Academy of Astronautics, and other
prestigious scientific groups have seen that we in the SETI League are
capable of the utmost in professionalism. Thanks to all of our program
participants, for making your executive director look very good!
San Marino wants us back next year, so any SETI League member interested
in presenting a paper there should get in touch with me.
For many of us, EuroSETI1 was a dry run for our planned SETICon02 papers.
I'd say we're ready. Now all that remains is for the rest of you to sign
up for our second Technical Symposium. Details are on the website at
<http://www.setileague.org/seticon>. You have just over one week until our
31 March preregistration deadline, so act now.
Yours for SETI success,
Paul
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H. Paul Shuch, Ph.D., CFII, FBIS
Executive Director, The SETI League, Inc.
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