SETI public: SETI: SETI League Press Release 04-01

Nobel Laureate to Address SETI League Banquet

For more information contact: Dr. H. Paul Shuch, Executive Director
(201) 641-1770, or email info_at_setileague.org

Little Ferry, NJ.., January 2004 --The SETI League and the 11th
International Ham Radio Moonbounce Conference are pleased to announce
that they have scheduled Prof. Joseph Taylor, K1JT as featured speaker
at their joint SETICon04 Awards Banquet at The College of New Jersey on
7 August 2004. Dr. Taylor, Professor of Physics and former Dean of
Faculty at Princeton University, shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics
with his former student Russell Hulse, for gravitational research
stemming from their earlier discovery at the Arecibo Observatory of the
first binary pulsar.

Joe Taylor is both a world-class radio astronomer and a lifelong radio
amateur, well known for his development of the WSJT and JT-44 digital
communications modes being used for moonbounce, meteor scatter and
tropo-scatter contacts worldwide. Using his own software and a modest
station, he regularly places well in ARRL VHF/UHF and Moonbounce
Contests. He routinely acknowledges the prominent role which his amateur
radio background has played in his professional and academic success,
and can be expected to touch on the important contributions still to be
made by dedicated amateurs in the fields of radio astronomy and SETI.

In addition to their joint Awards Banquet, the simultaneous SETICon04
Technical Symposium and International Ham Radio Moonbounce Conference
promise enthusiasts a weekend full of workshops, speakers, panel
discussions and social events. Registration for SETICon, which runs
August 6 - 8, 2004, may be submitted via The SETI League's website, at
http://www.setileague.org/seticon.

The SETICon04 banquet, being held for the fourth year in a row in the
Trenton suburb of Ewing NJ, is once again co-sponsored by the IEEE
Student Chapter at The College of New Jersey. With Prof. Taylor
confirmed as banquet speaker, this year's event is sure to be a sellout,
and tickets will likely not be available at the door. You are encouraged
to pre-register for this year's banquet by 30 June 2004, using the
online form at http://www.setileague.org/seticon/regist04.htm.

SETI scientists use a variety of scientific approaches to determine
whether humankind is alone in the universe. Since Congress terminated
NASA's SETI funding in 1993, The SETI League and other scientific groups
have been attempting to privatize the research. Experimenters interested
in participating in the search for intelligent alien life, or citizens
wishing to help support it, should email to join_at_setileague.org, check
the SETI League Web site at http://www.setileague.org/, send a fax to +1
(201) 641-1771, or contact The SETI League, Inc. membership hotline at
+1 (800) TAU-SETI. Be sure to provide us with a postal address to which
we will mail further information. The SETI League, Inc. is a
membership-supported, non-profit [501(c)(3)], educational and scientific
corporation dedicated to the systematic Search for Extra-Terrestrial
Intelligence.

P.S. Tearsheets are always appreciated. Thank you.

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