Wednesday, March 14, 2018
MORNING PLENARY SESSION 1
“Detecting Extraterrestrial Technology: Signals and Artefacts”
(SETI Institute)
8:00 am Registration and Breakfast
8:30 am Bill Diamond and Nathalie A. Cabrol
Welcome & Introduction to the Workshop Goals & Objectives
9:00 am Opening Presentation: Frank Drake* (GP)
SETI: Where do We Go from Here?
Chairs: Frank Drake, Seth Shostak
9:30 am Jill Tarter* (GP)
One Scientist’s View on the History of SETI
10:00 am Michael Garrett*, A. Siemion, and W.A. van Capellan (WP)
10:20 am Ivan Almar – (Presented by Henrik Hargitai*) (WP)
Are Stellar Habitable Zones Really Important Targets for SETI
10:40 Break
11:00 am Darin Raggozzine* (WP)
Transiting Lightcurves as Templates for Intelligent Signals
11:20 am Ian Morrison* (WP)
Real-Time Wideband Blind Signal Detection for SETI
11:40 am Randall Wayth*, and I.S. Morrison (WP)
Using Moon-Reflected Terrestrial Radio Transmissions to Test SETI Algorithms
12:00 pm Ian Morrison*, G. R. Harp, and S. Oslowski (WP)
Utilizing Pulsars for Implicit Coordination of the Signaling Time-Base of Interstellar Beacons
12:20 pm LUNCH: Panel & Group Discussion
Title: SETI’s Next Technological Steps and Missing Links
Moderator: Bill Diamond
Panelists (TBC):
Wednesday, March 14, 2018:
AFTERNOON PLENARY SESSION 1
“Detecting Extraterrestrial Technology: Signals and Artefacts”
(SETI Institute)
2:00 pm Opening Presentation: Laurance Doyle* (GP)
Chairs: Jill Tarter, Laurance Doyle
2:30 pm Seth Shostak* (GP)
Bio-Friendly Exoplanets: Are they Relevant to SETI?
3:00 pm Erik Zackrisson*, A. Wehrhahn, and A. Korn (WP)
Searching for Dyson Sphere with Gaia
3:20 pm Robert Citron* (WP)
Clustered Similar Exo-Atmospheres as an Indicator of Terraforming
3:40 pm Break
4:00 pm Henrik Hargitai* (WP)
4:20 pm Ephraim Fischbach* and John T. Gruenwald (WP)
NU-SETI: Detecting Extraterrestrial Signals Carried by Neutrinos
5:00-6:00 pm Panel & Group Discussion
Title: SETI’s Own Messaging: From Perception to Education
Moderator: Andrew Fraknoi
Panelists (TNC):
6:30-8:30 pm Reception at the SETI Institute
Thursday, March 15, 2018
MORNING PLENARY SESSION 2
“Coevolution, Intelligence, Consciousness, and Beyond”
(Who is ET & How to Communicate?)
NASA AMES
8:00 am Breakfast
8:20 am Nathalie A. Cabrol – Goals and Objectives for the Day
8:30 am Opening Presentations:
Paul Davies* (GP)
SETI 2.0: Expanding the Search
9:00 am Penelope Boston* (GP)
Astrobiology, Thy Name is Synergy
Chairs: Mary Lee Jensvold, Lori Marino
9:30 am Lori Marino* (GP)
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Begins on Earth
10:00 am Claudio Maccone* (GP)
Evo-SETI Scale for Exoplanets Hosting Life
10:30 am Break
10:40 am Daniel McShea* (WP)
Universals in the Evolution of Intelligence
11:00 am Amedeo Balbi* (WP)
A Framework to Address the Spatiotemporal Aspect of SETI
11:20 am Gregory Berns* (GP)
11:50 am Michael P. Oman Reagan* (WP)
Conceptualizing Difference in SETI: Xenoanthropological Theory and Methods
12:10 am Kathryn Denning* (WP)
How Humans Matter Now: The Relevance of Anthropology and Archaeology for The New SETI.
12:30 pm Keynote Lecture; Jim Larrik
Lessons for SETI from "Alien" Earthlings
Thursday, March 15, 2018
AFTERNOON PLENARY SESSION 2
“Coevolution, Intelligence, Consciousness, and Beyond”
(Who is ET & How to Communicate?)
NASA Ames
1:30 pm Opening Presentation: Steven J. Dick* (GP)
Evolving SETI: Expanded Horizons for the 21st Century.
Chairs: David Grinspoon, Paul Davies
2:00 pm Mary lee Jensvold* (GP)
An Ethological Approach to Communication
2:30 pm Arik Kershenbaum*, T. Bergman, N. Carlson, F. da Cunha, L. Doyle, J. Elliott,
R. Ferrer-i-Cancho, M. Gustison, G. Harp, B. McCowan, S. Semple (WP)
What Animal Studies Can Tell Us About Detecting Intelligent Messages from Outside Earth.
2:50 pm Laura Welcher* (WP)
Communication Across Great Gulfs of Time, Distance and Difference: Lessons from The Rosetta Disk.
3:10 pm Anamaria Berea* (WP)
An Atlas of Communication Evolution Based on a Unified Database of Evidence.
3:30 pm Jason Wright (presented by Sofia Sheikh*) (WP)
Taxonomy and Jargon in SETI as an Interdisciplinary Field of Study.
3:50 pm Jerome Barkow* (WP)
Evolution and the Psychology of Extraterrestrials
4:10 pm Terrence Deacon*
Semiotic Universals: Beyond The Radical Translation Problem
4:30 pm David Grinspoon* (GP)
Cognitive Planetary Transitions: An Astrobiological Perspective on the "Sapiezoic Eon”
5:00 pm John Baross (GP)
Microbial Memory and the Dawn of Communication
5:30 pm Jose Funes*
The Spiritual Quest in the SETI Research
6:30-9:00 pm Dinner and Working Groups (SETI Institute)
Friday, March 16, 2018
PLENARY SESSION 3
“Bringing it All Together”
NASA Ames
8:00 am Breakfast
8:20 am Nathalie A. Cabrol – Goals and Objectives for the Day
8:30 am Working Groups (cont.)
WG1: Distribution and Abundance of Intelligence in the Universe
WG2: How Does Intelligence Communicate
WG3: How to Detect Intelligence
10:00 am Break
10:15 am Working Group Presentations
11:15 am Sherry L. Cady
Special Issue of Astrobiology
11:30 am LUNCH
12:30 pm Nathalie A. Cabrol
SETI: Where do We Go From Here? (II)
12:40 pm Graham Mackintosh
The Anomaly Engine: AI and the Detection of Alien Intelligence
1:10 pm James Parr
Learnings from NASA FDL: a Model for a Worldwide SETI Federation.
1:40 pm Bill Diamond and Nathalie A. Cabrol
Closing Remarks