Change in venue

[Marie Woods <mwoods ligo mit edu>]

MIT Astrophysics Colloquium
Tuesday, February 22, 4PM
34-101 (note the unusual location)
50 Vassar Street
Cambridge, Ma


"SETI: Pulling Signals out of Cosmic Noise"

Jill Tarter
Director, Center for SETI Research; Bernard M. Oliver Chair, SETI Institute

Jill Tarter is the Director of Project Phoenix at the SETI Institute, the 
worlds most sensitive and comprehensive search for extraterrestrial 
intelligence. She will discuss both the current status of the search and 
exciting engineering challenges involved in pushing the limits of telescope 
and detector technology.  If you liked the movie "Contact", then here's 
your chance to see who Jodi Foster's role was inspired by.

Today, as the Director of Project Phoenix, she listens for radio signals 
that are either being deliberately beamed our way, or are inadvertently 
transmitted from another planet. Project Phoenix has targeted about one 
thousand stars, all within 200 light-years distance.

Jill Tarter has devoted most of her research career to the scientific 
search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).
Her PhD thesis dealt with brown dwarfs (a name she coined).

Refreshments will be available prior to the lecture, at 3:30pm in the 
Marlar Lounge (37-252)

Marie Woods
Administrative Assistant
MIT/LIGO NW17-161
175 Albany St.
Cambridge, MA. 02139
PH (617)253-4824  FAX (617)253-7014