The breakout programs are here.
Time | Event | Speaker | Location | |
Sunday (June 26) | ||||
4:00 pm | Early Check-in 3:30 Penn Stater – Level 2 | Conference Desk | ||
6:00-8:00 pm | Opening Reception 6-8 | Deans Hall I & II | ||
Monday (June 27) | ||||
8:45-9:05am | Welcome & Logistics | Huston, Sheikh & Wright | Deans Hall | |
9:05-9:45am | Review: Exoplanetary SETI | Kopparapu | Deans Hall | |
9:45-10:30am | Coffee & Posters Break | — | Senate Suites | |
10:30-10:45am | Provost’s Welcome | Nick Jones | Deans Hall | |
1 | 10:45-11:05am | Detection of Industrial Compounds via Atmospheric Chemical Reaction Network Topology | Fisher | Deans Hall |
11:05-11:25am | Technosignatures as a Path Towards Identifying Life Outside the Solar System | Beatty | Deans Hall | |
11:25-11:45am | An Archival Search for Technosignatures During Planet-Planet Occultations | Sneed | Deans Hall | |
11:45am-1:00pm | Lunch Break | — | Gardens | |
Options | 1:00-3:00pm | Breakout Session: In Search of (Techno-Bio) Signatures from the Light of the Past in the Present and Beyond | Keifer-Boyd, Lamb, Mekel, Stetz | 105 |
1:00-3:00pm | Breakout Session: Post-detection for the 2020s: Fundamentals, Current Concerns, and New Discussions | Denning, Tarter, Haramia, Profitiliotis, Charbonneau, McConnell | Deans Hall | |
1:00-3:00pm | Breakout Session: Opportunities for Technosignature Science in the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey | Haqq-Misra | 106 | |
3:00-3:45pm | Coffee & Posters Break | — | Senate Suites | |
2 | 3:45-4:05pm | Breakout Session Reports | Deans Hall | |
4:05-4:45pm | Review: Laser and Radio SETI | Sheikh | Deans Hall | |
4:45-5:05pm | Poster Pops | Deans Hall | ||
6:00-6:30 pm | Order of the Octopus Meetup | 105 | ||
Tuesday (June 28) | ||||
3 | 9:00-9:20am | On the Wide-Band and Broadband Radio Technosignature Searches with Breakthrough Listen | Gajjar | Deans Hall |
9:20-9:40am | Technosignature Search with the Allen Telescope Array | Premanth | Deans Hall | |
9:40-10:00am | Narrowband Signal Searches Towards the Galactic Plane and Center | Perez | Deans Hall | |
10:00-10:45am | Coffee & Posters Break | — | Senate Suites | |
4 | 10:45-11:05am | The SETI@home Candidate Pipeline | Korpela | Deans Hall |
11:05-11:25am | Extragalactic SETI | Garrett | Deans Hall | |
11:25-11:45am | Developing a Drift Rate Distribution for Technosignature Searches of Exoplanets | Li | Deans Hall | |
11:45am-1:00pm | Lunch Break | — | Gardens | |
5 | 1:00-1:20pm | Search for Extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI) using COSMIC: An Ethernet based Multi-user Commensal Observing System with the Very Large Array (VLA) | Varghese | Deans Hall |
1:20-1:40pm | On the Importance of Field-of-View for Detection Rate in RF SETI | Houston | Deans Hall | |
1:40-2:20pm | Review: Social Sciences & SETI | Charbonneau | Deans Hall | |
2:20-2:40pm | The Drake Equation and the Search for Life in the Galaxy through Indigenist Lenses | Neilson | Deans Hall | |
2:40-3:00pm | Is There a Moral Difference Between Messaging and Mere Detectability? | Haramia/DeMarines | Deans Hall | |
3:00-3:15pm | The Breakthrough Listen Initiative | Worden | Deans Hall | |
3:15-3:25pm | Symposium Group Photo | Courtyard | ||
3:30-9:00pm | Excursions | |||
Wednesday (June 29) | ||||
6 | 9:00-9:40am | Review: Waste Heat and Megastructures | Huston | Deans Hall |
9:40-10:00am | A Search for Dyson Spheres Using Space-Based Photometric Surveys | Suazo | Deans Hall | |
10:00-10:45am | Coffee & Posters Break | — | Senate Suites | |
7 | 10:45-11:25am | Review: Solar System SETI | Lazio | Deans Hall |
11:25-11:45am | A Radio Search for Artifacts at a Focal Point of the Solar Gravitational Lens | Tusay | Deans Hall | |
11:45am-1:00pm | Lunch Break | Gardens | ||
Options | 1:00-3:00pm | Breakout Session: In Search of (Techno-Bio) Signatures from the Light of the Past in the Present and Beyond | Keifer-Boyd, Lamb, Mekel, Stetz | 105 |
1:00-3:00pm | Breakout Session: Post-detection for the 2020s: Fundamentals, Current Concerns, and New Discussions | Denning, Haramia, Profitiliotis, Charbonneau, McConnell, S. Wright | Deans Hall | |
1:00-3:00pm | Breakout Session: How to Collaborate with Breakthrough Listen on the GBT and ATA | Gajjar / Siemion / Perez | 106 | |
3:00-3:45pm | Coffee & Posters Break | — | Senate Suites | |
8 | 3:45-4:00pm | Breakout Session Reports | Deans Hall | |
4:05-4:25pm | Technosignatures Gap List Study | Timmaraju | Deans Hall | |
4:25-4:45pm | Simulation of the Earth Radio-leakage from mobile towers as seen from selected nearby stellar systems | Saide | Deans Hall | |
4:45-5:05pm | Searching the SETI Ellipsoid with Gaia and TESS | Davenport | Deans Hall | |
6:00-9:00pm | Banquet | — | Wyndham Garden Hotel (Boalsburg) | |
Thursday (June 30) | ||||
9:00-10:00am | Media Panel | Deans Hall | ||
10:00-10:45am | Coffee & Posters Break | — | Senate Suites | |
9 | 10:45-11:25am | Review: SETI Theory | Kipping | Deans Hall |
11:25-11:45am | How Might Technologically Advanced Civilization Spread Through the Galaxy | Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback | Deans Hall | |
11:45am-1:00pm | Lunch Break | — | Gardens | |
Options | 1:00-3:00pm | Breakout Session: In Search of (Techno-Bio) Signatures from the Light of the Past in the Present and Beyond | Keifer-Boyd, Lamb, Mekel, Stetz | 105 |
1:00-3:00pm | Breakout Session: Post-detection for the 2020s: Fundamentals, Current Concerns, and New Discussions | Denning, Haramia, Profitiliotis, Charbonneau, McConnell | Deans Hall | |
1:00-3:00pm | Breakout Session: Opportunities for Technosignature Science in the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey | Haqq-Misra | 106 | |
3:00-3:45pm | Coffee & Posters Break | — | Senate Suites | |
3:45-4:15pm | Final Breakout Feedback | — | Deans Hall | |
4:15-4:35pm | VERITAS | Foote | Deans Hall | |
4:35-4:55pm | Closing Remarks | Frank | Deans Hall | |
4:55-5:00pm | Valediction | Wright | Deans Hall |