Program

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