Agenda
Symposium Welcome and Registration
Sunday, June 18
4:00 PM: Hotel and Symposium Check-In Begins
Registration Desk II, Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center
6:00-8:00: Opening Reception
Senate Suites and Terrace, Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center
Symposium Schedule
Talk recordings can be accessed by clicking the talk titles with blue hyperlinks below.
Monday, June 19
9:00-10:00 AM: Welcome, Symposium Overview, Breakout Sessions Overview, Year in Review by Jason Wright, Frank Drake and His Place in History by Rebecca Charbonneau
10:00-10:45: Coffee & Posters Break
10:45-11:45: Plenary Session 1
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- Technosignatures and the Oxygen Bottleneck, Adam Frank
- Are there ‘hard steps’ on the road to intelligence?, Daniel Mills
- The Alien Hypothesis in the Context of Experimental Design, David Kipping
11:45 AM-1:00 PM: Lunch, Gardens Restaurant
1:00–3:00: Breakout Session 1
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- 1A- Room 204 – The Alien in the Machine: Post-Detection in the Era of AI, Kathryn Denning et al
- 1B – Room 205 – The Search for Technosignatures: a review, Clément Vidal
3:00-3:40: Coffee & Posters Break
3:40-5:00: Plenary Session 2
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- Review Talk: Post-Detection in the 2020s: Navigating Discovery, Kathryn Denning
- The roots of SETI: (Extra)Terrestrial Intelligence Revisited, Gabriela Radulescu
- Panel Discussion, Q&A, Rebecca Charbonneau Kathryn Denning, Gabriela Radulescu
Tuesday, June 20
9:00-10:00 AM: Plenary Session 3
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- Advances in Exopsychology, Niklas Döbler
- The Power of Collaborating with Artists in the Search for Life, Jack Madden
10:00-10:45: Coffee & Posters Break
10:45-11:45: Plenary Session 4
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- The Allen Telescope Array, Wael Farah
- Miltibeam Search for techno-signatures on RECONS targets with ATA, Ramiro Saide
- The Longest Stare at TRAPPIST-1 with the Allen Telescope Array, Nick Tusay
11:45 AM-1:00 PM: Lunch, Gardens Restaurant
1:00-3:00: Breakout Session 2
- 2A – Room 204 – The Alien in the Machine: Post-Detection in the Era of AI, Kathryn Denning et al
- 2B – Room 205 – The Search for Technosignatures: a review, Clément Vidal
3:30-9:00: Excursions, choose from four options below:
- Astro on Tap at Happy Valley Brewery
- State College Spikes Baseball Game
- Penn State creamery and arboretum visit
- Downdown State College drop off
Wednesday, June 21
9:00-10:00 AM: Plenary Session 5
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- Earth Detecting Earth: Human Baselines for Technosignatures (AbGradCon Recording), Macy Huston
- Schelling Points in SETI, Jason Wright
- Alien Motivations and their Technosignature Search Approaches, Nick Siegler
10:00-10:45: Coffee & Posters Break
10:45-11:45: Plenary Session 6
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- SETI India: A Search For Technosignatures with the uGMRT, Raghav Girgaonkar
- A 4-8 GHz Search of the Galactic Center for Periodic Technosignatures, Akshay Suresh
- A Large Scale Search for Intelligent Life with Commensal Observations at the VLA, Chenoa Tremblay
11:45 AM-1:00 PM: Lunch Break, Gardens Restaurant
1:00-3:00 PM: Breakout Sessions 3
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- 3A – Room 204 – The Moral Relevance of “Intelligence” in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life, Matthew Lamb et al
- 3B – Room 205 – Preliminary Results from NASA’s Technosignature Gap Study, Nick Siegler et al
3:00-3:40:Coffee & Posters Break
3:40-5:00: Plenary Session 7
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- The PANOSETI Transient Search, Nicolas Rault-Wang
- The 2821 Star Southern Hemisphere Optical SETI Survey, Benjamin Laszlo Fields
- Where No Telescope Has Gone Before: Opportunities and Challenges for SETI with LSST, Tansu Daylan
- Project Hephaistos – Dyson sphere candidates, Matias Suazo
6:00-9:00: Banquet at Off-site location, Axemann Brewery
Thursday, June 22
9:00-10:00 AM: Plenary Session 8
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- A Sign in Space: an interdisciplinary exploration of the potential reception of an extraterrestrial signal, Daniela de Paulis
- Review: SETI and the Theoretical Humanities, Armando M. Mastrogiovanni
- The Mantras of Astrobiology: Leading and Misleading Metaphors, Clément Vidal
10:00-10:45: Coffee & Posters Break
10:45-11:45: Plenary Session 9
11:45AM-1:00 PM: Lunch, Gardens Restaurant
1:00-3:00 PM: Breakout Sessions 4
- 4A – Room 204 – The Moral Relevance of “Intelligence” in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life, Matthew Lamb et al
- 4B – Room 205 – Preliminary Results from NASA’s Technosignature Gap Study, Nick Siegler et al
3:00-3:40: Coffee & Posters Break
3:40-4:40: Plenary Session 10
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- Breakout session recaps. Post-Detection 1A/2A; Technosignature Review 1B/2B; Moral Relevance of “Intelligence” 3A/4A; NASA Gap Study 3B/4B
- Technosignatures with TESS: A Search for Anomalies, Ann Marie Cody
- Report from the first SETI with LSST Workshop, James Davenport
4:40-5:00: Closing Remarks & Valediction
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