[ASA] Special Colloquium: Breakthrough Listen at Parkes

[Douglas.Bock at csiro.au]

Special Colloquium: Breakthrough Listen at Parkes
10:30 AEDT on 2 March 2016

The Breakthrough Foundation and Yuri Milner have entered into an agreement with CSIRO to use the Parkes Telescope to Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). The Breakthrough Listen program will be allocated 25% of Parkes observing time for five years from October 2016.
http://www.csiro.au/en/Research/Astronomy/Spacecraft-tracking-and-space-science/Breakthrough-Prize-Foundation

CSIRO in collaboration with the Breakthrough foundation and UC Berkeley is presenting a special colloquium on 2 March 2016 at 10:30 AEDT. Topics will include:
- The Breakthrough Listen program at Parkes
- SETI search strategy
- Public data and open-source SETI instrumentation

No registration is required. Remote participation is encouraged for non-local participants: video connection information will be provided closer to the date on the ATNF website.

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