Searching for Technological Life in the Universe

Are we alone? Or is there other life out there in the universe beyond Earth? If there is other life, is it complex life, capable of using language and creating technology like us? Dr. Sofia Sheikh seeks to answer this question by using facilities like the Allen Telescope Array to search for “technosignatures,” or signs of non-human technology elsewhere in the universe. In this talk, Dr. Sheikh will describe the current status of technosignature searches, including the history of the field of “SETI” (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), the progress we’ve made so far in searching for extraterrestrial signals, and the cutting-edge surveys and instruments that will advance our understanding in the years to come.

Room: Planetarium

Speaker: Sofia Sheikh, SETI Institute