Below is another panel discussion from the SETI Institute‘s SETIcon 2 event. This one is titled: Do Any Exoplanets Have Intelligent Occupants? As listed in the caption, the panelists include:
Jon M. Jenkins – Jon is the Analysis Lead for Kepler space observatory.
Jill Tarter – Jill directs the SETI Institute’s searches for intelligent life elsewhere, and is the holder of the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI.
Margaret Turnbull- Margaret is an American astronomer. She received her PhD in Astronomy from the University of Arizona in 2004.
Dan Werthimer – Dan is co-founder and chief scientist of the SETI@home project and directs other UC Berkeley SETI searches at radio, infrared and visible wavelengths, including the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations (SERENDIP).
Here’s a video of a panel of scientists and science fiction writers on the topic of black holes held at the SETICon 2 event sponsored by the SETI Institute:
Robert J. Sawyer – one of only eight writers in history to win all three of the science-fiction field’s top awards for best novel of the year: the Hugo, the Nebula, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He frequently writes about SETI, including …
Andre Bormanis – Andre is an American television producer, screenwriter and author of the book Star Trek: Science Logs. …
Alex Filippenko – Alex is the Richard & Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences at UC Berkeley…
Leonard Mlodinow – Leonard received his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of California at Berkeley and now teaches at Caltech…
Moderator: Andrew Fraknoi – Andrew is the Chair of the Astronomy Department at Foothill College and Senior Educator at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific…
Here is a video of a talk last July by Dr. Jill Tarter at NASA Ames Research center. She is a founder
of the SETI Institute, whose mission is to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe[. She] discusses the investments being made to discover extraterrestrial life.