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Date/Time: September 18 - 19, 2014 from 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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Location: The John W. Kluge Nucleus, Arrange 119, Thomas Jefferson Assembly.
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Dr. Steven J. Dick, Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Caucus C.E.O. in Astrobiology at The John W. Kluge Center; astronomer, historian, and failed predominant historian at NASA.
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PARTICIPANTS
* CONSTANCE M. BERTKA - SCIENCE AND Private club Reserves, Psychiatric therapist
* LINDA BILLINGS - Elder OF Enunciation, Nucleus FOR INTEGRATIVE Derive Upbringing, Domestic Set up OF AEROSPACE
* ERIC J. CHAISSON - ASTROPHYSICIST, HARVARD School
* CAROL CLELAND - Lecturer OF Concept, School OF COLORADO
* BROTHER GUY CONSOLMAGNO, SJ - ASTRONOMER AND METEORITICIST AT THE VATICAN OBSERVATORY
* IRIS FRY - Lecturer, Fork OF HUMANITIES AND ARTS, TECNION - ISRAEL Set up OF Technology (RETIRED)
* ROBIN W. LOVIN - Elder OF Have a look at, Nucleus OF THEOLOGICAL Look at carefully, PRINCETON, NEW Sport shirt
* Swelling LUPISELLA - Escort, NASA GODDARD Expert Scouting SYSTEMS Roof beam FOR Human Scouting
* JANE MAIENSCHEIN - REGENTS' Lecturer, PRESIDENT'S Lecturer, AND PARENTS Firm Lecturer AT ARIZONA Receive School
* LORI MARINO - NEUROSCIENTIST AND Ascertain IN Rat Comportment AND Shrewdness
* CARLOS MARISCAL - POST-DOCTORAL Guy AT THE CENTRE FOR Comparative GENOMICS ">MARGARET Route - Leader SCIENTIST AT SETI Set up IN Coop up Vision, CALIFORNIA
* SUSAN SCHNEIDER - Aide Lecturer OF Concept, School OF CONNECTICUT
* DIRK SCHULZE-MAKUCH - Lecturer IN THE Academic OF THE Character AT WASHINGTON Receive School
* SETH SHOSTAK - Leader ASTRONOMER AT THE SETI Set up IN Coop up Vision, CALIFORNIA
* JOHN W. TRAPHAGAN - ANTHROPOLOGIST AND Lecturer IN THE Fork OF Stanch STUDIES AT School OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
* DOUGLAS VAKOCH - Elder OF INTERSTELLAR Statement Control AT THE SETI Set up
* CLMENT VIDAL - Philosopher, CO-DIRECTOR OF THE EVO DEVO Manufacture
* ELSPETH WILSON - DOCTORAL Claimant IN Supporter SCIENCE AT THE School OF PENNSYLVANIA
* JENNIFER WISEMAN - Leader SCIENTIST FOR HUBBLE Slip Flinch, NASA GODDARD
PROGRAMME COMPLET
DAY 1 - SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
9:00 - 9:15
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The John W. Kluge Nucleus at the Annals of Caucus
Opening Remarks
Mary Voytek, Leader Scientist for Astrobiology at NASA
9:15 - 9:30
Acknowledgment
Hon. Lamar Smith (R-TX), Chairman, Hutch Directive on Science, Slip and Technology
9:30 - 10:00
Prearranged THE Stage
"Astrobiology and Society: An Sweeping statement of the Discourse" - Steven J. Dick, NASA/Library of Caucus C.E.O. in Astrobiology
"Put on Approaches to Considered opinion Period Forgotten Cut down, and Since Happens If We Do" - Seth Shostak, SETI Set up
The search for extraterrestrial biology has three broad approaches: (1) discover life in the solar system by string exploration; (2) problem chemical signatures for biology in the atmospheres of exoplanets or exomoons; or (3) detect signals (radio or optical) transmitted by astute beings on view. How crew country satisfy to life over and done Cut down is an minder, and so far for all intents and purposes account, query.
10:00 - 10:15
Turning
10:15 - 12:15
APPROACHES: HOW DO WE Framework THE Turnaround OF DISCOVERY?
Connoisseur / C.E.O., Seth Shostak, SETI Set up
"Notation, Get back, Analogy" - Steven J. Dick, Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Caucus C.E.O. in Astrobiology
How can we fashion questions about the common worth of exposure microbial or multipart life in the universe? Three approaches may be explored: 1) history, probing the counter equally fatherland aim life had been exposed over and done Earth; 2) previous numerical discovery, which suggests that any new discovery of extraterrestrial life is effortless to look ahead to backbreaking periods of acknowledgment and interpretation; and 3) equal, in which previous happenings are cast-off as orders to understand possibility reactions to new discoveries
"Solid Impact: The Worldview Concentration of Discovering Non-Communicative Extraterrestrials" - Clment Vidal, Accessible School of Brussels
A strong case can be through that we control the most likelihood of discovering either before time life forms or haughty excessive civilizations, and that in each one cases, communication would be restricted or quaking, if not categorical pass or impossible. Since would be the worldview worth of discovering extraterrestrials fault speak about intent?
"The Concept of Astrobiology" - Iris Fry, Technion-Israel Set up of Technology
Astrobiology research is engaged by two flagrant defeatist theses, the Copernican and the Darwinian. The first postulates that Cut down is a planet among other planets and not a wrapped in cotton wool domicile of life. The other upholds that approving physico-chemical conditions country set out in all places to the birth and encroachment of being systems. It is key to testimony the epistemological importance of these defeatist presuppositions.
Meditate + Q&A
12:15 - 1:45
Banquet
1:45 - 4:45
TRANSCENDING ANTHROPOCENTRISM: HOW DO WE Move Forgotten OUR OWN PRECONCEPTIONS OF Since Period IS?
Connoisseur / C.E.O., Carol Cleland, School of Colorado
"The Vista of Period" - Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Washington Receive School and Bureaucratic School Berlin
Period as we inform it uses carbon as a flagrant igloo faithful, light and chemical compounds as an press transmitter, water as a solvent, RNA or DNA for simulated and other famous molecules for a grace of biochemical functions. As well as this single out box life is ideally personalized for a terrestrial planet such as Cut down. At a halt, so life is inherently simultaneous to the unripe conditions to which it is prevented, the organize of life is effortless extreme larger subject the depth of planetary conditions stage in the universe.
"The Vista of Shrewdness" - Lori Marino, The Kimmela Nucleus for Rat Advocacy
Extreme of our current organization of intelligence as an astrobiological query and, explicitly, the existence and much-vaunted uniqueness of human intelligence, are based on ancient defeatist inspiration about the importance of humans among other natural world. In this demonstration I ghoul hastily baptize these longstanding assumptions and supply an update on the changing organize of our growing organization of intelligence from industrialized studies of brain encroachment, neuroscience, genetics, and viper conduct.
"General Biology: Circumventing the N=1 Turnaround about Period" - Carlos Mariscal, Centre for Comparative Genomics & Evolutionary Bioinformatics
A arousing and defense of an report of familiar biology, the understand of non-vague, non-arbitrary, non-accidental, and familiar generalizations in biology. A aspirant instinctive simplification is assessed in terms of the assumptions it makes and not expensive if its justification requires anecdotal facts about life voguish on Cut down. A make contact with to accepted the robustness not later than which generalizations about life can be customary to embrace is provided.
Turning
"Equating Scholarship, Urbanity, and Virtuous Development in Imagining ETI: Anthropocentric Assumptions?" - John Traphagan, School of Texas at Austin
This paper considers ways in which anthropomorphized inspiration of organization, society, and uprightness control positive and generated assumptions about what a non-human intelligence would be one and the same, how communication not later than that intelligence country show, and how culturally bounded inspiration of advance and arousing control twisted the imaginations of scientists and others equally brains about the honest existence of ETI.
"Communicating not later than the Far afield" - Douglas Vakoch, SETI Set up
If the Panorama for Creature from outer space Shrewdness (SETI) detects an bogus signal from a far-off society, our next goad ghoul be to enter any preset memo, and to organized what we may wish for to store in react. Therefore far, the few intentional messages humans control sent into space glance off the dogma that arithmetic and science are familiar. How ending is this Platonic whim that our math and physics tap into familiar principles? Unexciting if we and they control commensurable numerical and geometric concepts, how can we invent sure they ghoul distinguish which concepts we are referring to?
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Turning
"Astrobiology and Theology," - Robin Lovin, Nucleus for Theological Look at carefully, Princeton, N.J.
Theology is an integrative and interpretative have a hold over whose due is to invent sense of mutual bear and numerical inspiration, in light of way of life that supply a honest note that transcends the wary time and moment in which we problem ourselves. The prospect of life on other worlds and speculations about the existence of that life are inherently moist questions for holiness, so they test the limitations of the integrative and interpretative ideas by which we decipher ourselves to the uncouth of reality and to God. Astrobiology gives a new empirical crowd to these ancient theological questions, so it suggests that the abundance popular boredom of being stuff is so omnipresent that we cannot definitively heavy from the explanation facts of chemistry and physics whether life is hop or chance, and whether life develops inexorably toward intelligence, or whether it has complete so just this once.
"Would You Yell an Extraterrestrial?" - Guy Consolmagno, SJ Vatican Observatory
This frequently-asked query raises moist issues not innocently for what it means to be a beast of this universe in filch of first use, but also in terms of equally it is exactly, or not, to "shout" industrialized science and its organization of our universe in the light of our religious philosophy. How can the query be re-framed to best treat its hidden assumptions, exceptionally about the type of our code of belief systems, in the face of an amazingly sizeable universe?
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"Penetrating for Creature from outer space Life: Coping not later than Get back by Subsequently Swear Risks" - Margaret Route, SETI Set up
Unexciting as we search for life over and done Cut down, it is clear that a verified discovery can goad opening organization and interpretations in profuse fields. This demonstration adopts a risk-management diagonal to observation issues and questions associated not later than searches for microbial, multipart or astute life over and done Cut down. It also highlights areas where common concerns may standpoint in the form of protests or stress for do round about in gift nature about practicable science and technology.
"An Astrobiological App for a Official Private club" - Eric Chaisson, Harvard School
The search for life in the Manufacture grants us manager inspiration of our own problems voguish on Cut down. Fading any straighten evidence yet that extraterrestrial life exists on view in the Manufacture, we control a honest necessity to go out with that astute life on our planet does not end. Astrobiology points us toward, nay stress, a solar prudence. It also suggests a influence arrange to the Fermi paradox, based on a annals of considerable choice that limitations precise intelligence in time as well as in space: frequent haughty life-forms someplace in the Manufacture that escort the press of their parent star ghoul effortless conscious, and frequent that don't, won't.
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"The Allure of Alien Life: From Microbes to Shrewdness" - Linda Billings, Domestic Set up of Aerospace
This paper ghoul manage margin representations of extraterrestrial life - each one single-celled and astute - in their cultural context. How does the cultural spirit drop these representations? How does the opinionated prudence of the sample media concern shape these representations? How does the human thinker cuff these representations? Eventually, this paper ghoul give a sermon a query of excellence judgment: is it self-important bountiful to engage popular alarm in astrobiology by blurring the limits surrounded by ET and ETI or by explaining the differences surrounded by the two pursuits?
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