RAS Spring Lecture 2024

 We are delighted to have Dr. Adam Frank as our distinguished speaker. Dr. Adam Frank is the Helen F. and Fred H. Gowen Professor of Physics and Astronomy, and Astronomy LLE Distinguished Scientist at the University of Rochester.  

Professor Frank's research is in the general area of Theoretical Astrophysics and he is an active member of the department's Plasma Physics program.  He is also actively involved in science outreach as a popular science writer and speaker.  Although we printed the posters with the title “Astrobiology: The search for alien life,” Dr. Frank has actually titled his talk “Biosignatures and Technosignatures: The Telescopic Search for Life Across Interstellar Distances.” The free lecture will begin at about 7:30 p.m. and we invite the public to attend. 

Dr. Frank states: " The 2020 Astronomy Decadal Survey put a "Habitable Worlds Observatory" at the top of the community's projects for the next twenty years.  I will discuss the current state of research and plans in the search for life via "biosignatures" and "technosignatures". I will review the history of the field and discuss  what advances have allowed the ancient question of "are we alone?" to finally become one which science might answer."

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