Join the University Sunrise Rotary Club for a program featuring University of Washington Astronomy Professor Emeritus Bruce Balick.
The program will be presented in-person and on Zoom on Thursday morning informally beginning at 7 a.m. The formal meeting including the program runs from 7:30-8:30 a.m. No registration is required, and the program is free.
The in-person meeting will be at the Wedgwood Community Church at 8201 30th Ave NE, Seattle. The meeting will also be available via Zoom. You can click here to join the Zoom meeting.
In our last talk we discussed what aliens have already taught us even though we’ve never spoken to one. In this talk we will talk about searching for aliens. Where might we find them in our solar system? How many alien civilizations are there’re likely to be within “shouting distance”? What efforts have we made to connect with aliens? What is a good strategy for targeting aliens? What searches are underway?
Balick joined the UW Astronomy Department in 1975. Subsequently he served as its chair, became active in faculty governance, and participated in the design of new instrumentation for Hubble. Since his retirement in 2014, Balick continues to publish research papers using data from the Hubble Space Telescope and to supervise astronomy undergraduates in research and public outreach.
He is a coauthor on a research paper based on one of the newly released images from the James Webb telescope.