Hutton Honors College

Discussion Lunch: "The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence" with Jill Tarter, director of the Center for SETI Research.

This is a small-group program and requires participants to sign up in advance. Participants must be IU undergraduates and must sign up using the established procedures. For complete sign-up procedures, see http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eiubhonor/hdextra/signup.php.

Are we alone? Dr. Jill Tarter, director of the Center for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Research, has asked this question throughout her 30-plus year career in radio astronomy. She started searching for extraterrestrial civilizations and intelligent life-creatures with whom we could communicate-on other worlds using radio signals and an 85-foot telescope while a graduate student in theoretical high-energy astrophysics. Dr. Tarter has been awarded numerous honors as a leader in the field of SETI science, and she has been likened to Jodie Foster's character in Contact. The lunch is co-sponsored by the Wells Scholars Program and the Honors College.

Dr. Tarter will deliver the fourteenth Joseph and Sofia Konopinski Memorial Lecture in Physics on "Life, the Universe, and SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) in a Nutshell" on Tuesday, March 9, 7:30 p.m. in Whittenberger Auditorium (IMU). The lecture is free and open to the public.