DMFTalk – Shelley Wright, Who’s Out There?
November 14, 2024 @ 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
Who’s Out There?
Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence using “technosignatures”
Shelley Wright
Professor in Astronomy & Astrophysics
UC San Diego
Shelley Wright will present an overview of current and future technosignature methods and programs that are looking for life in the universe. For over 50 years, astronomers have been conducting the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) primarily focused on radio wavelengths. In this last decade astronomers are working on new ways to search for extraterrestrial communication and the presence of “technosignatures.”
Thursday, November 14, 2024
6:00pm – 8:00pm
6:00pm: Wine & Cheese Reception
6:30pm: DMFTalk
TOWN HALL
Del Mar Civic Center
1050 Camino Del Mar
Shelley Wright
Shelley Wright is a Professor in Astronomy & Astrophysics at UC San Diego. Her research focuses on developing innovative astronomical instrumentation and observations using some of the world’s largest optical telescopes. Shelley specializes in optical and near-infrared cameras and spectrographs, and studying distant galaxies and supermassive black holes. Shelley is the Principal Investigator of new instrumentation at W. M. Keck Observatory and the Project Scientist of first-light instrument for the Thirty Meter Telescope. Shelley has been an active researcher and instrumentalist in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) field for over two decades and received the Frank Drake Award in 2022 for her career-long contributions to the field.