Author: Mark Schneegurt

Interstellar Seminar will be joined by Daniel Czech, a project engineer for UC Berkeley’s Breakthrough Listen Technosignature Survey at the MeerKAT radio telescope, remotely at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 21 in 104 Jabara Hall.

SETI teams search for evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence by listening to the cosmos, and Dr. Czech develops software to identify potential messages from alien civilizations. He will join WSU’s Dr. Mark Schneegurt in a session on planetary protection and SETI.

Wichita Space Initiative will host Shocker alumnus Thayne Currie remotely at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday Feb. 14 in 104 Jabara Hall for Interstellar Seminar.

Currie is an astrophysicist who discovers planets around stars beyond the sun using the Subaru Telescope. Exoplanets teach researchers about the nature and origin of solar systems, and they are searching for signs of extraterrestrial life on exoplanets.

The Wichita Space Initiative will host a space seminar, “Introduction to the Interstellar Community and an Interstellar University in Kansas” at 3 p.m. Thursday, April 21 at 3 p.m. at Hubbard Hall (Room 231). This is event is free and open to the public.

The event will feature Steve Durst, whose 46-year career in the space field as a publisher and businessman informs his observations of the rapid growth of the interstellar phenomenon and its potential benefits to Kansas. This event is co-hosted by the Ad Astra Kansas Foundation.