[AstroNet] Fwd: SKA Africa Public Lecture

[Kevin Govender]

Dear colleagues
Please see invitation below from Anja Fourie (Science Promotion Coordinator
at SKA Africa). Note that this event is tomorrow 31 May 2016.
Regards
Kevin

Anja's contacts:
T: +27 21 506 7300
E: anja at ska.ac.za

W: www.ska.ac.za




*PUBLIC LECTURE*

*The search for life in the Universe: The Breakthrough Initiatives*

*Dr S. Pete Worden*



*Date: *Tuesday, 31 May 2016

*Time:* 18h30 - 19h30

*Venue: *SAP Auditorium, Cape Town Science Centre, 370B Main Road,
Observatory

*Cost: *Free

*Bookings: *events at ska.ac.za



*Dr S. Pete Worden*

Chairman: Breakthrough Prize Foundation

Executive Director: Breakthrough Prize Foundation ‘Breakthrough Initiatives’



We are here. Circling one star among hundreds of billions, in one galaxy
among a hundred billion more, in a Universe that is vast and expanding ever
faster. Perhaps toward infinity.



In July 2015, Yuri Milner, Stephen Hawking and Lord Martin Rees announced
the first of several privately-funded global initiatives to answer the
fundamental science questions surrounding the origin, extent and nature of
life in the Universe. These included ‘Breakthrough Listen', a scientific
programme aimed at finding evidence of technological life beyond Earth;
'Breakthrough Message’, a contest to devise potential messages from Earth;
and 'Breakthrough Starshot', an engineering programme to develop unmanned
space flight at 20% the speed of light for a flyby mission to Alpha
Centauri.



Prior to joining the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, Dr Pete Worden was
Director of NASA’s Ames Research Center, held several positions in the US
Air Force, and was a Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona.
He has authored or co-authored more than 150 scientific papers in
astrophysics and space sciences. Dr Worden served as a scientific
co-investigator for three NASA space science missions, most recently the
Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph launched in 2013 to study the sun. He
received the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal for the 1994 Clementine
Mission to the moon, was named the 2009 Federal Laboratory Consortium
‘Laboratory Director of the Year’, and was the recipient of the 2010 Arthur
C. Clarke Innovator’s Award.

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-- 
Kevin Govender
IAU Office of Astronomy for Development
www.astro4dev.org
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