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    Title

    SETI II - Interdisciplinary Aspects of SETI

    Description

    All aspects concerning the societal implications of extraterrestrial intelligence are considered, including public reaction to a discovery, risk communication and the possible impacts on society.

    Date

    2008-10-01

    Time

    15:00

    Room

    Gala 2

    IPC members
    • Chairman: Ms. Carol Oliver, Macquarie University, Australia;

    • Chairman: Dr. John Elliott, SUPA, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom;

    • Rapporteur: Prof. Alexander Ollongren, Leiden University, The Netherlands;

    papers

    Order

    Time

    Paper title

    Mode

    Presentation status

    Speaker

    Affiliation

    Country

    1

    Introduction to the Interdisciplinary Aspects of SETI

    discussion

    Prof. Douglas Vakoch

    SETI Institute and California Institute of Integral Studies

    United States

    2

    SETI TERMINOLOGY: DO WE INTERPRET SETI TERMS CORRECTLY?

    presentation

    Prof. Ivan Almar

    Hungarian Astronautical Society (MANT)

    Hungary

    3

    Unpacking The Great Transmission Debate

    presentation

    Prof. Kathryn Denning

    York University

    Canada

    4

    Correcting for Interdependence of Terms in the San Marino Scale

    presentation

    Prof. H. Paul Shuch

    The SETI League, Inc.

    United States

    5

    A Post-Detection Decipherment Strategy

    presentation

    Prof. John Elliott

    Leeds Beckett University

    United Kingdom

    6

    Planning for Contact: Fantasy Documents or Guidelines for Action?

    presentation

    Prof. Albert Harrison

    University of California

    United States

    7

    ETI: from imagination to reality

    presentation

    Dr. Jacques Arnould

    Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)

    France

    8

    Aliens Among Us: learning disability as an analog for extraterrestrial intelligence

    presentation

    Prof. H. Paul Shuch

    The SETI League, Inc.

    United States

    9

    NEARBY EXTRATERRESTRIAL COMMUNICATING CIVILIZATIONS AND THE “REVERSE SETI” ARGUMENT

    presentation

    Prof. Paolo Musso

    University of Insubria

    Italy

    10

    Large-size Message Construction for ETI Recursivity in Lingua Cosmica Aleander Ollongren alexoll@liacs.nl Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333 CA Leiden, Holland

    presentation

    Prof. Alexander Ollongren

    Leiden University

    The Netherlands

    11

    What Does It Mean to Be Human?: Reflections on the Portrayal of Human Nature in Interstellar Messages

    presentation

    Prof. Douglas Vakoch

    SETI Institute and California Institute of Integral Studies

    United States