session 2

Title: SETI II : SETI and Society
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: 2009-10-14
Time: 15:00
Room: Technical Session #17

IPC members

Chairman: Prof. Douglas Vakoch, SETI Institute and California Institute of Integral Studies, United States;
Chairman: Prof. Setsuko Aoki, Keio University, Japan;
Rapporteur: Dr. John W. Traphagan, The University of Texas at Austin, United States;

papers
Order	Paper title	Mode	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	How Cosmological Models Should Guide SETI Search Strategies	20'	Mr. James Gardner		United States
2	What ET Will Look Like and Why We Should Care	20'	Dr. Seth Shostak	SETI Institute	United States
3	ON THE CONCRETE SIGNATURE OF LINCOS	20'	Prof. John Elliott	Leeds Beckett University	United Kingdom
4	Communicating Multiple Theories of Human Psychology in Interstellar Messages	20'	Prof. Douglas Vakoch	SETI Institute and California Institute of Integral Studies	United States
5	Can Ritual Represent a Framework for Communication with ET?	20'	Dr. John Traphagan	University of Texas at Austin	United States
6	NEARBY EXTRATERRESTRIAL COMMUNICATING CIVILIZATIONS AND THE “REVERSE SETI” ARGUMENT	20'	Prof. Paolo Musso	University of Insubria	Italy
7	Project Argus Progress Report: t plus 13 years and holding	20'	Prof. H. Paul Shuch	The SETI League, Inc.	United States
8	THE STATISTICAL FERMI PARADOX	20'	Dr. Claudio Maccone	International Academy of Astronautics (IAA)	Italy