session 2

Title: SETI 2: SETI and Society
type: oral
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: 2012-10-03
Time: 10:15
Room: TS18 (Sala Sardegna, Palacongressi)

IPC members

papers
Order	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	Fanning the Flames of SETI Passion	15'	confirmed	Prof. H. Paul Shuch	The SETI League, Inc.	United States
2	Seeking Intelligence Far Beyond Our Own	20'	confirmed	Dr. Seth Shostak	SETI Institute	United States
3	SIGNATURES OF MACHINE INTELLIGENCE	20'	withdrawn	Prof. John Elliott	Leeds Beckett University	United Kingdom
4	Evolution and History in a New "Mathematical SETI" Model	15'	confirmed	Dr. Claudio Maccone	International Academy of Astronautics (IAA)	Italy
5	Communicating Existential Accounts of Being Human in Interstellar Messages	20'	confirmed	Prof. Douglas Vakoch	SETI Institute and California Institute of Integral Studies	United States
6	NEUROPSYCHOSOCIAL MODEL OF CONTACT. NEUROSCIENCE, CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE.	15'	confirmed	Prof. Gabriel G. De la Torre	University of Cádiz	Spain
7	The ‘Intelligence’ in SETI: historical concepts and new research	15'	withdrawn	Prof. Kathryn Denning	York University	Canada
8	Profiling Nonhuman Intelligence: An exercise in developing unbiased tools for describing other types of intelligence on Earth.	15'	confirmed	Dr. Denise Herzing	Wild Dophin Project and Florida Atlantic University	United States
9	The long view: sustaining multigenerational science	15'	withdrawn	Prof. Kathryn Denning	York University	Canada