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Next Event - February 5, 2021

The Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Are We the Sharpest Cookies in the Jar?

Abraham (Avi) Loeb

Harvard University

Past Event - January 22, 2021

Quantifying COVID-19 Pandemic Spread

Metrics, Mathematics, and Models to Guide Effective Responses

Alison Hill

Johns Hopkins University

Past Event - January 8, 2021

The Year Nanomaterials Saved the World from COVID-19

Nanoparticle-Enabled Delivery of Nucleic Acid Medicines

Michael J. Sailor

UC-San Diego

Past Event - December 18, 2020

Quantum Chemistry at Ultracold Temperatures

Building Single Molecules Atom by Atom

Kang-Kuen Ni

Harvard University

Past Event - December 4, 2020

The TRIPLE Project

A System to Explore Europa’s Icy Oceans

Christoph Waldmann

University of Bremen

Past Event - November 6, 2020

Is There a Crisis in Cosmology?

A New Debate Over the Value of H0

Wendy Freedman

University of Chicago

Past Event - September 25, 2020

COVID-19 Treatments and Trials

Treatments to End a Pandemic

Davey Smith

University of California at San Diego

Past Event - May 15, 2020

The Event Horizon Telescope

First Ever Images of a Black Hole

Sheperd S. Doeleman

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Past Event - April 29, 2019

A Planet Definition Debate

 

Alan Stern (PI New Horizons Mission) & Ron Ekers (Past President IAU)

Past Event - June 15, 2018

Cassini’s Spectacular Saturn

How it Revolutionized Our View of Planets, Moons, and the Possibilities for Life in the Universe

Speakers from NASA, Cornell, & JPL
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February 5, 2021 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,434
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Are We the Sharpest Cookies in the Jar?

Abraham (Avi) Loeb
Baird Professor of Science
Director, Institute for Theory and Computation, Center for Astrophysics
Harvard University
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