Media release
From: Australian Science Media Centre
*Full recording now available - see link below*
- The briefing will discuss the following issues:
- Where and how do we start the hunt?
- Australia's role in the project
- Is intelligent alien life inevitable?
- How likely is it that we will find it in an infinite universe?
- What do we do if we find intelligent life?
- What does all this mean for Australian science?
SPEAKERS:
- Professor Matthew Bailes is an Australian Laureate Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology
- Professor Naomi McClure-Griffiths is from the Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the Australian National UniversityANU
- Dr Alan Duffy is a Research Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology
ALSO AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS AFTER 14:00 AEST
- Professor Paul Davies is Director of The Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University
DATE: Wed 12 Aug
START TIME: 11:15am AEST
DURATION: 47 mins
VENUE: The Ferguson Room, National Library of Australia, Canberra (also available online)
For further information, please contact the AusSMC on 08 7120 8666 or email info@smc.org.au.
NB: The AusSMC generally runs two different types of media briefings:
NEWS BRIEFINGS – Where new research or data will be released as part of the briefing
BACKGROUND BRIEFINGS – Where experts discuss an issue which is in the news or an issue we consider newsworthy, but no new research or data is being released