Lisa Kaltenegger is the director of the Carl Sagan Institute to Search for Life in the Cosmos and an Associate Professor in Astronomy at Cornell University. Dr. Kaltenegger is a pioneer and world-leading expert in modeling potential habitable worlds and their detectable spectral fingerprint. Her research interests include rocky planets circling other stars, with a focus on potentially Earth-like exoplanets in the Habitable Zone. Dr. Kaltenegger serves, among other appointments, on the National Science Foundation’s Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee (AAAC) and on NASA senior review of operating missions. She is a Science Team Member of NASA’s TESS Mission as well as the NIRISS instrument on JWST.
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Alien Earths
The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 2pm
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Event Overview
Celebrating the publication of her new book Alien Earths, Lisa Kaltenegger joins host Chris Wofford to spotlight groundbreaking research at Cornell University into exoplanets and the search for life in the cosmos. As Director of the Carl Sagan Institute, Dr. Kaltenegger leads a team of astronomers, engineers, and scientists who tirelessly strive to find a definitive answer to the question “Are we alone?”
About the book, published by Macmillan:
For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate. But once you look for life elsewhere, you realize it is not so simple. How do you find it over cosmic distances? What actually is life?
As founding director of Cornell University's Carl Sagan Institute, astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger has built a team of tenacious scientists from many disciplines to create a specialized toolkit to find life on faraway worlds. In her book Alien Earths, she demonstrates how we can use our homeworld as a Rosetta Stone, creatively analyzing Earth's history and its astonishing biosphere to inform this search.
"In Alien Earths, Lisa Kaltenegger, a skillful educator, offers first-hand access to her expertise on the search for planets in the universe, and the life they may contain. Along the way, Lisa's breezy narrative style invites you to experience with her the challenges and joys of being a scientist on the frontier of discovery."
—Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History
"If you’ve ever wondered if we’re alone in the cosmos — and Dr. Kaltenegger is certain you have — start with Alien Earths. With her combined degrees in astronomy and engineering, she presents a primer on the geology, physics, chemistry, biology, and ultimately mathematics of places just like Earth — which she sets about seeking every (Earth) day. She’ll show you; the answer is in the sky, our window on the cosmos. Read on!"
—Bill Nye, CEO, The Planetary Society (and former student of Carl Sagan)
About the book, published by Macmillan:
For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate. But once you look for life elsewhere, you realize it is not so simple. How do you find it over cosmic distances? What actually is life?
As founding director of Cornell University's Carl Sagan Institute, astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger has built a team of tenacious scientists from many disciplines to create a specialized toolkit to find life on faraway worlds. In her book Alien Earths, she demonstrates how we can use our homeworld as a Rosetta Stone, creatively analyzing Earth's history and its astonishing biosphere to inform this search.
"In Alien Earths, Lisa Kaltenegger, a skillful educator, offers first-hand access to her expertise on the search for planets in the universe, and the life they may contain. Along the way, Lisa's breezy narrative style invites you to experience with her the challenges and joys of being a scientist on the frontier of discovery."
—Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History
"If you’ve ever wondered if we’re alone in the cosmos — and Dr. Kaltenegger is certain you have — start with Alien Earths. With her combined degrees in astronomy and engineering, she presents a primer on the geology, physics, chemistry, biology, and ultimately mathematics of places just like Earth — which she sets about seeking every (Earth) day. She’ll show you; the answer is in the sky, our window on the cosmos. Read on!"
—Bill Nye, CEO, The Planetary Society (and former student of Carl Sagan)
What You'll Learn
- How a team of diverse scientists at the Carl Sagan Institute are working together to find life on distant worlds
- Methodologies for studying exoplanets and factors for determining if a planet or a moon can host life
- What we might do as humans if we indeed discover new life in the cosmos
Speaker
Lisa Kaltenegger
Associate Professor and Director of the Carl Sagan Institute
Cornell University
Associate Professor and Director of the Carl Sagan Institute, Cornell University
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2024-04-16 14:002024-04-16 15:00Alien EarthsAdd to CalendarCelebrating the publication of her new book Alien Earths, Lisa Kaltenegger joins host Chris Wofford to spotlight groundbreaking research at Cornell University into exoplanets and the search for life in the cosmos. As Director of the Carl Sagan Institute, Dr. Kaltenegger leads a team of astronomers, engineers, and scientists who tirelessly strive to find a definitive answer to the question “Are we alone?”
About the book, published by Macmillan:
For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate. But once you look for life elsewhere, you realize it is not so simple. How do you find it over cosmic distances? What actually is life?
As founding director of Cornell University's Carl Sagan Institute, astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger has built a team of tenacious scientists from many disciplines to create a specialized toolkit to find life on faraway worlds. In her book Alien Earths, she demonstrates how we can use our homeworld as a Rosetta Stone, creatively analyzing Earth's history and its astonishing biosphere to inform this search.
"In Alien Earths, Lisa Kaltenegger, a skillful educator, offers first-hand access to her expertise on the search for planets in the universe, and the life they may contain. Along the way, Lisa's breezy narrative style invites you to experience with her the challenges and joys of being a scientist on the frontier of discovery."
—Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History
"If you’ve ever wondered if we’re alone in the cosmos — and Dr. Kaltenegger is certain you have — start with Alien Earths. With her combined degrees in astronomy and engineering, she presents a primer on the geology, physics, chemistry, biology, and ultimately mathematics of places just like Earth — which she sets about seeking every (Earth) day. She’ll show you; the answer is in the sky, our window on the cosmos. Read on!"
—Bill Nye, CEO, The Planetary Society (and former student of Carl Sagan)https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K041624/primaryAmerica/New_YorkeCornell
About the book, published by Macmillan:
For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate. But once you look for life elsewhere, you realize it is not so simple. How do you find it over cosmic distances? What actually is life?
As founding director of Cornell University's Carl Sagan Institute, astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger has built a team of tenacious scientists from many disciplines to create a specialized toolkit to find life on faraway worlds. In her book Alien Earths, she demonstrates how we can use our homeworld as a Rosetta Stone, creatively analyzing Earth's history and its astonishing biosphere to inform this search.
"In Alien Earths, Lisa Kaltenegger, a skillful educator, offers first-hand access to her expertise on the search for planets in the universe, and the life they may contain. Along the way, Lisa's breezy narrative style invites you to experience with her the challenges and joys of being a scientist on the frontier of discovery."
—Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History
"If you’ve ever wondered if we’re alone in the cosmos — and Dr. Kaltenegger is certain you have — start with Alien Earths. With her combined degrees in astronomy and engineering, she presents a primer on the geology, physics, chemistry, biology, and ultimately mathematics of places just like Earth — which she sets about seeking every (Earth) day. She’ll show you; the answer is in the sky, our window on the cosmos. Read on!"
—Bill Nye, CEO, The Planetary Society (and former student of Carl Sagan)https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K041624/primaryAmerica/New_YorkeCornell
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