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NATIONAL SETI MEETING

15-16 March 2016

ASTRON, Dwingeloo

ASTRON is organizing a Dutch national SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) meeting, which will take place on 15-16 March 2016 at ASTRON’s HQ in Dwingeloo. The main goal is to bring together for the first time, researchers in the Netherlands actively working in the field and also related areas. 

The conference will cover a broad range of relevant topics that will be organised along the following lines: 
        
- Radio SETI searches 
- SETI searches at other wavelengths, incl. optical and infrared 
- Cosmic Transients 
- Artefact SETI (e.g. signatures of mega-structures, Dyson spheres, etc) 
- Technology challenges for next generation SETI research
- Exoplanets & biosignatures 
- SETI and its impact on human culture e.g. art, message composition 
- Messaging to Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI)

Acknowledgements: Image above created by Danielle Futselaar in collaboration with Mike Garrett (ASTRON).