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SUMMARY:Sara Seager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DESCRIPTION:\nProfessor Sara Seager\nMIT\nFrom Lab to Cosmos: Three Frontiers in the Search for Signs of Life Beyond Earth\n \nJoin us LIVE in the classroom and online for this lecture. Professor Seager will join us online. This event will be live-streamed on YouTube ( https://youtube.com/live/2wQkoX7rS3A?feature=share ) and as a webinar on Zoom ( https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87470167517?pwd=WI5pvwsdAreL0sbRl16OVusNgz2u1L.1 ), but we’d love to see you in person in the classroom at the Westport Observatory. As always, the talk will be posted to the Westport Astronomical Society’s YouTube channel afterwards.\nProfessor Sara Seager is a Professor of Physics, Planetary Science, and Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she holds the Class of 1941 Professor Chair. Her ground-breaking research ranges from the foundation of exoplanet atmospheres to innovative theories about life on other worlds to development of novel space mission concepts. She was the Deputy Science Director of the NASA mission TESS; PI of the JPL-MIT CubeSat ASTERIA; and has had numerous leadership roles in concept development for space-based direct imaging missions to discover another Earth. She currently leads the Morning Star Missions to Venus to search for signs of life or life itself in the Venus clouds.\nHer many accolades include a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics, and appointment as an Officer of the Order of Canada. She is the author of “The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir”.\n*************\nThe object featured in the November Cal’s Corner will be of particular interest to golfers.\n \n\n \n \n
URL:https://was-ct.org/events/sara-seager-2025/
CATEGORIES:WAS Free Lecture Series
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