Life in the Universe

Loeb, Abraham (Avi)

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Life in the Universe

dc.contributor.author	Loeb, Abraham (Avi)
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Physics	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Harvard University. Dept. of Physics	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2018-03-21T16:46:28Z
dc.date.available	2018-03-21T16:46:28Z
dc.date.issued	2018-03-12
dc.description	Presented on March 12, 2018 at 3:00 p.m. in the Marcus Nanotechnology Building, room 1116.	en_US
dc.description	Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. He serves as Chair of the Department of Astronomy, Founding Director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative and Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC). Loeb published 4 books and nearly 600 papers (with an h-index of 93) on a wide range of topics, including black holes, the first stars, the search for extraterrestrial life and the future of the Universe.	en_US
dc.description	Runtime: 63:59 minutes	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Is life most likely to emerge at the present cosmic time around a star like the Sun? Loeb will review the habitability throughout cosmic history from the birth of the first stars 30 million years after the Big Bang to the death of the last stars in ten trillion years. Unless habitability around low mass stars is suppressed, life is most likely to emerge near stars with a tenth of a solar mass ten trillion years from now. Forthcoming searches for bio-signatures in the atmospheres of transiting Earth-mass planets around nearby low-mass stars will determine whether present-day life is indeed premature from a cosmic perspective.	en_US
dc.format.extent	63:59 minutes
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/59430
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Physics Colloquium
dc.subject	Extraterrestrial life	en_US
dc.subject	Habitability	en_US
dc.title	Life in the Universe	en_US
dc.type	Moving Image
dc.type.genre	Lecture
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