TALK : Exploring the Universe "Searching for the Signs of Life" with Dr. Jakob van Zyl, Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at American Center, 24, Kasturba Gandhi Marg > 5pm-6pm on 17th February 2016

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Time : 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Add to Calendar 17/02/2016 17:00 17/02/2016 18:00 Asia/Kolkata TALK : Exploring the Universe "Searching for the Signs of Life" with Dr. Jakob van Zyl, Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/02/talk-exploring-universe-searching-for.html American Center, 24, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi - 110001 DD/MM/YYYY

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Event Description : Exploring the Universe "Searching for the Signs of Life" with Dr. Jakob van Zyl, Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Are we alone?
For centuries humans have looked up at the night sky and wondered if there was another world like our planet out there. The sixteenth century Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno speculated that there could be multiple worlds like our own Bul It was not until the first discovery in 1992 of two exoplanets orbiting a pulsar that we had definitive evidence of planets outside of our own solar system. In 1835 The first exoplanets orbiting a main sequence star, 51 Pegasi, were announced providing further evidence of Panets orbitingstars outside of our own solar system. Finding planets outside of our own solar system, especially those orbiting within the so­called habitable zone of their parent star raises the misung possibility that Ise may have evolved elsewhere Hecent developments In the study of our own solar system raises important questions about our model of where lie may have evolved with antalizing evidence of liquid water and organic mulecules present on some of the nouns of Jupiter and saturn This talk will detail the results in our quest for understanding where one might ook op signs die buun withinuur sular system and bewond

Dr. Jakob van ZT is the Associate Director at the el Propulsion Laboratory responsible for Project Formulation and Sirategy. He has more than 20 years of research experience in various aspects of satellite emple sensing. He received the Huns B Eng degree cum laude in electronics engineerimu frum the University of stellenbosch, Etellenbosch, South Africa In 1878, and the Ms. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the California Institute di Technology Pasadena in 1983 and 1985, respectively In van ZVI has co­authored two textbooks on the physics and Techniques of remote sensing cuntributed to another thirteen books in remote sensing and published more than a hundred papers in peer­reviewed purnals and conference proceedings. He has delivered a number di keynule addresses at major international conferences. Dr. van Zylis a Senior Faculty Associate at the California Institute of Technology, where he teaches the course Introduction to the Physics and Techniques of Hendle Sensing." He is also an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa

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