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SETI Post-Detection
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Post-Detection Taskgroup has been established, to replace the Post-Detection Science and Technology Subcommittee which existed under the former IAA SETI Committee.
Chair: Paul Davies, USA
Deputy Chair: Carol Oliver, Australia
Terms of Reference:
- The SETI Post-Detection Taskgroup exists under the authority of the SETI Permanent Study Group (SPSG) and will report to it annually.
- The purpose of the taskgroup is to prepare, reflect on, manage, advise, and consult in preparation for and upon the discovery of a putative signal of extraterrestrial intelligent (ETI) origin.
- The Taskgroup is empowered to call upon other consultants for specialist help.
- The membership of the Taskgroup shall be interdisciplinary and international.
- Membership of the Taskgroup will be as deemed necessary by the chair.
- The chair of the Taskgroup will be appointed by the SPSG, and the chair may appoint one or more deputies as he/she sees fit.
- The Taskgroup aims the raise the profile of SETI.
Members of the Post-Detection Taskgroup (February 2008)
| Ivan Almar | Konkoly Observatory, Hungary |
| Stephen Baxter | British Interplanetary Society, UK |
| Paul Davies | Arizona State University, USA |
| Kathryn Denning | York University, Canada |
| John Elliott | Leeds University, UK |
| Claudio Maccone | International Academy of Astronautics, Italy |
| Karl Menten | Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie, Germany |
| Ian Morison | Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK |
| Ray Norris | CSIRO Australia Telescope, Australia |
| Carol Oliver | Australian Centre for Astrobiology, Australia |
| Tom Pierson | SETI Institute, USA |
| Margaret Race | SETI Institute, USA |
| V. Radhakrishnan | Raman Research Institute, India |
| Martin Rees | Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK |
| Seth Shostak | SETI Institute, USA |
| H. Paul Shuch | SETI League, USA |
| William Stoeger | Vatican Observatory, USA |
| Jill Tarter | SETI Institute, USA |
| Doug Vakoch | SETI Institute, USA |
| Lori Walton | Tigerstar Geoscience, Canada |
| Dan Werthimer | University of California at Berkeley, USA |
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