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Has Kepler Found Aliens?

Speaker Prof. John Lattanzio
Affiliation Monash University
Date December 16, 2016 (Friday)
Time 4:00 p.m.
Venue Room 522, 5/F, Chong Yuet Ming Physics Building, HKU

Abstract
 

The Kepler spacecraft has revolutionized the search for exo-planets, and provided aster seismology data for thousands of stars. But it probably gathered more publicity from observations of one single star. This star does not look like anything predicted - with one exception: it looks very much like predictions made for the signature of alien megastructures around a star. In this talk I review the Kepler data for this star, and look at possible explanations.  

Coffee and tea will be served 20 minutes prior to the seminar.
Anyone interested is welcome to attend.