Breakthrough Listen utilizes the 100-meter Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia in the search for signals from intelligent life beyond Earth. In this interview with Green Bank researcher Ryan Lync...
We took a GoPro Omni 360 VR camera up to the top of the Green Bank Telescope, the largest steerable radio telescope in the world. Join us on Part 1 of our journey, as we check out the telescope whe...
Professor Michael Garrett is director of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics in Manchester, England. Berkeley SETI Research Center sat down with him in May 2017 to talk about his research, inc...
Tabby's Star (aka the WTF Star, Boyajian's Star, the Most Mysterious Star in the Universe) is entering another of its irregular dips. Here at UC Berkeley SETI we're lucky to have Prof. Jason Wright...
Take a tour of the Breakthrough Listen instrument at the Green Bank Observatory with Berkeley SETI Research Center engineer Dave MacMahon, and hear GBO Director Karen O'Neil talk about a novel solu...
The Green Bank Observatory has a long history of involvement in the search for signs of intelligent life beyond Earth. From pioneering experiments by Frank Drake almost 60 years ago, to the unparal...
Using a mix of new interviews and archival audio, we explore the beginnings of SETI and the part that the Green Bank Observatory played in launching the search. From Project Ozma in 1960, to Breakt...
Breakthrough Listen utilizes the 100-meter Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia in the search for signals from intelligent life beyond Earth. But the GBT also investigates a range of other astroph...
Berkeley SETI Research Center invites applications from current sophomore, junior, and senior undergraduates across the USA for 10-week paid internships in summer 2017. For more information about h...
BSRC Director Dr. Andrew Siemion is joined by Louisiana State Professor Tabetha Boyajian and Penn State Professor Jason Wright for a live chat from the Green Bank observatory about their observatio...
David MacMahon continues his tour of the hardware that powers Berkeley SETI and Breakthrough Listen. See the first episode at https://youtu.be/IOJ6-_gIyP0
See some of the highlights of work at Berkeley SETI Research Center. Hear about SETI@home and the Breakthrough Listen optical and radio searches, visit the Green Bank Telescope, see our computing h...
David MacMahon is a research astronomer with Berkeley SETI Research Center. Dave works on several projects at BSRC, including Breakthrough Listen, designing many of the computer systems we use to p...
The Astronomy Department at UC Berkeley opened its doors for the annual Cal Day open house on April 16, 2016. There were open labs, an inflatable planetarium, and demonstrations and experiments to ...
Kyle Archer started with SETI as an intern in June 2015. Although he'd run the SETI@home screensaver, Kyle started at UC Berkeley in mechanical engineering, and didn't previously have experience wi...
We're running a crowdfunding campaign to buy digital hardware for undergrads in our laboratory to learn the techniques of radio astronomy. Help us train the next generation of scientists and engine...
Kevin Luong joined Berkeley SETI Research Center as an intern in summer 2015. Kevin worked with David Anderson to revise the NTPCKR system to run on cloud computing servers. There are still a few k...
Zuhra Abdurashidova is one of the newest staff members at Berkeley SETI Research Center. Joining us in June 2015, Zuhra graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in mechanical engineering. Zuhra is ...
Lauren Weiss is a graduate student at Berkeley SETI Research Center, who studies exoplanets. Her research has recently determined a theoretical upper limit for how big a planet can be before it bec...
Jack Hickish is a visiting scholar from Cambridge University, working with the Berkeley SETI Research Center and Space Sciences Laboratory. Jack has also been involved with CASPER, a coalition of s...
David Anderson is co-creator of SETI@home, and the Director of BOINC, the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing. David is a computer scientist by trade, and mathematician by training w...
Matt Lebofsky is one of the behind-the-scenes wizards who keep the work units flowing to SETI@home. Not an astronomer, Matt joined Berkeley SETI while a temp, after he hacked his work computer. He ...
We put out the call to the SETI community for questions for our scientists and engineers. In this seventh installment, visiting scholar Jack Hickish talks about how the rotation of the earth - and ...
We put out the call to the SETI community for questions for our scientists and engineers. In this sixth installment, systems administrator and software developer Matt Lebofsky talks about how frequ...
We put out the call to the SETI community for questions for our scientists and engineers. In this fifth installment, Berkeley SETI Research Center Director Andrew Siemion talks about how much much ...
We put out the call to the SETI community for questions for our scientists and engineers. In this fourth installment, Berkeley SETI Research Center Director Andrew Siemion fills our followers in on...
We put out the call to the SETI community for questions for our scientists and engineers. In this third installment, Berkley SETI Research Center Director Andrew Siemion talks about how much of the...
We put out the call to the SETI community for questions for our scientists and engineers. In this second installment, chief scientist Dan Werthimer talks about how he'll react if we ever discover a...
We put out the call to the SETI community for questions for our scientists and engineers. In this first installment, systems administrator and software developer Matt Lebofsky discusses the current...
Eric, a project scientist at Berkeley SETI talks about what got him into SETI, why the aliens people are talking about always seem to look like the ones in Hollywood, and the plan for what happens ...
BSRC Director Andrew Siemion talks about the challenges of funding SETI research, and the goal of raising capital to provide a steady stream of grants in future through http://firsst.org/
Professor Shelley Wright is an astrophysicist, recently at the University of Toronto, and now faculty at the University of California, San Diego. Here she talks about her research into infrared and...
Dr. Lucianne Walkowicz is an astronomer at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. From 2008 - 2011 she was a Kepler Fellow in the study of planet-bearing stars at UC Berkeley, and from 2011 - 2014 she w...
Jeff Cobb is the programmer who helped design SETI@home and keeps the system up and running. Coming from the private sector, a love of space and science lead him to Berkeley SETI.
Super cool animation that shows the flow of data through the SETI@home network. This is a visual representation of 45 seconds of recent real data, at real send/receive rates. For a version using da...