The 7th ELSI International Symposium Public Lecture

Earth-Life Science Institute(ELSI), Tokyo Institute of Technology will hold its 7th International Symposium public lecture as follows.

Outline

Date and time	Wednesday, January 8, 2019, 19:00 - 20:30 (Doors open at 18:30)
Venue	Digital Hall, West Bldg. 9, Ookayama-campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Lecturers	Yasuhito Sekine (ELSI, Tokyo Institute of Technology) "Searching for life beyond Earth in the Solar System" Linda T. Elkins-Tanton (NASA/Arizona State University) "The NASA Psyche mission: Journey to a Metal World"
Sponsor	The Earth-Life Science Institute(ELSI), Tokyo Institute of Technology
Fee	Free (Prior Registration Required: first 250 people)
Language	Japanese/English (Simultaneous Interpretation)
Registration	Registration Form

Title

Searching for life beyond Earth in the Solar System

Abstract

Is there life beyond Earth? Until now, we know that there are multiple bodies that possess(ed) oceans and atmospheres in our Solar System. The Mars rover has been running on a muddy ground, where a lake existed in ancient times. The Saturn's orbiter has analyzed seawater erupting from its icy moon. In this talk, I will introduce recent advances of our trials for searching for life in the Solar System.

Speaker

Yasuhito Sekine

Biography

Born in Tokyo in 1978. Bc. from Univ. of Tokyo in 2001, PhD. from Univ. of Tokyo in 2006. He was in Univ. of Tokyo, as an Assistant Professor (2006-2011), a Senior Lecturer (2011-2014), and an Associate Professor (2014-2018), and is now a Professor of ELSI, Tokyo Tech.

Title

The NASA Psyche mission: Journey to a Metal World

Abstract

Humankind is compelled to explore, and there are few kinds of bodies in our solar system we have not visited. We have visited rocky planets, and icy moons, and gas giants. But we have never yet visited a metal world. The NASA Psyche mission will be the first, when we reach the asteroid (16) Psyche. In this talk I will introduce what is known and what is hypothesized about Psyche, and discuss how we are progressing with this mission.

Speaker

Linda T. Elkins-Tanton

Biography

Prof. Linda T. Elkins-Tanton is the Principal Investigator of the NASA Psyche mission, Director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration and of the Interplanetary Initiative at ASU, and co-founder of Beagle Learning, a tech company training and measuring collaborative problem-solving and critical thinking. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from MIT.

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This article has been updated to correct a typographical error on December 10.