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Michael I. Yarymovych, President of the International Academy of Astronautics, greets Academy members at the annual IAA banquet, held this year in conjunction with the World Space Congress. IAA is home to the SETI Permanent Study Group, in which several SETI League members participate. SETI League photo

The IAA Laurels for Team Achievement Award went to the Space Shuttle team. Among those honored was Prof. Aaron Cohen, who was in charge of orbiter development. After retiring from NASA, he joined the faculty of Texas A&M University, where he taught Mechanical Engineering, including the ever-popular Senior Design Seminar. SETI League photo

Also honored by the IAA is Christopher C. Craft, longtime voice of Mission Control and former Director of the NASA Johnson Space Center. SETI League photo

SETI League members Allen Tough (Canada) and Claudio Maccone (Italy) share their visions for the future of SETI at the IAA Awards Banquet. SETI League photo

The SETI League congratulates SETI Institute astronomer Seth Shostak on being named a Corresponding Member of the International Academy of Astronautics. Dr. Shostak is newly elected Chairman of the IAA SETI Permanent Study Group. SETI League photo

SETI pioneer Frank D. Drake opens the 31st Review Meeting on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by delivering the annual Pesek Lecture (named in honor of the first Chairman of the IAA SETI Committee). Prof. Drake's talk is titled Promising new approaches in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. SETI League photo

Dr. Jill Tarter, who stepped down at this meeting as Chair of the SETI Permanent Study Group to assume leadership of the international Square Kilometre Array Consortium, here described various design concepts for the SKA project. SETI League photo

Between fifty and 100 participants attended the various sessions at the 31st Review Meeting on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, hosted by the World Space Congress. SETI League photo

SETI League member Claudio Maccone delivers the final report on the Lunar Farside Radio Observatory, a Cosmic Study begun six years ago by the late Prof. Jean Heidmann. SETI League photo

SETI visionary Dr. D. Kent Cullers (winner of The SETI League's first Giordano Bruno Memorial Award) outlines various alternative designs for omnidirectional sky-survey instruments. SETI League photo

Drs. Tarter and Maccone, who chaired Session IAA.9.1, New SETI Facilities Enlarge the Search, listening intently to one of the presenters. SETI League photo

Seth Shostak tried out the Rio Scale, a new analytical tool for assessing the impact of SETI detections, by using it to evaluate a number of historical and fictional SETI events. SETI League photo

Michael Harris presented a thought-provoking paper on the use of antimatter as a power source by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, and how their propulsion exhaust might be detected by SETI investigators. SETI League photo

SETI@home chief scientist Dan Werthimer discussed the various U.C. Berkeley microwave and optical SETI initiatives, including SERENDIP, SEVENDIP, SETI@home, Spock, and Astropulse, in his paper "Searching for ET with help from four million volunteers". SETI League photo

On behalf of his fellow SGS delegates, student Manan Tuli, a participant in the Space Generation Summit at the World Space Congress, delivers the report "SETI and Astrobiology: Contact -- a youth perspective". SETI League photo

SETI Institute psychologist Doug Vakoch, who also co-chaired Session IAA.9.2, Who Will Speak for Earth? What Will They Say? When Will They Say It? presented his own paper about communicating concepts about altrusim in interstellar messages. SETI League photo

John D. Rummel, who co-chaired Session IAA.9.2 along with Dr. Vakoch, was inducted into the International Academy of Astronautics at this year's IAA Awards Banquet. SETI League photo

Edna Devore introduced The SETI Institute's new Voyages Through Time integrated curriculum package, in her paper "Educating the next generation of SETI scientists." SETI League photo

Prof. Allen Tough, who chairs The SETI League's Strategic Planning Committee, introduced some strategic planning of his own in his paper "Communicating with ETI: Five Steps Needed." SETI League photo

US diplomat Michael Michaud, who has been quite active in the development of international SETI verification and reply protocols, presented "Ten Decisions That Could Shake The World," emphasizing the need for planning in advance of a SETI detection. SETI League photo

James N. Gardner of the Conference of World Regions, Taskforce on Science and Technology, presented a report on "Artificial exo-society modeling: a new tool for SETI research." SETI League photo

Dr. Laurence Doyle is applying information theory to dolphin whistle vocalizations, in order to determine their linguistic complexity, through their order of entropy. He feels this technique has application to SETI message analysis. SETI League photo

From the Centre for Computer Analysis of Language and Speech at the University of Leeds, graduate student John Elliott presents "The filtration of inter-galactic objets trouves and the identification of the lingua ex machina heirarchy." His objective is to determine what category a given signal fits in: language, music, or noise. SETI League photo

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