Monthly Meeting October – The Habitability of Planets, Galaxies and Universes

Finding other Earths and potentially other life forms is a major, increasingly reasonable scientific goal. Our search for habitable planets and inhabited planets is now in high gear. But what is life? And what is the best way to look for it. Are there specific places and times in our galaxy where life is more probable? I will review the general idea of habitability as it applies to planets, galaxies and universes in the multiverse scenario.

Dr Charley Lineweaver is an honorary associate professor at the Australian National University’s Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Research School of Earth Science and this year’s Burbidge Din-
ner speaker.