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"Life in the Universe and the Breakthrough Initiatives"

Guest Presenter: Simon "Pete" Worden, (Brig. Gen., USAF, Ret., PhD) Chairman of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation former Director of NASA's Ames Research Center

Los Angeles Chapter Friday, November 20, 2015 Networking & Breakfast: 7:00-7:30am Meeting: 7:30-9:00am (webstreamed live)

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The presentation will be available live via web streaming. Please register to attend via the web by 7pm PST Wednesday November 18. "Life in the Universe and

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Simon "Pete" Worden, (Brig. Gen., USAF, A&D Forum Membership Rates to Ret., PhD) Increase on January 1, 2016 Chairman of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation Renew or Join Before Then to former Director of NASA's Ames Research Center Save Money! Who are we? A mature civilization, like a mature On January 1, the 12 month A&D Forum Individual Membership rate will rise to $400, individual, must ask itself this question. Is humanity with renewal at $350. defined by its divisions, its problems, its passing needs and trends? Or do we have a shared face, turned However, if you join or renew before that outward to the Universe? In 1990, Voyager 1 swiveled date, you can get the current rate of $300 its camera and captured the 'Pale Blue Dot' - an image and $250 respectively. of Earth from six billion kilometers away. It was a mirror held up to our planet - home of water, life, and minds. A&D Forum members can attend all chapter meetings (of any chapter) for free, receive a A reminder that we share something precious and rare. monthly Newsletter, have first call on tours, But how rare, exactly? The only life? The only minds? and can access the website member areas, such as the Calendar, the over 150 chapter On July 20, 2015 at the Royal Society in London, UK, presentation recordings, articles, Resource Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking launched the List, Member Directory, and What's New pages, among other benefits. Breakthrough Initiatives. The first initiative is 'Breakthrough Listen' and represents the largest ever Click here to join the A&D Forum. To scientific research program aimed at finding evidence renew, log onto the A&D Forum website and of civilizations beyond Earth. The scope and power of click on the Join/Renew Membership tab. the search are on an unprecedented scale: The program includes a survey of the 1,000,000 closest November 20, 2015 Meeting stars to Earth. It scans the center of our galaxy and the  Please check-in on arrival. entire galactic plane. Beyond the Milky Way, it listens  Attire is business casual. for messages from the 100 closest galaxies to ours.  Park in the building or for free Listen combines these instruments with innovative across the street at the Century City Mall software and data analysis techniques. Breakthrough  A light continental breakfast will be Listen will span 10 years and commit a total of available starting at 7:00AM. $100,000,000.  Bring a business card - they will be duplicated and everyone will get a The second initiative is 'Breakthrough Message'. If we copy of all attendee's cards. or others succeed in discovering another civilization,  Flyers and other material may be what - if anything - should we say to them? The placed on the receptionist's shelf for initiative aims to encourage debate about how and pickup before and after the what to communicate with possible intelligent beings meeting. Please do not distribute anything during the meeting. beyond earth. It takes the form of an international  Introductions will be minimal - your competition to create messages that could be read by name, company, industry, and a 5 an advanced civilization. The message must be in word "elevator speech". We digital format, and should be representative of encourage you to be creative! humanity and planet Earth.  You are welcome to stay around and network after the meeting. The pool of prizes for Breakthrough Message totals Feel free to pass this invitation on to $1,000,000. others you think would be interested.

Event Info Guest Presenter Friday, November 20, 2015 Networking & Breakfast: 7:00-7:30am Simon Peter "Pete" Meeting: 7:30-9:00am Worden, (Brig. Gen., Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Mitchell USAF, Ret., PhD) (born 1900 Avenue of the Stars, 7th Floor 1949, in Michigan, USA) Los Angeles, California is the Chairman of the

LA Chapter Founder Sponsors Breakthrough Prize Foundation and Executive Director of the foundation's 'Breakthroug h Initiatives'. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Astronomy from the University of Arizona.

Prior to joining the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, Dr. Worden was Director of NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California, USA until his retirement on March 31, 2015. He has held several positions in the United States Air Force and was research professor of astronomy at the University of

LA Chapter Sponsors Arizona, Tucson, USA. He is a recognized expert on space and science issues - both civil and military, and has been a leader in building partnerships between governments and the private sector internationally.

Dr. Worden has authored or co-authored more than 150 scientific papers in astrophysics space sciences, and strategic studies. He served as a scientific co- investigator for three NASA space science missions - most recently the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph launched in 2013 to study the Sun.

He received the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal for the 1994 Clementine Mission to the moon. Dr. Worden was named the 2009 Federal Laboratory Consortium Laboratory Director of the Year and is the recipient of the 2010 Arthur C. Clarke Innovator's Award.

On July 20, 2015 at the Royal Society in London, UK, Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking launched the Breakthrough Initiatives. At the press conference Pete Worden was introduced as the Chairman for the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. In this capacity he leads the Breakthrough Initiatives.

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