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| Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University.
Loeb published 4 books and over 700 papers (with an h-index of 97) on a wide range of topics, including black holes, the first stars, the search for extraterrestrial life and the future of the Universe. He serves as Chair of Harvard's
Department of Astronomy, Founding Director of
Harvard's Black
Hole Initiative and Director of
the Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC)
within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
. He
also chairs the Advisory Committee for
the Breakthrough
Starshot Initiative, serves as the Science Theory Director for
all Initiatives of
the Breakthrough Prize
Foundation, as well as Chair of
the Board
on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies.
He is an
elected fellow of
the American
Academy of Arts & Sciences,
the American
Physical Society, and
the International Academy of
Astronautics. In 2012, TIME magazine
selected Loeb as one of the 25 most influential people in space. Click here for Loeb's commentaries on innovation and diversity.
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IN THE NEWS:
*"Life in the Cosmos", Closer to Truth (October 16, 2018).
*"Comet-like Objects Could be Spreading Life", Science magazine (October 15, 2018).
*"Galactic Panspermia", Universe Today (October 13, 2018).
*"Was the Universe Finely Tuned?", Closer to Truth (October 8, 2018).
*"Potential Trouble for Life on Icy Moons", Sky & Telescope (October 4, 2018).
*"Risks for Life Near Quasars", Forbes Magazine (September 28, 2018).
*"Search for Aliens", Grapevine (September 28, 2018).
*"How to Search for Dead Cosmic Civilizations", Scientific American (September 27, 2018).
*"Extended Interview on Alien Civilizations", Event Horizon (September 24, 2018).
*"Starshot in Search for Extrasolar Life", The Harvard Crimson (September 24, 2018).
*"More Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts", NBC News (September 24, 2018).
*"Tweet about Public Lecture", Yuri Milner (September 22, 2018).
*"Public Lecture on the "Search for Primitive and Intelligent Life on Other Planets", Harvard-Smithsonian CfA (September 20, 2018).
*"Big-Bang or Bounce", Universe Today (September 20, 2018).
*"A New Test for the Leading Big Bang Theory", Quanta Magazine (September 11, 2018).
*"FRB 121102: New Bursts From Older Data", Centauri Dreams (September 11, 2018).
*"Philosophy and Science", Scientific American (September 10, 2018).
*"Testing Free Will With AI", Q&A Podcast with John Farrell, FQXi (August 30, 2018).
*"The Power of Anomalies", Scientific American (August 28, 2018).
*"Why Alien Civilizations May Be Moving To Galaxy
Clusters", Event Horizon, YouTube (August 26, 2018).
*"Life Goes On: How Cosmic Doomsday Might Not be the End", Nature, Scientific Reports
(August 23, 2018).
*"Are We Alone?", CNET
(August 22, 2018).
*"Starshot", Paul Gilster, Centauri Dreams
(August 17, 2018).
*"No Risk from Interstellar War", Forbes magazine
(August 16, 2018).
*"Exoplanet Revolution", The Daily Galaxy
(August 15, 2018).
*"Q&A Interview on Dwarf Stars and Ice Shells", by John Michael Godier, Event Horizon
(August 13, 2018).
*"Q&A Interview on Exciting Frontiers in Astrophysics", by Fraser Cain, Universe Today
(August 13, 2018).
*"Our Dialogue with Nature", Scientific American
(August 10, 2018).
*"Science is an Infinite-Sum Game", Scientific American
(July 31, 2018).
*"Where do ideas come from?", Scientific American
(July 23, 2018).
*"Did the Dark Matter Have a Chilling Effect on the Early Universe?", Physics World
(July 10, 2018).
*"Future of gravitational wave astrophysics", Banquet lecture of Nobel Laureate Rai Weiss, Harvard
(posted on July 9, 2018).
*"Future of travel to interstellar space", Keynote Address to the Techniche 2018 Conference, India
(July 3, 2018).
*"The first stars may shed light on dark matter", Physics
(July 2, 2018).
*"The tools humanity will need for living in the year 1 trillion", Physics.org
(June 26, 2018).
*"Finding fuel for our frigid cosmic future", Scientific American
(June 26, 2018).
*"Journey to Proxima Centauri b", Grapevine
(June 25, 2018).
*"On Galactic Migration", Centauri Dreams
(June 22, 2018).
*"Cosmic Engineering and the Movement of Stars", Centauri Dreams
(June 21, 2018).
*"New videos of Q&A interviews", Closer To Truth
(June 10, 2018).
*"Testing Philosophy Through Experiments", Scientific American
(June 7, 2018).
*"Breakthrough Starshot Update", Universe Today
(June 7, 2018).
*"Are There Enough Chemicals on Icy Worlds to Support Life?", Universe Today
(June 6, 2018).
*"New Light on Dark Matter", Harvard Gazette
(May 30, 2018).
*"Middlewight Black Holes", Science Magazine
(May 30, 2018).
*Keck Observatory Distinguished Public
Lecture on "Habitability of the Universe",
Hawaii (July 6, 2017).
*"Podcast on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life", Grapevine (May 22, 2018).
*"Discovery of an Interstellar Rock Near Jupiter", Salon (May 22, 2018).
*"Maybe We Could See a Singularity After All", Scientific American (May 22, 2018).
*"Sizes of Black Holes Throughout the Universe", AAS Nova (May 9, 2018).
*"Breakthrough Listen", Grapevine (May 9, 2018).
*"Love Poem for My Wife's Birthday (in hebrew)" (May 6, 2018).
*"Hawking's Last Paper", Newsweek (May 2, 2018).
*"Exoplanets: Optimizing the Target List", Centauri Dreams (May 1, 2018).
*"Where Should We Look for Life?", AAS Nova (April
25, 2018).
*"Escape from Proxima b", Scientific American (April
16, 2018).
*"Making Academia Matter Again", Project Syndicate (April
16, 2018).
*"To Infinity and Beyond: Avi Loeb on Finding Aliens and A New Earth",
Podcast of an interview with Benyamin Cohen, From the Grapevine (April
10, 2018).
*"Is Humanity Unusual in the Cosmos?", NPR (April 2, 2018).
*"The First Suns", der Spiegel, Germany (March 2018).
*"My Academic DNA" (March 30, 2018).
*"Celebration of 600th paper", ITC (March 30, 2018).
*"The Star of the Seder", cover story in La'Isha, Israel (March 26, 2018).
*"Bloxham to Step Down as Dean of Science", Harvard Crimson (March 22, 2018).
*"Remembrance of Stephen Hawking at the Black Hole Initiative", Harvard Crimson (March 21, 2018).
*"Comments About Hawking", Newsweek (March 17, 2018).
*"Would Alien Civilizations be Rich?", Newsweek (March 15, 2018).
*"He Cast Light Into Darkest Recesses of the Cosmos", Boston Globe (March 15, 2018).
*"Astronomers and Physicists Remember Stephen Hawking", Popular
Mechanics (March 14, 2018).
*"Stephen Hawking and the Nobel Prize", Associated Press (March 14, 2018).
*"TV interview about Stephen Hawking", Associated Press (March 14, 2018).
*"For E.T. Civilizations, Location Could be Everything", Scientific American (March 13, 2018).
*"Discovery of the First Stars", CNN (March 6, 2018).
*"Do Aliens Exist?", Newsweek - cover story (March 1, 2018).
*"First Stars", Science News (Feb 28, 2018).
*Twitter card, Associated Press (Feb 28, 2018).
*"Black Hole Bursts Turn Mini-Neptunes to Super-Earths", Space.com (Feb 27, 2018).
*"Conversation with Nobel Laureate, Rai Weiss", (Feb 15, 2018).
*"Renewing the Contract of Academia with Society" (Feb 14, 2018).
*"Origins of Life and `Oumuamua", Gizmodo (Feb 8, 2018).
*"Interstellar asteroids", Newsweek (Feb 2, 2018).
*"ITC Luncheon", The Harvard Crimson (Feb 1, 2018).
*"Starshot", Forbes (Jan 31, 2018).
*"Solar Flares May Seed Life", New Scientist (Jan 19, 2018).
*"Are Alien Civilizations Technologically Advanced?", Scientific American (Jan 8, 2018).
*"Search for Alien Life", Grapevine (Jan 3, 2018).
*"Are we Alone in the Universe?- Part II", Radio interview (Jan 1, 2018).
*"Are we Alone in the Universe?- Part I", Radio interview (Dec 29, 2017).
*"Panspermia", Newsweek (Dec 21, 2017).
*"The Search for Life", DailyPlanet, Discovery Channel, Canada (Dec 14, 2017).
*"Asteroid or alien?", CNN interview (Dec 12, 2017).
*'Oumuamua, Radio interview (Dec 12, 2017).
*"Mysterious Interstellar Object", The Atlantic (Dec 11, 2017).
*"The Case for Cosmic Modesty", TEDx Harvard College (Dec 5, 2017).
*"Subsurface Life on Icy Worlds", Universe Today (Dec 3, 2017).
*"Breakthrough Prize Ceremony", Palo Alto (Dec 3, 2017).
*"The first Black Holes Mergers in the Infant Universe",
Physics.Org (Nov 30, 2017).
*"Breakthrough Starshot", Harvard Crimson (Nov 2, 2017).
*"Future Solar Storms Could Cause Devastating Damage", Scientific American
(Oct 18, 2017).
*Our volnurability to solar flares will increase in the future",
Radio interview (Oct 17, 2017).
*"Collision of neutron stars produces gold", Mashable
(Oct 14, 2017).
*"Stargazing", TEDx Harvard College (Oct 14, 2017).
*"Mass of the Milky Way from Hypervelocity Stars", Universe Today
(Oct 4, 2017).
*"Fast Radio Bursts Every Second" (Sep 21, 2017).
*"The Hunt for Alien Life", Australian Broadcasting Corporation (August 29, 2017).
*Q&A Podcast with Astronomy Magazine
(August 14, 2017).
*"Breakthrough Starshot successfully launches world's smallest spacecraft", The Guardian
(July 28, 2017).
*"To Infinity and Beyond", From the Grapevine
(August 2, 2017).
*"Starshot Updates", Q & A ExoLife interview for the PLANETS Foundation
(July 26, 2017).
*"Tides Boost the Prospects for Life", Gizmodo
(July 20, 2017).
*"The Resilience of Life to Astrophysical Catastrophes", Science magazine;
Gizmodo;
Washington Post;
BBC Interview (at the 26 minute mark);
The Atlantic (July 14, 2017).
*"More to Life than the Habitable Zone", Scientific American
(July 19, 2017).
*The Starshot Initiative, Popular Moechanics
(July 11, 2017).
*Hawaii newspaper reports on Keck Observatory public lecture
(July 9, 2017).
*KBIG Radio interview about "Habitability of Our Universe", Hawaii
(July 7, 2017).
*"Cosmic Modesty in a Fecund Universe", Centauri Dreams (June 30, 2017).
*"The Case for Cosmic Modesty", Scientific American (June 28, 2017).
*"All Eyes on Proximan Centauri b", PNAS (June 27, 2017).
*"Transfer of Life Among the TRAPPIST-1 Planets", Astronomy magazine (June 14, 2017).
*"Is the life around the nearest stars?", Red Dots (June 13, 2017).
*"Supermassive Black Holes May Sterilize Nearby Planets", Scientific American (May 30, 2017).
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