Bootham Talks are a series of informal lectures and discussions covering a wide range of subjects. Each topic is presented by someone passionate about their field and has opportunity for questions and discussion afterwards.
The talks take place on the first Wednesday of each month in term time.
The search for life elsewhere in space is one of the great unfinished works of the Enlightenment. Recent discoveries now make it highly likely that the search will be successful within a few decades.
This introduction to the field looks at the techniques used in the quest, and the places we are expecting to find extraterrestrial life.
