The 2024 Frank Drake Award Ceremonies

The 2024 Frank Drake Award Ceremonies of the SETI Institute:

### May 16, 2024, 6:00 – 9:30 pm

### Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA;

### or virtually, starting at 6:30 pm.

For those coming in person, your ticket includes a seated dinner, and a chance to rub elbows with some of the leaders in the search for life in the universe. The evening is a fund-raiser for SETI Forward, the award that recognizes and supports young scientists engaged in the search.

The Drake Award, honoring the Father of SETI, Frank Drake, is the world's premier prize highlighting the science behind the question: Are We Alone? This year’s winner is Dr. Andrew Siemion, the Principal Investigator of the Breakthrough: Listen initiative at Oxford University. (Past winners include Charles Townes, Victoria Meadows, Jason Wright, William Borucki, Paul Horowitz, and the late Frank Drake himself.)

Virtual guests will enjoy a pre-awards reception featuring live Q&A and discussion, as well as a live ceremony watch party.

For more information, and to reserve tickets, go to: https://drakeaward.seti.org/

Among SETI Institute leaders attending will be Avery Wang, the creator of Shazam software, John Giannandrea, Apple vice-president, Franck Marchis, the astronomer who has discovered a number of moons around asteroids, and Nathalie Cabrol, the Director of the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe.