The Galileo Project at Harvard and the PNG University of Technology formalize collaboration in scientific retrieval and analysis of meteorite fragments

CAMBRIDGE, USA/LAE, PAPUA NEW GUINEA — August 21, 2023 — Today Harvard University and the Papua New Guinea University of Technology (Unitech) announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, formalizing the two institutions’ research collaborations around the scientific retrieval and analysis of fragments from meteorites on the ocean floor with the aim of identifying the first interstellar...

First batch of papers to be printed in upcoming issue of Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation

CAMBRIDGE, MA — May 24, 2023 — The Galileo Project at Harvard University today announced the online publication of its first seven scientific papers, to be printed in an upcoming special issue of the Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation. An eighth accepted paper is in press, to be published soon. The peer-reviewed papers, covering various aspects of the methodology and instrumentation developed for the project, provide the most complete...

Applications are closed for the “Brinson Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship for the Galileo Project” with Professor Avi Loeb at Harvard University, head of The Galileo Project.

The successful candidate will be engaged with the research program of the Galileo Project. The Galileo Project is the first systematic scientific research program in search for potential artifacts or remnants of extraterrestrial technological civilizations or potentially active equipment near Earth.

The successful candidate will have access to local computing facilities and will have the...

It is my great pleasure to report that Laura Domine from Stanford University has accepted our offer of the first Keto-Galileo postdoctoral fellowship. Laura is scheduled to complete her PhD thesis in December 2022 and will start her appointment at Harvard on February 1, 2023. She has a broad education in physics and computer science, and the title of her thesis is: "Deep Learning-based LArTPC Event Reconstruction and Electron Neutrino Appearance Search in the ICARUS Detector".

Laura is the second postdoctoral fellow of the Galileo ...