{"602027":{"#nid":"602027","#data":{"type":"event","title":"The Case for Cosmic Modesty","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch4\u003EA CRA Distinguished Lecture by Abraham (Avi) Loeb, Harvard University\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBased on the premise that humans are not special, Avi Loeb argues for modesty from a cosmic perspective. His \u0026ldquo;principle of cosmic modesty\u0026rdquo; implies that both primitive and intelligent forms of life should exist away from Earth, and we should therefore search for them without prejudice.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Speaker\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAbraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. He published nearly 600 papers and four\u0026nbsp;books that pioneered several new frontiers in astrophysics and cosmology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELoeb serves as Chair of the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University, Founding Director of Harvard\u0026#39;s Black Hole Initiative, and Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) . He also chairs the Advisory Committee for the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative\u0026nbsp;and serves as Vice Chair of the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts \u0026amp; 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.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Center for Relativistic Astrophysics (CRA) Distinguished Lectures\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nLectures in this series are intended to celebrate advances in astrophysics that challenge\u0026nbsp;the way\u0026nbsp;we understand the universe. Invited lecturers are distinguished researchers and speakers\u0026nbsp;who\u0026nbsp;can tell the story of our universe to a general audience.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELife on Earth is not special. Humans should search for life away from Earth without prejudice.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A CRA Distinguished Lecture by Abraham (Avi) Loeb, Harvard University"}],"uid":"34553","created_gmt":"2018-02-07 13:49:48","changed_gmt":"2018-02-20 22:37:30","author":"sniebuhr3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2018-03-12T19:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2018-03-12T20:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2018-03-12T20:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2018-03-12 23:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2018-03-13 00:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2018-03-13 00:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"602075":{"id":"602075","type":"image","title":"abraham (avi) loeb","body":null,"created":"1518032289","gmt_created":"2018-02-07 19:38:09","changed":"1518032289","gmt_changed":"2018-02-07 19:38:09","alt":"","file":{"fid":"229473","name":"Loeb 3-12-18.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Loeb%203-12-18_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Loeb%203-12-18_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":173983,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Loeb%203-12-18_0.jpg?itok=eUWfzBHr"}}},"media_ids":["602075"],"groups":[{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"960","name":"physics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003Esniebuhr3@gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}