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Join us for an engaging evening where professors, experts, and storytellers bring their thought-provoking lectures to your favorite bar!

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🗓️ Date: June 4th, 2025

🕡 Time: 6:30 PM

📍 Location: Lower East Side Manhattan (exact address provided in confirmation email)

📚 Lecture: “The Search For Life, Near and Far”

🎤 Speaker: Dr. Niall Whiteford & Dr. Peter Higgins

Join us for an exciting discussion as Dr. Niall Whiteford and Dr. Peter Higgins take us on a journey in search of life beyond Earth. Will we find evidence of extraterrestrial life in our lifetime? This engaging talk explores the contrasting strategies for searching for life both within our solar system and beyond.

Discover the current and future NASA missions aimed at uncovering the mysteries of our cosmic neighborhood, tackling one of humanity’s most profound questions: "Are we alone?" Dr. Whiteford, an astrophysicist, specializes in analyzing exoplanet data from the James Webb Space Telescope, focusing on their chemistry and potential for life. Dr. Higgins, an astrobiologist, researches the habitability of ice moons and the production and detectability of biosignatures.

Together, they will share their insights and engage with the audience, sparking curiosity about the universe and our place within it.

Don’t miss this opportunity to explore the quest for life beyond Earth with two leading experts in the field!

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Lectures on Tap - "The Search For Life, Near and Far"