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Extraterrestrial civilizations excite the imagination of people all over the world. And although we have not received a single confirmation of their existence, scientists do not give up trying to catch a signal from "space neighbors". And one of the projects that studies this issue is SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). What have scientists been trying to hear since the 60s? What results did this lead to and is there still hope to find extraterrestrial intelligence? On September 28 at 19:00, Alexander Panov, head of the SETI scientific and cultural center at the Council for Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, will speak at the Anna Akhmatova SMART Library. He will talk about classic SETI projects and their results. We will also talk about the Fermi paradox, as well as the problems of searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, its influence on the formation of modern and promising strategies for identifying life beyond Earth. Lecturer: Alexander Panov, leading researcher at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of Moscow State University, head of the SETI scientific and cultural center at the Council for Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, chairman of the section “Life and Intelligence in the Universe” at the Council for Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences.