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SIGGRAPH 2025 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Anjali Tripathi, Future Earth: Storytelling From Space and the Exoplanet Revolution and ACM SIGGRAPH Award Presentations
DescriptionTo a distant spacecraft, the richness of our home planet appears as nothing more than a fraction of a pixel. When NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft took its famous Pale Blue Dot photo in 1990, the only planets known were those in the Solar System. Since then, nearly 6,000 planets have been discovered around other stars. These exoplanets are wildly different from our own, so the hunt for another Earth is on. To find it, astrophysicists are developing the technology to directly image a habitable exoplanet. This distant pale blue dot may provide the first glimpse of life beyond Earth and answer the question of: “Are we alone?”. Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at the future of the search for life in the Universe and how it’s reshaping the art and storytelling of Earth and alien worlds.
Dr. Anjali Tripathi is an astrophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and NASA’s inaugural Exoplanet Science Ambassador. As an expert in planet formation and evolution, she has contributed to the design of new space missions for NASA. Dr. Tripathi is a leading science communicator, regularly featured by the BBC, PBS, and TED, and a film and television consultant for the National Academy of Sciences. She has served on the NASA Sea Level Change Team, been a Research Associate of the Smithsonian, and led data visualization for the L.A. County Department of Public Health COVID Data and Epidemiology Team. She previously led science policy for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She earned degrees in physics and astrophysics from Harvard, Cambridge, and MIT.
Dr. Anjali Tripathi is an astrophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and NASA’s inaugural Exoplanet Science Ambassador. As an expert in planet formation and evolution, she has contributed to the design of new space missions for NASA. Dr. Tripathi is a leading science communicator, regularly featured by the BBC, PBS, and TED, and a film and television consultant for the National Academy of Sciences. She has served on the NASA Sea Level Change Team, been a Research Associate of the Smithsonian, and led data visualization for the L.A. County Department of Public Health COVID Data and Epidemiology Team. She previously led science policy for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She earned degrees in physics and astrophysics from Harvard, Cambridge, and MIT.
Event Type
Keynote Speaker
TimeTuesday, 12 August 20259:00am - 10:30am PDT
LocationWest Building, Ballroom AB
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