Joseph Nuth, NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center (small-particle nucleation) 

 Jeff Scargle, NASA Ames Research Center (planetary detection) 

 Jill Tarter, University of California at Berkeley and SETI Institute (observa- 

 tional opportunities) 

 Chandra Wickramasinghe, University College, Cardiff (panspermia) 



We arc indebted to all of these people for their time and effort. Additional 

 thanks arc due to Bill Berry and Mike Duke who contributed written summaries 

 of their tutorials that are included in Chapter 2 of this report. The many logis- 

 tical details that go along with running meetings which exceed 50 attendees, all 

 of whom need to be housed, fed, reimbursed, and aided in a myriad of ways, 

 were efficiently handled by Wanda Davis from the Molecular Research Institute. 

 We also owe special thanks to Vera Buescher and Elyse Murray of the SETI 

 Institute who provided invaluable assistance. Finally, we thank Guy Fogelman of 

 RCA Government Services for reading the full manuscript. 



Doug DeFrees 

 Molecular Research Institute 



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