The Quest for a  Habitable Exoplanet

Over the past 10 years, Humanity's knowledge about other planetary 
systems has taken a leap forward. We now know of thousands of 
exoplanets from various observational techniques. I will discuss this 
revolution and the various upcoming steps needed to identify and confirm 
a nearby habitable rocky planet, i.e. the planet that will be the focus, 
in the distant future, of our first interstellar probe and colonization.