Wednesday 8th October 2008 |
| 09:30-11:20 | Registration & Coffee |
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| Session 1: Chair Dr Wing-Fai Thi |
| 11:20-11:30 | Dr Andy Longmore - Welcome to the Royal Observatory Edinburgh and overview of the workshop |
| 11:30-12:20 | Prof Simon Conway Morris - Evolution is predictable, so where are the extra-terrestrials? |
| 12:20-13:00 | Dr Giovanna Tinetti - Exploring extrasolar worlds: from gas giants to terrestrial habitable |
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| 13:00-14:00 | Buffet lunch |
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| Session 2: Chair Prof Peter Clarke |
| 14:00-14:40 | Prof John Parnell - Could we find evidence of life in meteorites? |
| 14:40-15:20 | Dr Jane Greaves - Debris disks and exo-planet habitability |
| 15:20-15:40 | Dr J Douglas Armstrong – Genetic dissection of gravity perception in the fruit fly Drosophila |
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| 15:40-16:00 | Coffee |
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| Session 3: Chair tbc |
| 16:00-16:40 | Dr Marialuisa Aliotta - The origin of elements in the universe |
| 16:40-17:00 | Duncan Forgan - SETI: a new monte carlo approach |
| 17:00-17:30 | David Kipping - Searching for the moons of extrasolar planets |
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| 17:30-18:00 | Coach to Dynamic Earth |
| 18:30-19:30 | Public lecture: Prof Monica Grady “Are we alone?” |
| 19:30-20:30 | Reception and gallery viewing at Our Dynamic Earth |
Thursday 9th October 2008 |
| Session 4: Chair Prof Malcolm McMahon |
| 09:00-09:40 | Dr Leslie Hebb - How do observations of extra-solar planets fit our understanding of planet formation and evolution? |
| 09:40-10:20 | Dr Albert Bolhuis - The Rough Guide to extreme environments: a microbiological perspective |
| 10:20-10:40 | Helen Maynard - Extreme environment facilities at the Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions |
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| 10:40-11:00 | Coffee |
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| Session 5: Chair Dr Andy Longmore |
| 11:00-11:50 | Prof Monica Grady - Opportunities for life |
| 11:50-12:30 | Dr John Barnes - The potential for precision radial velocities in the near infrared |
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| 12:30-13:30 | Buffet lunch |
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| Session 6: Chair Dr Gillian Wright |
| 13:30-14:10 | Dr Claudio Maccone - Recent progress in SETI |
| 14:10-14:50 | Dr Markus Kasper – EPICS, the exoplanet imager for the E-ELT |
| 14:50-15:10 | Dr Anders Johansen - Metallicity dependence of planetesimal formation |
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| 15:10-15:30 | Coffee |
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| Session 7: Chair Prof John Raven |
| 15:30-16:00 | Dr Lewis Dartnell - What is life and how do you spot it? |
| 16:00-16:30 | Dr Tom Greene - Observing transiting exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope |
| 16:30-16:50 | Dr Dan Hillier - Communicating with the public and schools about the search for life |
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| 17:15 | Coach into town |
| 19:00-22:00 | drinks reception and conference dinner at Apex International Hotel, Grassmarket |
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Friday 10th October 2008 |
| Session 8: Chair Dr Wayne Holland |
| 09:30-10:10 | Dr Don Pollacco - The next decade of exoplanet detection |
| 10:10-10:30 | Miss Francesca Faedi - A search for planets in star's graveyards. What is the fate of hot Jupiters? |
| 10:30-11:10 | Dr Helen Fraser - Crash diets - or using weightlessness as a probe of star and planet formation |
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| 11:10-11:30 | Coffee |
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| Session 9: Chair Dr Bill Dent |
| 11:30-11:45 | Prof Alan Boss - Summary of the workshop |
| 11:45-12:00 | Prof Graeme Ackland - Summary of the workshop |
| 12:00-13:00 | Panel-led discussion |
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| 13:00-14:00 | Buffet lunch |
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| 14:00-15:00 | Depart / Astrobiology Scotland meeting (Chair: Dr Jane Greaves) |
