22-27 March 2015, Porto, Portugal
The COST action ORIGINS (TD1308) is to address, using an interdisciplinary approach, three great questions about the origin, evolution and distribution of life and is divided in 5 working groups:
Working Group 1 (WG1): Understanding the formation and evolution of planetary systems and habitable planets (Leader: Ewa Szuszkiewicz)
Working Group 2 (WG2): Searching for the origins of the building blocks of life (Leader: John Robert Brucato)
Working Group 3 (WG3): Tracing the origin and evolution of life on Earth and finding its limits (Leader: Emmanuelle Javaux)
Working Group 4 (WG4): Detecting life on other planets and satellites (Leader: Akos Kereszturi)
Working Group 5 (WG5): History and Philosophy of sciences (Leader: David Düner)
During the Session 1 each WG will present one invited talk (IT) and 2 contributed (CT) , in addition to an IT to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the discovery of the 1st exoplanet and another IT on Rosetta mission related to the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Session 3 concern special sessions of WG1, WG2 and WG3, open to all WG members. Each special session will have 2 IT and 3 CT.
Sunday, 22nd March |
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| 17:00 - 19:00 | Registration | |||
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Welcome cocktail | |||
Monday, 23rd March |
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| Session I - Plenary Session | ||||
| 08:15 - 08:45 | Registration | |||
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Conference opening | |||
| WG1 Chair: E. Szuszkiewicz |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 | IT | Exoplanetary insights into the formation of planetary systems | P. Armitage | |
| 09:30 - 09:50 | CT | New Insights on the Formation of Terrestrial/Habitable Planets in Solar System; Are the inner planets evidence to giant planet migration? | N. Haghighipour | |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | CT | Planetary architecture and stellar metallicity | V. Adibekyan | |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Coffee Break and Poster View | |||
| Chair: M. Gargaud | ||||
| 10:40 - 11:10 | IT | The Rosetta mission | J. P. Bibring | |
| WG2 Chair: J. Brucato |
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| 11:10 - 11:40 | IT | Evolutionary dynamics in the “regular” and replicative worlds: Boltzmann versus Malthus | A. Pross | |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | CT | Towards Convergent Chemical Processes. Peptide & Proto-cell Formation | T. Kee | |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | CT | Website information | E. Chatzitheodoridis | |
| 12:20 - 14:30 | Lunch Break | |||
| WG3 Chair: E. Javaux |
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| 14:30 - 15:00 | IT | Biosignatures for Earth and Mars | F. Westall | |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | CT | Carbonate biomineralization in modern microbialites | P. Lopez-Garcia | |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | CT | An experimental and modelling study of geochemical bio-signatures from an early Mars analogue | K. Olsson-Francis | |
| WG4 Chair: A. Kereszturi |
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| 15:40 - 16:00 | CT | Icy Satellites | O. Grasset | |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | CT | Laser-induced sample alteration during Raman measurements of Mars relevant biomolecules | B. Haezeleer | |
| 16:20 - 16:50 | Coffee Break and Poster View | |||
| WG5 Chair: D. Duner |
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| 16:50 - 17:20 | IT | Who goes there? Anthropological perspectives of astrobiological research | J. Arnould | |
| 17:20 - 17:40 | CT | Is chemical evolution Darwinian? | C. Malaterre | |
| 17:40 - 18:00 | CT | Astrobiology in the Age of Social Media: The ‘science of the unknown’ and the sociocultural dimension of transformative ideas | K. Capova | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Poster Session | |||
Tuesday, 24th March |
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| Session II - Special Session: Exoplanets atmospheres | ||||
| Theory Chair: N. Santos |
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| 09:15 - 09:45 | IT | Chemical Characterization of Extrasolar Planets | N. Madhusudhan | |
| 09:45 - 10:05 | CT | Steps towards the interpretation of exoplanet phase curves | A. García-Muñoz | |
| 10:05 - 10:25 | CT | The potential habitability of rocky planets within the habitable zone | M. Godolt | |
| 10:25 - 10:45 | CT | Revisiting the inner boundary of the Habitable Zone: Criteria and Feedback processes | B. Stracke | |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee Break and Poster View | |||
| Observations Chair: N. Haghighipour |
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| 11:15 - 11:45 | IT | Observations of exoplanetary atmosphere | D. Ehrenreich | |
| 11:45 - 12:05 | CT | Impact of occultations of stellar active regions on transmission spectra. Can occultation of a plage mimic the signature of a blue sky? | M. Oshagh | |
| 12:05 - 12:25 | CT | Spectroscopic direct detection of reflected light from 51 Peg b | J. Martins/N. Santos | |
| 12:25 - 14:15 | Lunch Break | |||
| Session III - Special Sessions of WG1: Formation and evolution of habitable planets Chairs: C. Charbonnel & V. Dehant |
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| 14:15 - 14:40 | IT | Modeling tides and magnetic interactions in planetary systems along the evolution of their host star: advances and challenges | S. Mathis | |
| 14:40 - 15:05 | IT | The habitable zone and its limitations from a geophysical point of view | L. Noack | |
| 15:05 - 15:20 | CT | The peculiar properties of the Solar System | A. Morbidelli | |
| 15:20 - 15:35 | CT | Effect of impacts on planet evolution | Ö. Karatekin | |
| 15:35 - 15:50 | CT | The enigmatic correlation between stellar activity and planetary surface gravity | P. Figueira | |
| 15:50 - 16:05 | CT | Host’s stars and habitability | F. Gallet | |
| 16:05 - 16:30 | Coffee Break and Poster View | |||
| Session III - Special Sessions of WG2: From inanimate matter to living systems Chair: T. Kee |
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| 16:30 - 16:55 | IT | Prebiotic Chemistry at Water-Rock Interfaces: Implications for Habitability of Rocky and Icy Worlds | L. Barge | |
| 16:55 - 17:20 | IT | Being thermodynamically favourable is not enough for the emergence of life | R. Pascal | |
| 17:20 - 17:35 | CT | Chain elongations reaction of cyano ions with hydrocarbons | W. Geppert | |
| 17:35 - 17:50 | CT | Observation of protocell dynamic behaviors: the transmission of functions between protocell generations | P.-A. Monnard | |
| 17:50 - 18:05 | CT | High-Energy Chemistry of Formamide: A Unified Mechanism of Nucleic Base Formation | M. Ferus | |
| 18:05 - 19:00 | Poster session | |||
| 21:30 | Public session/debate: "Habitabilidade no Universo" Planetário do Porto |
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Wednesday, 25th March |
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| Session III - Special Sessions of WG3: Biosignatures and abiotic processes Chairs: P. Lopez-Garcia |
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| 09:15 - 09:40 | IT | Distinguishing between biogenic and abiogenic microstructures in the oldest, metamorphosed rock record | M. van Zuilen | |
| 09:40 - 10:05 | IT | Molecular fossils of prokaryotes in ancient authigenic minerals-archives of microbial activity | D. Birgel | |
| 10:05 - 10:20 | CT | Modeling Microbialite Growth | A. Airo | |
| 10:20 - 10:35 | CT | Raman Spectroscopy of biomats from the Moodies Group (Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa, 3.22 Ga) | C. Heubeck | |
| 10:35 - 10:50 | CT | Ultrastructural heterogeneity of carbonaceous material in ancient cherts: investigating biosignature origin and preservation using a combined Raman Spectroscopy and micro-FTIR approach | Y. Qu | |
| 10:50 - 11:15 | Coffee Break and Poster View | |||
| Chair: A. Kereszturi | ||||
| 11:15 - 12:15 | Round table: what are the interWG questions to address and how to address them? | |||
| 12:30 | Douro Valley excursion/Conference dinner | |||
Thursday, 26th March |
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| Session IV - Team Meetings/Projects Planning (Parallel Sessions) | ||||
| 09:15 - 10:45 | Projects planning for working groups WG1, WG2, WG3, WG4 and WG5 | |||
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee Break | |||
| 11:15 - 12:45 | Projects planning for working groups WG1, WG2, WG3, WG4 and WG5 | |||
| 12:45 - 14:30 | Lunch Break | |||
| Session V - Education and Outreach Chair: M. Gargaud |
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| 14:30 - 15:00 | Education/Training | W. Geppert, A. Airo | ||
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Outreach and Dissemination with COST and Erasmus+ | I. L. Ten Kate | ||
| Session VI - Others european programs and prospective Chairs: N. Mason & M. Gargaud |
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| 15:30 - 15:50 | EU Space Awareness: careers for the future | C. Cardoso/A. Noronha | ||
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Europlanet - Impact through outreach and engagement for planetary science in Europe | A. Heward | ||
| 16:10 - 16:40 | Coffee Break | |||
| 16:40 - 17:00 | The AstRoMap Roadmap for Astrobiology in Europe | N. Walter | ||
| 17:00 - 17:20 | European next calls, link with other COST actions (CM 1304, CM 1401) | N. Mason | ||
| 17:20 - 17:40 | General discussion | |||
| 17:40 - 17:50 | Break | |||
| 17:50 - 18:10 | EANA presentation | F. Westall | ||
| 18:10 - 18:30 | NAI presentation | N. Haghighipour | ||
| 18:30 - 18:50 | EAC presentation | K. Kirsimäe | ||
| 18:50 - 19:10 | Nordic Network of Astrobiology presentation | W. Geppert | ||
| 19:10 - 19:30 | European Astrobiology Institute: next steps? (general discussion) | |||
Friday, 27th March |
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| Session VI - Reports and Planning Chairs: M. Gargaud & W. Geppert |
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| 08:30 - 10:00 | Reports from planning sessions of each working group | |||
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |||
| 10:30 - 13:30 | Management Committee Meeting | |||
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Lunch Break | |||
