Wednesday 8th October 2008 |
09:30-11:20 | Registration & Coffee |
|
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 |
|
13:00-14:00 | Buffet lunch |
|
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 β Genetic dissection of gravity perception in the fruit fly Drosophila |
|
15:40-16:00 | Coffee |
|
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 |
|
17:30-18:00 | Coach to Dynamic Earth |
18:30-19:30 | Public lecture: Prof Monica Grady βAre we alone?β |
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 |
|
10:40-11:00 | Coffee |
|
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 |
|
12:30-13:30 | Buffet lunch |
|
Session 6: Chair Dr Gillian Wright |
13:30-14:10 | Dr Claudio Maccone - Recent progress in SETI |
14:10-14:50 | Dr Markus Kasper β EPICS, the exoplanet imager for the E-ELT |
14:50-15:10 | Dr Anders Johansen - Metallicity dependence of planetesimal formation |
|
15:10-15:30 | Coffee |
|
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 |
|
17:15 | Coach into town |
19:00-22:00 | drinks reception and conference dinner at Apex International Hotel, Grassmarket |
|
|
|
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 |
|
11:10-11:30 | Coffee |
|
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 |
|
13:00-14:00 | Buffet lunch |
|
14:00-15:00 | Depart / Astrobiology Scotland meeting (Chair: Dr Jane Greaves) |