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Important dates:

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NASA Astrobiology Institute Events

2004 Seminars, Colloquia, and Meetings

* August 20, 2004
The 32nd International Geological Congress (32IGC)
Conference | Open to General Public
8/20-8/28, 2004 (Florence, Italy) The Congress is being organized in co-operation with, and under the sponsorship of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), and the various member countries of the Mediterranean Consortium. It has been designed to set up a forum for a broad debate of the most significant advances in the geological sciences, as well as to promote discussion of the Congress theme: From the Mediterranean Area Toward a Global Geological Renaissance Geology, Natural Hazards, and Cultural Heritage. http://www.32igc.org/home.htm

* July 26, 2004
2nd TPF/Darwin International Conference
Conference | Open to General Public
7/26-29, 2004 (San Diego, CA) "Dust Disks and the Formation, Evolution and Detection of Habitable Planets"  

* July 12, 2004
8th International Conference on Bioastronomy
Meeting | Open to General Public
7/12-16,2004 (Reykjavik, Iceland).
http://www.os.is/~thor/bioastronomy04/
 
* June 5, 2004
Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference
Conference | Open to General Public
6/5-11, 2003 (Copenhagen, Denmark).
http://www.goldschmidt2004.dk
 
* May 30, 2004
American Astronomical Society meeting
Meeting | Open to General Public
5/30-6/3, 2003 (Denver, CO). http://www.aas.org/meetings/meeting_dates.html
 
* April 13-17, 2004
Titan from Discovery to Encounter; International Conference on the occasion of the 375th birthday of Christiaan Huygens
Conference | Open to General Public
4/13-17, 2004 (ESTEC, Noordwijk, the Netherlands). http://sci2.esa.int/huygens/conference/
 
* March 27-April 1, 2004
Astrobiology Science Conference 2004, NASA Ames Research Center
 
* January 25, 2004
Second Mars Exploration Rover (MER-B) scheduled to land on Mars
 
* January 4-8, 2004
American Astronomical Society, Atlanta, Georgia
  
* January 4, 2004
First Mars Exploration Rover (MER-A) scheduled to land on Mars

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2003 Seminars

* December 13-17, 2003
Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco
 
* November 18-23, 2003
European Exo/Astrobiology Network Association (EANA) Conference
Centro de Astrobiología, Madrid, Spain
  
* November 2-5, 2003
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington
Abstracts due July 15
 
* October 13-17, 2003
Third International Conference on Mars Polar Science and Exploration
Lake Louise and Banff, Canada
 
* September 7-12, 2003
Goldschmidt 2003: Frontiers in Geochemistry
Kurashiki, Japan
 
* August 5-7, 2003
Third International Conference on Large Meteorite Impacts
Nördlingen, Germany
Abstracts due May 15
 
* July 20-25, 2003
Sixth International Conference on Mars
Pasadena, California
 
* July 13-18, 2003
Origin of Life Gordon Research Conference
Bates College, via Portland, Maine
 
* July 7-11, 2003
CAB-NAI Astrobiology Graduate Course "Life Detection on Mars"
Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Santander, Spain
 
* June 23-July 2, 2003
NAI Barberton Field Workshop, South Africa
 
* June 25, 2003
MER-B launch window opens
 
* June 22-July 3, 2003
Archean Surface Processes NAI Field Workshop
Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa
 
* June 15 and 17, 2003
Archean Biosphere Drilling Project Inaugurations
Marble Bar and University of Western Australia, Perth
 
* June 12-July 25, 2003
International Summer Geobiology Course
Agouron Institute and University of Southern California
USC Wrigley Marine Science Center, Catalina Island, California
 
* June 12-14, 2003
Forum on Concepts and Approaches for JIMO (Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter)
Houston, Texas
 
* June 2-August 8, 2003
Astrobiology Summer Program, Pennsylvania State University
 
* June 1, 2003
Life in the Universe. An Astrobiology Symposium
UCLA ASTROBIOLOGY SOCIETY
BILL NYE the Science Guy and Dr. Jill Tarter, SETI Institute
UCLA Ackerman Grand Ballroom, 3-6 p.m.
 
* May 30, 2003
MER-A launch window opens
 
* May 24-29, 2003
American Astronomical Society, Nashville, Tennessee
 
* May 23, 2003
Mars Express launch window opens
 
* May 6, 2003
NAI Executive Council, Old Pasadena Courtyard
 
* May 6, 2003
IGPP Seminar, 3853 Slichter Hall, 3.45 for 4 p.m.
Dr Alan Rubin, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA
"What heated the asteroids?"
 
* May 1, 2003
Earth and Space Sciences Colloquium
3656 Geology Building, UCLA, 4 p.m.
James R. Lyons, IGPP Center for Astrobiology, UCLA
"Oxygen isotopes in the solar nebula"
 
* April 21, 2003
Physical Chemistry Seminar
2033 Young Hall, UCLA, 4 p.m.
Professor Kenneth Nealson (PI of JPL NAI team)
"Geobiology and the search for life in the Universe"
 
* April 7-11, 2003
EGS, AGU and EUG Joint Assembly
Nice, France
 
* April 4, 2003
CSEOL Symposium, Schoenberg Hall, UCLA, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Are we Alone in the Universe?
9:10 a.m. - Edward Wright - Are we likely to be alone?
10:00 a.m. - Michael Meyer - NASA's role in solving the mystery
11.10 a.m. - Malcolm Walter - Does Mars harbor life?
1.30 p.m. - Geoff Marcy - Does life exist beyon the Solar System?
2.20 p.m. - Chris Chyba - Are intelligent beings out there?
3.30 p.m. - Eric Chaisson - What will it mean if life is found?
4.20 p.m. - Frank Drake, Moderator - Questions from the Audience
Open to the Public - Admission Free - Non-Technical
Questions? Call 310 825-1769 (Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life)
 
* March 27-28, 2003
UK Astrobiology 2003
Girton College, Cambridge, England
 
* March 24, 2003
NAI Director's Seminar, CAB Conference Room
TBD
  
* March 17-21, 2003
34th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC)
Houston, Texas
 
* March 14, 2003
NAI Executive Council, CAB Conference Room, 10-11.30 PST
 
* March 10-11, 2003
Life Detection: Mars and Beyond
Sheraton Phoenix Airport, Tempe, Arizona
 
* March 6, 2003
CAN-3 proposal deadline
 
* February 24, 2003
NAI Director's Seminar, CAB Conference Room
TBD
 
* February 18, 2003
AstroBiology Society, CSEOL Library, 5861 Geology, 5 p.m.
Professor Kevin McKeegan, Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA
"Before the planets: Probing the isotopic memories of the Solar System's oldest rocks"
 
* February 18, 2003
IGPP Seminar, 3853 Slichter Hall, 3.45 for 4 p.m.
Dr Alan P. Boss, DTM, Cargegie Institution of Washington
"A heretic's approach to Solar System formation"
 
* February 11, 2003
Space Shuttle Columbia Memorial Ceremony
Dickson Plaza, just north of Schoenberg Hall, UCLA
Sponsored by the UCLA Astrobiology Society
  
* February 10-12, 2003
NAI General Meeting, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
 
* January 25, 2003
AstroBiology Society Future History Project
"The year is 2013: The rest is up to you"
CSEOL Library, 5861 Geology Building, UCLA, noon-6 p.m.
 
* January 21, 2003
AstroBiology Society, CSEOL Library, 5861 Geology
Loretta Hidalgo, President, Space Generation Foundation
"Want to go into Space?"
 
* January 17, 2003
NAI Executive Council, CAB Conference Room, 10-11.30 PST
 
* January 14-17, 2003
Centro de Astrobiología Inauguration and International Astrobiology Symposium
Centro de Astrobiología, Instituto Nacional de Téchnica Aerospacial, Madrid, Spain
 
* January 8-10, 2003
Fourth 2003 Mars Exploration Rover Landing Site Selection Workshop
Embassy Suites Hotel, Pasadena, California

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2002 Seminars, Colloquia, and Meetings

* December 7, 2002
Astrobiology Superstars, Midnight Special Bookstore
1328 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, 5-7 p.m.
Dr. Indira Venkatesan, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA
"DDT in the Santa Monica Bay"
 
* December 6-10, 2002
AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California
"Remote detection of the ingredients for life" 
 
* December 3-11, 2002
International field workshop on the Meso-Neoproterozoic
Vindhyan Basin, central India
 
* October 27-30, 2002
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
Denver, Colorado
 
* October 13, 2002
Astrobiology Superstars, Midnight Special Bookstore
1328 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, 5-7 p.m.
Dr. Ruth Gates, Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, UCLA
"The evolution of animal eyes and ears"
 
* September 12-14, 2002
The Moon beyond 2002: Next steps in lunar science and exploration
Taos, New Mexico
  
* September 9-10, 2002
NAI Executive Council
Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania
 
* August 18-23, 2002
Goldschmidt 2002, Davos, Switzerland
 
* August 11, 2002
Astrobiology Superstars, Midnight Special Bookstore
1328 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, 5-7 p.m.
Dr. Michael Vendrasco, Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA
"Luck or Fate in the history of life"
 
* July 21-26, 2002
Curso de Astrobiología, Universidad Complutense, Madrid
San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain
  
* July 8-12, 2002
Bioastronomy 2002
Hamilton Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
 
* June 14, 2002
AstroBiology Society, Barnes & Noble Bookstore, 3rd Street Promenade, Santa Monica, 7-9.30 p.m.
Dr. N. Katherine Hayles, Professor of English, UCLA
"Computing the human"
 
* June 9, 2002
Astrobiology Superstars, Midnight Special Bookstore
1328 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, 5-7 p.m.
Dr. James Lyons, IGPP and Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA
"Modern ozone and the history of oxygen in the atmosphere"
 
* May 31, 2001
CAB Retreat, 8 a.m. - 8 p.m., Mays Landing, Malibu
 
* May 29, 2002
WEEG, CSEOL Library, 5681 Geology, 5.30 p.m.
David Des Marais, NASA Ames Research Center
"Early evolution of the biogeochemical carbon cycle"
 
* May 20, 2002
NAI Director's Seminar, 5834 Geology, 11 a.m. PDT
Dr. Ronald Greeley, Arizona State University
"Mars: The Astrobiology connection"
 
* April 7-11, 2002
Second Biennial Astrobiology Science Conference
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, California
 
* March 12, 2002
IGPP Seminar, 4 p.m., 3853 Slichter Hall
Lynne Hillenbrand, California Institute of Technology
"Young circumstellar disks: Their prospects for planet formation"
 
* March 11-15, 2002
33rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
South Shore Harbor Conference Center, Houston, Texas
Abstract deadline December 5, 2001
 
* February 26, 2002
IGPP Seminar, 4 p.m., 3853 Slichter Hall
George Cody, Carnegie Institution of Washington
"Searching for useful carbon fixation pathways in a prebiotic world: The geochemical roots of life"
 
* February 12, 2002
AstroBiology Society, CESOL Library, 5861 Geology, 5 p.m.
David Paige, Earth and Space Sciences
"Planning for a new mission to Mars"
 
* February 12, 2002
IGPP Seminar, 4 p.m., 3853 Slichter Hall
Inseok Song, Physics & Astronomy, UCLA
"Nearby young stars and planets"
 
* February 10, 2002
Astrobiology Superstars, Midnight Special Bookstore
1328 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, 5-7 p.m.
Dr. Inseok Song, Physics & Astronomy, UCLA
"Nearby young stars and planets"
 
* February 9-10, 2002
Rubey Colloqium Symposium, UCLA
"Impacts and the origin, evolution, and extinction of life"
Convenors: Frank Kyte and Peter Ward
ESS 120: Rubey Colloqium
 
* February 7, 2002
ESS Colloquium, 4 p.m., 3000 Geology Building
Donald Lowe, Stanford University
"The geological record of the Archean environment
3.2-3.5 billion years ago: Hot, wet, and wild"
 
* January 22, 2002
IGPP Seminar, 4 p.m., 3853 Slichter Hall
Steven M. Stanley, Johns Hopkins University
"Secular oscillations in the mineralogy of dominant carbonate-sectreting
organisms driven by tectonically-forced shifts in seawater chemistry "
 
* January 18, 2002
Genetics Seminar, Noon, 159 Boyer Hall
Laura Landweber, Princeton University
"From scrambled genes to altered codes: Microbial diversity
and perversity in ciliates"
 
* January 2-6, 2002
The Cambrian Explosion: Putting the pieces together
New perspectives on the origin of metazoan complexity
Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology
Anaheim Marriott, Anaheim, California]

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2001 Seminars, Colloquia, and Meetings

*  December 10-14, 2001
Fall meeting of American Geophysical Union
Moscone Center, San Francisco, California
 
* December 9, 2001
Astrobiology Superstars, 3 p.m., Midnight Special Bookstore
1318 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica
Maria Rivera, Molecular Biology Institute, UCLA
"Introducing genomics"
 
* December 9, 2001
NAI Executive Council, Grand Hyatt Hotel, San Francisco
 
* November 19, 2001
Human Genetics, 11.30 a.m., 1357 Gonda Center, UCLA
James Lake, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
"Environmental factors restrict horizontal gene transfer: A multiple whole-genome analysis"
 
* November 13, 2001
IGPP Seminar, 4 p.m., 3853 Slichter Hall
Andrea P. Belz, JPL/California Institute of Technology
"Bug-rock interactions: Linking geochemistry and microbiology through biomineralization"
 
* October 25, 2001
UCLA in LA: UCLA celebrates 75 years in LA
3-6 p.m., Dickson Court, UCLA
Center for Astrobiology Education and Public Outreach
 
* October 23, 2001
IGPP Seminar, 4 p.m., 3853 Slichter Hall
James R. Lyons, IGPP and Earth and Space Sciences
"Mass-independent fractionation of oxygen isotopes in atmospheric gases and aerosols"
 
* October 22, 2001
Aeronautics Seminar, 1 p.m., Guggenheim Building, Caltech
Bruce Runnegar, IGPP Center for Astrobiology, UCLA
"Astrobiology: Where is it going?"
 
* October 17, 2001
Visit of Dr. Rosalind A. Grymes,
Associate Director, NASA Astrobiology Institute
  
* October 15, 2001
AstroBiology Society, 6 p.m., 5681 Geology (CSEOL Library)
Tad Daly, J.D., Ph.D., Burkle Center for International Relations
"Towards a space-faring civilization: The future of world order and human destiny in space"
 
* October 14, 2001
Astrobiology Superstars, 3 p.m., Midnight Special Bookstore
1318 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica
Craig Manning, Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA
"Greenland and Earth's earliest life"
 
* October 13, 2001
UCLA/Alfred P. Sloan Colloquium, 1 p.m., Melnitz Hall
Film Directing and Screenwriting Fellowship Program
Bruce Runnegar, IGPP Center for Astrobiology, UCLA
"Astrobiology at UCLA: Who are we and what do we do?"
 
* October 2, 2001
IGPP Seminar, 4 p.m., 3853 Slichter Hall
Victoria Meadows, JPL/California Institute of Technology
"The virtual planetary laboratory. Towards characterizing extrasolar terrestrial planets"
 
* August 12, 2001
Astrobiology Superstars, 3 p.m., Midnight Special Bookstore
1318 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica
Kenneth Nealson, JPL/California Institute of Technology
"Finding life when you don't know where it is: Non-Earthcentric life detection"
* June 26-July 1, 2001
North American Paleontological Convention
University of California, Berkeley, California
 
* June 24-28, 2001
Earth System Processes
Geological Society of America & Geological Society of London
Edinburgh, Scotland
 
* June 10, 2001
Astrobiology Superstars, 3 p.m., Midnight Special Bookstore
1318 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica
William B. Moore, Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA
"Europa's insides"
 
* June 3-7, 2001
198th Meeting of the American astronomical Society
Pasadena, California
 
* May 20-24, 2001
11th Annual V. M. Goldschmidt Conference
Roanoke, Virginia
 
* April 10-12, 2001
NAI General Meeting
Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C.
 
* April 8, 2001
Astrobiology Superstars, 3 p.m., Midnight Special Bookstore
1318 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica
Ben Zuckerman, Physics and Astronomy, UCLA
"Space telescopes, Carl Sagan, and inquisitive extraterrestrials"
 
* March 26-30, 2001
Conditions for Life on Mars and Elsewhere
European Geophysical Society, Nice, France
 
* March 7, 2001
Astronomy Colloquium, 1220B Knudsen
Phil Armitage, University of St Andrews, Scotland
"Planet formation in light of extrasolar planets"
  
* February 15-20, 2001
American Association for the Advancement of Science
San Francisco, California
 
* February 1, 2001
ESS 286B Seminar in Planetology, 4677 Geology
Ferenc Varadi, IGPP Center for Astrobiology, UCLA
"Earth's orbital history revised"
 
* January 24-26, 2001
First Landing Site Workshop
for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers
Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California
 
* January 15, 2001
Deadline for mailing applications for
Postdoctoral Awards in the NASA Astrobiology Institute.
For program and application information see:
http://www.national-academies.org/rap
 
* January 7-11, 2001
197th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society
San Diego, California

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2000 Seminars, Colloquia, and Meetings

* December 15-19, 2000
American Geophysical Union
San Francisco, California
  
* December 14, 2000
NAI Executive Council
Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
 
* December 11-13, 2000
Near-Earth Asteroid Sample Return Workshop
Lunar and Planetary Institute
Houston, Texas
  
* November 17, 2000
NAI Executive Council, 10-11.30 a.m., CAB Conference Room
  
* November 12-16, 2000
Geological Society of America
Reno, Nevada
 
* October 30-31, 2000
Astrobiology Task Force
Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
 
* October 26, 2000
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium, 3.30 p.m., 1240 Knudsen Hall
Ben Zuckerman, Physics & Astronomy
"Space telescopes, Carl Sagan, and inquisitive extra-terrestrials"
  
* October 20, 2000
NAI Executive Council, 10-11.30 a.m., CAB Conference Room
  
* October 16-19, 2000
35th ESLAB Symposium (POSTPONED until March 12-16, 2001)
 
* October 12, 2000
MBI/ACCESS Affinity Group Seminar, 4 p.m., 159 Boyer Hall
David Bartel, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT
"Creation and evolution of new ribozymes"
 
* October 10, 2000
IGPP Seminar, 4 p.m., 3853 Slichter Hall
Krishan Kurhana, IGPP
"A geophysicist's tale: Induced magnetic fields, an ocean on Europa, and questions on extraterrestrial life"
  
* September 28, 2000
NAI Executive Council
Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
  
* September 24-26, 2000
Astrobiology Workshop and Rio Tinto Field Trip
Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid, Spain
  
* August 18, 2000
NAI Executive Council, 10-11.30 a.m., CAB Conference Room
  
* July 28-August 1, 2000
Subsurface Biosphere at Mid-Ocean Ridges
Big Sky, Montana
  
* July 25, 2000
Maxygen Presentation, 10-11.30 a.m., CAB Conference Room
  
* July 21, 2000
NAI Executive Council, 10-11.30 a.m., CAB Conference Room
  
* July 20, 2000
NAI IT Leads Videocon, 11-12.30 p.m., CAB Conference Room
  
* July 13-18, 2000
Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Pasadena Convention Center
"Astronomy and Astrobiology"
  
* June 12, 2000
Astrobiology Colloquium
James Farquhar, Department of Chemistry, UCSD
"Atmospheric influence on Earth's earliest sulfur cycle: New evidence from sulfur isotopes"
 
* June 7, 2000
CSEOL Banquet
Ken Nealson, NAI-JPL
"The hunt for life on Mars"
 
* June 1, 2000
Planetology Seminar, 11 a.m., 4677 Geology Building
Asmin Pathare, Earth & Space Sciences, UCLA
"Recent glacial flow in the Martian polar regions?"
 
* May 18, 2000
Planetology Seminar, 11 a.m., 4677 Geology Building
Denise Kaisler, Physics & Astronomy, UCLA
"An Adaptive Optics search for extrasolar planets"
 
* May 11, 2000
Planetology Seminar, 11 a.m., 4677 Geology Building
William Moore, Earth & Space Sciences, UCLA
"Melting Europa's mantle"
 
* May 4, 2000
Planetology Seminar, 11 a.m., 4677 Geology Building
Michael Mischna, Earth & Space Sciences, UCLA
"Scenarios for greenhouse warming on early Mars"
Dana Kovaric, Earth & Space Sciences, UCLA
"Returning rocks from the surface of Mars"
 
* May 3, 2000
Wednesday Evening Evolution Group (CSEOL-WEEG)
Eric Becklin, Physics & Astronomy, UCLA
"SOFIA: Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy"
  
* May 8, 2000
First IGPP Distinguished Researcher Lecture
4.00 p.m., 3853, Slichter Hall, UCLA
Frank T. Kyte, Research Geophysicist, IGPP
"Tales of Eltanin: Asteroid from the bottom of the sea"
 
* April 20, 2000
NAI-ASU Astrobiology course, 9 a.m., CAB Conference Room
Chris McKay, NASA Ames Research Center
"Terraforming Mars"
 
* April 17, 2000
Astrobiology Society, 5 p.m., CSEOL Library, 5681 Geology
Frank Kyte, Earth & Space Sciences and IGPP, UCLA
"Astrobiology the hard way: Killing dinosaurs with asteroids"
 
* April 7, 2000
Gold Medal CSEOL Symposium, Schoenberg Hall, UCLA
"Origin of Life"
 
* April 3-5, 2000
First Annual Astrobiology Science Conference
NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California
 
* March 23, 2000
NAI VideoSeminar, 9.30 a.m., CAB Conference Room
Paul Hoffman, Harvard NAI
"Snowball Earth and early animal evolution"
 
* March 13-17, 2000
31st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, Texas
 
* March 16, 2000
NAI VideoSeminar 15: 9.30 a.m., CAB Conference Room
Gary K. Schoolnik, M.D., Stanford Medical School
"Cholera: Molecular studies of Vibrio cholerae in natural aquatic habitats"
 
* March 9, 2000 - POSTPONED
NAI VideoSeminar, 9.30 a.m., CAB Conference Room
Paul Hoffman, Harvard NAI
"Snowball Earth and early animal evolution"
 
* March 8, 2000
Wednesday Evening Evolution Group (CSEOL-WEEG)
Frank Drake, SETI Institute
"Search for extraterrestrial intelligence: The answer is out there!"
 
* March 7, 2000
Astronomy Colloquium
Gene Serabyn, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
"Nulling interferometry and planet detection"
 
* March 4, 2000
CAB Retreat, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m., Science and Technology
Research Building (STRB), Westwood Village
 
* March 1, 2000
Wednesday Evening Evolution Group (CSEOL-WEEG)
J. William Schopf, Earth & Space Sciences and IGPP, UCLA
"Life on other planets: Do fossils hold the key?"
 
* February 29, 2000
Astronomy Colloquium/IGPP Seminar
Ed Krupp, Director, Griffith Observatory
"Skywathcers, Shamans, and Kings: Astronomy and the Archaeology of Power"
 
* February 24, 2000 - POSTPONED
NAI VideoSeminar, 9.30 a.m., CAB Conference Room
Paul Hoffman, Harvard NAI
"Snowball Earth and early animal evolution"
 
* February 23, 2000
Astronomy Journal Club, 1 p.m., 8911 Math Sciences Addition
Bruce Runnegar, IGPP Center for Astrobiology, UCLA
"Astrobiology: Where is it going?"
 
* February 19, 2000
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC, 9-12 noon
"The role of water for life in precarious circumstances"
 
* February 18, 2000
NAI Executive Council, 10-11.30 a.m., CAB Conference Room
 
* February 10, 2000
Earth & Space Sciences Colloquium, 4 p.m., 3656 Geology
Bruce Runnegar, Earth & Space Sciences, UCLA
"Earth's orbital eccentricity, its sedimentary record, and the geological timescale"
 
* February 10, 2000
NAI VideoSeminar, 9.30 a.m., CAB Conference Room, 5834 Geology
Ricado Amils, Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid
"Astrobiologic interest of the Tinto River"
 
* February 10, 2000
NAI VideoSeminar - ASU Introduction to Astrobiology, 8.00 a.m., CAB Conference Room, 5834 Geology
Laurie Leshin, Arizona State NAI
"Cosmochemistry of meteorites"
 
* February 8, 2000
IGPP Seminar, 4 p.m., 3853 Slichter Hall
Bruce Simonsin, Oberlin College
"Evidence for Late Archean and Paleoproterozoic asteroid impacts from Western Australia and South Africa"
  
* February 3, 2000
NAI VideoSeminar, 9.30 a.m., CAB Conference Room, 5834 Geology
William C. Likens, NAI Headquarters
"The virtual collaboration experiment"
 
* February 2, 2000
Astronomy Journal Club, 1 p.m., 8911 Math Sciences Addition
Rich Webb and Ben Zuckerman, Physics & Astronomy, UCLA
"TW Hydra Association" and "The Tucanae Association and the Future"
 
* January 27, 2000
Astrobiology Society, 4 p.m., CSEOL Library, 5681 Geology
Victoria Vesna, Design and Media Arts Chair
"Towards a third culture: Art, technology and culture"
  
* January 27, 2000
NAI VideoSeminar, 9.30 a.m., CAB Conference Room, 5834 Geology
Richard A. Webb, Physics & Astronomy, UCLA
"Prospects for imaging planetary systems in the nearest regions of recent star formation"
 
* January 21, 2000
NAI Executive Council, 10-11.30 a.m., CAB Conference Room
 
* January 20, 2000
IGPP Steering Committee, 10.30 a.m., Director's Office
 
* January 20, 2000
NAI VideoSeminar, 9.30 a.m., CAB Conference Room, 5834 Geology
Carol Cleland, NAI University of Colorado
"Life in ALH84001: Confirming the best explanation"
 
* January 19, 2000
Wednesday Evening Evolution Group (CSEOL-WEEG)
William I. Newman, Earth & Space Sciences etc., UCLA
"Size and mass relationships in biology: Some exobiological speculations"
 
* January 14, 2000
NAI VideoConference, 9.00 a.m., CAB Conference Room, 5834 Geology
Ecogenomics Working Group
Discussion leader: Mitchell Sogin, NAI MBL, Woods Hole
 
* January 12, 2000 - POSTPONED
Geocheminar, 4 p.m., 4645 Geology
Stephen J. Mojzsis, Earth & Space Sciences, UCLA
"Clues to the oldest terrestrial environment recorded
in the chemistry of ancient (3.9 to 4.3 Ga) zircons"
 
* January 11-15, 2000
American Astronomical Society, Atlanta, Georgia
TW Hydrae Association
 
* January 7, 2000
NAI VideoConference, 9.30 a.m., CAB Conference Room, 5834 Geology
Mars Focus Group - Mars Program Misson Architecture
Discussion leader: Jack Farmer, NAI Arizona State
 
* January 6, 2000
NAI VideoSeminar, 9.30 a.m., CAB Conference Room, 5834 Geology
The NASA Astrobiology/Stellar Experience
Discussion leader: Sonya Cardenas, NAI Ames Research Center
 
* January 5, 2000
NAI VideoConference, 9.30 a.m., CAB Conference Room, 5834 Geology
Ecogenomics Working Group
Discussion leader: Mitchell Sogin, NAI MBL, Woods Hole

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1999 Seminars, Colloquia, and Meetings

* December 21, 1999
NAI VideoConference, 9 a.m., CAB Conference Room, 5834 Geology
Mars Focus Group - First Cut
Discussion leader: Jack Farmer, NAI Arizona State
 
* December 18, 1999
NAI Executive Council, 9-3.30 p.m., Ames Research Center
 
* December 13-17, 1999
Fall AGU meeting, San Francisco
B14: Astrobiology
 
* December 3-5, 1999
Mars Polar Lander touchdown and PlanetFest '99, Pasadena Convention Center
  
* December 2, 1999
NAI VideoSeminar, 8 a.m., CAB Conference Room, 5834 Geology
NAI, University of Colorado, Boulder
"Mars, science and society"
  
* December 1, 1999
Astrobiology Luncheon Club, 12 noon, 3853 Slichter Hall
Crispin T.C. Little, IGPP Center for Astrobiology, UCLA
"The fossil record of hydrothermal vent communities"
  
* November 29, 1999
Monday Night Lecture, 6 p.m., 207 Center for Digital Arts
Hiroshi Ishii, project leader of the Things That Think (TTT) and Digital Life (DL) consortia
  
* November 23, 1999
NAI VideoSeminar, 8 a.m., CAB Conference Room, 5834 Geology
NAI, Arizona State University, Tempe
Jack Farmer, Ron Greeley, David Nelson, and Phil Christensen plus Ruslan Kusmin, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
"Mars landing sites: An astrobiological perspective" 
 
* November 22, 1999
Astrobiology Society, 5 p.m., CSEOL Library, 5681 Geology
Patricia J. Johnson, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, UCLA
"Organelle evolution in early-branching eukaryotes"
 
* November 19, 1999
NAI Executive Council, CAB Conference Room
 
* November 18, 1999 - POSTPONED BY LEONIDS
NAI VideoSeminar, 9 a.m., CAB Conference Room, 5834 Geology
Paul Knauth, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
"Early Earth (Archean) environments and the implications
for the origin and early evolution of the biosphere"
 
* November 11, 1999
MBI/ACCESS Affinity Group Seminar, 4 p.m., 159 MBI
Alexander M. Van der Bliek, Biological Chemistry, UCLA
"How do mitochondria divide?"
 
* November 11, 1999
Astrobiology Society, 5 p.m., CSEOL Library, 5681 Geology
Louis Friedman, Executive Director, Planetary Society
"PlanetFest '99"
 
* November 9, 1999
Astronomy Colloquium, 3 p.m., 8145 Mathematical Sciences
Patrick Godon, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena
"Vortices in the protoplanetary nebula and the formation of Jovian planets"
 
* November 6, 1999
1999 Beckman Symposium, Platt Conference Center, City of Hope, Duarte, California
"Evolution"
 
* November 4, 1999
Astrobiology Society, 5 p.m., CSEOL Library, 5681 Geology
Juan Perez Mercader, Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid, Spain
"Power laws: From Astrophysics to Biology"
 
* November 3, 1999
Geocheminar, 4 p.m., 4645 Geology
Kevin McKeegan, Earth & Space Sciences, UCLA
"Short-lived radioactivity in the solar nebula: Clock or crock?"
  
* November 2, 1999
IGPP Seminar, 4 p.m., 3853 Slichter Hall
Jim Greenwood, IGPP, UCLA
"Sulfur isotope systematics in SNCs: Implications
for crust-atmosphere exchange, biological activity, and hydrothermal systems on Mars"
 
* November 2, 1999
Astrobiology Society, 1.30 p.m., CSEOL Library, 5681 Geology
Bruce Jakosky, Center for Astrobiology, University of Colorado
"Examining the philosophical aspects of Astrobiology"
 
* November 2, 1999 - POSTPONED UNTIL JANUARY
NAI VideoSeminar, 9 a.m., CAB Conference Room, 5834 Geology
Richard A. Webb, Physics & Astronomy, UCLA
"The TW Hydrae Association"
 
* October 26, 1999
IGPP Seminar, 4 p.m., 3853 Slichter Hall
Francis Nimmo, California Institute of Technology
"Magnetic stripes and the thermal evolution of Mars"
  
* October 25-28, 1999
Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado
T39 and Pardee Symposium: Snowball Earths
 
* October 25, 1999
Astrobiology Society, 4 p.m., CSEOL Library, 5681 Geology
"Exploring the Mars Polar Lander and Mars"
  
* October 21, 1999
NAI VideoSeminar, 9 a.m., CAB Conference Room
Juan Perez Mercader, Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid, Spain
"Power laws: From Astrophysics to Biology"
 
* October 20, 1999
Astrophysics Journal Club, 8911 Mathematical Sciences
Amy Lo, Physics & Astronomy, UCLA
"Buckyballs: Interstellar dust grains"
 
* October 19, 1999
IGPP Seminar, 4 p.m., 3853 Slichter Hall
John T. Wasson, C&B, ESS, and IGPP, UCLA
"Oxygen isotopes in meteorites; evidence for the heterogeneous accretion of the solar nebula"
 
* October 19, 1999
Biostatistics Seminar, 3 p.m., 6627 Mathematical Sciences
Robert Weiss, Department of Biostatistics, UCLA
"Statistical modeling of the fossil record"
 
* October 18, 1999
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense, 3.30 p.m., 3814 Geology
Christopher H. House, Earth & Space Sciences, UCLA
"Carbon isotopic fractionation by diverse extant and fossil prokaryotes and microbial diversity revealed through genomics"
 
* October 15, 1999
NAI Executive Council, CAB Conference Room
 
* October 14, 1999
MBI/ACCESS Affinity Group Seminar, 4 p.m., 159 MBI
Carl Johnson, Department of Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
"As time glows by: Circadian programs in Cyanobacteria"
 
* October 14, 1999
NAI VideoSeminar, CAB Conference Room, 5834 Geology
Lorraine Olendzenski, University of Connecticut
"Living in the microbial world: A hands on teacher workshop in microbial diversity and Astrobiology at the Marine Biological Laboratory"
 
* October 12, 1999
Biological Chemistry/Chemistry & Biochemistry/MBI/LSBMM, 10 a.m., 159 MBI
Philip C. Andrews, Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
"Vizualizing microbial proteomes"
 
* October 11, 1999
Astrobiology Society, 4 p.m., CSEOL Library, 5681 Geology
Matt Malkan, Department of Physics & Astronomy, UCLA
"Estimating the number of technological civilizations in the Milky Way"
 
* October 5, 1999
Astronomy Colloquium, 3 p.m. 8145 Mathematical Sciences
Alycia Weinberger, Physics & Astronomy, UCLA
"Imaging the dramatic disks of young stars"
 
* September 24, 1999
NAI Executive Council
NAI VideoSeminar, CAB Conference Room, 5834 Geology
"Mars lander site selection"
 
UCLA-UR ASTROBIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM
September 20-22, 1999, Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie der Universität Regensburg, Germany
* Bruce Runnegar, UCLA
"What is Astrobiology? Astrobiology at UCLA"
* Christopher H. House, UCLA
"Carbon isotopic compositions of modern and fossil organisms"
* Sorel Fitz-Gibbon, UCLA
"New whole-genome tree of life"
* J. William Schopf, UCLA
"New notions - ISSOL and Astrobiology - and new techniques - X-ray tomography and Raman spectroscopy"
* Karl O. Stetter
"Research strategies and novel results at the Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie"
* Robert Huber, U.R.
"Novel arsenic and selenium-using hypertherophiles and microbial investigations of a cold biotope"
* Wolfgang Eder, U.R.
"Cultivation of Yellowstone Park's pink filaments: Challenge and solution"
* Manuela Baumgartner, U.R.
"Novel thermophilic eukaryotes"
* Reinhard Rachel, U.R.
"Ultrastructure of hypertheromphiles"
* Petra Lindner, U.R.
"Thermosome gene expression in Pyrodictium"
* Markus Holfelder, U.R.
"Novel bioactive compounds from hyperthermophiles"
* Reinhard Wirth, U.R.
"Gene transfer in Archaea"
 
Astrobiology & ORIGINS Colloquia
Spring Quarter 1999
Sponsored by the IGPP Center for Astrobiology, the Department of Earth and Space Sciences, and the Department of Physics and Astronomy* June 9, 1999
A & O Colloquium, 4 p.m., 3853 Slichter Hall
Brett Gladman, Observatorie de la Côte d'Azur, France
"Wagging the dog: Formation of the outer Solar System and the Kuiper Belt"
 
* June 8, 1999
A & O Colloquium, 1 p.m., 3853 Slichter Hall
Ed Young, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford University
"Oxygen isotopes in the early Solar System"
 
* June 7, 1999
A & O Colloquium, 4 p.m., 3853 Slichter Hall
Crispin T.C. Little, Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, London
"The fossil record of hydrothermal vent communities"
 
* June 2, 1999
A & O Colloquium, 4 p.m., 3853 Slichter Hall
Eric Gaidos, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Calfornia Institute of Technology
"The four billion-year romance. Good chemistry is everything"
 
* May 24, 1999
A & O Colloquium, 4 p.m., 3853 Slichter Hall
Stephen J. Mojzsis, Department of Earth & Space Sciences, UCLA
"Vestiges of a beginning: Oceans, impacts, and life on the Hadean Earth"
 
* May 17, 1999
A & O Colloquium, 4 p.m., 6704 Geology
Charles Cockell, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
"Photobiology and Astrobiology"
 
* May 10, 1999
A & O Colloquium, 4 p.m., 3853 Slichter Hall
Christopher H. House, Department of Earth & Space Sciences, UCLA
"From genomes to microfossils: Probing ancient microbial diversity"
 
* May 3, 1999
A & O Colloquium, 4 p.m., 3853 Slichter Hall
Kevin McKeegan, Department of Earth & Space Sciences, UCLA
"Lithic Astronomy: The early Solar System viewed through an ion microscope"
 
* April 26, 1999
A & O Colloquium, 4 p.m., 3853 Slichter Hall
Andrew J. Roger, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
"Reconstructing early events in eukaryotic evolution"
 
* April 22, 1999
Earth and Space Sciences Colloquium, 4 p.m., 3656 Geology
William Bottke, Center for Radiophysics & Space Research, Cornell University
"Delivery of asteroids and meteoroids to the inner solar system"
 
* April 19, 1999
A & O Colloquium, 4 p.m., 3853 Slichter Hall
Elisabetta Pierazzo, Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson
"Impact delivery and impact destruction: The role of impacts in the origin and evolution of life"
 
* April 14, 1999
Astrophysics Journal Club, 1 p.m., 8145 Mathematical Sciences
Man Hoi Lee, Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
"Coagulation, runaway growth, and planet formation"
 
* April 12, 1999
A & O Colloquium, 4 p.m., 3853 Slichter Hall
Tom LaTourrette, Department of Earth & Space Sciences, UCLA
"Constraints on planetary accretion and heating timescales from diffusion studies"
 
* April 8, 1999
Earth and Space Sciences Colloquium, 4 p.m., 3656 Geology
James Farquhar, Department of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego, California
"Mars, Earth, and atmospheres: Applications and techniques for multiple isotope measurements"
 
* February 16, 1999
IGPP Seminar, 4 p.m., 3853 Slichter Hall
Stephen J. Mojzsis, Earth & Space Sciences, UCLA
"New constraints on the timing of life's emergence on Earth"
 
* February 11, 1999
UCLA Astrobiology Journals Club, CSEOL Library, 5861 Geology
Caer McCabe, Physics & Astronomy, UCLA
"Protoplanetary disks"
  
* January 28, 1999
UCLA Astrobiology Journals Club, CSEOL Library, 5861 Geology
Stephen J. Mojzsis, Earth & Space Sciences, UCLA
"Possibilities for an iron-sulfur world"

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