Winter/Spring 2006 (earlier seminars: fall 2005)
Tuesdays at 9:15
Auditorium B at Blegdamsvej 17
Other upcoming meetings:
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| Tue 10 Jan | (no seminar) | Nordic Winter School in Astrobiology (Kittilä, 2-13 Jan) |
| Tue 17 Jan | Axel Hunding (Biophys Chem, Uni Cph) | Non-covalent proto-cellular assemblies as devices for information storage, inheritance and selection [pdf] |
| Tue 24 Jan | David Stodolsky (Social Informatics) | Salvation in the space age or how does astrobiology get more funding? [abstract, pdf] |
| Tue 31 Jan | Henrik Svensmark (Sun-Climate Res. Ctr.) | Cosmic rays and the Earth's biosphere through 4 billion years |
| Tue 31 Jan, 15:15 Rockefeller Aud. | Uffe Gråe Jørgensen | Astronomy Colloquium: Discovery of the first Earth-like planet around another star |
| Tue 7 Feb, Aud. C | Tamara Davis (DARK Cosmology Ctr) | Does the rapid appearance of life on Earth suggest that life in the Universe is common? [pdf, paper] |
| Tue 14 Feb | (no seminar) | School holidays |
| Fri 17 Feb, 14:00, Lounge, ground floor, Rockefeller Komplekset | (Eske Willerslev) | Reception in honor of the establishment of the DNA group in "Villaen" |
| Tue 21 Feb | Tobias Mourier (Dept Exp Med Sci) | What modern viruses may tell us about early genomes |
| Tue 28 Feb | Axel Brandenburg (Nordita) | Origin of homochirality in a peptide world [pdf,ppt] |
| Tue 7 March | Anthony Poole (Stockholm Univ, Dept Mol Biol & Funct Genom) | LUCA, the last universal common ancestor of all life [pdf,ppt] |
| Tue 14 March | Ib Lundgaard Rasmussen (Danish Nat'l Space Ctr) | Life - unique to Earth or Common in the Universe? |
| Tue 21 March | (no seminar) | (H&K Lehto on Solar eclipse journey) |
| Tue 28 March | (no seminar) | AbSciCon (Washington, 26-30 March) |
| Tue 4 April, 13:15 in Aud. C | Kaare Lund Rasmussen (Chem. Inst., Syddansk Univ.) | Carbon in cometary material -- the Tunguska event and its destiny on Earth |
| Thu 6 Apr, at Rockefeller, The Big Auditorium, 14:15 | Tobias Cornelius Hinse (Cph Observatory) | Master thesis seminar: Chaos and planet-particle dynamics within the habitable zone of extrasolar planets - a qualitative numerical comparative stability study of HD4208 and HD70642 |
| Tue 11 April | (no seminar) | Easter Holidays |
| Tue 18 April | (no seminar) | speaker had to cancel |
| Tue 25 April | Søren Mørk | A cool life [htm, ppt] |
| Tue 2 May, 9:15 in Aud. C | Lynn J Rothschild (NASA Ames Research Center) | Limits of Life: defining the envelope for the search for life in the universe |
| Tue 9 May | (no seminar) | Stockholm Astrobiology meeting (8-11 May) |
| Tue 16 May | (no seminar)
| speaker had to cancel |
| Tue 23 May, 13:15 | Edward A. Spiegel | On the bifurcation of species |
| Tue 30 May, 13:15 | (no seminar) | |
| Tue 6 Jun, 13:15 | (no seminar) | |
| Tue 13 Jun | (no seminar) | Östersund meeting Impact craters and astrobiology (8-14 June 2006) |