Earth-Life Science Institute is pleased to announce that the 2nd ELSI International Symposium will be held on 24-26 March 2014 at Hitotsubashi Hall at National Institute of Informatics, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

"Origin & Evolution of the Earth-Life System"

*We will be opening our registration desk from AM 11:00 at Hitotsubashi Hall

Scientific Program:

Day 1 (March 24, 13:00 ― 18:00)
Opening: Kei Hirose (ELSI)
Session 1: Origin of Life: Scenarios & Approach (13:20 ― 16:20)

Christoph Adami (Michigan State Univ.)
Masashi Aono (ELSI)
Robert Pascal (CNRS)
Doron Lancet (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Yoshi Oono (Univ. of Illinois)
Daisuke Kiga & Yutetsu Kuruma (ELSI)

Poster Flash Talks (16:20 ― 16:50)
Poster Session (17:00 ― 18:00)

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Day 2 (March 25, 9:00 ― 18:00)
Session 2: Water in the Early Solar System (9:00 ― 11:40)

Hidenori Genda (ELSI)
Alessandro Morbidelli (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur)
Yann Alibert (Univ. of Bern)
Shigeru Ida (ELSI)
Michelle Hopkins (Univ. of Colorado)
Francois Robert (Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle)

Session 3: Where Did Life Emerge? Deep Sea, Surface, or Mars? (13:00 ― 17:00)

Jim Cleaves (ELSI)
Steven Benner (FfAME)
Joe Kirschvink (ELSI/Caltech)
Ken Takai (ELSI/JAMSTEC)
Laurie Barge (JPL)
Armen Mulkidjanian (Univ. of Osnabruck)
Shigenori Maruyama (ELSI)

Poster Session (17:00 ― 18:00)
Banquet (19:00 ― )

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Day 3 (March 26, 9:00 ― 17:40)
Session 4: Exploring the Hadean Earth (9:00 ― 12:25)

Bernard Marty (CRPG Nancy)
Steeve Greaux (ELSI/Ehime Univ.)
Kevin Righter (NASA/JSC)
Ryuichi Nomura & Kei Hirose (ELSI)
Richard Carlson (Carnegie Institution of Washington)
Feng Tian (Tsinghua Univ.)
Stephen Mojzsis (Univ. of Colorado)

Poster Session
Session 5: Early Evolution of Earth and Life before Oxygen (14:00 ― 17:40)

Akihiko Yamagishi (TUPLS)
Robert Hazen (Carnegie Institution of Washington)
Yuichiro Ueno (ELSI)
Woodward Fischer (Caltech)
Paul Falkowski (Rutgers Univ.)
Robert Blankenship (Washington Univ.)
Shinji Masuda (ELSI)
John Hernlund (ELSI)

Closing

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Registration & Creating an ELSI account

Due to limited seating capacity of the hall, the registration will be on first-come, first-served basis. http://members.elsi.jp/signup/sympo?ml_lang=en

Reference

Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) Tokyo Institute of Technology
Tel: +81-3-5734-3414/Fax: +81-3-5734-3416
E-mail: info@elsi.jp

Location

Hitotsubashi Hall at National Institute of Informatics 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

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