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SUMMARY:THE SECOND LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE CONFERENCE: OUR PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE SELVES
DESCRIPTION:The conference is sponsored by the Breakthrough Initiatives, the Palaeontological Scientific Trust,\nthe South African Radio Astronomy Observatory and the South African Astronomical Observatory.\nThis is a unique opportunity to gain an overview of the wide range of research which is aimed at\nunderstanding the origin and evolution of life in the universe.\nThe conference is multi-disciplinary: it covers the search for technosignatures and biosignatures from\nthe universe using telescopes, the space missions searching for life in the solar system, prebiotic\nchemistry in the universe and in the laboratory, the earliest life forms on Earth, genetics, mass\nextinctions, the coevolution of technology and intelligence and the future of humanity and the planet.\nThe conference will follow a chronological narrative, from the formation of complex molecules in the\nuniverse through our earliest common ancestors to the appearance of advanced cognition and the\npossible future evolution of life on Earth. It emphasizes that we all derive from an earliest common\nancestor and that we may not be unique in the universe, given the recent discovery of thousands of\nhabitable planets in our Milky Way galaxy alone.\nAttendance is free. The conference is aimed at scientists and other interested people across the\ndisciplines.\nThe Scientific Organising Committee is Bernie Fanaroff (SARAO) (Co-Chair), Dave DeBoer (UC Berkeley)\n(Co-Chair), Barbara Sherwood Lollar (Toronto), Andrew Siemion (UC Berkeley), Jill Tarter (SETI Institute),\nMike Garrett (Manchester), Pierre Durand (Witwatersrand), Jamie Drew (Breakthrough Initiatives)\nand Robert Blumenschine (PAST).\nConfirmed speakers include\nMartin Rees (Cambridge)\nLisa Kaltenegger (Cornell)\nShino Suzuki (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth\nScience)\nSteve Benner (Foundation for Applied\nMolecular Evolution)\nBarbara Sherwood Lollar (Toronto)\nEugene Koonin (National Centre for Biotech\nInformation)\nWilliam Martin (Dusseldorf)\nJaganmoy Jodder (Witwatersrand)\nJonah Chioniere (Witwatersrand)\nArik Kestenbaum (Cambridge)\nJim Green (NASA)\nFrances Westall (European Space Agency)\nTim Goudge (UT Austin)\nDavid Grinspoon (Planetary Science Institute)\nHeather Graham (NASA)\nJason Wright (Penn State)\nDaniel Czech (Berkeley)\nDietrich Stout (Emory)\nScott Hubbard (Stanford)\nHarry Attwater (Caltech)\nSoRi La (Witwatersrand)\nPete Worden (Breakthrough Initiatives)\nRegistration for the conference will open soon at www.sarao.ac.za. After you register, you will be sent a link for each day of the conference.\nIn order to cover all the time zones, the conference is scheduled for the morning in the USA and the late afternoon and early evening in Europe and Africa.\n
URL:http://www.africanastronomicalsociety.org/events/the-second-life-in-the-universe-conference-our-past-present-and-future-selves/
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