The following program may be subject to change.
| Day | Start Time | Topic | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday, 20 July | 07:30 | Bus leaves IAD Marriott Hotel for Green Bank | |
| 10:00 | Registration in Residence Hall | ||
| 12:00 | Lunch in the Cafeteria | ||
| 13:00 | Session 1: Blumberg, Astrobiology, and The Green Bank Observatory | ||
| Opening: Welcome and Administrative matters | Adam Cohen, Karen O’Neil, Jay Lockman | ||
| Barry Blumberg and Astrobiology | Carl Pilcher | ||
| Blumberg and the value of research in astrobiology | Martine Rothblatt | ||
| Green Bank: Birthplace of Modern SETI | Ken Kellermann | ||
| 15:00 | Coffee & Group Photo | ||
| 15:15 | Session 2: Overview | ||
| Is there a Universal Biology? | Lynn Rothschild | ||
| History, Discovery, Analogy: The Impact of Discovering Life Beyond Earth | Steven Dick | ||
| The Origin of the Moon | Rick Carlson | ||
| Flash Talks | |||
| 17:30 | Drinks in the Drake Lounge and Dinner in the Cafeteria | ||
| 19:00 | Evening Lecture in the Science Center | ||
| Our Future in Space: From the Moon to Exoplanets | Chris Impey | ||
| 20:30 | Discussion in the Drake Lounge | ||
| Sunday, 21 July | 08:00 | Breakfast in the Cafeteria | |
| 09:00 | Session 3: Planets & Life | ||
| Exoplanets in the Milky Way – results from Kepler | Jessie Christiansen | ||
| Habitable Zones | Jim Kasting | ||
| Concepts of Life | Kelly Smith | ||
| Life in the Solar System | Jennifer Macalady | ||
| 11:10 | Coffee | ||
| Humans + Other Life = Trouble | Kathryn Denning | ||
| Session 4: Chemistry near and far | |||
| Organic Molecules in Space | Sun Kwok | ||
| Organic Molecules on Titan: from Cassini to ALMA | Martin Cordiner | ||
| 13:00 | Lunch in the Cafeteria | ||
| 14:00 | Session 5: Planet Formation | ||
| Chemistry in Pre-Planetary Disks | Ted Bergin | ||
| Giant Impacts and the Composition of Extrasolar Planetesimals | Alycia Weinberger | ||
| Theoretical Models for Planet Formation | John Chambers | ||
| Searches for Habitable Planets | Jason Wright | ||
| 15:30 | Coffee | ||
| 15:45 | Session 6: Finding Planets | ||
| Transit Surveys for Habitable Planets | Angie Wolfgang | ||
| Imaging Habitable Planets | Ruslan Belikov | ||
| Habitability of Proxima Centuri B | Meridith MacGregor | ||
| Panel: Searching for Habitable Planets | |||
| Moonshots and Earthshots in the Search for Habitable Planets | Belikov, Boss, Weinberger | ||
| 17:30 | Drinks in the Drake Lounge and Dinner in the Cafeteria | ||
| 19:00 | Session 7: SETI | ||
| Panel: SETI | |||
| SETI: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Moonshots and Earthshots | Berea, Charbonneau, F. Drake, Kellermann, Siemion | ||
| 20:30 | Discussion continues in the Drake Lounge | ||
| Monday, 22 July | 08:00 | Breakfast in the Cafeteria | |
| 08:30 | Tour of the Green Bank and Tatel Telescopes | ||
| 10:15 | Panel: Chemistry | ||
| From Interstellar Chemistry to Planetary Chemistry | Gupta, Langston, Kwok, Bergin | ||
| 11:00 | Coffee | ||
| 11:15 | Session 8: Perspectives from the Social Sciences and Humanities | ||
| Astrotheology and Astrobiology | Ted Peters | ||
| Cognitive Planetary Transitions: An Astrobiological Perspective on the “Sapiezoic Eon” | David Grinspoon | ||
| Concept of Intrinsic Value for Planetary Protection Ethics | James Schwartz | ||
| Panel: Popular Astrobiology | |||
| Astrobiology in the popular imagination | Tarter, Schwartz, N. Drake, Dick | ||
| 13:00 | Lunch in the cafeteria | ||
| 14:00 | Session 9: Planets and life | ||
| Radio Emission from the Planets | Joe Lazio | ||
| Cometary Astrobiology | Stefanie Milam | ||
| Exo-comets | Barry Walsh | ||
| Life in Extreme Environments | Penny Boston | ||
| Planetary Protection | Cassie Conley | ||
| 15:45 | Coffee | ||
| 16:00 | Session 10: Neuroscience, Communication and Intelligence | ||
| COGITO in Space: Exo-neurobiology and SETI | Daniela De Paulis | ||
| For All Kind: Astrobiology Beyond “Mankind” | Michael Oman-Reagan | ||
| Emergence of Communication in Biological and Social Networks | Annamaria Berea | ||
| Is Human-like Intelligence a Convergent Feature of Evolution? | Charley Lineweaver | ||
| 17:30 | Drinks in the Drake Lounge and dinner in the cafeteria | ||
| 19:00 | Panel: Life and Responsibility | ||
| Life Here vs. Life There: Ethical, Moral, Legal Issues in Astrobiology | Mancinelli, Tatel, Smith, Conley | ||
| 20:30 | Discussion continues in the Drake Lounge | ||
| Tuesday, 23 July | 08:00 | Breakfast in the Cafeteria | |
| 09:00 | Session 11: Earthshots & Moonshots | ||
| Technologies for future exploration | Dan Wertheimer | ||
| Astrometric Exoplanet Searches | Alan Boss | ||
| TESS and JWST – Prospects for Astrobiology | Natasha Batalha | ||
| The Exo-Life Finder | Jeff Kuhn | ||
| 10:25 | Coffee | ||
| TBD | |||
| HabEx, LUVIOR | |||
| 11:20 | Panel: What’s Next | ||
| What’s Next: Astrobiology’s Current and Future Big questions | Berea, Boston, Denning, Grinspoon, Pilcher, Rothblatt, Rothschild | ||
| 12:20 | Lunch in the Cafeteria | ||
| 13:00 | Bus leaves for IAD | ||
| 17:00 | Dinner in the Cafeteria | ||
| Wednesday, 24 July | 08:00 | Breakfast in the Cafeteria | |
| 09:00 | Bus leaves for IAD |