Conference Program

Astrobiology Graduate Conference | 2024

| Monday June 10th

  2:00 PM Check-in to rooms

  4:45 PM First shuttle pickup at bus stop in front of Helen Newman Hall

  5:20 PM Second shuttle pickup at bus stop in front of Helen Newman Hall

  5:00 PM Opening Banquet at Museum of the Earth

  6:00 PM Keynote Speaker: Dr. Morgan Cable

          There and Back Again: A Scientist’s

    Tale of Discovery in the Search for Life

          and Interesting Chemistry

  7:15 PM Dinner and dessert served

  8:45 PM First shuttle to dorms

  9:20 PM Second shuttle to dorms

| Tuesday June 11th

  8:00 AM Breakfast in Milstein Dome

  9:00 AM Talk Session I- Hydrothermal Vents: The Jacuzzis of Life 

 10:20 AM Break

 10:40 AM Talk Session II- Prebiotic Park: Journey to Life

 12:00 PM Lunch

  1:00 PM Talk Session III- The Origin and Spread of Life

  3:20 PM Break

  4:00 PM Poster Session I

  5:30 PM Dinner in Milstein Dome

| Wednesday June 12th

    8:00 AM Breakfast in Milstein Dome

  9:00 AM Talk Session IV- Planetary Protectors

 10:00 AM Break

 10:20 AM Talk Session V- Exoplanets: To Infinity and Beyond

 12:30 PM Lunch 

  1:30 PM Talk Session VI- Icy Worlds: Ice Ice Baby

  2:30 PM Break

  3:00 PM Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Lunine

          How I Became a Scientist and Exploration

    of the Solar System’s Ocean Worlds as a

    Scientific and Social Imperative  

  4:30 PM OPAG/AbGradCon Poster Session at Physical Sciences Building 120

  6:30 PM Shuttles depart for Astrobiology on Tap 

  7:00 PM Astrobiology on Tap @ Personal Best Brewing 

| Thursday June 13th

  8:00 AM Breakfast in Milstein Dome

  9:00 AM Talk Session VII- The Red, and maybe dead, Planet

 10:40 AM Break

 11:00 AM Talk Session VIII- Mars Analogs: Mars from Afar

 12:30 PM Lunch 

  1:30 PM Talk Session IX- Icy Worlds: Astrobiology on the Rocks

  2:30 PM Break

  3:30 PM Poster Session II 

  5:00 PM Closing Dinner in Milstein Dome

| Friday June 14th

  7:00 AM Shuttle to Airport  

  8:00 AM Breakfast in Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall

  9:00 AM Check-out of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall

  9:00 AM (Optional) Field Trip Shuttles Depart

  3:00 PM Shuttle to Airport