The 2nd ELSI International Symposium

Day 1 (March 24, 13:00 - 18:00)

Session 1: Origin of Life: Scenarios & Approach

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 Flush Talk & Poster Session

Day 2 (March 25, 9:00 - 18:30)

Session 2: Water in the Early Solar System

Hidenori Genda (ELSI)
Alessandro Morbidelli (Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur)
Yann Alibert (Univ. of Bern)
Shigeru Ida (ELSI)
Michelle Hopkins (Univ. of Colorado)
François Robert (Muséum National d' Histoire Naturelle)
Ryuichi Nomura & Kei Hirose (ELSI)
Poster Session

Session 3: Where Did Life Emerge? Deep Sea, Surface, or Mars?

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

Day 3 (March 26, 9:00 - 17:20)

Session 4: Exploring the Hadean Earth

Steeve Gréaux (ELSI/Ehime Univ.)
Kevin Righter (NASA/JSC)
Stephen Mojzsis (Univ. of Colorado)
Bernard Marty (CRPG Nancy)
Feng Tian (Tsinghua Univ.)
Richard Carlson (Carnegie Institution of Washington)
Robert Hazen (Carnegie Institution of Washington)

Session 5: Early Evolution of Earth and Life before Oxygen

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