Swedish Astrobiology Meeting (Lund)

Monday 18 May 2009, 11:00 → 17:00 Europe/Stockholm

Lundmark lecture hall (Lund Observatory)

How to find Lund Observatory

The Swedish Astrobiology Network (SwAN) spring meeting will be held in Lund. Given the proximity to Copenhagen, we also expect partipants from there. The talks will start in the late morning and continue through the afternoon to allow people to return the same day.

Even if you are from Lund or Copenhagen, please sign up following the link on the left. This allows us to schedule to coffee sessions correspondingly. We welcome proposal for talks in alll areas of astrobiology, and specifically on issues of Mars exploration.

A SwAN business meeting will be held just prior to the first lectures in the morning. Here the schedule of the meeting:

(10:00-10:55 SwAN business meeting)

11:00 - 12:30 Morning session (chair: Dainis Dravins)

11:00 - 11:15 Dainis Dravins (Lund)
Welcome address and introduction (PDF)

11:15 - 11:45 Paula Lindgren (Stockholm)
Fossil Life in Impact Craters (abstract)

11:45 - 12:00 Ricky Nilsson (Stockholm)
Water delivery and D/H ratios in the Solar System (PowerPoint)

12:00 - 12:30 Lars Mattsson (Uppsala)
On the existence of a galactic habitable zone and the origin of carbon (PDF)

12:30 Lunch

14:00 - 15:30 First afternoon session (chair: Wolf Geppert)

14:00 - 14:30 Nils Holm (Stockholm)
Nitrogen reduction in mafic rocks (PowerPoint)

14:30 - 15:00 Raphael Plasson (Stockholm)
Emergence of homochirality and the need of energy (PDF)

15:00 Coffee

15:30 - 17:00 Second afternoon session (chair: Axel Brandenburg)

15:30 - 16:00 Lars Olof Björn (Lund)
What spectral signatures should we look for as signs of life on exoplanets? (PDF, publication in