Astrobiology Brainstorming Meeting at Skebo Herrgård

6 Mar 2008, 09:00 → 7 Mar 2008, 18:00 Europe/Stockholm

Skebo Herrgård

During last years Astrobiology Graduate School kick-off meeting on 16 October the lack of inter-departmental collaboration was identified as an important shortcoming and it was decided that we should work on this. During the last faculty meeting on 10 December a working group was assembled consisting of Bitte, Nils, Wolf, Garrelt, and Henrik. The purpose of this group is to plan and organize an overnight meeting of all participants associated in a broad sense with the graduate school. The meeting will consist of two plenary sessions and of several sessions for group work. The size of a group could be anywhere between 2 and 7 or so, and it would consist of people from at least two different departments. The aim of each group is to work out a research topic that is clearly relevant to astrobiology, and could potentially lead to a publication in one of the astrobiology main-stream journals. The days Thursday-Friday have been deemed optimal for most of us. The venue is Skebo gard, and we would be picked up by bus at Central Station at 10 am. So, the schedule would be something like this:

6 March

 9:15 Bus from T-Centralen
10:30 check-in at the hotel
10:45 welcome coffee
11:00 plenary session
         introduction to the workshop
         presentation of the topics by the contact persons
         open discussion of other possible subjects
12:30 lunch
13:45 division into groups
14:00 group work
15:30 coffee
16:00 group work
17:30 plenary session
18:00 dinner
20:00 informal gathering in the wine cellar

7 March

 9:00 group work
10:30 coffee
11:00 group work
12:00 lunch
13:30 guided tour through the Skebobruk Museum
14:00 plenary session
15:30 coffee
16:00 departure

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Agenda Agenda_for_the_Skebobruk_meeting.pdf

Practical Information Skebo_Practical_information.pdf