Climate Science, Atmospheres and Life: From the Earth and Beyond

Are you interested in climate science? What about atmospheric chemistry? What about Exoplanets and the quest for life outside Earth!? Well, you are all warmly invited to join us for a special symposium bringing together scientists from a range of disciplines to talk about "Climate Science, Atmospheres and Life". We have a host of really exciting speakers from across Europe coming to this event and we hope to encourage lively discussion of opportunities and challenges for research in an interactive panel session at the end of the day. 

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10:00 Registration (Department of Chemistry Main Entrance Foyer)

10:30 Ray Pierrehumbert (Oxford) “Fine-tuning requirements for oceans and how nature can get around them”

11:00 Oliver Shorttle (Cambridge) “Characteristics of a Habitable Earth”

11:30 Jianfeng Xu & Paul Rimmer (Cambridge) “Prebiotic Chemistry in Anoxic Exoplanet Atmospheres”

12:00 Lunch and Posters (BMS Lecture Theatre)

13:00 Amaury Triaud (Cambridge) “Assessing habitability ”

13:30 Martin Turbet (Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique) “Possible climates and habitability of Earth-size planets orbiting red dwarfs: the cases of Proxima Cen and TRAPPIST-1 planetary systems”

14:00 Nathan Mayne (Exeter) “Modeling Planetary Atmospheres: Departures from Equilibrium”

14:30 Tea break (BMS Foyer)

15:00 Christiane Helling (St Andrews) “Diverse clouds in chemically diverse atmospheres of extrasolar planets with lightning”

15:30 Sarah Rugheimer (St Andrews) “UV, Biosignatures, and Life”

16:00 Panel discussion

16:30 End of conference