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| 09:30 | 25 | POSTER SETUP | |
| 09:55 | 05 | Introduction: John Parnell | |
| 10:00 | 00 | SESSION 1 -- Chair: Tony Prave | |
| 10:00 | 20 | Helen Fraser (Strathclyde) The origins of the building blocks of life in the universe | |
| 10:20 | 20 | Keith Horne (St.Andrews) Extra-Solar Planets | |
| 10:40 | 20 | Jane Greaves (St.Andrews) Changes in planet formation over Galactic timescales | |
| 11:00 | 30 | BREAK -- POSTERS | |
| 11:30 | 00 | SESSION 2 -- Chair: Keith Horne | |
| 11:30 | 30 | Mario Livio (STScI) , Cosmology and Life | |
| 12:00 | 20 | Ray Wolstencroft (Edinburgh) and Francois Breon (Paris) Polarization properties of plants and planets | |
| 12:20 | 20 | Alan Hall (Glasgow) and Michael Russell (Glasgow/Grenoble) Towards determining criteria for establishing the presence of the earliest stages in the emergence and evolution of life on other planets. | |
| 12:40 | 20 | Jamie Wood (Edinburgh) Gaia and Daisyworld | |
| 13:00 | 90 | LUNCH -- POSTERS | |
| 14:30 | 0 | SESSION 3 -- Chair: Ray Wolstencroft | |
| 14:30 | 30 | Monica Grady (Open U) The carbon cycle on Earth and on Mars | |
| 15:00 | 20 | Rick Lathe (Edinburgh) Tidal cycling and the origin of replicating biopolymers | |
| 15:20 | 20 | Paula Lindgren (Aberdeen) Carbon-rich melts in the Gardnos impact Crater | |
| 15:40 | 20 | John Parnell (Aberdeen) Sulphates in Haughton impact crater as Mars analogues | |
| 16:00 | 30 | BREAK -- POSTERS | |
| 16:30 | 0 | SESSION 4 -- Chair: John Parnell | |
| 16:30 | 20 | Mark Wyatt (Edinburgh) Signatures of Planet Formation in Dusty Debris Disks | |
| 16:50 | 20 | Tony Prave (St.Andrews) Life on Planet Earth: The Geological Record of Biospheric Evolution | |
| 17:10 | 00 | Open Discussions | |
| 17:10 | 20 | John Parnell (Aberdeen) Scottish Astrobiology Research Agenda | |
| 17:30 | 20 | Keith Horne (St.Andrews) SUPA / Astrobiology Course | |
| 17:50 | 40 | BREAK -- POSTER TAKE-DOWN | |