BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Memento EPFL//
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:The exoplanet revolution and life in the Universe - Public Lecture
  & Panel Discussion
DTSTART:20260825T183000
DTEND:20260825T201500
DTSTAMP:20260602T211740Z
UID:8b24bff5af3dac8ec00322c63b728a4032c482a051078b97e32e8e5f
CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Didier Queloz\, FRS\nJacksonian Professorship of Natural
  Philosophy\, Cambridge\, UK\nProfessor of Physics\, ETH-Z\, Switzerland\n
 Public Lecture\n"The exoplanet revolution and life in the Universe"\n18h30
  - 19h15\n\nThe diversity and prolific number of planets discovered have r
 evolutionised our conception of the nature and history of planet formation
 . They have opened up the idea of the possible rarity of planetary systems
  similar to our own\, but also exciting prospects for the potential to pro
 be the atmospheres of planets in search of traces of life. We are living i
 n a historic moment that brings us closer to exploring life in the univers
 e and understanding the origins of life on Earth.\nThe talk will present a
 n outlook of this landscape and will discuss the implications of these rec
 ent findings. New insights about the origins of life will be presented in 
 the light of recent experiments about a possible origin of pre-biotic chem
 ical building blocks as well as a possible long-range pathway for detectin
 g Earth-like systems amenable for remote study of life.\n\nPanel Discussio
 n\n19h15 - 20h15\n\nProf. Didier Queloz\, Nobel Laureate 2019\, is directo
 r of the newly founded NCCR Genesis. Its purpose is to establish an ambiti
 ous and innovative collaboration across different\nfields of science in Sw
 itzerland\, with the common goal of answering some of humanity’s most pr
 ofound scientific questions: How did life emerge on Earth? Is the universe
 \nfull of life? In the last decade these profound questions have evolved f
 rom a vague\, often speculative\, debate into a practical research agenda 
 that has galvanised researchers from\ndifferent disciplines and research a
 gencies.\n\nPanelists:\n\n	Prof. Didier Queloz - ETH Zurich\n	Prof. Johann
 a Marin-Carbonne - University of Lausanne (UNIL)\n	Prof. Nicolas Winssinge
 r - University of Geneva (UNIGE)\n\nModerated by Olivier Dessibourg.
LOCATION:CE 1 6 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==CE%201%206
STATUS:CONFIRMED
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR