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Saturday April 4: Symposium (Conference Rooms at Symposium)
8:30 – 11:35 a.m. Session 2: The Galaxy, Planets and Life
8:30 – 9:20 a.m. Panel 1: Do we have a successful theory of Galaxy and star formation and how will we know
Moderator: Lawrence Krauss
Ben Moore: How low can we go? Can we understand galaxy formation in a CDM Universe?
Carlos Frenk: Dark matter rules
Joe Silk: Outstanding Puzzles, IMF etc
Rogier Windhorst: JWST and its promise
9:20 – 10:20 a.m. Panel 2: How common are Earth-like planets?
Moderator: Ariel Anbar
Alex Halliday: When do solar systems form Earth-like planets?
David Stevenson: Can moonless “Earths” support life?
Ed Young: What are the building blocks of Earth-like planets?
Steve Desch: Where do planets get their water, and where can most liquid water be found?
Phil Christensen: Was Mars ever “Earth-like”?
Jade Bond: Is the chemistry of our Solar System unusual or unique?. TBD.
10:20 – 10:35 a.m. Break
10:35 – 11:35 a.m. Panel 3 How Does Life Originate and How Do We Recognize It?
Moderator: Kip Hodges
Baruch Blumberg: What will it take to know about life elsewhere in the universe?
Paul Davies: Is the life we know the only life there is?
Antonio Lazcano: How do we define the transition from a pre-biotic to a biotic Earth?
Steve Mojzsis: Paleontologic evidence notwithstanding, what was the earliest life on Earth?
Everett Shock: Are there definitive biosignatures for life on other planets and, if so, what are they?
2:15 – 5:00 p.m. Session 3: Origin of Species, Evolution, Human Origins
2:15 – 3:10 p.m. Panel 1: Origin and Evolution of Life and Phenotypic Innovations
Moderator: Manfred Laubichler
George Poste: Can we design new cells from scratch?
Doug Erwin: Extinction and the Origin and Diversification of Body Plans
Kevin Peterson: Complexity and Constraints in Animal Evolution
Randy Nesse: Disease as a by-product of social organization?
Peter Ward: Evolution
Break 3:10 -3:20 p.m.
3:20 – 4:05 p.m. Panel 2: Origin and Evolution of Sociality
Moderator: Jürgen Gadau
Richard Dawkins: Darwin´s Dilemma: How can we explain altruistic behavior?
Bert Hölldobler: The Origin of Eusociality as a Major Transition in Evolution
Joan Strassmann: Cooperation and Conflict: Two Intertwined Themes in Social Evolution
David Queller: Are the Basic Evolutionary Principles that Explain the Evolution of Social Life True for Bacterial Mats, Slime Molds, Eusocial Insects, and Primates, including Humans?
4:05 – 5 p.m. Panel 3: What is the origin of human uniqueness?
Q: What, from the point of view of your specialty, does it mean to be human?
William Kimbel moderator.
Alan Rodgers
John Fleagle
Ian Tattersall
Don Johanson
Curtis Marean
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