The Science Day aims to bring together research relevant to Life in the Universe across all departments in Cambridge in a series of talks, feature keynote and poster presentations.
This year the event took place on 15 March 2024 at King's College, The Keynes Lecture Theatre, Cambridge. Keynote speakers included Prof Nikku Madhusudhan, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge and Dr Karina K. Nakashima, Rubicon Fellow, University of Strasbourg.
To read about reflections on the day see our news story.
Programme 2024 |
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9:00 - 10:00 Registration & coffee 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break, Poster Presentations |
Session I: On the search for life (11:00 – 12:00) |
| 11:00 - 11:15 Philipp Spillman (History and Philosophy of Science) What Does it Mean to Search for Earth-Like Life? 11:15 - 11:30 Princess Buma-at (Zoology) Putative algal microfossils from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation 11:30 - 11:45 Philip Vixseboxse (Earth Sciences) An exogenous enzymatic control on soft-tissue preservation in the early animal fossil record 11:45 - 12:00 Savvas Constantinou (Institute of Astronomy) Exoplanetary Atmospheric Retrievals with Transit Spectroscopy in the JWST Era 12:00 - 13:00 Break: Photo and lunch |
Session II: Just like home? (13:00 - 14:00) |
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13:00 - 13:15 Janna K. Mueller |
Session III: Forming, mining, and impacting worlds (14:30 – 15:30) |
| 14:00 - 14:15 Nathan Magnan (DAMTP) Planet formation by the streaming instability 14:15 - 14:30 Laura Rogers (Institute of Astronomy) Using polluted white dwarfs to probe the bulk composition and geological history of exoplanetary material 14:30 - 14:45 Catriona McDonald (Institute of Astronomy) Delivering prebiotic feedstocks with cometary impacts 14:45 - 15:00 Ross Findlay (Earth Sciences) Understanding Early Formed Asteroids: Correlating Petrography with Geochemistry 15:30 - 16:00 Break: Coffee, poster presentations |
Session IV: From Spark to Species (16:00 - 17:00) |
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16:00 - 16:15 Arsham Nejad Kourki |
The Programme for the event is also available to download.
For any questions please contact the organisers admin@lclu.cam.ac.uk