Scientific Programme

 

Registration, Posters set up, Welcome cocktail: September 27 (Sunday), 16:00-19:00 (ESO Office)

Program Overview

Monday, September 28: Habitable Worlds
Chair: Claudio Melo
09:00 - 10:00
 Registration and morning coffee
10:00 - 11:00 Setting the scene: What is Life?  Charles Lineweaver (ANU)
  
11:00 - 11:45 Keynote The Limits of Life.  Pieter Visscher (U. of Connecticut)
  
11:45 - 12:30 Contributed talks (15+5min)
11:45 - 12:05
 Ongoing metabolism in desiccated life. Armando Azua-Bustos (Blue Marble Inst.)  
12:05 - 12:25 Adaptive microbial-communities responses to environmental changes in oligotrophic lakes. Alex Echeverría-Vega (UCN)  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Contributed talks (15+5min)
14:00 - 14:20 Microbial life in an acid hypersaline system in Northern Chile. Cecilia Demergasso (UCN)  
14:20 - 14:40 Bioastronomy teaching at the U. of Chile (1979-2015). Luis Campusano (UChile)  
14:40 - 15:15 Coffee break and Poster viewing
15:15 - 15:35 Chaos and unpredictability in biological evolution. Yaroslav Isopolatov (USACH) PDF
16:00 End of Day 1
Tuesday, September 29: Planetary Systems I
Chair: Jorge Melnick
09:30 - 10:15 Keynote The formation of planetary disks. François Ménard (UMI-FCA, UChile)  
10:15 - 10:40 Contributed talks (15+5min)
10:15 - 10:35 Resolving the Dust in Planetary Systems with ALMA. Mark Booth (PUC)  
10:35 - 11:15
 Coffee break
11:15 - 12:30 Keynote
 The stability of planetary systems. Jacques Laskar (Obs. Paris)  
12:30 - 14:00
 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Keynote
 Distribution of volatiles in the Early Solar System -- Origin of Earth's Water. Karen Meech (IfA, Hawaii)  
15:00 - 16:00 Contributed talks (15+5min)
15:00 - 15:20 Water in B-type asteroids. Bin Yang (ESO)  
15:20 - 15:40 What Kuiper Belt analogs tell us about the underlying planetary systems? Julien Milli (ESO) PDF
15:40 - 16:00
 An Update on Meteorite Impacts in Chile. Millarca Valenzuela (PUC) PDF
16:00 - 17:00 Coffee break and Poster viewing
17:00 End of Day 2
Wednesday, September 30: Morning: Life in the Solar System
Chair: Karen Meech
09:30 - 10:30 Keynote Mars Past and Current Habitability as recently redefined. Gerónimo Villanueva (NASA/GSFC)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:20
 Contributed talks (15+5min)
11:00 - 11:20 Atmospheric requirements for planting trees on Mars. Insights from Pico de Orizaba. Paola Molina (UNAM)
11:20 - 12:05
 Keynote Ocean Worlds of the Outer Solar System. Kevin Hand (JPL)
12:05- 12:40 Poster Session. 2min talks with one slide.
12:40
 Free Afternoon
19:00 - 21:00
 Conference dinner at ESO
Thursday, October 1: Exoplanets
Chair: Christophe Martayan
09:30 - 10:15 Keynote Census of habitable planets.  Andrew Howard (IfA, Hawaii) PDF
10:15 - 10:35 Contributed talks (15+5min)
10:15 - 10:35
 Transiting planets from the K2 mission. Evan Sinukoff (Hawaii)  
10:35 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:45
 Keynote Planetary Atmospheres.  David Catling (U of Washington)
  
11:45 - 12:45 Contributed talks (15+5min)
11:45 - 12:05 Exploring the diversity of exoplanet atmospheres from the ground with the ACCESS survey. Nestor Espinoza (PUC)  
12:05- 12:25 Transmission spectroscopy observations of Qatar-1b with GTC/OSIRIS. Sergio Hoyer (IAC)  
12:25 - 12:45
 Reflected light from exoplanets via high resolution spectroscopy. Jorge Martins (ESO) PDF
12:45 - 14:00
 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Contributed talks (15+5min)
14:00 - 14:20 Probing exoplanet atmospheres via transmission spectroscopy with the VLT+FORS2.  Elyar Sedaghati (ESO)  
14:20 - 14:40 Transmission spectroscopy of hot Uranus GJ3470b. Supachai Awiphan (U. of Manchester)  
14:40 - 15:00 New types of transiting planets from the HATSouth survey. Rafael Brahm (PUC)  
15:00 - 15:45 Keynote The Quest for exo-Earths. James Jenkins (UChile) PDF
15:45 - 16:05 Contributed talk (15+5min)
15:45 - 16:05 RAFT I: Discovery of new planetary candidates and updated orbits from FEROS archival spectra. Maritza Soto (UChile)  
16:05 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 18:20 Contributed talks (15+5min)
16:30 - 16:50 Multi-band characterization of Hot Jupiters: WASP- 5b, -44b, and -46b. Maximiliano Moyano (UCN) PDF
16:50 - 17:10 A second generation of planets in post-common-envelope systems? Dominik Schleicher (U. of Concepción) PDF
17:10 - 17:30 On the nature of the planetary mass companion candidate in the FW Tau system. Claudio Cáceres (U of Valparaíso)
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17:30 - 17:50 A SPHERE Discovery of an M-Dwarf Companion to a Sun-like Star. Blake Pantoja (UChile)  
18:00 End of Day 4
Friday, October 2: Life on Earth
Chair: Luis Campusano
09:30 - 10:15 Keynote The History of Earth’s Climate. Didier Paillard (LSCE) PDF
10:15 - 10:35 Contributed talk(15+5min)
10:15 - 10:35 How does the obliquity affect climate? Priscilla Nowajewski (UChile)  
10:35 - 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 - 11:35
 Keynote Remote Sensing of Life. Svetlana Berdyugina (KIS)  
11:35 - 12:15 Contributed talks (15+5min)
11:35 - 12:45 The search for life in our Galaxy: using the solar system planets as benchmarks. Enric Palle (IAC) PDF
12:45 - 13:05 Spectropolarimetric signatures of Clouds and Aerosols. Michael Sterzik (ESO) PDF
13:05 - 14:00
 Lunch
14:00
 Autopoiesis. Humberto Maturana (Matriztica)
  

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