In order to create an intensive workshop atmosphere, the organizers have decided to shorten the originally advertised length down to 6 days, Monday May 30 through to noon, Saturday, June 4.

In the workshop programme listed below, the leadoff speaker on each day of the programme is the designated "discussion leader" (L) for that particular morning. It would be good for people on any morning to contact these "discussion leaders" so that talks and discussion could be thought about before the workshop begins.

The program listed below lists a set of speakers but we wish to emphasize that all "talks" are to be seminar style and very informal. It is expected that for a 45 minute "talk" - at least 1/2 the time will be discussion/questions that are raised by both speaker and pariticpants. The intent here is for the speaker to explore the interesting problems that are related to the topic that they are discussing, and not to review the latest results of their own work.

Each day has a suggested "theme" that covers at least several of the "talks". This is meant to be quite flexible. All morning sessions begin at 9:00 am. Coffee is at 10:30-11:00, and "talks" are scheduled to last total of 45 min for presentation and discussion.

Afternoons are free for participants to work/collaborate/discuss. There will be an afternoon coffee in Bourns building lounge at 3:30-4:00 each afternoon.

There will be a workshop dinner on evening of Friday, June 3.

Saturday will feature a morning session which is meant to be a summing up and open discussion of the major progress/ collaborative research / directions for future development that have flowed from the workshop week.

Monday  May  30 EARLY PLANETARY EVOLUTION
09:00	Ralph Pudritz (L) - McMaster University From molecular cores to planetary disks
09:45	Pawel Artymowicz - University of Toronto TBA
10:30	Coffee
11:00	James Wadsley - McMaster University Formation of Jovian planets
11:45	Axel Brandenburg - Nordita Emergence of Homochirality
Tuesday  May  31 GENOMES AND BIOINFORMATICS
09:00	Paul Higgs (L) - McMaster University Genome Evolution
09:45	Achim Kempf - University of Waterloo Genetic Code
10:30	Coffee
11:00	P. Lee - National Central University, Taiwan Genome growth and DNA word frequencies
11:45	Sivakumar Kannan - Université de Montréal Protein Function Annotation / What is Astrobioinformatics?
Wednesday  June  1 LATE PLANETARY EVOLUTION
09:00	Ed Thommes (L) - CITA, University of Toronto Evolution of planetary systems
09:45	Soko Matsumura - McMaster University Dead zones and the masses of planets
10:30	Coffee
11:00	Evgenya Shkolnik - NASA Astrobiology Institute, University of Hawaii Disk planet interactions
11:45	Jason Fiege - University of Manitoba Europa as environment for life
Thursday  June  2 LUCA AND THE FIRST ORGANISMS
09:00	Anthony Poole (L) - Stockholm University LUCA and the RNA world
09:45	Vivek Gowri-Shankar - Manchester University Base composition of LUCA / Phylogenetics
10:30	Coffee
11:00	Marion Blute - University of Toronto The first living organisms; a social science perspective
11:45	Candida Hadley - McMaster University Moving beyond a search for 'ourselves' - a social science perspective on extraterrestrial life
Friday  June  3 LIFE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM
09:00	Hendrik Poinar (L) - McMaster University Ancient DNA
09:45	Jonathon Stone - McMaster University Life is What?
10:30	Coffee
11:00	Gordon Osinski - Canadian Space Agency Martian impact cratering - habitats for life?
11:45	C. Nake - Biomarkers in Rio Tinto
Saturday  June  4
	Workshop Summary Open discussion of insights, collaborative work, directions for future development.