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Wednesday 11:00-12:00pm, ABB 319

This Week
  • Fitness of the Cosmos for Life by
  • Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe by Simon C. Morris

    • Week 1

    July 10, 2007

    Exoplanets Search by Kai Cai
    Links:

  • The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
  • California Exoplanet Search
  • Wikipedia exoplanet entry

    • Week 2

     July 17, 2007

    Origin of Life by Mark Meng Wu

    Links:

  • Wikipedia entry

    • Week 3-4

     July 24 & 31, 2007

    Philippe Boisvert:
    From Protoplanets to Protolife: The Emergence and Maintenance of Life by Gaidos & Selsis
    It can be found on astro-ph or here

    August 7 & 14: break
    August 21, 2007

    Power, Sex, Suicide by Nick Lane

    August 28, 2007

    Yasuhiro Hasegawa: Planet migration
    Oligarchic and giant impact growth of terrestrial planets in the presence of gas giant planet migration

    September 13, 2007

    Power, Sex, Suicide by Nick Lane (Part 2 'Vital force')

    September 20, 2007
    Marie-Ève Naud
    Rare Earth : Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe by Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee
    September 27

    Power, Sex, Suicide (Part 3)

    October 10 Rare Earth : Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe
    Chapter 2 and 3
    October 31: cancelled
    Dec. 5

    Galactic Habitable Zone - two recent papers:

  • The Galactic Habitable Zone and the Age Distribution of Complex Life in the Milky Way by C. Lineweaver et al.
  • On the ``Galactic Habitable Zone'' by N. Prantzos

    • Resources:

  • Astrobiology.com

    • Journals:

  • Astrobiology

  • International Journal of Astrobiology

  • Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres