NAI Launches FAR Seminar Series on October 6th

September 19, 2008 / Written by: Estelle Dodson

NAI is excited to announce the launch of the “Forum for Astrobiology Research” (FAR), a virtual seminar series given by graduate students, postdocs and early-career astrobiologists that will be broadcast to the entire astrobiology community.

The first seminar will be held on Monday, October 6th at 11:00am PDT (12:00pm MDT, 1:00pm CDT and 2:00pm EDT). The topic is prebiotic chemistry and the presenters are Catherine Neish of the University of Arizona and William Brazelton of the University of Washington. Stay tuned for titles, abstracts and connection details. For those of you familiar with the NAI Director’s Seminars, the FAR Seminars will follow the same connection protocols.

Topics and dates for the Academic 2008/2009 year are:

October 6 – Prebiotic Chemistry
November 3 – Extreme Life
December 1 – Origin of Life
January 12 – Habitability
February 9 – Habitability
March 9 – Exoplanets
April 13 – Impact of Life on Its Environment
May 11 – Analogue Research and Instrumentation
June 1 – The Search for Life

Special thanks to the FAR Science Organizing Committee for their help in planning the series: Abigail Allwood, Marina António, Leigh Arino de la Rubia, Mark Claire, Julia DeMarines, Aaron D Goldman, Nader Haghighipour, Avi Mandell, Matthew Pasek, Sean Raymond, Matthew Schrenk, Evgenya Shkolnik, Melissa Trainer, Shannon Tronick and Katherine Wright.

Please email Estelle Dodson with questions, comments or suggestions.