Scientific programme

Presentations concerning the following topics are encouraged:

• Physical and chemical processes under star and planet formation
• Formation of complex molecules in space, planetary and satellite atmospheres
• Before and after the Last Common Universal Ancestor: Early evolution of life
• Meteorites as probes for understanding the Early Solar System
• Comets and the early history of the Solar System
• Geological conditions for prebiotic chemistry
• Early Universe, early Earth and the origin of life: Evolution of concepts in history and philosophy
• Borderline between chemistry and biology
• Scientific misconceptions: case studies in astrobiology

Two special sessions:

• Archean and Paleoproterozoic phosphorous cycle and phosphorites
• Water on Mars and its implications to habitability of the Red Planet