This meeting has now been held and was attended by about 30-40 people from Aarhus, Copenhagen, Odense and Aalborg Universities. The meeting went very well and formed a good basis for future collaboration in the field of exobiology in Denmark.

The intention of this workshop is to start a dialogue between people in Denmark working in areas related, closely or not so closely, to exobiology and the origin of life on Earth. The meeting will be chaired by one of the world experts in the field, André Brack,  from the Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, CNRS, Orléans. 
 

Coordinator:
David Field, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, dfield@ifa.au.dk : tel. 8942 3650

Chaired by:
André Brack, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, CNRS, Orléans

Programme for the day:
 

10:15	Welcome and Introduction David Field/André Brack
10:30	Current status of Research in the earliest Traces of Life on Earth Minik Rosing (Geological Museum, Copenhagen)
11:15	Chemical and Biological Evolution of the early Earth Environment Don Canfield (Institute of Biology, Odense)
12:00	Life and Magnetism on Mars Jens-Martin Knudsen (Oersted Laboratory, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen)
12:45	Lunch
14:00	The MARS project John Merrison (IFA, Aarhus)
14:30	Photophysics of biomolecular ions Steen Broensted Nielsen (IFA, Aarhus)
15:00	Chirally specific surface reactions Trolle Linderoth (IFA, Aarhus)
15:30	Radiation and biology: experiments using the ASTRID storage ring John Kenney (ISA, Aarhus)
16:00	General discussion and future plans for collaboration André Brack

The meeting is supported by the Aarhus Centre for Atomic Physics

You may also be interested in:

"The First European Workshop on Exo/Astrobiology" 21-24 May 2001 ESRIN, Frascati 

Further details may be found at

http://www.estec.esa.nl/conferences/01C17/index.html

and the detailed programme for the meeting will shortly be publicized.