Searching for Life in the Solar System ... And Beyond

A Research Discussion Meeting
The Royal Society, London, UK - 31 October 1996

Organised by C T Pillinger [OU] and A J Penny [CLRC]
Hosted by Ian Taylor, MP, Minister for Science and Technology

• C T Pillinger [OU] - Opening Remarks
• I Taylor, MP [DTI] - Welcome by the Minister for Science and Technology
• P G Murdin [BNSC] - The British Programme
• D J Des Marais [NASA] - The NASA Exobiology Programme
• M Coradini [ESA] - Are Horizons 2000, the exploration of Mars and international collaboration compatible?
• A J Penny [CLRC] - Searching for Life on Planets Around Other Stars
• I P Wright [OU] - SNC Meteorites, Space Probes from Mars
• S J Rowland [Plymouth] - Carbon Skeletons as Indicators of Life Processes
• A E Fallick [SURRC] - Sulphur in Biological Systems
• H Wanke [Mainz] - Scientific Goals in the Exploration of Mars

• J Papaloizou [QMW] - Theories of Planet Formation
• H F Walker [CLRC] - ISO Satellite Observation of Dust Disks Around Stars
• F Paresce [ESO] - Planet Searching with ESA's VLT and VLTI Telescopes
• R D Davies [Jodrell] - Planet Searching through Radio Astronomy and Planets
• K D Horne [St Andrews] - Planet Searching Through Gravitational Lensing
• D A Rothery [OU] - Icy satellites as possible abodes of life

• D A Cowan [UCL] - Micro-organisms in inhospitable environments
• W Grant [Leicester] - The Case for Very Long Time Suspended Animation
• G Turner [Manchester] - Composition of the Martian atmosphere as a clue to life
• J Guest [UCL] - Suitable sites for the search for life on Mars
• A MacDermott [Cambridge] - Chirality as a Signature for Bio-Organic Synthesis
• S R Boyd [Paris] - Can Metasediments Record the Existence of Amino Acids?

• G Eglinton, M Longair, J Lovelock - Panel comments on the possibilities of finding planets and life

Poster Papers

• E Chassefiere et al - An IR Spectroscopic Search for the 51 Peg Planet
• J Pillinger et al - Public Amusement by Science
• A Penny et al - An Invitation for Exo-Planet Work Collaboration
• M Sephton - Organic Material in Carbonaceous Meteorites
• A Steele et al - Atomic Force Microscopy Imaging of a Fragment of ALH84001
• G Turner et al - Composition of the Martian Atmosphere as a Clue to Life
• L Wilson et al - Volcanic Intrusions: Heat Sources to Maintain Viable Ecosystems on Mars?
• R Wolstencroft - Circular Polarisation and the Detection of Optical Activity on Planets
• J Zarnecki - University of Kent Activities Related to the Search for Life