Origins of Life - Brainstorming Workshop

Friday May 20, 2011, 9:00 AM → 9:00 PM Europe/Zurich

60-6-015 (CERN)

Markus Nordberg (CERN), Stuart Kauffman (University of Vermont)

The purpose of this small brainstorming workshop, by invitation only, is to address the question of Origin of Life as a possible collaborative effort by the biology reserach community. The workshop is organized at CERN in order to better understand and gain from the experience CERN has in running and organizing physics experiments.

more information EVO.doc EVO.pdf

9:00 AM → 9:15 AM Welcome to CERN

Speaker: Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)

9:15 AM → 9:25 AM Setting the Scene

Speakers: Markus Nordberg (CERN), Stuart Kauffman (University of Vermont)

0 BRAINSTORMING_WORKSHOP_ON_THE_QUESTION_OF_ORIGIN_OF_LIFE_v1-1.doc BRAINSTORMING_WORKSHOP_ON_THE_QUESTION_OF_ORIGIN_OF_LIFE_v1-1.pdf

9:25 AM → 10:10 AM Orientation to CERN and to ATLAS as a case: How is it all organized?

Speaker: Marzio Nessi (CERN)

more information MoU-CORE.pdf

Slides 11-05-20-ATLASScience-Nessi.pdf 11-05-20-ATLASScience-Nessi.pptx

10:10 AM → 10:40 AM Overview of Origin of Life problem

Speaker: Stuart Kauffman

10:40 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee

11:00 AM → 11:45 AM Massive computing at CERN and lessons learned

Speaker: Bob Jones (CERN)

Slides BobJones-Kauffman_May2011.pdf BobJones-Kauffman_May2011.ppt

11:45 AM → 12:15 PM Overview of Origin of Life Problem (2)

Speaker: Günter von Kiedrowski (RUB)

Slides CERN2011_Overview.pdf CERN2011_Overview.ppt

12:15 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch (reserved area in Restaurant 1)

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM Overview of Origin of Life Problem (3)

Speaker: Kepa Ruiz Mirazo (EHU)

Slides krm_views_OL_CERN_FINAL.pdf krm_views_OL_CERN_FINAL.ppt

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM Origin of Life problem 8

Speaker: Mauro Santos (Collegium Budapest)

Slides MSantos_CERN2011.pdf MSantos_CERN2011.ppt

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Overview of Origin of Life Problem (4)

Speaker: Dr Eors Szathmary (Collegium Budapest)

Slides Origlife_CERN.pdf Origlife_CERN.ppt

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Overview of Origin of Life Problem (5)

Speaker: Dr Pierre-Alain Monnard (University of Southern Denmark)

Slides Cern.pdf Cern.ppt

4:00 PM → 4:15 PM Coffee break

4:15 PM → 4:45 PM Overview of Origin of Life Problem (7)

Speaker: Dr Wim Hordijk (University of Lausanne)

Slides RAF.pdf

4:45 PM → 5:15 PM Overview of Origin of Life Problem (6)

Speaker: Roberto Serra (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)

Slides presentation_CERN_final.pdf presentation_CERN_final.ppt

5:15 PM → 6:00 PM Discussion, Conclusions, Next Steps

6:00 PM → 7:00 PM Visit to ATLAS control room (optional)

Speakers: Markus Nordberg (CERN), Marzio Nessi (CERN)

7:00 PM → 9:00 PM Dinner (Reserved in Restaurant 1)