Past Event Category: Seminar
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Apr 23WiCOR/Astronomy Colloquium: Victoria MeadowsVictoria Meadows, Senior Research Scientist, SETI Institute
Title: The Virtual Planetary Laboratory and the Search for Signs of Life on Exoplanets Abstract: The Virtual Planetary Laboratory is a massively interdisciplinary research group that has been working since 2001 to put a strong scientific foundation under the search for signs of life on exoplanets. This exciting quest was identified as a high priority …
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Oct 9Wisconsin Center for Origins Research Seminar – CleavesJim Cleaves, Department of Chemistry, Howard University
Chemistry Building 1315, UW-Madison
This is event is supported by the WiCOR Lecture Fund and the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. Title: Prebiotic Chemical Diversity Abstract: The space of possible organic compounds is incredibly large and diverse, while the space of core biochemistry is relatively small, though also diverse. This talk will explore relations between those two chemical spaces vis-a-vis …