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This conference is the first Conference and WGPP (Working Group and Project Planning) meeting of the TD1308 COST action ORIGINS : www.life-origins.com

 The whole conference is divided in 3 parts

• a plenary session on Monday, including one special talk for the 20th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet (51 Pegasi b), one on the Rosetta mission related to the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and 15 others invited/contributed talks related to the Working Groups (WG) activities
• a special session on Tuesday morning on planetary atmospheres
• 3 parallel sessions on Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday and Thursday on

                        – Formation and Evolution of habitable planets

                        – From inanimate matter to living systems

                        – Biosignatures and abiotic processes

            as well as a discussion on outreach and education in astrobiology.

The first 2 sessions (full Monday and Tuesday morning) are open to all researchers, COST members or not. The parallel sessions are devoted to WG members only, but any researcher interested in participating in these sessions is welcome to contact the chair of the action.

Key dates are the following:

To know more about the conference: http://www.iastro.pt/research/conferences/life-origins2015/

Hope to see you in Porto !!

Muriel Gargaud and Wolf Geppert, respectively chair and vice-chair of the COST action ORIGINS

On behalf of the SOC and LOC of the conference