Day

Day/Time/Session	Title	First author
Saturday July 6 Sunday July 7	Registration in the Reef View Hotel Chart Room (Ground Floor)
Sunday July 7 Convention Centre	Live webcast to audiences at the National Museum of Australia To Mars and Beyond Exhibition and the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney with Dr Harrison Schmitt and Prof Paul Davies with Dr Seth Shostak as the host. All welcome to participate.
Sunday July 1900-2100 Marquee	Reception (cost included in registration for delegates)- special guests Dr Harrison Schmitt and Dr Barry Blumberg
Monday July 8 0845-1030 Convention Hall
0900-0915 0915-0925 0925-0955 0955-1035	Opening ceremony including a traditional Aborginal welcome Official opening by Dr Harrison Schmitt, the only scientist to have walked on the Moon Invited talk by Dr Schmitt "Life Among the Craters" Official opening of the Fulbright Symposium by Dr Baruch Blumberg, Nobel Laureate and Director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute Invited talk by Dr Blumberg
1035-1100 Atrium	Tea/coffee break
Session 1 Reviewing the Field
1100-1110	SOC/LOC announcements on logistics for the week: SOC Chair and LOC Chair	Ray Norris Carol Oliver
1110-1150	Plenary speaker The Anglo-Australia Planet Search	Chris Tinney
1150-1230	Plenary speaker Life, the universe, and SETI in a nutshell	Jill Tarter
1230-1330	Lunch
Session 2 Astrochemistry	Chemical evolution in the interstellar and interplanetary medium The role of dust and star formation in chemical evolution Chirality and complex molecules in space
1330-1410	Invited speaker Extraterrestrial chirality	Jeremy Bailey
1410-1425	The origin of organic matter in the solar system	George Flynn
1425-1440	Synthesis of Organic Compounds in the Circumstellar Environment	Sun Kwok
1440-1510	Coffee break
1510-1525	Interstellar dust and the organic inventories of early solar systems	Doug Whittet
1525-1540	Synthesis of PAHs in simulated cometary, interstellar and icy surfaces by charged particle irradiation	Bishun Khare
1540-1555	Large organics in space: formatting survival and distribution of organic matter in the universe	Richard Ruiterkamp
1555-1610	Infrared studies of biochemically interesting molecules using ISO-SWS instrument	Erkki Helo
1610-1625	Abundances of organic molecules in molecular cloud cores	Edmund Sutton
1625-1700	Poster Session
Monday evening	Cross-symposia panel discussion chaired by Ray Norris	Baruch Blumberg, Harrison Schmitt, Jill Tarter, Chris Chyba, Paul Davies
Tuesday July 9 Session 3 Formation and Evolution of Planets	Formation and evolution of planets Mass distributions Current search techniques for exoplanets Current results on exoplanets Future searches How probable is Earth?
0830-0900	Invited talk Planetary systems around other stars	Geoff Marcy
0900-0930	The search for life beyond the solar system	Charles Beichman
0930-0945	How unusual are stars with planets?	Neill Reid
0945-1000	Exoplanets from the South Pole	Douglas Caldwell
1000-1030	Coffee break
1030-1045	Radio emission from extrasolar planetary systems	W.M. Farell
1045-1100	Direct imaging searches for young planets	Ray Jayawardhana
1100-1115	The rise of the oxygen as a response to the increase of solar luminosity	Franck Selsis
1115-1130	Photometric Bumps and Dips: Microlensing and transit exoplanet searches	Penny Sackett
1130-1145	The observational case for Jupiter being a typical massive planet	Charley Lineweaver
1145-1200	Planet detection using the Advanced Camera on the HST	Bill Sparks
1200-1215	An mm image of HLTau at high angular resolution	Jack Welch
1215-1230	Poster presentations
1230-1330	Lunch
Session 4 The Solar System	Evidence for life in the solar system Martian meteorites and transfer of life between planets Role of comets and meteorites in prebiotic evolution Future missions in our solar system
1330-1410	Plenary speaker: The virtual planetary laboratory: Towards characterising extrasolar terrestrial planets	Vikki Meadows
1410-1450	Plenary speaker Paleobiology of a hydrothermal vent system: A Mars Analogue	Malcolm Walter
1450-1520	Coffee break
1520-1600	Plenary speaker: The search for life in our solar system	Chris Chyba
1600-1615	Martian meteorites: Important messengers from the red planet	Everett Gibson
1615-1630	The prebiotic organic chemistry of meteorites	Iain Gilmour
1630-1645	How pristine are comets?	Horst Keller
1645-1700	Migration processes and volatiles delivery	Mikhail Marov
1700-1715	Poster session
Tuesday evening 1730-1900 (delegates only) 1900-2000 (open to all)	Barry Blumberg, Director of the NAI introduces an evening with the NASA Astrobiology Institute
Wednesday July 10 Session 5: The astronomical conditions for the evolution of life	Habitable zones Planetary atmospheres and climate evolution The factors that make a planet life-bearing Planetary make-up and conditions Complex chemistry
0830-0910	Plenary speaker	Juan Perez-Mercader
0910-0940	Invited speaker Impacts and the evolution of planetary biospheres	Betty Pierazzo
0940-0955	Mission to really early Earth: Determining when conditions appropriate for life first emerged	Mark Harrison
0955-1010	Asteroid and comet impact events and their importance for the geological and biological evolution of Earth	Christian Koeberl
1010-1025	Comets and the connection to life	Karen Meech
1025-1055	Coffee break
Session 6 Biogenesis, evolution and survival	Formation of membranes, the first RNA Nanobacteria Early biology terrestrial paleobiology
1055-1135	Plenary speaker: Quantum Mechanics and Life's Origins	Paul Davies
1135-1150	Timing the transition from unicellular to multicellular life on Earth with molecular clocks	Blair Hedges
1150-1205	First steps to engineering a protocell	Shelly Fujikawa
1205-1220	A Microscopic Approach to Investigate Bacteria under In-situ Conditions in Freshwater Ice: Comparisons between Arctic Lake ice and Sea Ice	Karen Junge
1220-1235	RNA: The Double Life	M.C. Maurel
1235-1250	Real Rates of RNA Evolution and their relevance to an RNA World	Janet Siefert
1250-1305	The flourishing of early life on Earth at hydrothermal vents: Geological evidence from the 3.49-3.43 Ga Warrawoona Group	Martin Van Kranendonk
1305-1400	Lunch
Wednesday afternoon	Free for recreation
Evening 2000-2200 Chart Room	SETI round table	Allen Tough
Thursday July 11 Session 7 The evolution of intelligence	Evolution of intelligence Catastrophic impacts and the termination of intelligent life Evolution of complexity Evolution of nervous systems
0830-0910	Plenary speaker Objectivity in the study of intelligence	Lori Marino
0910-0940	Invited speaker: Genetic difference between humans and great apes - implications for the evolution of humans	Ajit Varki
0940-0955	Understanding the Early Evolution of Animals: The Position of basal phyla	Jaime Blair
0955-1025	Coffee break
1025-1040	First Steps towards Defining Galactic Niches	S.Conway-Morris
1040-1055	Statistical Analysis of Encephalization Patterns in Mammalia: Revisiting trends in the Evolution of Intelligence with a New and more Direct Analytical Tool	Daniel W. McShea
1055-1110	Application of Information Theory Animal Communications and its Applicability to SETI	Brenda McCowan
1110-1125	Super eruptions as a threat to Civilizations on Earthlike Planets	Mike Rampino
1125-1140	Primitive lifeforms	Baruch Blumberg
1140-1220	Plenary speaker Towards an understanding of the origin and evolution of life in the universe	Antonio Lazcano
1220-1330	Lunch
Session 8 The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence	Results from current searches Technology Radio Frequency Interference mitigation How to measure the success of SETI strategies Future strategies Scintillation and other potential problems Non-SETI searches for evidence of life on other planets
1330-1410	Plenary speaker: Scaling for SETI: All sky, all the time	Kent Cullers
1410-1425	Targeted Optical SETI at Harvard/Smithsonian and Princeton	Andrew Howard
1425-1440	The potential for archaeology with and beyond CHZ	John Campbell
1440-1455	Three years of SETI@home - a status report	Eric Korpela
1455-1510	The Allen Telescope Array	John Dreher
1510-1540	Coffee break
1540-1555	Pulsed Optical SETI - Searching for Pulsed Laser Signals from Nearby Stars	Paul Demorest
1555-1610	Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence at water maser frequency with a Very Large Array	Toshimichi Shirai
1610-1625	Optical SETI at Lick Observatory: A Progress Report	Shelley Wright
1625-1635	Report back from SETI panel discussion	Allen Tough
1635-1700	Poster session
1700 onwards Endeavour Room	*Control a US based Teachers In Education 24 inch telescope from Hamilton Island and look at the new microbiology web resource "MicroScope"**	Rick Yessayian and David Patterson
Thursday evening 1900-2100	Public talk Two short films: "Arrow of Time" and "Cosmic Origins"	Prof Paul Davies Eric Chaisson
Friday July 12 Session 9 Education, Outreach and Societal Implications	Bioastronomy as a tool for scientific education in schools and universities Bioastronomy as a tool for telling the public about science Making outreach activities effective Society's response to SETI and bioastronomy
0830-0910	Plenary speaker SETI and the Media	Seth Shostak
0910-0925	Bringing breakthroughs in science to the public through webcasting	Carol Christian
0925-0955	Invited speaker The NASA Astrobiology Institute: Reaching within and beyond	Rosalind Grymes
0955-1025	Coffee break
1025-1055	Invited speaker Communicating kin selection in interstellar messages	Doug Vakoch
1055-1125	Invited speaker Voyages Through Time: An integrated science curriculum project	Jane Fisher
1125-1140	Algorithmic communication with extraterrestrial intelligence	Brian McConnell
1140-1155	Using an Australian Mars analogue research facility for astrobiology education and outreach	Jennifer Laing
1155-1210	The Challenges of educating the public about astrobiology via the mass media	Margaret Race
1210-1225	Life in the universe: A program for universities, schools, outreach and planetaria	Mark Brake and Martin Griffiths
1225-1330	Lunch
Friday afternoon 1330-1500 Convention Centre	Invitation to Fulbright/Bioastronomy Session: Controversy in the Classroom	Lori Marino, Seth Shostak, Edna DeVore and Les Vozzo
1500-1530	Coffee break
Session 8 Where do we go from here?	What are we missing? Conference summary Conference close
1530-1610	Invited speaker Where do we go from here	Ron Ekers
1610-1625	LOC/SOC announcements	Ray Norris and Carol Oliver
1625-1640	Proposal for the next Bioastronomy
1640-1710	Closing speaker	Frank Drake
Friday evening	Conference gala dinner (not included in registration: cost AUD$80) (Speaker Tony Fontes on the Biology of the Barrier Reef)
Saturday July 13	Sail out to a platform on the Barrier Reef where we go snorkelling, scuba diving, go in a semi-submersible. Lunch included. (Cost not included in registration: AUD$115)