Battcock, Room F17


2023-07-20 15:00: (Afternoon Tea) Sy Garte - Accurate Self Replication and Life (Sy Garte (Rutgers))

2023-08-24 11:00: LCLU Coffee: The Puzzle of Planet Formation (Joanna Drazkowska, MPS Göttingen)

2024-05-16 11:00: Nidhi Rohit Bangera on ''Production of false-positive Biosignatures on Hot Gas Giants'' (Nidhi Rohit Bangera - OeAW (Austrian Academy of Sciences))

2024-06-06 11:00: Siyi Xu on the Composition of Exoplanets (Siyi Xu (Gemini Observatory, MIT))

2024-06-13 11:00: Mohammad Farhat on the Earth and the Moon (Mohammad Farhat (Paris Observatory))

2024-06-20 11:00: Craig Walton on "Teach a man to fish" (Craig Walton (ETH Zurich))

2024-06-27 11:00: Robin Wordsworth on "‘Life beyond planetary gravity wells" (Robin Wordsworth (Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard))

2024-07-11 11:00: Zoe Todd on Prebiotic Chemistry in a Planetary Context (Zoe Todd (Chemistry & Astronomy, University of Wisconsin))

2024-09-19 11:00: Jonah Peter: Building the Molecules of Life on Ocean Worlds (Jonah Peter (Harvard Biophysics))

2024-10-09 11:00: Manuel Scherf on "The evolution and prevalence of Earth-like Habitats in the Galaxy" (Manuel Scherf (Austrian Academy of Sciences))

2024-10-10 16:00: Gregory & Virginia Chaitin: "Von Neumann on biology and life as evolving software?" (Gregory & Virginia Chaitin)

2024-11-28 11:00: Felix Sainsbury-Martinez on Cometary Impacts on Exoplanets (Felix Sainsbury-Martinez (Leeds Astrophysics))

2025-02-20 11:00: Marc Laflamme on "Ediacaran Endgame: The Rise of Complex Life" (Marc Laflamme (Earth Science, University of Toronto Mississauga))

2025-03-06 11:00: Environmental and ecological drivers of early animal evolution (Ilya Bobrovskiy (Organic Geochemistry, Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences))

2025-04-03 11:00: Catriona McDonald - The Comet’s Tale: A game of chance. (Catriona McDonald (Cambridge IoA))

2025-05-15 11:00: LCLU Coffee - Ligia F Coelho on "the changing colours of our planet as a tool for ilfe detection on icy moons and exoplanets" (Ligia F Coelho (Cornell Astronomy))

2025-05-29 11:00: Jules Macome: Against Epistemic Pessimism in Origins of Life Research (Jules Macome (Cambridge History and Philosophy of Science))

2025-10-15 11:00: Surprise LCLU Coffee Discussion! "Through the looking glass: the ban on mirror life research" (Kira Podolsky (Chemistry & Biology, MIT))

2025-11-20 11:00: Nick Tosca on "Sulfur on Early Earth after a Giant Impact" (Nick Tosca (Cambridge Earth Science))

2026-01-15 11:00: Edouard Barrier on Origins of Life on Deep Ocean Worlds (Edouard Barrier (IoA, Cambridge))

2026-03-12 16:00: Chance, Necessity, and Cause surrounding the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life (Eric Smith (Santa Fe Institute))