THE ORIGINS: HOW, WHEN AND WHERE IT ALL STARTED - ICTP

Presiede: Giovanni CHIEFFI
14.00 Antonio LAZCANO (UNAM, Mexico City): Prebiotic
chemistry and precellular evolution
14.45 Pierluigi LUISI (Università Roma Tre): Determinism
and contingency in the origin of life
15.30 Intervallo
Presiede: Ernesto CARAFOLI
15.50 Christopher STRINGER (Natural History Museum,
London): The spread of early humans
16.35 George COYNE (Specola Vaticana, Città del Vaticano):
The laws of nature and purpose in the universe: an
historical overview
17.20 Piergiorgio ODIFREDDI (Columbia University, New
York): One, none, and infinitely many
18.05 Conclusioni
ACCADEMIA NAZIONALE DEI LINCEI
CENTRO LINCEO INTERDISCIPLINARE
«BENIAMINO SEGRE»
CONVEGNO INTERNAZIONALE
THE ORIGINS: HOW, WHEN AND
WHERE IT ALL STARTED
22 MAGGIO 2006
PROGRAMMA - INVITO
ROMA
PALAZZO CORSINI - VIA DELLA LUNGARA, 10

COMITATO ORDINATORE
Francesco BERTOLA
Ernesto CARAFOLI
Giovanni CHIEFFI
Giancarlo SETTI
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Lunedì 22 maggio
9.00 Indirizzi di saluto
PROGRAMMA
Presiede: Giancarlo SETTI
9.15 Paolo DE BERNARDIS (Università di Roma “La
Sapienza”): Observational evidence for the current
cosmological scenario
10.00 Gabriele VENEZIANO (CERN, Geneva): The myth of
time “zero”
10.45 Intervallo
Presiede: Francesco BERTOLA
11.05 John D. BARROW (University of Cambridge, UK): Our
place in the multiverse
11.50 Julian CHELA-FLORES (ICTP, Trieste): Evolution of the
universe: from astrophysics to astrobiology