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Origins Chalk Talk Consortium Student Panel "2016 JPL Trip"

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This Chalk Talk will be a panel discussion of Origins Graduate Consortium student members, moderated by Dimitar Sasselov, as they share their assessment of the Consortium’s first field trip, a five-day trip to Pasadena, California in June 2016. Visits to...

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Origins Forums The Origins Initiative invites local, national, and international guest speakers who present their topical, origins-related research at the Wednesday afternoon Forums during the academic year. The scientific talks consist of a 45-50 minute...

No Origins Forum

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Our first Origins Forum of the academic year will be held on October 18 @ 4:00PM (see calendar). In lieu of a September Forum, Sukrit Ranjan (MIT SCOL / Sasselov Group Alumni) and Zoe Todd (Sasselov Group) will give a Chalk Talk entitled “ Controversies...

Origins Chalk Talk -The Beagle in a Flask: Accessing artifacts of life’s evolutionary history through ancient-modern hybrid organisms - Betül Kaçar - OEB

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Abstract - Our living world is the result of a complex history spanning billions of years. Scientists have access to artifacts of this history, namely the fossil record and the genomes of many different living organisms. But there are surprisingly limited...

Origins Chalk Talk: Tim Cunningham (Charbonneau Group)

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Origins Chalk Talk: Collin Cherubim (Wordsworth Group)

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Chalk Talk - Dmitry Zubarev -CCB - Reconstruction of Prebiotic Reaction Networks

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Abstract: The central ambition of theoretical chemistry is to describe chemistry in its diversity solely as a solution to Schrodinger Equation. The difficulty of this strategy is that it has to capture development of molecular systems at multiple...

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The administrative offices for the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative are located in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the Harvard -Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. If entering from Garden Street, follow the main driveway across from Linnaean Street to...

Special Chalk Talk - "What is life and who cares?" (William Bains - MIT)

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William Bains MIT - Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate Note one-time location for this event.

Chalk Talk - "Solar System history from the asteroid belt's perspective" (Francesca DeMeo - Harvard)

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Francesca DeMeo Postdoctoral Fellow - Harvard College Observatory Asteroids and other small bodies are markers, like tiny beacons, relaying information about the initial temperature and composition conditions of our Solar System revealed by their surface...

Chalk Talk - "A Song of Ice and Fire - Evolution of small icy bodies and their planetary context"

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Gal Sarid Postdoctoral Fellow - Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences (Stewart Lab) The nature of icy-rocky minor bodies is one of the central themes in planetary science. Investigation of primitive bodies addresses questions about the initial stages...

Origins Chalk Talk: Jonah Peter (Sasselov Group) “Building the molecules of life on ocean worlds"

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