Agenda for the mid-term review of the Helmholtz Alliance “Planetary Evolution and Life”

16 March 2011

09:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.Reviewers internal discussion (closed session) 11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Introduction T. Spohn
12:15 p.m. – 01:15 p.m. Poster Session with lunch lecture room
01:15 p.m. – 01:45 p.m. GL 581 d: The first potentially habitable exoplanet P. von Paris
01:45 p.m. – 02:15 p.m. Plate Tectonics on Earth-like Planets: Implications for Habitability L. Noack
02:15 p.m. – 02:45 p.m. Accretion and Late Bombardment of the Terrestrial Planets A. Morbidelli
02:45 p.m. – 03:15 p.m. Coffee Break
03:15 p.m. – 03:45 p.m. Habitability of Mars: Implications from Aqueous Minerals L. Le Deit
03:45 p.m. – 04:15 p.m. Microbial viability under Mars-like conditions J. Malaszkiewicz
04:15 p.m. – 05:00 p.m. Wrap-Up T. Spohn; Sustainability of the Programme DLR Executive Board, FUB, TUB
05:00 p.m. – 06:00 p.m. Poster Session with finger food and drinks
06:00 p.m. – 07:00 p.m. Reviewers internal discussion (closed session)

08:00 p.m. Official Dinner (by invitation only)

17 March 2011

09:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Discussion between invited scientists and reviewers 
11:00 a.m. – 04:30 p.m. Reviewers internal discussion and preparation of the review report (closed session)
04:30 p.m. – 05:30 p.m. Initial notification of the review results to the Alliance and panel discussion
05:30 p.m.  End of mid-term review and social gathering