ELSI	  4th	  international	  symposium“Three	  experiments	  in	  biological	  origins:	  early	  Earth,	  Venus	  and	  Mars”	  -­‐	  Program	  of	  oral	  presentations-­‐	  14:00 - 14:15
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Introductory day (Tue 12th)
Kei Hirose, George Helffrich (ELSI, Japan)
Welcome and Introduction
Shigeru Ida (ELSI, Japan)
Introduction to day 1 topics: Planet formation and volatile delivery to terrestrial planets
Dave Stevenson (Caltech, USA)
Introduction to day 2 topics: The Nature of Planets
Norm Sleep (Stanford, USA)
Introduction to day 3 topics: Disequilibria and the requirements for (successful) pre-biotic
chemistry
Instructions to poster presenters
Coffee and poster viewing
Public lecture: “Does water define a planet's habitability?”
Victoria Meadows (University of Washington/NASA Astrobiology Institute)
Tomohiro Usui (Tokyo Tech)
Day 1 (Wed 13th) - The Formation of Venus, Earth and Mars
Colette Salyk (Vassar College, USA)
Chemistry in terrestrial planet forming regions of protoplanetary disks
Hal Levison (SwRI, USA)The Formation of Terrestrial Planets from the Direct Accretion of Pebbles
CoffeeFrancis Albarede (ENS Lyon, France)
Volatility scale, gravitational escape, and abundance of water and volatiles in the Moon andEarth
Q&A and discussion
Discussion leaders: Shigeru Ida
Lunch
Bernard Marty (CRPG Nancy, France)
Origins and timing of volatile elements on Earth and Mars in view of the results of theRosetta mission
Hidenori Genda (ELSI, Japan)
Giant impacts and early evolution of terrestrial planets
CoffeeKosuke Kurosawa (Chiba Tech, Japan)
An atmospheric response against from impact bombardments on Earth and Venus: The roleof impact ejecta
Patrick McGovern (LPI, USA)
The Martian Crustal Dichotomy: an Ancient and Fundamental Feature
Q&A and discussion
Discussion leaders: Steve Mojzsis
Poster viewing1	  09:00 - 09:40
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09:00 - 09:40
09:40 - 10:20
10:20 - 10:50
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14:10 - 14:50
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15:20 - 18:00

Day 2 (Thu 14th) - Planets as Integrated Systems
Victoria Meadows (U Washington, USA)
Exoplanets: A New Era of Comparative Planetology
Yuk Yung (Caltech, USA)
Chemistry of the Atmospheres of Planets and Exoplanets
CoffeeCaroline Dorn (U Bern, Switzerland)Interiors of low-mass exoplanets: what can we learn from observations?
Q&A and discussion
Discussion leaders: Dave Stevenson
Lunch
Michael Way (NASA Goddard, USA)Was Venus the first habitable world of our solar system?
Axel Kleidon (MPI Jena, Germany)
What can thermodynamics tell us about the functioning of the Earth system, its habitability,and its evolution?
CoffeeRoger Buick (U Washington, USA)
Evolution of Earth's biogeochemical nitrogen cycle: an example of an integrated systeminfluencing planetary habitability
Q&A and discussion
Poster viewing

Day 3 (Fri 15th) - Starting Conditions and Requirements for Prebiotic Chemistry
Steve Vance (JPL, USA)Atmosphere disequilibration in different planetary contexts
Yuichiro Ueno (ELSI, Japan)
Disequilibrium of prebiotic atmosphere: C-H-O systems and role of waterCoffee
Everett Shock (ASU, USA)
Geologic Sources of Chemical Disequilibria on Terrestrial Planets
Q&A and discussion
Discussion leaders: Jim Cleaves
Lunch
Wolfgang Nitschke (IMM/BIP, France)
From thermodynamic disequilibria in alkaline hydrothermal vents to dissipative structures
giving birth to life
Joseph L. Kirschvink (Caltech-JPL/ELSI, Japan)
Are we really from Tharsis? An analysis of the electrochemical environment of earlyMartian high-altitude glaciers during late Naochian time
CoffeeWrapup discussion "Why?"
Discussion leaders: Eric Smith & Steve Mojzsis

2	  -­‐	  Program	  of	  poster	  presentation	  -­‐	  	  	  	  Session A - Planetary structure and evolution
A-1

High-Resolution Global N-body Simulation of Planetary Formation: Outward
Migration of a Protoplanet
Junko Kominami

A-2

Dynamical mixing of the Earth’s core by a giant impact
Miki Nakajima

A-3

Early inner core formation in terrestrial planets
George HelffrichA-4

Crystallization of SiO2 in Earth's core: The new core paradox on early geodynamo
and its solution
Kei Hirose

A-5

Critical Review: Is Earth's Outer Core Liquid or a High Density Plasma?
Daniel Helman

A-6

Liquid Iron Alloys with Hydrogen at Outer Core Conditions by First Principles
Koichiro Umemoto

A-7

Discovery of new iron oxide Fe7O9 and its solid solution, (Mg,Fe2+)3Fe3+4O9
Ryosuke Shinmyo

A-8

Core-mantle equilibrium temperature of the EarthHiroki Ichikawa

A-9

Direct sound velocity measurements of pyrolite across the mantle transition region
Steeve Greaux

A-10

The rheological structure and formation of plate boundaries on early Mars
Shintaro Azuma

A-11

Geodynamically driven temporal & local formation of hydrogen and complexhydrocarbons
Vlada Stamenković

A-12

Water, melt, and surface-interior connections: Implications for Venusian tectonics
Vlada Stamenković

A-13

Influence of temperature-dependent tidal dissipation on lunar crust formation
Matthieu Laneuville

A-14

True continental growth curve and fate of the continental crust
Hikaru Sawada

Session B - Early environments and habitability	  B-1

Constraints on early Mars atmospheric pressure inferred from nitrogen and argon
isotopes
Hiroyuki Kurokawa

B-2

Possibility of aerobic environments on early Mars
Lewis Ward

B-4

Pulling back the veil: The habitability and characterization of hazy worlds
Giada Nicole Arney3	  B-5

In-situ iron isotope analysis of pyrite and organic carbon/nitrogen isotope ratios fromthe Middle Proterozoic sediments, McArthur Basin, Northern Australia
Kazumi Yoshiya

Session C - Prebiotic chemistryC-1

Quantifying impactor delivery of amino acids during the timespan relevant toemergence of life
Elizabeth Bailey

C-2

Mineral and Organic Compound Interactions at the Emergence of Life: Magnetite's
Effect on Carboxylic Acids
Kristin Nicole Johnson

C-3

Abiogenic synthesis of hydrocarbons revealed by position-specific isotope analysis
Alexis Gilbert

C-4

Electrochemically-driven carbon fixation
Norio Kitadai

C-5

Abiotic ammonia synthesis using Mo-bearing sulfide minerals
Yamei LiSession D - Origins of life	  D-1

Signature of Life in isotopic distributions of C, H, N and O
Roman Zubarev

D-2

Restoration of an ancestral form of the reductive TCA cycle as a primitive carbon
fixation pathway
Masafumi Kameya

D-3

Virus exploration in extreme environments provides insights for the RNA world
theory, and possible alternative genotypes — the first hyperthermophilic single
stranded DNA virus —Tomohiro Mochizuki

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