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2025 Exploration and Origins Colloquium

Dear Astrobiology, Origins, and Space Enthusiasts,

The ExplOrigins early career group invites you to join the 2025 Exploration and Origins Colloquium! This colloquium will have events on two days: a poster session & social on March 6th  (4:30-8pm) and talks on March 7th. We are thrilled to feature plenary talks by Dr. Penelope Boston from NASA Ames and Dr. Tony G. Chen from Georgia Tech.

Talks and the poster session will be held in person at Georgia Tech, with a virtual viewing/presenting option for talks. Our aim is to highlight early career projects that explore, conceptualize, celebrate, and discover pieces of space, life’s origins, and astrobiology from any field in the Atlanta area. Through this colloquium, we hope to:

  • forge relationships between diverse individuals of various fields, experience levels and backgrounds
  • expand our internal awareness of local work and innovations
  • encourage collaboration and interdisciplinary understanding
  • provide a professional growth opportunity for early career individuals including undergraduates, graduates, and post-docs

General registration and abstract submission are through this form. All early career individuals (graduate students, postdocs, research scientists, and more) are highly encouraged to submit abstracts, due by the end of the day February 20th. To prepare your abstract you will need a title, author/affiliation list, and one descriptive paragraph. The announcement of selected speakers and poster presentations will be made on March 1st.

Thank you for your consideration. We hope to see you there!

Sincerely,

The Georgia Tech Astrobiology Fellows Abby Diering, Alivia Eng, Jelis Sostre Cortés and Chloe LeCates

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Fall 2024 Astrobiology Distinguished Lecture and Social Event on Sep 27th (Update: Moved to Friday October 18)

We’re excited to host Dr. Indujaa Ganesh, a new Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech as our distinguished lecturer. Dr. Ganesh uses radar and radiometry to study the surface and interior of other planets, including Venus. She is a current Science Team member of VenSAR, scheduled to fly on the EnVision mission to Venus. Dr. Ganesh’s work focuses on the development of radar instruments like that one as well as the impact of atmospheric conditions on volcanic processes, granular flow transport, and deposit properties. 

Title: A long-wavelength look at Earth’s neighbor

Presenter: Dr. Indujaa Ganesh, Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech

Date/Time:  Friday, October 18, 11am

Location: Suddath Seminar Room, Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB) Room 1228

Livestream will be available on the GT Astrobiology YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@georgiatechastrobiology

In the afternoon, there will be a social event with lawn games, food and refreshments beginning at 4:00 PM, located at the Molecular Science and Engineering (MoSE) outdoor patio, ground floor. Please RSVP for the social event, so we can make sure to order enough food! We will also be taking a group photo at this time, so bring your GT Astrobiology shirts.

Social Event RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8y9QdVXHWAzR-otlldvpsZOyoFzSEkeOJ0avwJl9jmKlw9g/viewform

Please see the below flyer for more info. Hope to see you at both events!

Organized by Astrobiology Fellows 2024: Abby, Alivia, Chloe, and Jelis

THE FLYER BELOW HAS NOT YET BEEN UPDATED WITH THE NEW DATE!

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