Wednesday, December 11 Biosphere 2

3:30  Regis Ferriere, Perig Pitrou, Joffrey Becker - Introduction: meeting overview and goals

3:45  All participants - Brief introductions

4:15  John Adams - Welcome to Biosphere 2, tour, discussion of history and perspectives

6:00  Kai Staats - SAM (Study of Analog Missions) & live demo of SIMOC (Scalable Interactive Model of an Off-world           

         Community)

 

Thursday, December 12 Biosphere 2

8:30  Perig Pitrou - Life as a making / life in the making: what boundaries?

9:15  Joaquin Ruiz - Biosphere 2: environmental science and public awareness

10:15  Lydia Kallipoliti - The architecture of closed worlds

11:00  Chris Impey - Living in space

1:00  Jordan Okie - The metabolic rules of living systems

1:45  Roy Sleator - Scaling up from systems biology to Terraformation

2:30  Blai Vidiella - Dynamics of synthetic Terraformation motifs

3:30  Ted Pavlic - Bio-inspired decision-making algorithms for autonomous systems

4:15  Joffrey Becker - Robotics and Automation

5:00  Regis Ferriere - Review and discussion of salient points, agenda for next morning

 

Friday, December 13 AM at Biosphere 2 - PM on UA campus

8:00  General discussion - Closed Worlds: what grand challenges need to be addressed & how. Advancing white paper draft.

9:45  General discussion - Opportunities for international collaborative research, book project, grants ideas

1:30  Valerie Olson - Cross-departmental seminar

2:30  Freely organized work time for white paper, book project, and grants ideas