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Program for Session 02a

Monday 22nd June AM: Room ICE

02a (Poster): Building Habitable Planets

Volatile-Induced Metasomatic Melting in Terrestrial Planets
Dasgupta R
Stable Isotope Systematics of Volatiles in Apollo 15 Lunar Volcanic Glasses
Hauri E, Saal A, Van Orman J & Rutherford M
Volatility Trends of the Inner Planets Revealed by Ge/Si and Zn/Mn Variations in Solar System Materials
Le Roux V & Lee C-T
A Method for Estimating Relative Volatile Abundances in Planetary Magmas from Apatite
McCubbin F & Nekvasil H
Study of Micro-Crystallinity of SiO2 in Two Indian Fulgurites
Saikia BJ & Sarmah NC

Wednesday 24th June AM: Room B3/Pa

02a (Oral): Building Habitable Planets
Session chaired by Charles Lineweaver, Dimitar Sasalov, Stephen Mojzsis, Cin-Ty Lee, Nader Haghighipour & Lisa Kaltenegger

09:30  Keynote: Defining Habitability: The Geochemistry of the Nearest Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets
Lineweaver CH
09:45  Keynote: Spitzer Space Telescope Observations of Water and Organics in the Terrestrial Planet-Forming Regions of Circumstellar Disks
Blake G
10:15  Invited: Collisions Among Porous Planetesimals and the Water Content of Planetary Embryos
Ciesla F, Collins G, Davison T & O'Brien D
10:30  Invited: The Role of Volatiles during Asteroidal Differentiation
Day J, Walker R, Sunshine J, Ash R, Rumble D, Liu Y, McDonough B & Taylor L
10:45  Thermal Effects of Impacts on the Hadean Earth
Abramov O & Mojzsis S
11:00  Volcanic SO2, Atmospheric Photochemistry, and Climate on Early Mars
Claire M
11:15  Keynote: Evolving Habitable Conditions
Valencia D
11:45  Mantle Convection, Stagnant Lids and Plate Tectonics on Super-Earths
Tackley P & van Heck H
12:00  Thermal Structure of Super-Earths and Implications for their Surface Expression
Stein C, Hansen U & Lowman J
12:15  Implications of Dynamical Stability for the Detection of Super-Earths via Transit Timing Variation Method
Haghighipour N, Hinse T, Steffen J & Agol E