Second Iberoamerica Graduate School of Astrobiology: Origins from the Big Bang to Civilizations

Montevideo, Uruguay, 3 - 7 September 2009

UNESCO’s Regional Bureau for Science in Latin America and the Caribbean in cooperation the School of Sciences from the University of the Republic (Montevideo) and the Argentine Institute for Radioastronomy (Conicet, Argentina) is organizing the Second Iberoamerican School of Astrobiology: from the Big Bang to the Civilizations to be held in Montevideo, Uruguay on September, 7‐13, 2009.

This graduate school will provide Latin American and Caribbean students the possibility to contact different regional and international experts in cutting‐edge research related with Astrobiology: the search for life in the universe.

This is an interdisciplinary and intersectoral research activity that combines knowledge of physics, astronomy, 2 biology, geology, atmospheric sciences, hydrology, electronic engineering, ecology, cognitive sciences, sociology and philosophy. The Second Graduate School of Astrobiology will be held in Montevideo, Uruguay and will host 60 national and regional graduate students and about 15 different professors from Latin American & Caribbean countries as well as from Europe and USA.

 

Related links:
::  Information leaflet [.pdf]
::  UNESCO Montevideo Office (More)

 

• Source:UNESCO Montevideo Office
• 31-08-2009