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In March 2013, I gave an opening speech at the
1st ELSI International Symposium,
organized by the
Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI)
in Tokyo, Japan.
In February 2013, I was invited to participate in a very informal and
therefore very informative workshop at
CERN.
There are no proceedings, but here is
an
earlier preview and here is an interview afterwards.
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In January 2013, I attended the Origins
of Life Conference at Princeton University. It provided me with a
great opportunity to learn a lot about the field, and to meet many of
the main players.
Also in January, I started a new series of informal lunch conversions,
IPA@IAS, short for Interdisciplinary
Perspectives on Abiogenesis.
In December 2012, I visited the new Earth-Life Science Institute
(ELSI for short)
at Tokyo Tech,
funded by a grant from the
World Premier
International Research Center Initiative, for which I am one of
the Principle Investigators; see also
a short summary.
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In October 2012, our
B612 foundation's project
Sentinel was official declared technically sound and on track for a
2017 launch, according to an
independent review panel.
In September 2012, I visited the new
Origins of Life Initiative
at Harvard University, where I enjoyed many fascinating discussions
in the broadly interdisciplinary atmosphere that they have established,
with contributions from astronomers, chemists, geologists, biologists,
mathematicians, and others.
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In August 2012, Ataru Tanikawa, Douglas Heggie, Jun Makino and I
finished the first in-depth
"microscopic" analysis
of the complete history of the formation of the first hard binary in
core collapse of a dense star cluster.
Also in August, I co-organized MODEST-12
in Kobe, Japan. The
discussion
topics focused mostly on multi-scale multi-physics simulations of dense
stellar systems on the first two days, followed by observations of
such systems on the third day.
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In June 2012, I visited
Kei Hirose
at Tokyo Tech. He is
the first scientist who has been able to reproduce the
physical
conditions in the center of the Earth in a laboratory.
Also in June, the B612 foundation
which I co-founded ten years ago, publicly announced our new
Project Sentinel,
as the first privately funded deep space mission, an exciting new development.
In May 2012, I visited
Dan Zahavi,
professor in philosophy at the
University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
We decided to start writing essays in dialogue form about three ways
of looking at the world: the every-day way in which the world is just
given; the scientific way in which the world is given as a composition
of atoms and molecules; and the phenomenological way in which the
world as we know it is construsted out of phenomena.
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