[Todos] Fwd: Difusión Sao Paulo Advanced School of Astrobiology – Making Connections (SPASA 2011)

[A. M. Ribichich]

Agradezco la difusión:
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Sao Paulo Advanced School of Astrobiology – Making Connections
(SPASA 2011)
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Dear colleague,


I kindly ask you to forward this message, if it is of the interest of
your institution/department, and to anyone you think would be
interested in the event below.

The applications are open for the "Sao Paulo Advanced School of
Astrobiology – Making Connections (SPASA 2011)", promoted by the
Department of Astronomy of the Universidade de Sao Paulo and by the
Sao Paulo Research Foundation (Fapesp), Brazil.

Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Date: December 11 to 20, 2011
Home Page: www.astro.iag.usp.br/~spasa2011<http://www.astro.iag.usp.br/%7Espasa2011>
Target audience: Undergraduate, graduate students and early career
post-docs in biology, physics, astronomy, chemistry, earth sciences
and related areas.

Objective: Astrobiology is a multidisciplinary field that aims to
study origin, evolution, distribution and future of life on the
Universe, with a broad and multidisciplinary scope, requiring a
constant dialogue between different areas. This is a new and very
promising scientific research field, with the ambitious goal of
seeking for answers to some of the most complex scientific questions.
The SPASA aims to bring together renowned experts from different
countries with students of different fields in a multidisciplinary
event that will address some of the general themes of research in
astrobiology, as well as more specific topics in the frontier of
science that are being developed worldwide. Stimulating the connection
between topics and the exchange of knowledge among the participants is
the main goal of the event.

Application Period: Until Sept. 20, 2011, through the event website.

Contact: spasa2011 en astro.iag.usp.br

Selected participants from all countries will have travel and
accommodation expenses covered by the Sao Paulo Research Foundation.

Sincerely,
Prof. Dr. Jorge E. Horvath
President of the Organizing Committee SPASA 2011