The Medal ceremony will take place in Amphitheater K12 (see map in .pdf)
14.00: Welcome by Hiroko Nagahara and Ed Scott
Meteoritical Society Award Presentations
14.05: Leonard Medal
Citation: M. Humayun
Acceptance: L. Grossman
14.20: Barringer Award
Citation: C. Koeberl
Acceptance: U. Reimold
14.35: Nier Prize
Citation: J. Melosh
Acceptance: G. Osinski
14.50: Meteoritical Society’s Service Award
Citation: J. Grossman
Acceptance: D. Sears
15.05: Leonard Medal Lecture:
Grossman L.: * Vapor-Condensed Phase Processes in the Early Solar System [#5161]
15.50: Barringer Medal Lecture:
Reimold U.: * Vredefort et al: 25 Years of Impact Studies in Developing Countries
16.35 Barringer Lecture:
Jean Cavé (novelist): She called me "my Martian"
Abstract:
You think you know everything about Percival Lowell, the man who saw hundreds of canals on Mars back to 19th century, who told the world there was a civilization much more advanced than ours on the red planet, who spent more than 20 years and all his fortune to prove he was right, and who is responsible for all those Martian tales.
Then you go to the Lowell observatory in Flagstaff (Arizona) just to check out what belongs to the History, what belongs to the legend.
One day, in the basement of the old Saturn-shaped building erected on Mars Hill observatory, you discover something which opens a new perspective; the reality is far more complex than you thought.
Then, the life of the novelist mixes with his model’s one. Same expectations, failures, love stories, their experiences prove to be unbelievably close. And when imagination and science mix in the same brain, you can hope to live a kind of a… new big bang.
Where does begin fiction, when does science and reality come to an end? The talk reveals the secrets, troubles and joys of the making-of a novel.
Fasten your seat belts. The journey to Mars is not that long (1 hour or less)
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