About the Conference
IMPORTANT: Due to unforeseen circumstances the conference had to be adjourned to 2025. Most likely dates are 1 - 5 September 2025.
The European Astrobiology Institute and the Stockholm University Astrobiology Centre will function as co-organisers of the conference and the following subjects will be covered by the meeting:
- Impacts and the early history of the Solar System
- Impact structures as indicators of target properties
- Impact-generated habitats for life
- Role of impacts in delivery and formation of the building blocks for life
- Environment effects of impacts
- Impacts as threats for life and humankind
- Geoconservation, education and outreach of impacts
We also will have two excursions, one conference excursion to the Steinheim crater with its famous central uplift feature, and one day after-conference outing around the Ries Crater
Participants will also have the possibility to display their own research results in a poster session.
Confirmed Lecturers
Julia Brugger
Senckenberg Society for Nature Research, Germany
Elmar Buchner
University of Applied Sciences, Neu-Ulm, Germany
Heike Burkhardt
Geopark Ries, Germany
Gordon Osinski
Western University, Canada
Nadia Drabon
Harvard University, USA
Pim Kaskes
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Katarina Miljkovic
Curtin University,
Australia
Eric Parker
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Martin Schmieder
University of Applied Sciences, Neu-Ulm, Germany
Alexandra Pontefract
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA
Eloy Peña-Asensio
Politecnico Milano, Italy
Haley Sapers
York University, Canada
The Programme
The scientific programme will be in Setember 2025. Apart from lectures we also will have two excursions, one whole day after-conference outing around the Ries Crater and one conference excursion to the Steinheim crater with its famous central uplift feature.There will also be a poster session and a public event.
Registration and abstract submission
Registration fees include:
- 2-course lunches with soft drinks, wine or beer
- coffee breaks
- free soft drinks through the sessions
- conference material
A limited number of bursaries for students and early career scholars (up to 8 years from their first Ph. D. in a related field) from US and EAI institutions (see a list here) will be available. Those bursaries imply:
- refund for the registration fee including lunches and coffee breaks
- refund for accommodation in Hotel Klösterle
- refund for participation in the two excursions
Please specify in your email if you want to apply for a bursary. A list of the EAI participating entities can be found here. Membership in one of the Working Groups or Project Teams alone does NOT entitle you to the EAI participating institution fee.
Please note: Invited speakers and bursary winners will have to book all accommodation and themselves and registered and get reimbursed for these costs later.
Scientific Organisation Committee
Sanna Alwmark, Lund University, SE
Mark Burchell, University of Kent, UK
Wolf Geppert, Stockholm University, SE
Matthew Huber, University of Western Cape, ZA
Philippe Lambert, Center
for International Research and Restitution on Impact and on Rochechouart,, FR
Anna Losiak, Polish Academy Of Sciences, PL
Jens Ormö, Centro de Astrobiología, ES
Gordin Osinski, University of Western Canada; CA
The Venue
Lectures and poster sessions will take place in the Klösterle Hotel in the city centre of the medieval town Nördlingen, Germany. The address is
Hotel Klösterle
Beim Klösterle 1
D-86720 Nördlingen
Germany
Phone +49 9081 87080
E-mail nhkloesterlenoerdlingen@nh-hotels.com
The venue is only a 10 min walk from the Nördlingen railway station. with good connections to the airports of Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Munich. By train the ICE fast train station Donauwörth is only a 20 minute direct railway ride away. See the German railway website for connections. The lecture room is equipped with a PowerPoint projector and audio equipment. If lecturers need some other technical devices, they should contact the organisers in good time. The venue of the poster session will be announced in due course. For access by car please check the map to the ride. Parking places are available in the hotel garage (fee) or a 5 minutes walk from the hotel (free).
Accommodation and meals
Participants will have the choice between accommodation in single rooms at the Hotel Klösterle (en-suite bathrooms). The rooms at Hotel Klösterle have en-suite bathrooms with WC and shower or bath tub, comfortable sitting areas and are decorated in contemporary style, using natural colors and dark wooden furniture. They are equipped with TV and Minibar. All places offer free wireless internet. Lecturers will be offered single room accommodation in Hotel Klösterle.
Breakfasts are included in the room prices at Hotel Klösterle (if you book there). Lunches and coffe breaks will be at the same place (apart from during excursions, see bekow). Thee are plenty of nice places for dinners in the Old Town close to the hotel.
Important notice: Also invited speakers and recipients of bursaries have to register conference packages and book accommodations. They will be reimbursed after the conference. If that is a problem for you please contact the conference organiser, Wolf Geppert , Stockholm University, Swedem (wgeppert-at-fysik.su.se, phone ++46-723601155)
Contact
For all enquiries reharding the conference, please contact the organiser, Wolf Geppert , Stockholm University, Swedem (wgeppertATfysik.su.se, phone ++46-723601155). For issues with regostration and payment please contact our staff at European Science Foundation (eaiATesf.org)
Pricing
The attendees of the conference have options for accommodation, and also which excursions they wish to attend. See pricing table below for details. Please use the registation page for registration..