Program & Schedule

Session Formats

AbSciCon24 will offer session formats that foster and encourage discussion across the meeting including:

  • Expanding open discussion and engagement times.
  • Recording most sessions so they are available to all attendees.
  • Accessing most presentations and posters online.
  • Accommodating virtual presentations as much as possible.

Plenaries

These featured sessions cover the full range of astrobiology topics.

Oral Session

These 90-minute scientific sessions will be allocated by the program committee after abstract submission. The sessions will include talks and moderated Q&A discussions with presenters and the audience.

eLightning Session

These 90-minute scientific sessions will be allocated by the program committee after abstract submission. These 90-minute, live, in-person sessions begin with three-minute lightning talks from each presenter with:

  • An overview of their dynamic, digital, and interactive poster.
  • Discussion of their digital poster at their assigned touchscreen monitor following the lightning talk.

Poster Session

AbSciCon24 will offer in-person poster presentation options. All approved scientific sessions will receive at the minimum a poster component. Sessions will be allocated by the scientific organizing committee after abstract submission.

Online Discussion Session

Back by popular demand, online discussion sessions are returning to AbSciCon24. The fully online, 60-minute sessions will begin with quick presentations from each presenter providing an overview of their abstract and online poster, followed by moderated Q&A and group discussion with other authors, chairs and registered attendees in the session.

Town Hall

Proposed by the community and open to all meeting participants, these one-hour sessions , are best for:

  • Collecting feedback or raising awareness.
  • Government agencies, academic programs, special projects and other focused interest groups to deliver updates and gather input from the broader astrobiology community.
  • Presentation, roundtable or panel discussion formats.

Approved town halls will be focused on topics that do not compete with, substitute or duplicate scientific or learning sessions.