Lynn Margulis Symposium
Lynn Margulis Symposium—A Life in Science: in Memory and Celebration Friday March 23 to Sunday March 25, 2012 The University of Massachusetts, in collaboration with the family and friends of Lynn Margulis (1938-2011), cordially invites you to a Symposium, March 23-25, 2012, celebrating her life and work. Although the Symposium is still in its early planning stages, […]
Lynn Margulis Symposium—A Life in Science: in Memory and Celebration
Friday March 23 to Sunday March 25, 2012
The University of Massachusetts, in collaboration with the family and friends of Lynn Margulis (1938-2011), cordially invites you to a Symposium, March 23-25, 2012, celebrating her life and work. Although the Symposium is still in its early planning stages, we wanted to alert you and other interested parties you may know in order to provide the lead-time needed to save these dates and arrange for travel to and from Amherst, Massachusetts.
We are very excited about this opportunity to gather in memory of Professor Margulis, and to explore the history, importance, and future of her intellectual accomplishments.
As plans take shape, they will be posted to www.geo.umass.edu/margulis_symposium.html.
Preliminary Schedule of Events
Friday March 23, 2012
Welcome and Lynn Margulis Film Festival
Saturday March 24, 2012
Welcome followed by seminars on Gaia, astrobiology, symbiosis, and a tribute dinner with Peter Westbroek, William Irwin Thompson, and a new essay by James Lovelock
Sunday March 25, 2012
Community and colleague comments and an afternoon field trip in memory and celebration to Lynn’s favorite swimming hole (and last research site), Puffers Pond
