Outreach and Conferences
One of the focuses of the Origins Institute is public outreach, and to that end it promotes an annual season of public lectures and weekly colloquia that draw in top scientists from around the world. The OI also hosts scientific conferences that address origins themes. Its first meeting, entitled 'Astrobiology and the Origins of Life' was held at McMaster in May 2005. The second, 'The Genomics Revolution and the Origin of Humanity' was held in August 2006, and the third, 'Origins of Dark Energy', organized jointly with the Perimeter Institute, was held in May 2007. A fourth conference, called Darwin's Legacy: Natural Selection as an Organising Principle in Science, will be held at McMaster University from May 25th-29th, in celebration Darwin's 150th anniversary of the "Origin of Species".
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