Programme and Deadlines
The final programme appears below. Abstract submission is now closed.
Registration is still open, but will be capped at 800. Currently the number of registered participants for IPC3 is around 750.
Plenary and keynote talks 30 minutes, all others 15 minutes (this includes time for questions/discussion)
Unless otherwise indicated, venues are Imperial College Lecture Theatres.
| Date/Time | Morning | ||||
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| Session | Venue | Symposium/Event | |||
| Pre-conference fieldtrips | |||||
| 28th June | Monday | 1200-1800 | Queen's Tower Room | Registration | |
| Evening | 1900- | Queen's Tower Room | Sponsored by Wiley-Blackwell |
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| 29th June | Tuesday | Morning | 0900-1015 | Royal Geographical Society | Registration |
| Welcome & opening remarks (0900-0915) Plenary Symposium |
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| 1015-1045 | Coffee | ||||
| 1045-1215 | Royal Geographical Society | Plenary Symposium | |||
| 1215-1345 | Queen's Tower Room | Lunch | |||
| Afternoon | 1345-1715 | Queen's Tower Room | Registration | ||
| Flett Lecture Theatre (NHM) | 15. Palaeozoic climate | ||||
| Lecture Theatre 1.31 | 23. Palaeontology of China | ||||
| Lecture Theatre 1.47 | 12. Chemosynthetic communities | ||||
| Lecture Theatre 1.51 | 7. Brachiopoda | ||||
| Lecture Theatre 2.28 | 10. Geomicrobiology | ||||
| Lecture Theatre G.20 | 17. Functional morphology | ||||
| 1715-1815 | Queen's Tower Room | Posters | |||
| 30th June | Wednesday | Morning | 0900-1230 | Flett Lecture Theatre (NHM) | 1. Lyell Symposium - geological and fossil records & biodiversity |
| Lecture Theatre 1.31 | 23. Palaeontology of China | ||||
| Lecture Theatre 1.47 | 20. Taphonomy of skeletons and soft tissues | ||||
| Lecture Theatre 1.51 | 9. Devonian bioevents | ||||
| Lecture Theatre 2.28 | 19. Major transitions in the early evolution of life | ||||
| Lecture Theatre G.20 | 3. Micropalaeontological record of global change | ||||
| Lecture Theatre G.41 | 6. Palaeontological data analysis | ||||
| 1230-1345 | Queen's Tower Room | Lunch | |||
| Afternoon | 1345-1715 | Flett Lecture Theatre (NHM) | 1. Lyell Symposium - geological and fossil records & biodiversity | ||
| Lecture Theatre 1.31 | 23. Palaeontology of China | ||||
| Lecture Theatre 1.47 | 20. Taphonomy of skeletons and soft tissues | ||||
| Lecture Theatre G151 | 9. Devonian bioevents | ||||
| Lecture Theatre 2.28 | 19. Major transitions in the early evolution of life (to 1515) | ||||
| 27A. Open Symposium - vertebrates (from 1545) | |||||
| Lecture Theatre G.20 | 3. Micropalaeontological record of global change | ||||
| Lecture Theatre G.41 | 6. Palaeontological data analysis | ||||
| 1715-1815 | Queen's Tower Room | Posters | |||
| Evening | 1900 | Royal Geographical Society | Reception/Pay bar | ||
| 1930 | Professor Sean Carroll: "Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species" |
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| 2030 | Pay bar | ||||
| 1st July | Thursday | Morning | 0900-1230 | Lecture Theatre 2.28 | W1. Echinoderms Workshop |
| Lecture Theatre G.20 | W6. Conodont Workshop | ||||
| Lecture Theatre 1.47 | W2. Devonian Subcommission | ||||
| Lecture Theatre G.41 | W5. Virtual palaeontology | ||||
| Lecture Theatre G151 | W4. PaleoParks Workshop | ||||
| Lecture Theatre G.39 | W8. Chelicerates Workshop | ||||
| 1230-1345 | Queen's Tower Room | Lunch | |||
| Afternoon | 1345-1715 | Lecture Theatre 2.28 | W1. Echinoderms Workshop | ||
| Lecture Theatre G.20 | W9. Early Vertebrates Workshop | ||||
| Lecture Theatre 1.47 | W10. Palaeozoic Palynology Workshop | ||||
| Lecture Theatre G.41 | W6/W2 Conodont and Devonian microscope session | ||||
| Lecture Theatre G151 | W7 Graptolite Workshop | ||||
| Lecture Theatre G.39 | W8. Chelicerates Workshop | ||||
| Lecture Theatre G.38 | W3. P/T Recovery workshop | ||||
| 1630 | Lecture Theatre 1.31 | IPA General Assembly | |||
| 1715-1815 | Queen's Tower Room | Posters | |||
| Evening | 1900 | Natural History Museum, Central Hall | Sponsored by Taylor & Francis |
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| 1930 | Conference Dinner | ||||
| 2nd July | Friday | Morning | 0900-1230 | Flett Lecture Theatre (NHM) | 5. Palaeontological collections |
| Lecture Theatre 1.31 | 2. Macroevolution and the modern synthesis | ||||
| Lecture Theatre 1.47 | 22. Vertebrate dentitions | ||||
| Lecture Theatre G151 | 24. Life on Land | ||||
| Lecture Theatre 2.28 | 14. Molecular palaeontology | ||||
| Lecture Theatre G.20 | 27B. Open Symposium - general palaeontology | ||||
| Lecture Theatre G.41 | 26. Time-specific facies | ||||
| Pippard Lecture Theatre | 4. Microfossils and the tree of life | ||||
| 1230-1345 | Queen's Tower Room | Lunch | |||
| 1345-1715 | Afternoon | Lecture Theatre 1.31 | 2. Macroevolution and the modern synthesis | ||
| Lecture Theatre 1.47 | 18. Teeth to Tibet | ||||
| Lecture Theatre 2.28 | 14. Molecular palaeontology (to 1515) | ||||
| Lecture Theatre G.20 | 27B. Open Symposium - general palaeontology | ||||
| Lecture Theatre G.41 | 26. Time-specific facies | ||||
| 1715-1815 | Queen's Tower Room | Posters | |||
| 3rd July | Saturday | Morning | 0900-1230 | Flett Lecture Theatre (NHM) | 27D. Open Symposium - arthropods and exceptional preservation |
| Lecture Theatre 1.31 | 21. Phylogenetic approaches to large-scale events in the history of life | ||||
| Lecture Theatre 1.47 | 8. Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event | ||||
| Lecture Theatre 1.51 | 27C. Open Symposium - palaeobotany (to 1030) | ||||
| Lecture Theatre 2.28 | 13. Biotic recovery after mass extinction events | ||||
| 1230-1345 | Queen's Tower Room | Lunch | |||
| Afternoon | 1345-1715 | Flett Lecture Theatre (NHM) | 27D. Open Symposium - arthropods and exceptional preservation (to 1515) | ||
| Lecture Theatre 1.31 | 21. Phylogenetic approaches to large-scale events in the history of life (to 1430) | ||||
| Lecture Theatre 1.47 | 8. Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event | ||||
| Lecture Theatre 2.28 | 13. Biotic recovery after mass extinction events | ||||
| Lecture Theatre G.20 | 16. Rates of morphological evolution | ||||
| 1715 | Conference closes | ||||
| 4th July | Sunday | Post-conference fieldtrips | |||