Third International Palaeontological Congress (IPC3)

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
			Session	Venue	Symposium/Event
					Pre-conference fieldtrips
28th June	Monday		1200-1800	Queen's Tower Room	Registration
		Evening	1900-	Queen's Tower Room	Ice Breaker Reception Sponsored by Wiley-Blackwell
29th June	Tuesday	Morning	0900-1015	Royal Geographical Society	Registration
					Welcome & opening remarks (0900-0915) Plenary Symposium
			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		The Lethaia Public Lecture Professor Sean Carroll: "Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species"
			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	Reception Sponsored by Taylor & Francis
			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