08:30-09:00 Doors open and coffee
09:00-09:15 Trond Torsvik: Welcome
09:15-09:45 Richard Fortey: EARLY DAYS
09:45-10:15 Dave Harper: A brief history of studies on Early Paleozoic brachiopod biogeography
10:15-10:45 Lars Holmer: Phylogeny of Cambrian Brachiopods
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-11:45 Leonid Popov: Ordovician and Silurian brachiopods of Iran: A "wonderful" life between China and Mediterranean
11:45-12:15 Morten Smelror: Cryophilic polychaetes at the subtropical margin of the Iapetus Ocean: Evidence for equatorial cold-water upwelling and its significance to Ordovician oceanic circulation model
12:15-12:45 Hans Arne Nakrem: Biogeography and distribution of Silurian bryozoans
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:30 Trond Torsvik: LATE CAREER
14:30-15:00 Thomas Servais: From "faunal evidence for oceanic separations in the Palaeozoic of Britain" to the modelling of macroecological patterns in the Cambrian and Ordovician
15:00-15:30 Jan Ove Ebbestad: 20 years in the making (but who counts!): The Late Ordovician biota of the Taimyr Peninsula, Arctic Russia
15:30-16:00 Elizabeth Dowding: The fossil: data for Earth-life evolution
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:00 Mathew Domeier: Palaeozoic Paleogeography: From Continental Drift to Plate Tectonics
17:00-17:30 Chloé Marcilly: Mapping exposed land: Climate and Global Sea-level Applications
17:30-18:00 Annique van der Boon: The Earth's magnetic field and Planetary Habitability
18:00-19:00 Drinks
19:00 - Dinner
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This is a closed event, invitation only 