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I delivered a lecture entitled “New evidence for life as a cosmic phenomenon” at the Astronomical Society of Oman in Muscat on 15th January 2014, at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka on 23rd January.  The audience at Peradeniya included Professor Rohana Chandrajith, Professor of Geology, who had been reported as being antagonistic to the...

9 Feb 2014 :   Twelve months ago, publication of the 29 Dec 2012 POLONNARUWA METEORITE preliminary analysis resulted in a global furor. The rapid release of the first (of five) academic papers triggered criticism of the paper’s scientific analysis methods . The first paper was criticized by some who argued the contamination question had not been sufficiently addressed. Some even...

On November 24th I delivered a lecture in Tokyo to an audience of nearly 500 sponsored by the Soka Gakkai International on Buddhist Cosmology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life.

24th January 2014 Professor Chandra delivered a public lecture entitled “New evidence for life as a cosmic phenomenon” at the University of Peradeniya Sri Lanka. The audience in Peradeniya included Professor Rohana Chandrajith, Professor of Geology, who had earlier been reported by the media as being antagonistic to the idea that the Polonnaruwa (Aralaganwila) stones...

15th January 2014 Chandra Wickramasinghe delivered a public lecture entitled “New evidence for life as a cosmic phenomenon” at the Astronomical Society of Oman at Muscat.

SEPT 23, 2013 Dr. Chandra was the Chief Guest and Plenary lecturer at the VIII Congress of Latinamerican Paleontology and the XIII Congress of Mexican Paleontology that was held at Guanajuato, Mexico. His talk was entitled:“Astro-paleontology: antiquity of life in the Universe”