Julian Chela-Flores, ICTP staff associate, will speak on the “Evolution of the Universe: From Astrophysics to Astrobiology” at a conference sponsored by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome. The conference, “The Origins: How, When and Where It All Started", will take place on 22 May. Among the conference speakers will be frequent ICTP visitors Gabriele Veneziano, CERN, the European particle physics laboratory, Geneva, Switzerland; Antonio Lazcano, National University of Mexico; and George Coyne SJ, Specola Vaticana, Vatican City.