The Second International Lares Science Workshop follows the fully successfull LARES launch with the new European Launcher VEGA.
Program
September 17
Location: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Palazzo Corsini – Via della Lungara, 10 – 00165 Roma
Hour 9:15
Welcome address
Saluti della presidenza dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei Ignazio Ciufolini (Workshop chairman and Principal Investigator of LARES) Antonio Paolozzi (Workshop co-chairman)
Hour 9:30
News on the LARES experiment
Hour 9:45
Press Conference/Round Table.
Moderator: Giovanni Caprara (Corriere della Sera)
Participants (in alfabetical order):
Giovanni Bignami (President of INAF, COSPAR and member of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei); Ignazio Ciufolini (Principal Investigator of LARES); Francesco De Pasquale (Chief Executive Officer of ELV); Domenico La Forgia (Rettore Salento University) – to be confirmed; Giuliano Lasagni (Senior Vice President of AVIO Space Division); Nazzareno Mandolesi (Principal Investigator of PLANCK and consigliere di amministrazione ASI); Roger Penrose (Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at University of Oxford); On.le Walter Tocci (Member of Italian Parliament);
Hour 11:00
Coffee break
Hour 11:15
Lectio Magistralis by Sir Roger Penrose (Oxford University – UK)
On the Detection of Pre-Big-Bang Events: Current Observations and Future Experiments.
Hour 12:30
Opening lectures
Giovanni Bignami (President of INAF, COSPAR and member of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei)
Nazzareno Mandolesi (Principal Investigator of PLANCK and consigliere di amministrazione ASI)
Hour 13:30
Refreshment
14:30 Award cerimony
Hour 15:00
Sessions chairman: Ignazio Ciufolini
15:00 Enrico Saggese (President of Italian Space Agency): Preparation of ESA Ministerial and NASA-ASI collaborations for Space Exploration
15:30 Pier Giuliano Lasagni (Senior Vice President of AVIO Space Division) and Paolo Bellomi (Technical director of ELV): The successful experience of the first qualification flight of Vega, having in parallel the worth mission to lift Lares
16:00 Erricos Pavlis (University of Maryland and NASA Goddard): The contribution of LARES in future ITRF developments
16:30 Rolf Koenig (GFZ – Germany): Some aspects and perspectives of measuring Lense-Thirring with GNSS and geodetic satellites
17:00 Coffee Break
Hour 17:30
Sessions chairman: Gaetano Vilasi
17:30 Reinhart Neubert (GFZ – Potzdam (Germany)): Precise estimate of the centre of mass correction for LARES and LAGEOS using laser data from Potsdam station
18:00 Ignazio Ciufolini (Salento University): Testing General Relativity and Fundamental Physics using LARES and LAGEOS satellites
18:30 Angelo Tartaglia (politecnico di Torino): Light as a probe of fundamental physics in space
19:00 – 19:30 LARES team meeting
September 18
Location: Hotel Donna Camilla Savelli (Sala Papi)
Via Garibaldi 27 – 00153 Roma
Tel (+39) 06 588861
Hour 9:00
Sessions chairman: Vahe Gurzadyan – Co-chair Ignazio Ciufolini
9:00 Vahe Gurzadyan (Center for Cosmology and Astrophysics Alikhanian National Laboratory, Yerevan (Armenia)): Separation of signals: correlations vs randomness
9:30 Vladimir Lukash (Lebedev Physical Institute – Moscow (Russia)): General Relativity-singularities and cosmogenesis
10:00 Gaetano Vilasi (Dept. of Physics – University of Salerno and INFN (Italy)): On the gravitational interaction of light and may gravity be repulsive?
10:30 Slava Turyshev (JPL and NASA): Science Investigations with Laser Ranging to the Moon and Mars/Phobos
11:00 Coffee Break
Hour 11:30
Sessions chairman: Erricos Pavlis – Co-chair Antonio Paolozzi
11:30 Stefano Bianchi (ESA’s Vega programme manager ESA-ESRIN (Italy)):
12:00 Francesco Depasquale (Chief Executive Officer of ELV):
12:30 Antonio Paolozzi (Sapienza University) e Francesco Passeggio (OMPM): LARES the satellite of records
13:00 Enrico Flamini (Chief Scientist of (ASI) and PM of LARES), Elio Mangraviti (PM of LARES (CGS))
13:30 Launch
Hour 14:30 – 16:30 Lares team meeting
16:30 Sergej Kopeikin (Dept of Physics and Astronomy – University of Missouri (USA)
17:00 – 19:00 Lares team meeting
September 19
Social Event (guided tour to the archaeological sites of Ercolano-Oplontis-Pompei) and Closing Round Table.