Presentations



Ignazio Ciufolini (Salento University - Italy):
LARES, Laser Relativity Satellite: Towards a One Percent Measurement of Frame Dragging by LARES, LAGEOS, LAGEOS 2, and GRACE


Enrico Flamini (Chief Scientist of (ASI) and PM of LARES - Italy):
The ASI contribution to Space Science


Rolf Koenig (GFZ - Germany):
Some aspects and perspectives of measuring Lense-Thirring with GNSS and geodetic satellites


Sergej Kopeikin (Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri - USA):
Local Physics and a Global Geometry


Pier Giuliano Lasagni (Senior Vice President of AVIO Space Division - Italy):
The (successful) experience of the Maiden Flight of Vega, in parallel to the worth mission to lift LARES


Elio Mangraviti (PM of LARES, CGS/OHB - Italy):
The LARES System.


Erricos Pavlis (University of Maryland and NASA Goddard - USA):
The contribution of LARES in future ITRF developments.


Reinhart Neubert (GFZ,Potzdam - Germany):
The Centre of Mass Correction of LARES for Single Photon Detection.


Angelo Tartaglia (Politecnico di Torino - Italy):
Light as a probe of fundamental physics in space.


Slava Turyshev (JPL and NASA - USA):
Testing Fundamental Gravitation via Laser Ranging to the Moon and Mars/Phobos.


Gaetano Vilasi (Dept. of Physics, University of Salerno, and INFN - Italy):
On the Gravitational Interaction of Light.


Sir Roger Penrose.
Video of the Lectio Magistralis

(coming soon)