Preliminary 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);to be confirmed;
  • 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 of Workshop
    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

    Hour17:30 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.