Name: Shaping the Italian contribution to HWO
Start: 2025-07-10T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2025-07-11T18:40:00+02:00
Location: Rome

Shaping the Italian contribution to HWO

from Thursday, 10 July 2025 (10:30) to Friday, 11 July 2025 (18:40)

Monday, 7 July 2025
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Thursday, 10 July 2025

10:30 Welcome

10:30 - 10:40
10:40 Exoplanet Science: part 1
part 1
10:40 - 12:20
Contributions

10:40 Demographics of Terrestrial Planetary Systems: Now, and in the HWO Era - Alessandro Sozzetti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:55 Synergies between Ariel and the Habitable Worlds Observatory - Giuseppina Micela (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:10 Sinergie tra PLATO e HWO - Giampaolo Piotto

11:25 Characterizing planet-host stars: the case of Ariel - Maria Tsantaki (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:40 Venus and Earth as analog environments for the characterization of terrestrial exoplanets looking at HWO in the context of the AVENGERS initiative - Piero D'Incecco (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:50 From Planet Formation to Bio-signatures: An OPAL for the Habitable Worlds Observatory - Danai Polychroni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:00 Beyond the Habitable Zone: A Multiscale Approach to Exoplanetary Biosignature Detection for HWO - Marco Marcellino (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:10 Oxygenic phototrophs exposed to simulated exoplanetary conditions: possible biosignatures in different organisms - Elisabetta Liistro
12:20 Lunch
Lunch
12:20 - 14:00
14:00 HWO NASA
14:00 - 15:05
Contributions

14:00 Are We Alone? The Science Potential of Habitable Worlds Observatory. - Giada Arney

14:15 Opportunities for Transformative General Astrophysics with HWO - Jason Tumlinson

14:30 Habitable Worlds Observatory Architecture & Technology Development - Matt Bolcar (NASA, Goddard))

14:55 Question and answer
15:05 Stellar Astrophysics
15:05 - 16:15
Contributions

15:05 Unveiling the star formation mechanism with HWO - Alessio Traficante (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:20 Investigating the origin of stars with the Habitable World Observatory - Giuseppe Germano Sacco (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:35 Astrometry of resolved stellar populations with MAVIS and HWO - Davide Massari (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:50 Tracing Galaxy Evolution with Resolved Stars: The HWO Perspective - Francesca Annibali (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

16:05 The HWO perspective of the Italian JEDI collaboration - JEts and Disk @ INAF - Elisabetta Rigliaco (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
16:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:15 - 16:45
16:45 Extragalactic Astrophysics
16:45 - 18:10
Contributions

16:45 Solving reionization with HWO - Laura Pentericci (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:00 Studying the intergalactic medium with a future space telescope - Valentina D'Odorico (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:15 AGN and Galaxy Evolution: Exploring the Final Frontier with HWO - Alessandro Marconi (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Firenze)

17:30 Shaping the Future of Time-Domain and Multi-Messenger Astronomy with HWO - Silvia Piranomonte (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:45 New frontiers in cosmology in view of the Habitable World Observatory - Michele Ennio Maria Moresco (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

18:00 Supernova science with the HWO - Luca Izzo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
Friday, 11 July 2025
09:00 Space missions and instruments
09:00 - 09:55
Contributions

09:00 The future of the ESA Science Programme - Luigi Colangeli (ESA)

09:15 The Pollux instrument for HWO: a high-resolution spectropolarimeter from the far-UV to the near-IR - Luca Fossati (Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences)

09:30 The LIFE Mission - Characterizing other words and searching for life - Sascha Quanz (ETH Zurich)

09:45 SHARP: an advanced Near-IR spectrograph to unlock the Universe beyond Habitable Worlds - Paolo Saracco (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
09:55 Exoplanet Science: part 2
part 2
09:55 - 10:10
Contributions

09:55 Decoding the atmospheres of temperate rocky planets in the 2040s - Matteo Brogi (Università degli studi di Torino)
10:10 Ground based synergies: part 1
part 1
10:10 - 10:45
Contributions

10:10 SETI and HWO - Claudio Maccone (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:20 PCS at ELT as a precursor for HWO - Silvano Desidera (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:30 CUBES and ANDES: ground-based technological enablers for the HWO - Paolo Di Marcantonio (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
10:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:45 - 11:15
11:15 Ground based synergies: part 2
part 2
11:15 - 11:40
Contributions

11:15 On the sinergy between HWO and ground-based high-resolutions spectrographs - Gloria Guilluy (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:25 MAVIS: sharper than JWST, deeper than HST - Giovanni Cresci (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
11:40 Space technology: part 1
part 1
11:40 - 12:40
Contributions

11:40 HWO and its optics system: requirements, challenges and possible European contributions - Giovanni Pareschi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:55 Pyramid WaveFront Sensors and contactless active mirrors: a research program for high contrast imaging - Runa Antonio Briguglio Pellegrino (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:10 R&D for space-based High-Contrast Imaging in Europe - Daniele Vassallo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:25 PSF reconstruction from WFS data and other tools to make your images sharper and deeper - Fernando Pedichini (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
12:40 Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 14:05
14:05 Space technology: part 2
part 2
14:05 - 15:00
Contributions

14:05 AI Assisted observational strategies for HWO - Marco Landoni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

14:20 Atmospheric retrievals: from machine learning to quantum technologies - Tiziano Zingales (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

14:30 High Dynamic Range Photon-Counting UV Detectors - Michela Clelia Angela Uslenghi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

14:45 Polarimetry Perspectives for HWO - Silvano Fineschi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
15:00 Round table: discussion
discussion
15:00 - 16:00