Name: Meeting della strumentazione ELT a guida italiana (MORFEO e ANDES)
Start: 2026-05-12T13:55:00+00:00
End: 2026-05-15T13:45:00+00:00
Location: INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte

Meeting della strumentazione ELT a guida italiana (MORFEO e ANDES)

from Tuesday, 12 May 2026 (13:55) to Friday, 15 May 2026 (13:45)

Monday, 11 May 2026
Tuesday, 12 May 2026

14:00 Welcome
Welcome
14:00 - 14:30
14:30 The Extremely Large Telescope and MORFEO
14:30 - 16:00
Contributions

14:30 The Extremely Large Telescope - Roberto Tamai

15:00 The MORFEO project - Paolo Ciliegi

15:30 The MORFEO instrument - Marco Riva Lorenzo Busoni
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 The Extremely Large Telescope and MORFEO
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 Science with MORFEO - Francesca Annibali

17:00 Mechanical Alignment of Optical Systems: From ESPRESSO to ELT - Edoardo Maria Alberto Redaelli (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:20 One step closer to planet formation. From the very to the extremely successful imaging of planet-forming and debris disks - Antonio Garufi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:40 Accretion and ejection in young stars in the Solar neighbourhood and beyond with MORFEO-MICADO on ELT - Linda Podio (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

18:00 Discussion
18:30 Announcements & end of day
Announcements & end of day
18:30 - 18:35
Wednesday, 13 May 2026
09:30 The Extremely Large Telescope and MORFEO
09:30 - 11:05
Contributions

09:30 Disentangling Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters with MORFEO-MICADO@ELT to Unveil Their Origins - David Perez Millan (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09:50 RR Lyrae stars as probes of Galactic archaeology with MORFEO and ANDES - Emanuela Luongo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:10 Completing the relics’ revolution with ELT: the hero’s journey of massive, compact, and old galaxies - Crescenzo Tortora (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:30 MORFEO Calibration Unit: Design Challenges in the ELT-size Telescope Era - Benedetta Di Francesco (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:33 Thermal Control of MORFEO@ELT: CFD, Thermoelastic Analyses and Optical Impact - Matteo Aliverti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:36 Virtual Reality as a Tool for Maintenance Verification and AIV Procedure Design in Astronomical Instrumentation: the MORFEO@ELT Case Study - Edoardo Maria Alberto Redaelli (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:39 Topology Optimization and Additive Manufacturing for Astronomical Optomechanics: Application to MORFEO@ELT - Giuseppe De Luca (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) Brera)

10:42 Directly imaged exomoons now and then: from SPHERE to MICADO - Cecilia Lazzoni

10:45 Discussion
11:05 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:05 - 11:30
11:30 The Extremely Large Telescope and MORFEO
11:30 - 13:00
Contributions

11:30 The MICADO project - Benedetta Vulcani

12:00 Probing Galaxy Structures and Stellar Population Properties with MICADO & MORFEO: Insights from ScopeSim simulations - Letizia Scaloni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:20 Cosmic lenses with ELT/MORFEO–MICADO: resolving early-Universe star formation down to parsec scales - Eros Vanzella (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:40 Discussion
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
14:30 The ELT-VLT synergies
14:30 - 16:00
Contributions

14:30 Synergies between the ELT and the La Silla-Paranal Observatory - Luca Pasquini

15:00 INAF working for M4: what we learned from one of the first projects of ELT age - Marco Xompero (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:20 Jira environment software for system engineering with the ELT instrumentation program - Gabriele Rodeghiero (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:40 Volume Phase Holographic Gratings: an Italian solution for ELT dispersing elements - Michele Frangiamore (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 The ELT-VLT synergies
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 Exploring the Formation and Evolution of Giant Planets at AU Scales with the ELT - Davide Fedele (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

16:50 Opening a new window on high-redshift star formation with the ELT - Anita Zanella (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:10 C-MetaLL project: High-resolution spectroscopy of Classical Cepheids as tracers of the Milky Way Disc - Erasmo Trentin (INAF Osservatorio astronomico di Capodimonte)

17:30 On two supernovae triggering the GRB220101 A: a Pair Supernova of 10+52 erg and a core collapse SN originating, after 14.2 s, a millisecond. NS. - Remo Ruffini

17:33 The Fiber Routing of th eFIber Link Subsystem of ANDES@ELT: Design, Key Components and MAIT Strategy - Luca Oggioni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:36 Constraining Planetary Parameters with a Joint Fit of CCF Residuals and In-Transit Radial Velocities - Mattia Claudio D'Arpa (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:39 Spectroscopic confirmation with ANDES of transiting exomoons detected by PLATO - Luca Malavolta (Università degli Studi di Padova)

17:42 Probing planetary accretion and its initial conditions with ELT-ANDES - Eleonora Fiorellino (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:45 Modal Noise in ANDES: Experimental Characterisation and End-to-End Impact on Spectroscopic Performance - Davide Savio (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:48 The Single Conjugated Adaptive Optics system of ANDES - Enrico Pinna (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:51 Probing the Epoch of Reionization using ELT MOSAIC - Samuel Gagnon-Hartman (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)

17:54 The ionization state of the intergalactic medium in the first billion years: insights from current observations and prospects with MOSAIC - Lorenzo Napolitano (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:57 From Neptunes to Earths: Implications from Multi-Resolution Atmospheric Characterization of WASP-107b for Future ELT Observations of Terrestrial Exoplanet - Francesco Amadori (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

18:00 KELT‑9b as a Preview of the ELT Era: Probing 3D Dynamics and Thermochemical Regimes with GIARPS - Alessia Di Paola (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

18:05 Discussion
18:30 Announcements & end of day
Announcements & end of day
18:30 - 18:35
Thursday, 14 May 2026
09:30 The Extremely Large Telescope and ANDES
09:30 - 11:00
Contributions

09:30 The ELT instrumentation: the ESO perspective - Michele Cirasuolo

10:00 The ANDES project - Alessandro Marconi

10:30 ANDES, the high resolution spectrograph for the ELT: System Architecture Design - Alessio Zanutta
11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:25
11:25 The Extremely Large Telescope and ANDES
11:25 - 13:00
Contributions

11:25 ANDES science, operations and calibrations - Livia Origlia

11:55 Project Management Challenges in ANDES: Italian Coordination and Leadership - Paolo Di Marcantonio (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:15 ANDES Working Group 1: Exoplanets and Circumstellar Disks - Francesco Borsa (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:35 ELT/ANDES: Breaking Degeneracies and Probing Atmospheric Escape and Dynamics in Exoplanets - Federico Biassoni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:55 The ANDES ExposureTime Calculator - Nicoletta Sanna (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:15
14:15 The Extremely Large Telescope and ANDES
14:15 - 16:15
Contributions

14:15 Stars and stellar populations with ANDES - Alessio Mucciarelli (DIFA - University of Bologna)

14:35 High resolution spectroscopy of Classical Cepheids in the NIR: from GIANO to ANDES - Laura Salmeri (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

14:55 Early Metal Enrichment with ANDES for the ELT - Stefania Salvadori (Florence University, Physics and Astronomy Department)

15:15 Tracing Ionizing Radiation and Early Chemical Enrichment with ANDES - Anna Feltre (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:35 Fundamental Physics with ANDES - Matteo Viel (SISSA)

15:55 Fundamental constant measurements with ANDES: insights from ESPRESSO - Dinko Milakovic (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
16:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:15 - 16:40
16:40 The Extremely Large Telescope and ANDES
16:40 - 18:20
Contributions

16:40 The MOSAIC project - Laura Pentericci

17:10 Italian contribution to the Mosaic Science team - Elena Pancino (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:30 The INAF contribution to the Instrument Control Software for Mosaic - Sebastiano Ligori (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:50 Compact dual and lensed AGN with MAVIS, MICADO, and ANDES - Filippo Mannucci (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

18:10 Discussion
18:20 Announcements & end of day
Announcements & end of day
18:20 - 18:25

20:00 Social dinner
Social dinner
20:00 - 22:00
Friday, 15 May 2026
09:30 Future perspectives and synergies
09:30 - 11:30
Contributions

09:30 Strumentazione da terra oltre il 2030 - Adriano Fontana

10:00 Strumentazione futura dallo spazio - Andrea Argan

10:30 MAVIS: sharper than JWST, deeper than HST - Giovanni Cresci (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:50 The Planetary Camera and Spectrograph (PCS) for the ELT - Silvano Desidera (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:10 SHARP: a new-generation near-IR spectrograph for the Extremely Large Telescope - Paolo Saracco (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
11:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00
12:00 Future perspectives and synergies
12:00 - 13:20
Contributions

12:00 Discussion on ELT-GTO

12:30 Roundtable “INAF science and technology in the ELT era”
13:20 Conclusions

13:20 - 13:35

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