Name: Workshop STILES: risultati e prospettive future
Start: 2026-03-16T11:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-03-18T17:25:00+01:00
Location: OA Capodimonte

Workshop STILES: risultati e prospettive future

from Monday, March 16, 2026 (11:30 AM) to Wednesday, March 18, 2026 (5:25 PM)

Monday, March 16, 2026

12:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Overview
1:30 PM - 4:35 PM
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "E. Capocci"
Contributions

1:30 PM STILES: goals, results and future endeavours. - Adriano Fontana (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

2:00 PM The STILES Project - Francesco Pompa Pacchi (INAF OAR)

2:20 PM The ELT: Progress update - Joel vernet (ESO)

2:45 PM The SKA Observatory: Status and Perspectives. - Filippo Maria Zerbi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

3:10 PM Meerkat - Sias Malan (SARAO)

3:35 PM One step closer to planet formation - Antonio Garufi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

3:50 PM Red and tiny: dusty dwarfs and little red dots as seen by ELT - Laura Bisigello (Università di Padova)

4:05 PM AGN feeding and feedback revealed in detail by MeerKAT and the SKA - Filippo Maccagni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

4:20 PM Investigating galaxy assembly and star-formation in the early Universe: current results and future perspectives - Antonello Calabro (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
4:35 PM Shuttle transportation: Transportation to University Federico II
Transportation to University Federico II
4:35 PM - 5:15 PM

5:15 PM Visit and Inauguration of the ADHOC Computing Center (Federico II)

5:15 PM - 6:30 PM

6:30 PM Shuttle transportation: Transportation to Downtown and to Capodimonte
Transportation to Downtown and to Capodimonte
6:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

8:00 AM Shuttle transportation: Transportation from Downtown
Transportation from Downtown
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Radio Receivers
9:00 AM - 10:55 AM
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "E. Capocci"
Contributions

9:00 AM Moving to digital: technical developments in radio astronomy - Gundolf Wieching (Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie)

9:25 AM A scientific roadmap for the Band5b receiver on MeerKAT - Tiziana Venturi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

9:45 AM MeerKAT Band 5 Project - Maria Grazia Labate (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:00 AM Upgrading INAF Facilities Across the Microwave–Submillimeter Spectrum - Francesco Cuttaia (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:15 AM Realization of two new laboratories for acceptance and qualification of analog for low frequency RF systems and the integration of cryogenic high frequency receivers. - Jader Monari (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:30 AM Anechoic chambers for full range radiation pattern characterization - Cristian Franceschet (Università degli Studi di Milano)
10:55 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:55 AM - 11:35 AM
11:35 AM Facilities
11:35 AM - 1:05 PM
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "E. Capocci"
Contributions

11:35 AM Efficient AI for Big Data in Astrophysics - Massimo Brescia (Department of Physics, University Federico II)

12:00 PM “Stars do not make a noise”: A 15 mins journey from the classics to the deep learning era of image denoising - Pierpaolo Brutti (Department of Statistics, Sapienza University of Rome)

12:15 PM New capabilities in optomech manufacturing and testing - Andrea Bianco (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:30 PM 6k @ OACT - Matteo Munari (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:45 PM "Dalle Stalle alle Stelle": The New INAF Infrastructures for Concurrent Design and Multi-Wavelength Control Systems - Christian Eredia (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
1:05 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
1:05 PM - 2:35 PM
2:35 PM Extreme AO
2:35 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "E. Capocci"
Contributions

2:35 PM Imaging Exoplanets: Status, Challenges, and Future Opportunities - Valentina D'Orazi (University of Rome Tor Vergata / INAF OA Roma)

3:00 PM Challenges and Opportunities in Adaptive Optics - Jean-Pierre Veran (NRC-CNRC)

3:25 PM STILES Facilities for Extreme Adaptive Optics - Enrico Pinna (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

3:45 PM DATT: testing detectors on real applications - Roberto Piazzesi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:40 PM
4:40 PM Le sfide amministrative
4:40 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "E. Capocci"
Contributions

4:40 PM Il Program Office - lessons learned - Davide Fierro (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

4:50 PM L'andamento complessivo del Programma PNRR e di STILES - Roberto Bertinelli (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

5:00 PM STILES tool: L'automazione di procedure, documenti, dati e rendicontazione di STILES. - Franco Di Pangrazio (INAF)

5:10 PM Le procedure del progetto STILES tra evoluzione normativa e gestione operativa. - Dario Rotondo (INAF)

5:20 PM Tavola Rotonda - L'Amministrazione INAF prima e dopo il PNRR - Gaetano Telesio (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
5:50 PM Shuttle transportation: Transportation to downtown
Transportation to downtown
5:50 PM - 6:40 PM

7:30 PM Shuttle transportation: transportation from Downtown and from Capodimonte to Social Dinner
transportation from Downtown and from Capodimonte to Social Dinner
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM

8:00 PM Social Dinner
Social Dinner
8:00 PM - 10:20 PM

10:20 PM Shuttle transportation: Transportation to Capodimonte and to Downtown
Transportation to Capodimonte and to Downtown
10:20 PM - 10:50 PM
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

8:00 AM Shuttle transportation: Transportation from Downtown
Transportation from Downtown
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Astrobiology
9:00 AM - 10:25 AM
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "E. Capocci"
Contributions

9:00 AM Frontiers in prebiotic chemistry and Origins of Life - Raffaele Saladino (Dipartimento di Chimica e Tecnologie del Farmaco, Sapienza università di Roma)

9:25 AM The new LIFE+ facility for exoplanetary photochemistry and aerosols - Angela Ciaravella (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

9:40 AM A surface science approach to an astrobiological issue: life on Early Earth. - Claudio Goletti (Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Dipartimento di Fisica)

9:55 AM Characterization of exoplanery atmospheres - Gioacchino Massimo Palma (Università di Palermo)

10:10 AM Laboratory Plasma Spectroscopy - Francesco Leone (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
10:25 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:25 AM - 11:10 AM
11:10 AM Wide Field AO
11:10 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "E. Capocci"
Contributions

11:10 AM Scientific exploitation of MORFEO@ELT - Francesca Annibali (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:30 AM Strengthening MORFEO through PNRR: 2nd deformable mirror, labs, and integration tools - Gabriele Umbriaco (Università di Bologna - Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF-OAS Bologna))

11:45 AM Wide field AO instrumentation and facility - Luca Marafatto (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:00 PM A new facility for AO technologies in the ELTs era - Gianluca Di Rico (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico d’Abruzzo)

12:15 PM INAF-OAR Laser Guide Stars for Adaptive Optics Laboratory: a national facility for Assembly, Integration and Testing of Advanced LGS-AO Systems - Mauro Centrone (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
12:30 PM Concluding Remarks - Roberto Ragazzoni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
Concluding Remarks
- Roberto Ragazzoni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "E. Capocci"
1:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

2:30 PM Inauguration of the Concurrent Design Facility

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM