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, 16 March 2026 (11:30) to Wednesday, 18 March 2026 (17:25)

Monday, 16 March 2026

12:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 - 13:30
13:30 Overview
13:30 - 16:35
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "E. Capocci"
Contributions

13:30 STILES: goals, results and future endeavours. - Adriano Fontana (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

14:00 The STILES Project - Francesco Pompa Pacchi (INAF OAR)

14:20 The ELT: Progress update - Joel vernet (ESO)

14:45 The SKA Observatory: Status and Perspectives. - Filippo Maria Zerbi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:10 Meerkat - Sias Malan (SARAO)

15:35 One step closer to planet formation - Antonio Garufi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:50 Red and tiny: dusty dwarfs and little red dots as seen by ELT - Laura Bisigello (Università di Padova)

16:05 AGN feeding and feedback revealed in detail by MeerKAT and the SKA - Filippo Maccagni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

16:20 Investigating galaxy assembly and star-formation in the early Universe: current results and future perspectives - Antonello Calabro (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
16:35 Shuttle transportation: Transportation to University Federico II
Transportation to University Federico II
16:35 - 17:15

17:15 Visit and Inauguration of the ADHOC Computing Center (Federico II)

17:15 - 18:30

18:30 Shuttle transportation: Transportation to Downtown and to Capodimonte
Transportation to Downtown and to Capodimonte
18:30 - 19:00
Tuesday, 17 March 2026

08:00 Shuttle transportation: Transportation from Downtown
Transportation from Downtown
08:00 - 09:00
09:00 Radio Receivers
09:00 - 10:55
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "E. Capocci"
Contributions

09:00 Moving to digital: technical developments in radio astronomy - Gundolf Wieching (Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie)

09:25 A scientific roadmap for the Band5b receiver on MeerKAT - Tiziana Venturi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09:45 MeerKAT Band 5 Project - Maria Grazia Labate (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

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

10:15 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 Anechoic chambers for full range radiation pattern characterization - Cristian Franceschet (Università degli Studi di Milano)
10:55 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:55 - 11:35
11:35 Facilities
11:35 - 13:05
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "E. Capocci"
Contributions

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

12:00 “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 New capabilities in optomech manufacturing and testing - Andrea Bianco (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

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

12:45 "Dalle Stalle alle Stelle": The New INAF Infrastructures for Concurrent Design and Multi-Wavelength Control Systems - Christian Eredia (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
13:05 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:05 - 14:35
14:35 Extreme AO
14:35 - 16:00
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "E. Capocci"
Contributions

14:35 Imaging Exoplanets: Status, Challenges, and Future Opportunities - Valentina D'Orazi (University of Rome Tor Vergata / INAF OA Roma)

15:00 Challenges and Opportunities in Adaptive Optics - Jean-Pierre Veran (NRC-CNRC)

15:25 STILES Facilities for Extreme Adaptive Optics - Enrico Pinna (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:45 DATT: testing detectors on real applications - Roberto Piazzesi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:40
16:40 Le sfide amministrative
16:40 - 17:50
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "E. Capocci"
Contributions

16:40 Il Program Office - lessons learned - Davide Fierro (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

16:50 L'andamento complessivo del Programma PNRR e di STILES - Roberto Bertinelli (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:00 STILES tool: L'automazione di procedure, documenti, dati e rendicontazione di STILES. - Franco Di Pangrazio (INAF)

17:10 Le procedure del progetto STILES tra evoluzione normativa e gestione operativa. - Dario Rotondo (INAF)

17:20 Tavola Rotonda - L'Amministrazione INAF prima e dopo il PNRR - Gaetano Telesio (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
17:50 Shuttle transportation: Transportation to downtown
Transportation to downtown
17:50 - 18:40

19:30 Shuttle transportation: transportation from Downtown and from Capodimonte to Social Dinner
transportation from Downtown and from Capodimonte to Social Dinner
19:30 - 20:00

20:00 Social Dinner
Social Dinner
20:00 - 22:20

22:20 Shuttle transportation: Transportation to Capodimonte and to Downtown
Transportation to Capodimonte and to Downtown
22:20 - 22:50
Wednesday, 18 March 2026

08:00 Shuttle transportation: Transportation from Downtown
Transportation from Downtown
08:00 - 09:00
09:00 Astrobiology
09:00 - 10:25
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "E. Capocci"
Contributions

09:00 Frontiers in prebiotic chemistry and Origins of Life - Raffaele Saladino (Dipartimento di Chimica e Tecnologie del Farmaco, Sapienza università di Roma)

09:25 The new LIFE+ facility for exoplanetary photochemistry and aerosols - Angela Ciaravella (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09:40 A surface science approach to an astrobiological issue: life on Early Earth. - Claudio Goletti (Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Dipartimento di Fisica)

09:55 Characterization of exoplanery atmospheres - Gioacchino Massimo Palma (Università di Palermo)

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

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

11:30 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 Wide field AO instrumentation and facility - Luca Marafatto (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

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

12:15 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 Concluding Remarks - Roberto Ragazzoni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
Concluding Remarks
- Roberto Ragazzoni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
12:30 - 13:00
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "E. Capocci"
13:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:30

14:30 Inauguration of the Concurrent Design Facility

14:30 - 15:00

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