ESO VLT Beyond 2030: the role of INAF

Name: ESO VLT Beyond 2030: the role of INAF
Start: 2026-10-08T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-09T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Auditorium Nazionale Ernesto Capocci

8 Oct 2026, 13:00 → 9 Oct 2026, 16:00 Europe/Rome

Auditorium Nazionale Ernesto Capocci

INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte Salita Moiariello, 16, 80137 Napoli NA

Andrea Bianco (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)), Enzo Brocato (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)), Giovanni Cresci (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)), Giuseppina Micela (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)), Isabella Pagano (INAF), Marcella Marconi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)), Pietro Schipani (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

Description

ESO VLT Beyond 2030: the role of INAF

ESO is preparing to define a roadmap for the next generation of instruments for the Very Large Telescope – VLT through the VLT Beyond 2030 call. In this context, European institutes are organising themselves to consolidate existing instrumentation ideas or to propose innovative new concepts. INAF, with its well-established technological expertise, spanning optomechanics, adaptive optics, cryogenics, and detector development, and its broad scientific community, stands as a key stakeholder in this landscape.
This workshop aims to build a comprehensive, shared picture of INAF's positioning: identifying the instrument proposals in which the institute is already involved, emphasize the scientific goals, the synergies with existing or future facilities/instrumentation, clarifying both technological and scientific held in the various proposals, uncovering possible synergies across the different units, and structuring a coordinated strategy to maximise INAF's impact and visibility in the selection process for the future VLT instrumentation.

We encourage all INAF researchers and technologists to attend the meeting and contribute to building a shared and comprehensive picture of INAF's positioning in the VLT Beyond 2030 landscape.
Contributions/abstracts may cover:

science cases
technological contributions (optomechanics, adaptive optics, cryogenics, detectors, SE, software,...)
involvement in existing proposals

Your ideas, expertise and vision are essential to consolidate our community's strategy and maximise INAF's impact.

Follow the link for more information about the VLT Beyond 2030 call at ESO.

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VLT_2030 INAF

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Registration

Registration to the event

Thursday 8 October
- Thu 8 Oct
- Fri 9 Oct
- Registration
- Welcome
- Session 1
  - 1
    
    ESO VLT: status and call
    
    Speaker: Cêline Peroux
  - 2
    
    INAF involvement in VLT
    
    Speaker: Marcella Marconi
  - 3
    
    MAVIS - The MCAO Next2025 Cork Generation Facility Instrument for the VLT
    
    Speaker: Giovanni Cresci
  - 4
    
    CUBES (Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph) - Bringing a unique capability to ESO's VLT
    
    Speaker: Stefano Covino
  - 5
    
    SAXO+: Enhancing SPHERE high-contrast capabilities
    
    Speaker: Emiliano Diolaiti
- 16:10
  
  Coffee break
- Session 2
  - 6
    
    MICHELANGELO: an L/M high resolution spectrograph for exoplanetary science
    
    Speaker: Leonardo Testi
  - 7
    
    The science case of MICHELANGELO: a deep, high-resolution view of the L-band and M-band sky
    
    Speaker: Lorenzo Pino
  - 8
    
    Resolving protostellar outflow rotation: from ERIS to MAVIS and beyond
    
    Speaker: Antonio Armeni
  - 9
    
    Observational cosmology with Surface Brightness Fluctuations from Euclid to AO-assisted data
    
    Speaker: Michele Cantiello
  - 10
    
    TILING I: Field-level Bayesian reconstruction of cosmological initial conditions during the epoch of reionization
    
    Speaker: Nikolaos Triantafyllou
  - 11
    
    Low-Surface Brightness research in the Next Era of Astronomy
    
    Speaker: Marilena Spavone
- Discussion / Round Table: What Cutting-Edge VLT Science Made in INAF?
  
  What Cutting-Edge VLT Science Made in INAF?
  
  Consiglio Scientifico
  - 12
    
    Round Table: What Cutting-Edge VLT Science Made in INAF?
    
    Speaker: Consiglio Scientifico
- 19:00
  
  Welcome cocktail
Friday 9 October
- Thu 8 Oct
- Fri 9 Oct
- Session 3
  - 13
    
    Synergies with other facilities (SKA,CTA)
    
    Speaker: Filippo Maria Zerbi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
  - 14
    
    Synergies with space facilities
    
    Speaker: Adriano Fontana (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
  - 15
    
    HRMOS: a high-resolution, multi-object spectrograph for the VLT
    
    Speaker: Maria Sofia Randich (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
  - 16
    
    The need for a wide-field IFU at 1 micron on the VLT
    
    Speaker: Nicolas Bouche (CRAL)
  - 17
    
    From VIMOS to 2030 and Beyond: The COSMOS Group’s Expertise in Spectroscopic Software
    
    Speaker: Adriana Gargiulo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
- Coffee break
- Session 4
  - 18
    
    Gravity+
    
    Speaker: Antoine Mérand
  - 19
    
    ESPRESSOred: Towards a full visible and near infrared high-resolution and high-fidelity spectroscopic facility
    
    Speaker: Xavier Dumusque
  - 20
    
    SHARPS: concept for a short-wavelength, 3rd-generation VLTI instrument
    
    Speaker: Stefan Kraus
  - 21
    
    A multi-band, fast imager and spectrograph optimised for transients
    
    Speaker: Antonio de Ugarte Postigo (LAM-CNRS)
- Lunch
- Panel Discussion: INAF's Role and Commitment Now and in the ELT Era
  
  INAF's Role and Commitment Now and in the ELT Era
  
  Presidente, DS, UTG-A, UTG-B, Adriano Fontana