Monday, October 9

 

10:00 - 12:00, chair: Jan Harms

Meeting of the LGWA steering group  [closed session]

12:30 - 15:00

Icebreaker lunch

15:00 - 18:30, chairs: Silvia Piranomonte, Andrea Melandri

White paper discussion

   

Tuesday, October 10

 

9:00 - 12:30, chair: TBD

Lunar exploration plans and status talks

9:00 - 9:15

Welcome to the meeting

9:15 - 9:45

ESA s lunar-exploration plans (Francesca McDonald or James Carpenter - ESA - online)

9:45 - 10:15

The on-going and upcoming national projects "Earth Moon Mars" and "Space It Up" (Francesca Esposito - INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte)

10:15 - 10:45

Coffee break

10:45 - 11:15

Status of LGWA (Jan Harms - GSSI)

11:15 - 11:45

Status of the LGWA white paper (Silvia Piranomonte / Andrea Melandri -  INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma)

11:45 - 12:15

DECIGO (Masaki Ando - University of Tokyo - online) [moved here from Missions of interest ]

   

15:00 - 18:30, chair: TBD

Missions of interest

15:00 - 15:30

LISA mission (Bill Weber - University of Trento)

15:30 - 16:00

A comparison of lunar GW detectors - (Jacopo Tissino - GSSI)

16:00 - 16:30

The lunar regolith observed by mini-RF onboard LRO - (Essam Heggy - NASA JPL)

16:30 - 17:00

Coffee break

17:00 - 17:30

ILSA experiment of Chandrayaan-3 (Jiju John ISRO LEOS - online)

17:30 - 18:30

Discussion

   

Wednesday, October 11

 

9:00 - 12:30, chair: Morgane Zeoli

Payload 

9:00 - 9:10

Overview of the LGWA payload (Morgane Zeoli - UCLouvain)

9:10 - 9:40

E-TEST as a test platform (Chiara Di Fronzo - University of Liège)

9:40 - 10:00

Testing of a Watt's linkage accelerometer at the E-TEST cold platform (Morgane Zeoli - UCLouvain)

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee break

10:30 - 11:00

Interferometric displacement readout (Shreevathsa Chalathadka - University of Hamburg) 

11:00 - 11:20

Sorption-based JT cooling: a viable option for cooling detectors in gravitational-wave observatories (Arvi Xhahi - University of Twente)

11:20 - 11:40

Fabrication and characterization of NbN superconducting coils for the LGWA detector (Meenakshi Sharma - University of Camerino)

11:40 - 12:00

Seismic background reduction with arrays (Soumen Koley - GSSI)

12:00 - 12:30

Discussion

   

15:00 - 18:30, chair: Alessandro Frigeri

Lunar geology and geophysical environment

15:00 - 15:30

Geology of the Apollo 17 landing site (Giulia Magnarini - Natural History Museum London)

15:30 - 16:00

Lunar Topography and Geology (Alessandro Frigeri - INAF IAPS)

16:00 - 16:30

Seismic Environment on the Moon (Taichi Kawamura - Université Paris Cité  - online)

16:30 - 17:00

Coffee break

17:00 - 17:20

Tidally induced tilt (Daniele Melini - INGV Sezione di Roma 1 - online)

17:20 - 17:40

Overview of the lunar electromagnetic / plasma environment (Yoshifumi Futaana - Swedish Institute of Space Physics - online

17:40 - 18:00

Earth Moon Mars lithospheric attenuation properties comparison (Sabrina Menina - Université Paris Cité  - online)

18:00 - 18:30

Discussion

20:00

Social dinner

   

Thursday, October 12

 

9:00 - 12:30, chair: Andrea Maselli

GW science

9:00 - 9:30

The Danuri mission (Sungsoo Kim - Kyung Hee University) [moved here from Missions of interest ]

9:30 - 10:00

Gravitational Wave Astronomy (Enrico Barausse - SISSA - online)

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee break

10:30 - 11:00

Formation of IMBHs in dense stellar environment and the implications for GW science (Manuel Arca Sedda - GSSI)

11:00 - 11:30

Tidal disruption events (Martina Toscani - Laboratoire des 2 Infinis - online)

11:30 - 12:00

Gravitational wave signals from binary-single black hole encounters in star clusters (Elena Codazzo - GSSI)

12:00 - 12:30

Discussion

   

15:00 - 18:30, chair: Roberto Serafinelli

Multi-messenger astronomy

15:00 - 15:30

Multi-messenger observations with mHz - Hz GWs (Maria Teresa Botticella - INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte)

15:30 - 16:00

MBH/IMBH binaries (Paola Severgnini - INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera)

16:00 - 16:30

EM emission from Tidal Disruption Events  (Francesca Onori - INAF Osservatorio Astronomico d'Abruzzo)

16:30 - 17:00

Coffee break

17:00 - 17:20

X-ray quasi periodic eruptions in galactic nuclei - (Giovanni Miniutti - CSIC CAB - online)

17:20 - 17:40

DWD & NSWD - (Silvia Piranomonte - INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma)

17:40 - 18:00

SNe - (Ferdinando Patat - ESO Garching)

18:00 - 18:30

Discussion

   

Friday, October 13

 

9:00 - 17:00

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