3 June
| 14:00 – 16:30 | Registration @ Osservatorio Polifunzionale del Chianti |
| 16:30 – 18:00 | Pre-Conference Gathering & Chianti Wine Experience @ Fattoria Montecchio |
4 June
| 10:00 – 13:00 | Registration |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Welcome to the Chianti Topics Workshop |
Session 1 – Habitability: Habitable Zone and beyond I
14:45 – 15:30 Ravi K. Kopparapu (invited) – Habitable Zone and Beyond
15:30 – 16:05 Lorenzo Biasiotti – Potential climates and habitability on eccentric worlds: the case of GL514b and HD20794d
Coffee break
Session 2 – Role of Small Telescopes in top science
16:45 – 17:20 Marco Marcellino – Beyond habitability: How extremophiles shape our understanding of life’s potential
17:20 – 17:55 Matteo Simonetti – A new energy balance model to map the habitability of rocky, tidally locked planets: Application to the Ariel target list
17:55 – 18:30 Alfredo Biagini – A reanalysis of the LHS 1140b atmosphere observed with the Hubble Space Telescope
18:30 Welcome Drink
5 June
Session 3 – Future space missions: search of life in the Solar System and beyond I
09:00 – 09:45 Lee Feinberg (invited) – Advancing the Concept Maturity and Technology of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO09:45
09:45 – 10:30 Sascha Quanz (invited) – The large interferometer for exoplanets (LIFE) – a space mission designed to search for life outside the solar system
Coffee Break
Session 4 – Future space missions: search of life in the Solar System and beyond II
11:10 – 11:45 Romain Laugier – Arguments and proposition for a joint HWO-LIFE data challenge and the nulling interferometry data standard to support it
11:45 – 12:20 Beatrice Gorga – Radiometric performance model for a notional imaging spectrometer as part of the Uranus flagship mission
12:20 – 12:55 Federico Colaiuta – Evaluating lunar surface chemistry with a Python routine: Mairan crater as a test case for ISRU in future Artemis missions
13:00 Lunch
Session 5 – Future space missions: Experimental studies & challenges I
14:30 – 15:05 Andrea Bocchieri – Ariel-IT end-to-end exercise from the astrophysical scene to planetary spectra: simulations and retrieval
15:05 – 15:40 Francesca Vitali Experimental study of the interference dips observed on the Collision-induced Absorption fundamental band of H2: their relevance to planetary atmosphere characterization
15:40 – 16:15 Lorenzo Biasiotti The impact of extreme space weather events on Earth’s climate and habitability
Coffee break
Session 6 – Future space missions: Experimental studies & challenges II
16:45 – 17:20 Camilla Pezzotti The activity-rotation-age relationship under the lens of asteroseismology
17:20 – 17:55 Janina Hansen Detecting atmospheric CO2 trends as population-level signatures for long-term stable water oceans and biotic activity on temperate terrestrial exoplanets
17:55 – 18:30 Andrea Bocchieri ExoNAMD: a community tool to gauge multi-planetary systems
20:00 Social dinner @ Osservatorio Polifunzionale del Chianti
6 June
Session 7 – Biosignatures I
09:30 – 10:15 Silvia Pagnoscin (invited) Biosignatures: Traces of Life Across the Solar System
Coffee break
11:00 – 11:35 Runa Briguglio WaveFront sensing and control for high contrast in space: R&D at INAF, from LBT to HWO
Session 8 – Biosignatures II
11:35 – 12:10 Francesca Furnari Spectroscopic measures of hydrated sulfate as a relevant planetary analogue for Jupiter’s icy moons
Session 9 – Technosignatures
12:10 – 13:00 Svetlana Berdyugina (invited) Life in the Universe: from Bio to Techno
13:00 Lunch
Round table
14:30 Perspectives on «Habitability» Science
16:00 End of the Workshop
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