Towards a European Infrastructure for Lunar Observatories II Scientific Program

 

 

 Thursday, Nov. 23

 

Lunch

 

Programmatics & Observatories

Welcome

 

ESA’s Exploration Programme and the role of the Moon

S. Hovland ESA/Noordwijk

 

Missions to the Moon - Prospects and Possibilities of the European Space Industry

H. Müller EADS/Bremen

 

The Chinese Chang'E lunar mission

M. Huang NAOC/Beijing

 

IR telescopes

D. Lemke MPIA/Heidelberg

 

Prospects for X-ray astronomy from the lunar surface

S. Sembay Univ./Leicester

 

Coffee Break

 

Radio Telescopes on the moon

H. Falcke ASTRON/Dwingeloo

 

Planetary Science - Exoplanet Detection

M. Tagger CEA/Paris

 

Submm-Telescopes, SOFIA, etc.

J. Stutzki Univ./Köln

 

UV Telescopes

N. Kappelmann Univ./Tuebingen

 

SMART-1 highlights, ILEWG and exploration roadmap & Summary of IAU Working Group Astronomy from the Moon

L. Gurvits JIVE/Dwingeloo

 

 

End of Day

Conference Dinner

 

 

Friday, Nov. 24

Science with Lunar Observatories

Lunar Observatories - Demand and opportunities for geological studies and geophysical network sciences

H. Hoffmann DLR/Adlershof

 

Seismic observations on the moon:seismic interferometry and moonquakes

 G. Drijkoningen CiTG.TU/Delft

 

Cosmology - Observing the Epoch of Reionization and beyond

L. Koopmans Kapt.Inst./Groningen

 

Extragalactic Radio Emissinon - Diffuse clusterlarge scale radio emission at low frequency

G. Brunetti IRA-INAF/Bologna

 

Coffee Break

 

Probing the 3D solar wind:recent results and future opportunities

A. Breen Phys./Wales

 

Solar Observations and Cosmic Rays

X. Moussas Univ./Athens

 

Synthetic Radio maps of coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) in the Lower Solar Corona

J. Schmidt IUB/Bremen

 

Natural spacecraft "Moon", payload used for monitoring Sun,solar wind and the magnetotail

region

H. Rothkaehl SRC/PAS/Warsaw

 

Lunch

 

Concepts & Technology

 

Overview of science requirements for a lunar lowfreqency telescope

S. Jester D/MPIA

Lander and Sensor Concept for a Lunar Infrastructure for Exploration

H. Günther D/Astrium

 

Radio development in Uppsala

J. Bergman S/IRF’

 

Vector Antenna Array Configurations for Advanced Synthesis Imaging on the Moon

J. Danielsson S/IRF

 

Energy-efficient signal-processing .

J. Johansson S/IRF

 

 

Discussion Session

 

Tour of EADS Facility

 

End of Day

 

Poster

Maria Johansson S/IRF Living in Space - energy efficiency and mass penalty of biological life support systems

 

Talks and presentations from "Towards a European Infrastructure for Lunar Observatories I "