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ASPERA Technology Forum on Mirrors and Lasers in Astroparticle Physics Infrastructures
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Europe/Rome
Auditorium (EGO/Virgo Site)
Auditorium
EGO/Virgo Site
Cascina (Pi), Italy
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Description
20-21 October, 2011
EGO/Virgo Site (Cascina), Pisa, Italy
ASPERA Technology Forums provide discussion platforms for scientists facing ambitious technological challenges and for companies who are interested in the markets arising from the new science projects. The goal is to strengthen the cooperation among stakeholders from industry, astroparticle physics projects and funding agencies, as well as to discuss and conclude on a new collaborative approach for technological developments.
The next generation detectors included in the updated European Astroparticle Physics Roadmap have received outstanding attention in the scientific community. The total investment for those projects is estimated around 1.5 Billion Euros over the next decade and the scientific goals require unprecedented R&D efforts. Technological challenges on optical components like mirrors, lenses, windows and on lasers are of paramount importance in the research fields of gravitational waves (GW) and very high-energy gamma ray observatories (VHEGR).
Currently the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is under detailed design and prototyping. This future observatory requires mirror segments of a total area of about 9000m2 for three different types of telescopes. The Einstein Telescope (ET) will be the final European step in the field of gravitational wave research, but already in the next years a major upgrading process of the current gravitational wave detectors (Advanced Virgo and GEO HF in Europe, Advanced LIGO in USA, probably Advanced LIGO-South in Australia or India and LCGT in Japan) will pose new technological challenges.
This Technology Forum shapes a strong technical and scientific programme concentrating on the following topics:
- Mirrors and auxiliary optics
Coating, polishing, sandwich structures, flatness, deformation, aging, optical metrology, optical sensors, optical and thermo-optical properties - Lasers
Fibre lasers, CO2 lasers, Solid state lasers, Laser technology, Simulation codes
- Thomas Berghöfer (PT-DESY & ASPERA)
- Marta Budroni (EGO)
- Rodolfo Canestrari (INAF - OAB)
- Hélène Demonfaucon(FOM-Nikhef & ASPERA)
- Michele Doro (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
- Federico Ferrini (co-chair, EGO)
- Andreas Förster (MPIK-Heidelberg)
- Sandra Hesping (ASPERA)
- Katharina Henjes-Kunst (ASPERA)
- Harald Lueck (AEI-Hannover)
- Séverine Perus (EGO)
- Michele Punturo (co-chair, INFN-Perugia & EGO)
- Bijan Saghai (co-chair, CEA-Saclay & ASPERA)
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Participants
Alexander Khalaidovski
Andrea NOVI
Andreas Foerster
Andreas Freise
Antonino Chiummo
Arnaud Marsollier
Arno Koehler
Bas Swinkels
Benjamin Canuel
Bernhard Kley
Chris Jackson
Christian Killow
Ciro Del Vecchio
Cornelia Hanna Esther Schultz
Damien DEUBEL
Dervis Vernani
Dusan Mandat
Enrico Giro
Enrico Serra
Eric Genin
Ernesto Pecchioli
Federico Della Valle
Federico Ferrini
Federico Paoletti
Flavio Nocera
Franco Vivaldi
Franz-Josef Urban
Gabriele Vajente
German Hermann
Gianfranco Calegari
Gianluca Gemme
Gianpietro CAGNOLI
Giordano Patrizi
Giovanni Cantatore
Giovanni Losurdo
Guido Zavattini
Harald Lueck
Heitmann Henrich
Hélène DEMONFAUCON
Iain Martin
Jean Pierre Zendri
Jean-Claude KEROMNES
Joerg Neumann
Johannes Pernpeintner
John Tardif
Julien Marque
Katharina Henjes-Kunst
Klaus Veit
Laurent Pinard
luca carbonaro
Luca Taffarello
Luciano Di Fiore
Luigi Lessio
Maddalena Mantovani
Marco Bonaglia
Maria Clementina Medina
Mark Altwein
Massimiliano Bitossi
Massimiliano Rossi
Massimo Bonfante
Matteo Tacca
Maurizio Canepa
Mauro D'Aloisio
Michal Karczewski
Michele Doro
Michele Punturo
Miroslav Palatka
Monty Ma Gill
Mose' Mariotti
Nicolas AUGE
Paolo Sandri
Patrice Micolon
Peter MacKay
Riccardo Paoletti
Richard Day
Roberto Passaquieti
Rodolfo Canestrari
Runa Briguglio
Sandra Hesping
Sebastian Fischer
Silvio BRANDO
Stefanie Kroker
Stephane Chaillot
Thomas Berghoefer
Tobias Engert
Viviana Fafone
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