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Lecture Programme

Monday, July 10

  • during the day: Individual Arrival of participants
  • 16:00 – 18:30: Registration at the School House
  • 19:00: Reception at the Böglerhof

Tuesday, July 11

  • 09:00: Opening
    • Konstanze Fila, Head of Summer School Alpbach, FFG
    • Christiane Helling, Chair of Programme Committee
      Director of Space Research Institute Graz
    • Margit Mischkulnig. Head of the Department for Space Affairs, BMK
      (Federal Ministry for Climate Protection, Energy, Environment, Mobility, Innovation and Technology)
    • Andreas Geisler, Head of Austrian Aeronautics and Space Agency (FFG)
    • Video message from Josef Aschbacher, ESA Director General
    • Peter Falkner, Head Tutor of Summer School Alpbach
      Head of Science Mission Studies Division, ESA
    • Hans-Martin Steiner, Austrospace
    • Anke Pagels-Kerp, Divisional Board Member for Space (DLR)
  • 10:00: Coffee Break
  • 10:30: Lecture by Annemarie Lagrange (Observatoire de Paris): Introduction to Exoplanets (state of the art, gas giants, mini neptunes, diversity of planetary systems, open challenges)
  • 11:30: Lecture by Mikael Bonnefoy (Université Grenoble Alpes): Ground Based Observations of Exoplanets (State of the Art, goals)
  • 12:30: Lunch Break
  • 15:00: Lecture by Ana Heras (ESA-ESTEC): Exoplanet space missions (current/past missions, measurement methods, resolution requirements, goals)
  • 16:00: Lecture by Inge Loes ten Kate (Utrecht University): How to build up the evidence towards a credible detection of extraterrestrial life (definition of life, Biosignatures, complex molecules, chirality)
  • 17:00: Coffee Break
  • 17:30: Workshop Preparation
    Peter Falkner (ESA-ESTEC)
  • 19:00: Joint Dinner at Böglerhof for all participants

Wednesday, July 12

  • 09:00: Lecture by Peter Falkner (ESA-ESTEC): Mission & System Design
  • 10:00: Lecture by Marcus Hallmann (DLR): Mission analysis
  • 11:00: Coffee Break
  • 11:30: Lecture by Beth Biller (University of Edinburgh): Exoplanets analysis/characterization methods (science goals and mission requirements, physical principles of measurements)
  • 12:30: Lunch Break
  • 14:30: Lecture by Frans Snik (Leiden University): Coronographic Measurements (towards space missions)
  • 15:30 Coffee Break
  • 16:00: Lecture by Daniel Angerhausen (ETH Zürich): Interferometric Measurements (towards space missions)
  • 17:00: Working Team Meetings
  • 19:00: Joint Dinner at Böglerhof for all participants
  • 21:00: Mission Preparation at the School House

Thursday, July 13

  • 09:00: Lecture by Simon Müller (University of Zurich): Planetary Structure and Evolution
  • 10:00: Lecture by Ludmila Carone (Austrian Academy of Sciences): Planetary atmospheres (include different types of atmospheres)
  • 11:00: Coffee Break
  • 11:30: Lecture by Theresa Rank-Lüftinger (ESA-ESTEC): The Exoplanets’ Ecoystem - Star – planet interaction (host star, stellar and planetary evolution, exomoons, exocomets)
  • 12:30: Lunch Break
  • 14:30: WORKSHOP
  • 16:00 Coffee Break
  • 17:00: WORKSHOP
  • 19:00: Joint Dinner at Böglerhof for all participants
  • 21:00: Mission Preparation at the School House

Friday, July 14

  • 09:00: Lecture by Jose Lorenzo Alvarez (ESA-ESTEC): Instrumentation
  • 10:00: Lecture by Tibor Agocs (ESA - ESTEC): Telescope Design
  • 11:00: Coffee Break
  • 11:30: Lecture by Jan Thoemel (University of Luxembourg): System engineering
  • 12:30: Lunch Break
  • 14:30: WORKSHOP
  • 16:00: Coffee Break
  • 16:30: Mission Objectives and Requirements Review
  • 19:00: Joint Dinner at Böglerhof for all participants
  • 21:00: Mission Preparation at the School House

Saturday, July 15

  • 09:00 - 16:00: Guided mountain walk for interested participants
  • 17:00: Mission Preparation at the School House
  • 19:00: Joint Dinner at Böglerhof for all participants
  • 21:00: Mission Preparation at the School House

Sunday, July 16

  • 09:00: Individual Mission Preparation at the School House
  • 19:00: Joint Dinner at Böglerhof for all participants
  • 21:00: Mission Preparation at the School House

Monday, July 17

  • 09:00: WORKSHOP
  • 11:00: Coffee Break
  • 11:30: WORKSHOP
  • 12:30: Lunch Break
  • 14:30: WORKSHOP
  • 15:00: Coffee Break
  • 16:30: Mission Preliminary Design Review
  • 19:00: Joint Dinner at Böglerhof for all participants
  • 21:00: Mission Preparation at the School House

Tuesday, July 18

  • 09:00: Mission Preparation at the School House
  • 16:30: Mission Final Design Review
  • 19:00: Joint Dinner at Böglerhof for all participants
  • 21:00: Mission Preparation at the School House

Wednesday, July 19

  • 09:00: Mission Preparation at the School House
  • 16:00: Individual Team Rehersals
  • 19:00: Joint Dinner at Böglerhof for all participants
  • 21:00: Mission Preparation at the School House

Thursday, July 20

  • 09:00: Presentation Team A
  • 10:00: Question and Answer Period
  • 10:30: Coffee Break
  • 11:00: Presentation Team B
  • 12:00: Question and Answer Period
  • 12:30: Buffet Lunch at School House
  • 13:30: Presentation Team C
  • 14:30: Question and Answer Period
  • 15:00: Coffee Break
  • 15:30: Presentation Team D
  • 16:30: Question and Answer Period
  • 17:00: Closing Remarks
  • 17:15: Meeting of the Jury
  • 19:30: Farewell Dinner at the Congress Centrum Alpbach for all participants
    Announcement of Jury Evaluation
    Award Ceremony