Exoplanets: Understanding alien worlds in diverse environments
July 11 – 20, 2023 Alpbach/Tyrol - Austria
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