Voyage 2050 workshop

Shaping the European Space Agency’s space science plan for 2035-2050

29 – 31 October 2019, Madrid, Spain

 

programme

 

Almost 100 White Papers were submitted in response to the Call for White Papers issued in March 2019. This very high interest from the community made it necessary to select a subset of the White Papers for presentation during the 2.5 days of the Voyage 2050 workshop. Although the majority of White Papers could not be selected for presentation, it is the plan to have all of them briefly introduced by the session chairs and to have ample time for discussion. The aim of the workshop’s programme is to provide an as broad as possible overview of the variety of topics and ideas that were submitted by the scientific community, within the time constraints imposed by the programme format.



It should be noted that the selection of White Papers to be presented at the Workshop is not indicative of any preference or pre-selection for topics to be addressed in the Voyage 2050 programme. The Senior Committee supported by the Topical Teams will, in preparing its recommendation to the Agency, review all White Papers in the same way, regardless of whether or not they were included for a dedicated talk at the Madrid workshop.

Please be aware that there may yet be some changes to the programme, e.g. a change in speaker, or in the order of talks in a session.

Workshop venue

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Calle Serrano 117, Madrid, Spain

 

Tuesday 29 October 2019
Location: Salón de Actos, CSIC
Time Topic
09:00 - 09:45 Introduction, welcome, and context
 

Welcome address
Elena Domínguez, Vice-President of International Affairs, CSIC

Voyage 2050: Strategic vision of the ESA Scientific Programme
Günther Hasinger, ESA Director of Science

The Voyage 2050 process
Linda Tacconi, Chair of the Voyage 2050 Senior Committee
 
09:45 - 10:50 The Sun, planets, magnetosphere and plasma physics: Solar Physics
Chair: Jorrit Leenaarts
09:45 - 10:00 Introduction by the Chair
10:00 - 10:15 A journey to the polar regions of a star: Exploring the solar poles and the heliosphere from high helio-latitude
Speaker: Silvano Fineschi
10:15 - 10:30 Magnetic Imaging of the Outer Solar Atmosphere (MImOSA)
Speaker: Hardi Peter
10:30 - 10:50 Discussion
 
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee Break
 
11:20 - 12:55 The Sun, planets, magnetosphere and plasma physics: Space Plasma
Chair: Rumi Nakamura
11:20 - 11:35 Introduction by the Chair
11:35 - 11:50 What are the fundamental modes of energy transfer and partitioning in the coupled Magnetosphere-Ionosphere system?
Speaker: Jonathan Rae
11:50 - 12:05 Particle Energization in Space Plasmas: Towards a Multi-Point, Multi-Scale Plasma Observatory
Speaker: Alessandro Retino
12:05 - 12:20 A Case for Electron-Astrophysics
Speaker: Robert Wicks
12:20 - 12:35 Discussion
 
12:55 - 14:25 Lunch Break
 
14:25 - 15:45 The Sun, planets, magnetosphere and plasma physics: Terrestrial Planets
Chair: Luciano Iess
14:25 - 14:40 Introduction by the Chair
14:40 - 14:55 Mars and the Science Programme: The case for Mars Polar Science
Speaker: Nicolas Thomas
14:55 - 15:10 The Changing Climate of Mars
Speaker: Monica Grady
15:10 - 15:25 Venus: Key to understanding the evolution of terrestrial planets
Speaker: Thomas Widemann
15:25 - 15:45 Discussion
 
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee Break
 
16:15 - 17:35 The Sun, planets, magnetosphere and plasma physics: Outer Solar System
Chair: Olivier Grasset
16:15 - 16:30 Introduction by the Chair
16:30 - 16:45 Ice Giant Systems: Scientific Potential of Missions to Uranus and Neptune
Speaker: Leigh Fletcher
16:45 - 17:00 Exploration of Enceladus and Titan: Investigating ocean worlds' evolution and habitability in the Saturn System
Speaker: Giuseppe Mitri
17:00 - 17:15 In Situ Exploration of the Giant Planets
Speaker: Olivier Mousis
17:15 - 17:35 Discussion
 
17:35 - 18:40 The Sun, planets, magnetosphere and plasma physics: Small bodies in the Solar System
Chair: John Zarnecki
17:35 - 17:50 Introduction by the Chair
17:50 - 18:05 AMBITION - Comet Nucleus Cryogenic Sample Return
Speaker: Dominique Bockelée-Morvan
18:05 - 18:20 GAUSS - A Sample Return Mission to Ceres
Speaker: Xian Shi
18:20 - 18:40 Discussion
 
18:20 End of day 1

 

 

Wednesday 30 October 2019
Location: Salón de Actos, CSIC
Time Topic
09:00 - 10:40 Cosmology, astronomy, and exoplanets: Exoplanets
Chair: Andreas Quirrenbach
09:00 - 09:15 Introduction by the Chair
09:15 - 09:30 Detecting life outside our solar system with a large high-contrast-imaging mission
Speaker: Ignas Snellen
09:30 - 09:45 Atmospheric characterization of terrestrial exoplanets in the mid-infared: biosignatures, habitability & diversity
Speaker: Sascha Quanz
09:45 - 10:00 The Search for Living Worlds and the Connection to Our Cosmic Origins
Speaker: Chris Evans
10:00 - 10:15 The need for a multi-purpose, optical-NIR space facility after HST and JWST - The case for an ESA-led HabEx Workhorse Camera
Speaker: Knud Jahnke
10:15 - 10:40 Discussion
 
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee Break
 
11:10 - 12:15 Cosmology, astronomy, and exoplanets: Astrochemistry, star formation, and the interstellar medium
Chair: Jesús Martín-Pintado
11:10 - 11:25 Introduction by the Chair
11:25 - 11:40 Bringing high spatial resolution to the Far-infrared - A giant leap for astrophysics
Speaker: Hendrik Linz
11:40 - 11:55 Origins Space Telescope: From First Light to Life (Mission of Opportunity)
Speaker: Martina Wiedner
11:55 - 12:15 Discussion
 
12:15 - 13:45 Lunch Break 
 
13:45 - 15:05 Cosmology, astronomy, and exoplanets: Galaxy structure and evolution
Chair: Amina Helmi
13:45 - 14:00 Introduction by the Chair
14:00 - 14:15 All-Sky Visible and Near Infrared Space Astrometry
Speaker: David Hobbs
14:15 - 14:30 Space Project for Astrophysical and Cosmological Exploration (SPACE)
Speaker: Denis Burgarella
14:30 - 14:45 HAYDN - High-precision AsteroseismologY of DeNse stellar fields
Speaker: Andrea Miglio
14:45 - 15:05 Discussion
 
15:05 - 15:35 Coffee Break (Group photograph of participants at 15:20)
 
15:35 -16:55 Cosmology, astronomy, and exoplanets: The Extreme Universe
Chair: Darach Watson
15:35 - 15:50 Introduction by the Chair
15:50 - 16:05 Voyage through the Hidden Physics of the Cosmic Web
Speaker: Aurora Simionescu
16:05 - 16:20 A Deep Study of the High-Energy Transient Sky
Speaker: Cristiano Guidorzi
16:20 - 16:35 The high energy universe at ultra-high resolution: the power and promise of X-ray interferometry
Speaker: Phil Uttley
16:35 - 16:55 Discussion
 
16:55 - 17:10 Break
 
17:10 - 18:15 Cosmology, astronomy, and exoplanets: Fundamental cosmology and the early Universe
Chair: Eiichiro Komatsu
17:10 - 17:25 Introduction by the Chair
17:25 - 17:40 Microwave Spectro-Polarimetry of Matter and Radiation across Space and Time
Speaker: Jacques Delabrouille
17:40 - 17:55 Peering into the Dark (Ages) with Low-Frequency Space Interferometers
Speaker: Leon Koopmans
17:55 - 18:15 Discussion
 
18:15 End of day 2

 

 

Thursday 31 October 2019
Location: Salón de Actos, CSIC
Time Topic
09:00 - 10:05 Cosmology, astronomy, and exoplanets: The gravitational-wave Universe
Chair: Alessandra Buonanno
09:00 - 09:15 Introduction by the Chair
09:15 - 09:30 Unveiling the Gravitational Universe at μ-Hz Frequencies
Speaker: Natalia Korsakova
09:30 - 09:45 High angular resolution gravitational wave astronomy
Speaker: Irina Dvorkin
09:45 - 10:05 Discussion
 
10:05 - 11:25 Astroparticle physics and physical sciences
Chair: Mike Cruise
10:05 - 10:20 Introduction by the Chair
10:20 - 10:35 High Precision Particle Astrophysics as a New Window on the Universe with an Antimatter Large Acceptance Detector In Orbit  (ALADInO)
Speaker: Roberto Battiston
10:35 - 10:50 Exploring the Foundations of the Physical Universe with Space Tests of the Equivalence Principle
Speaker: Peter Wolf
10:50 - 11:05 AEDGE: Atomic Experiment for Dark Matter and Gravity Exploration
Speaker: Oliver Buchmueller
11:05 - 11:25 Discussion
 
11:25 - 11:50 Coffee Break
 
11:50 - 13:15 Presentations by international partners
11:50 - 12:00 Future Directions of Space Science in China
12:00 - 12:20 The Japanese space science programme
T. Yamada & Y. Saito (JAXA/ISAS)
12:20- 12:40 The Russian space science programme
A. Petrukovich (IKI)
12:40 - 12:55 The US Decadal process
Colleen Hartmann (US National Academies)
12:55 -13:15 The NASA space science programme
Lori Glaze and Nicola Fox (NASA)
   
  Next steps for Voyage 2050
13:15 - 13:30 Concluding remarks
C. Arridge (Co-Chair of the Voyage 2050 Senior Committee)
13:30 - 13:40 Next Steps
F. Favata (ESA)
13:40 End of workshop

 

Last Update: 31 October 2019