1st LISA in Greece Workshop

Name: 1st LISA in Greece Workshop
Start: 2022-02-23T08:30:00+01:00
End: 2022-02-23T17:30:00+01:00
Location: Τμήμα Φυσικής

Wednesday 23 Feb 2022, 08:30 → 17:30 Europe/Paris

Τμήμα Φυσικής

Online

Georgios Pappas, Nikolaos Karnesis (AUTh), Nikolaos Stergioulas

Description

Welcome to the 1st ΛISA in Greece Workshop!

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a space-based Gravitational Wave (GW) observatory mission scheduled for launch in the mid 2030s. LISA is going to probe the lower part of the GW spectrum, aiming to measure signals from a variety of sources. These include Super-Massive and Stellar-mass Black Hole Binaries, ultra-Compact Binaries originating in our galactic neighborhood, Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral, and possibly a Stochastic GW Background that may originate from cosmological sources. Measuring such signals will have an immense impact on GW physics, Cosmology, and Astrophysics altogether.

Currently, LISA is at the end of the phase A stage, where the initial design is being defined and communicated with ESA. This poses a great opportunity for the scientific community and tech industry based in Greece, to actively contribute to the development of this ESA flagship mission, as parts of a consolidated national effort supported by the Hellenic Space Center (HSC). A contribution may come both in the form of instrumentation (flight hardware), as well as data analysis and software, and dedicated Data Centers. This workshop will be focused on discussing these possibilities, and will serve as our first step towards bringing the science and technology driving forces of Greece, into the development of the LISA mission.

Attention: All Times in the schedule are in Central European Time (CET)!

For your convenience, you can download a PDF version below (both for local EET and in CET).

Zoom link for the meeting in not available any more.

List of acronyms used within the LISA collaboration.

Link to the meeting minutes. Interested parties can edit it in order to state their interest, but also to keep in touch for our next steps. It will also serve as our baseline for the writing of our LISA in Greece whitepaper.

Participants

Alexandros Ntigkaris
Alexandros Tavernarakis
ALEXIOS PAPADOPOULOS
Alkiviadis Kanakis-Pegios
Anastasia Topalidou
Anastasios Anastasiadis
Anastasios-Faidon Retselis
Andreas Karipis
Andreas Lymperis
Andreas Tsigkas-Kouvelis
Antoine Petiteau
Antonios Ntellas
Antri Machattou
Apostolos Xenakis
Areti Eleni
Argyrios Loules
Argyro Sasli
Ariadne Pascalidi
Aris Mitrousis
Asimakis Anthopoulos
Aspasia-Sofia Pastrikou
Athanasios Bakopoulos
Charalampos Markakis
Charalampos Moustakidis
Charis Anastopoulos
Charis Tsakonas
Chris Kouvaris
Christos Kyriazoglou
Christos Mermigkas
Christos Moustakas
Christos Simos
Denis Vavougios
Dimitra Tseneklidou
Dimitrios Chatzitheocharis
DIMITRIOS KASSEROPOULOS
Dimitrios Loupas
Dimitrios Pesios
Dimitrios Psychas
Dimitris Dimitriou
Dimitris Kugiumtzis
Dorota Rosinska
Eirini C. Telali
Eleanna Choraiti Sideri
Elena Antonopoulou
Eleni Lavasa
Elias Vagenas
Emily Xanthopoulos
Emmanuel Saridakis
Erato Angeliki Benetou
Evgenia Koutsoumpou
Fotios Anagnostopoulos
George Avdikos
George Pappas
Georgia Theodoropoulou
Georgios Loukes-Gerakopoulos
Georgios Pliakis
Georgios Vachtanidis
Georgios Vasilopoulos
Giorgos Tsalis
Giorgos Vretinaris
Ilias Papadimitriou
Ilias Theodorakopoulos
Ioanna Danai Messaritaki
Ioanna Karavitaki
Ioannis Daglis
Ioannis Drougkakis
Ioannis Georgantopoulos
Ioannis Liodis
Ioannis Zacheilas
Iván Muñoz Rodriguez
Jens Reiche
John Antoniadis
Jorge Sanchez
Konstantina Vrontaki
Konstantinos Antoniadis
Konstantinos Gourgouliatos
Konstantinos Kilmetis
Konstantinos Kokkotas
Konstantinos Kostaros
Konstantinos Mountakis
Konstantinos Vyrsokinos
Kostas PILAFTSIS
Kyriakos Destounis
Lazaros Souvaitzis
Leandros Perivolaropoulos
Margarita Belali
MARGARITA GEGA
Maria Despotaki
Maria Georgousi
Maria Karampiperi
Maria Myrto Pegioudi
Maria Petronikolou
Maria Petropoulou
Martin Gehler
Martin Hewitson
MICHAIL NIKITARAS
Michalis Papachristou
Nectaria Gizani
Nick Sergis
Nikolaos Karnesis
Nikolaos Koutsopoulos
Nikolaos Stergioulas
NIKOLAOS SYRMOS
Oliver Jennrich
Panagiota Kanti
Panagiotis Bountzioukas
Panagiotis Iosif
Pandora Examilioti
Paschalis Veskos
Paul McNamara
Pavlina Tsiapi
Pavlos Laskos-Patkos
Peter Bantis
Petros Asimakis
Petros Petridis
Polychronis Koliogiannis
Sahil Mathur
Savvas Chanlaridis
Sofia Papaioannou
Spyros Basilakos
Stamatis Vretinaris
Stavroula Katsioli
Stelios Bollanos
Stella Boula
Stylianos Romanopoulos
THEOCHARIS APOSTOLATOS
Theodoros Karakasidis
Theodoros Pailas
Theodoros Panouchos
Theodoros Papanikolaou
Theodoros Sarris
Theodoros Soultanis
Triantafyllos Kormpakis
Vangelis Kollias
Varvara Kotsiourou
Vasilis K. Oikonomou
Vera Agalianou
Vlasios Petousis
Wolf von Klitzing

- 08:30 → 09:00
  
  Welcome and introduction! 30m
  
  Introduction & scope of the workshop.
  
  Speakers: Athanasios Staveris (Ministry of Digital Governance), Prof. Efstratios Stylianidis (Vice Rector for Research and Lifelong Learning), Ioannis A. Dagklis (HSC)
- 09:00 → 10:30
  Introduction to the ESA LISA mission
  
  In this session, we invite our speakers to briefly describe the LISA mission science goals, as well as the instrument itself.
  - 09:00
    
    Overview of the LISA mission : The science case of LISA 45m
    
    Brief overview of the LISA mission and its scientific goals.
    
    Speaker: Dr Oliver Jennrich (ESA)
  - 09:45
    
    ESA & the LISA mission 45m
    
    The LISA mission from the ESA point of view. Timeline, organization, contributions, deliverables.
    
    Speaker: Dr Martin Gehler (ESA)
    
    2022-02_ESALISAMission_GreeceWS_MG.pdf
- 10:30 → 10:45
  
  Coffee Break 15m
- 10:45 → 12:30
  Contributing to the development of LISA
  
  Discussing the details of the instrument and the deliverables from the Consortium. Discussing the data analysis, data products, and data pipelines.
  - 10:45
    
    The LISA Instrument 45m
    
    Discussing the instrument and the deliverables from the Consortium
    
    Speaker: Dr Martin Hewitson (AEI)
    
    LISA_Instrumentation_hewitson.pdf
  - 11:30
    
    LISA Data Processing 45m
    
    Overview of the LISA Data Analysis challenges and requirements. Stating the problems, timeline, data products, and mission operations. Current envisaged organization. Main concepts for the Distributed Data Processing Center: software organization with multiple pipelines and infrastructure with multiple Data Computing Centers. On-going mapping of responsibilities.
    
    Speaker: Dr Antoine Petiteau (APC/CEA)
    
    Petiteau_DataPrrocessing_LISAGreece_220222.pdf
  - 12:15
    
    Room for discussion 15m
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  Lunch Break 1h
- 13:30 → 15:40
  Local Expertise
  
  Presentation of the local expertise in data analysis, hardware & software development. Discussing the Academic and Industrial sectors and their capabilities.
  - 13:30
    
    Local expertise in Science and Space Missions 1h 30m
    
    Local expertise in Science (Astrophysics and Cosmology) and Space Missions (Instrumentation and Data Analysis).
    
    Speakers: Dr Basilakos Spyros (NOA), Dr Chris Kouvaris (NTUA), D Chatzitheoharis (AUTh), Dr Emanouil Saridakis (NOA), Dr John Antoniades (UOC/FORTH), K Vyrsokinos (AUTh), Prof. K. Gourgouliatos (UOP), Prof. Leandros Perivolaropoulos (UOI), Prof. Nikolaos Stergioulas (AUTh), Theocharis Apostolatos (UOA), Dr Theodoros Sarris (DUTh), Dr Wolf von Klitzing (IESL/FORTH)
    
    220223WK -- Greek Lisa Workshop. Wolf von Klitzing - FORTH.pdf
    
    Antoniadis_LISA_workshop.pdf
    
    Gourgouliatos_LISA.pdf
    
    lisa-talk-leandros.pdf
    
    Saridakis_NOA_LISA in Greece .pdf
    
    Stergioulas_2022-LISA-in-Greece.pdf
    
    talk_LISA_22.pdf
  - 15:00
    
    Activities and Perspectives of the Hellenic Space Industry” 30m
    
    The Hellenic Association of Space Industry (HASI) represents the main part of the Hellenic Industry active in space technology and space applications sector. HASI members are high-tech companies, employing over 2500 high level employees, with a cumulative budget of more than 185M€ and proven experience through successful participation in over 50 space technology and applications programs. HASI focuses on the promotion of the local space ecosystem, the development of international partnerships as well as the support of the development of the national space strategy.  More information on hellenic-asi.org
    
    Speaker: Dr Athanasios Potsis (HASI)
    
    HASI PRESENTATION 2022_LISA.pdf
  - 15:30
    
    Activities & Perspectives of the Si-Cluster : the ESA-BIC Greece” 10m
    
    ESA BIC Greece, a key element of the Greek Space Industry aimed to strengthen space related start-ups in Greece, has already started its operation. By sup- porting 25 incubatees over a period of 5 years, ESA BIC will underpin the creation, grow and strengthening of space activities in Greece, contribute to the national innovation and support transfer of technologies from/to the space sector.
    
    Speaker: Dr Jorge Sanchez (Corallia/Si-Cluster)
- 15:40 → 16:00
  
  Coffee Break 20m
- 16:00 → 17:00
  
  Roundtable Discussion
  
  Roundtable discussion. Panel:
  M Hewitson (AEI),
  A Petiteau (APC/CEA),
  M Gehler (ESA),
  O Jennrich (ESA),
  P McNamara (ESA)