Inaugural workshop on Nuclear Astrochemistry

26 Feb 2024, 08:30 → 1 Mar 2024, 19:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Renzo Leonardi (ECT*)

Daniel Bemmerer (HZDR and ChETEC), Duncan Mifsud (Atomki, Debrecen, Hungary), Eliana Masha (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V. (HZDR)), Nigel Mason (University of Kent, UK, Atomki, Debrecen and Europlanet)

In this workshop we plan to introduce the ideas of a new interdisciplinary field ‘Nuclear astrochemistry’. This brings together disparate fields of nuclear physics with the rapidly emerging field of astrochemistry to explore the processes of star formation (and death) and planet formation and how they create the conditions that may allow life to evolve and be sustained.

In the workshop, the first of its kind, we will bring together leading experts in these fields together with early career researchers who will develop this new field through observations (using JWST), theoretical models and simulations and laboratory studies to address the fundamental questions of how the elements and molecules of life are created in the universe and the consequences for the search for life beyond Earth and our solar system.

Poster_InauguralWorskhop_NA.pdf

Monday 26 February

08:30 → 09:30 Registration

09:30 → 09:40 Welcome from ECT* Director, Gert Aarts

09:40 → 09:50 Goals of the workshop

Speaker: Nigel Mason (University of Kent and Europlanet)

ECT opening.pdf

09:50 → 10:40 Focus on what we know (don't know) of evolution of life on Earth

Speaker: Paul Rimmer (University of Cambridge)

ECT_Rimmer_minusone.pdf

10:40 → 11:20 Early chemical tracers in the Milky Way

Speaker: Camilla Juul Hansen (IAP, Goethe University Frankfurt)

Trento_2024_CJHansen.pdf

11:20 → 11:50 Coffee break

11:50 → 12:30 Cutting-Edge Telescopes in the Quest for Space molecules

Speaker: Dr Heidy Mayerly Quitian-Lara (University of Kent)

Cutting-Edge Telescopes in the Quest for Space molecules.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 14:50 Laboratory for Underground Nuclear Astrophysics

Speaker: Federico Ferraro (INFN-LNGS)

Federico Ferraro - LUNA.pdf

14:50 → 15:30 Nuclear Astrophysics at TRIUMF

Speaker: Matthew Williams (University of Surrey)

ECTstar_Trento_NucAstroChem_Williams.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 16:40 Discussions

16:40 → 17:20 Working groups formation

18:00 → 20:00 Welcome Aperitivo

Tuesday 27 February

09:30 → 10:20 The 2024 state of the art on the Standard Solar Model

Speaker: Aldo Serenelli (Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC))

serenelli.pdf

10:20 → 11:00 Tracing Solar System evolution through isotope varations in meteorites

Speaker: Mattias Ek (ETH Zürich)

NucAstrChem_Trento_Feb24_M_EK.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:10 The potential roles of meteorites in the origins of life on Earth

Speaker: Keyron Hickman-Lewis

KHL ECT Feb 2024.pdf

12:10 → 12:30 Morning session discussion

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 14:50 Sub-Coulomb nuclear reactions and spectroscopy using the Trojan Horse Method

Speaker: Prof. Aurora Tumino (Facoltà di Architettura e Ingegneria Università degli Studi di Enna “Kore” & INFN-LNS)

NA-ECT2024-Tumino.pdf

14:50 → 15:30 Our present understanding of the 3He(a,g)7Be key astrophysical nuclear reaction

Speaker: Tamás Szücs (Atomki)

tszucs_3He_ag.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 16:40 Big Bang nucleosynthesis studied at Felsenkeller and CRYRING

Speaker: Eliana Masha (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V. (HZDR))

Masha_Trento2024.pdf

16:40 → 17:20 Galactic Chemical Evolution with short lived radioactive Isotope

Speaker: Benjamin Wehmeyer (University of Wroclaw)

pdf_Wehmeyer.pdf

17:20 → 18:20 First working groups meeting

Wednesday 28 February

09:30 → 10:20 Ion induced proceses in te ISM and planetary and satellite atmospheres

Speaker: Wolf Geppert (Stockholm University)

Trento2024Geppert.pdf

10:20 → 11:00 Astrochemistry at large scale facilities

Speaker: Sergio Ioppolo (Aarhus University)

Ioppolo.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:10 Photochemistry studies on a simulation chamber: From surfaces to biomolecules.

Speaker: Eva Mateo Marti (Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC/INTA))

Mateo-Marti ECT 2024.pdf

12:10 → 12:30 Morning session discussion

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 14:50 The chemistry of planet formation

Speaker: Bertram Bitsch (University College Cork)

14:50 → 15:30 Astrochemistry: from stars to planets

Speaker: Laurent WIESENFELD (Laboratoire Aime Cotton CNRS Universite Paris-Saclay)

Laurent_wiesenfeld.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 16:40 Predicting potentially relevant molecules in astrochemistry with quantum chemical methods

Speaker: Felipe Fantuzzi (University of Kent)

240228-ECT-FelipeFantuzzi.pdf

16:40 → 17:20 Systems Chemistry applied to study of origins of life

Speaker: Perry Hailey (University of Kent)

17:20 → 18:20 Afternoon session discussion

20:00 → 22:00 Social Dinner

Thursday 29 February

09:30 → 10:20 Nuclear burning recorded in meteorites as a tracer of the birth of the Solar System

Speaker: Maria Lugaro (Konkoly Observatory)

Trento-1.pdf

10:20 → 11:00 Hadean Earth recipes for the emergence of life

Speaker: Stephen Mojzsis (HUN-REN, CSFK Research Centre for Astronomy & Earth Sciences)

ECT_2024_Mojzsis_redacted.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:10 Can interstellar asymmetric photochemistry explain the origins of biomolecular homochirality on Earth?

Speaker: Jana Bocková (CNES, Institut de Chimie de Nice, Université Côte d'Azur)

ECT2024_Jana_Bockova.pdf

12:10 → 12:30 Morning session discussion

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 14:50 Investigating Other Worlds

Speaker: Heike Rauer (DLR, Institut für Planetenforschung)

Rauer.pdf

14:50 → 15:30 Molecular complexity in space, from the interstellar medium to planetary atmospheres

Speaker: Nadia Balucani (DCBB - Università degli Studi di Perugia)

Balucani-Trento2024.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 16:40 Impact of recently measured nuclear reaction rates on the nucleosynthesis of 26Al in stars

Speaker: Umberto Battino

Battino_Trento2024.pdf

16:40 → 18:20 Second working groups meeting

Friday 1 March

09:30 → 10:20 Development of interdisciplinary programs

10:20 → 11:00 Third working groups meeting

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:10 Presentation by working groups

12:10 → 12:30 Discussion+closing remarks

Speakers: Daniel Bemmerer (HZDR and ChETEC), Eliana Masha (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V. (HZDR)), Nigel Mason (University of Kent, UK, Atomki, Debrecen and Europlanet)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 18:00 Departure