THURSDAY OCTOBER 10
8.00 - 9.00 Registration
9.00 - 9.05 LOC Announcement
Session Chair: Andrea Melis
9.05 - 9.15 Welcome to Participants Roberto Ragazzoni
9.15 - 9.30 INAF and SETI Filippo Zerbi
9.30 - 9.50 The Search for Life Beyond Earth - How it works, Bill Diamond
Where It Stands and Why It Matters
9.50 - 10.10 Breakthrough Listen: Humanity's Biggest Effort Vishal Gajjar
in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
10.10 - 10.30 SETI@Manchester Mike Garrett
10.30 - 10.50 The Italian responsibility on the creation of the martian saga Patrizia Caraveo
10.50 - 11.10 A Sign in Space Daniela De Paulis
11.10 - 11.40 Coffee Break
Session Chair: Alessandro Cabras
11.40 - 11.50 Commemoration of Nichi D'Amico Silvia Casu
11.50 - 12.05 Early and present SETI activities at the Stelio Montebugnoli, Jader Monari
Medicina radio telescope
12.05 - 12.15 The Sardinia Radio Telescope in the Andrea Melis, Maura Pilia
Breakthrough Listen Program
12.15 - 12.25 Breakthrough Listen SRT Internship 2022 Lorenzo Manunza, Monica Mulas
12.25 - 12.35 Breakthrough Listen SRT Internship 2023 Erika Rea
12.35 - 12.45 Breakthrough Listen SRT Internship 2024 Andrea Di Sarcina, Francesca Diaferia,
Simone Mascia
12.45 - 13.05 SETI with FAST in China Tong-Jie Zhang
13.05 - 14.45 Lunch at "Smell Brasil" restaurant
Session Chair: Stelio Montebugnoli
14.45 - 15.10 Two years of James Webb: results and opportunities Adriano Fontana
15.10 - 15.30 The Vera Rubin observatory towards commissioning phase Enrico Giro
and its impact on SETI
15.30 - 15.50 The INAF contribution to MeerKAT Grazia Umana
15.50 - 16.10 Clustering: A Divide-and-Conquer Approach David MacMahon
to Searching the SETI Haystack
16.10 - 16.30 The Earth in Empty or Non-Empty Zones: Claudio Grimaldi
Prospects on Technoemissions
16.30 - 17.00 Coffee Break
Session Chair: Jader Monari
17.00 - 17.20 Laser SETI: All-Sky, All-the-time optical SETI Eliot Gillum
17.20 - 17.40 Building ultra large telescopes for extrasolar life studies Jeff Kuhn
17.40 - 18.00 The PANOSETI Transient Search and Observations Dan Werthimer
of the Best SETI@home candidates
18.00 - 18.20 United Nations Moon Protection Treaty Claudio Maccone
20.00 - 23.00 Social Dinner at "Palazzo Tirso Hotel"
FRIDAY OCTOBER 11
9.00 - 9.05 LOC Announcement
Session Chair: Emilio Molinari
9.05 - 9.20 Performance analysis of the Karhunen–Loève Transform: Nicolò Antonietti
denoizing and detection
9.20 - 9.40 Exploring Habitability: Launching a Cutting-Edge Facility Antonio Jimenez-Escobar
for Aerosol Research on Distant Words
9.40 - 10.00 Chemistry induced by electrical discharges in Antonio Jimenez-Escobar
exoplanetary atmospheres
10.00 - 10.25 STILES: Effects of Stellar High Energy radiation and energetic Daniele Locci
particles on N2 dominated atmospheres
10.25 - 10.45 The time evolution of the ultraviolet habitable zone Riccardo Spinelli
10.45 - 11.15 Coffee Break
Session Chair: Maura Pilia
11.15 - 11.35 The nearby planetary systems around GI 514 and GJ 1151 Mario Damasso
11.35 - 11.55 Potential climates and habitability on an extremely Lorenzo Biasiotti
eccentric super-Earth GI 514 b
11.55 - 12.15 Radio technosignature searches at higher radio frequencies Vishal Gajjar
12.15 - 12.35 Narrowband Signal Searches Towards the Galactic Plane and Center Karen Perez
12.35 - 12.55 Enhancing the Breakthrough Listen Tecnosignature Search with Steve Croft
Advances in Anomaly Detection
12.55 - 14.40 Lunch at "Smell Brasil" restaurant
Session Chair: Daniela De Paulis
14.40 - 15.00 Engaging the public with the challenge of "A Sign in Space" Claudia Mignone
15.00 - 15.20 A Sign in Space - A Small Universe of Citizen Scientists Gianfranco De Vito
15.20 - 15.40 Hack SETI: A Citizen Science Approach to SETI Amit Mishra
15.40 - 16.00 Cosmoimaginaries: Creative pathways to readiness in Kate Genevieve
Post-Detection SETI
16.00 - 16.20 The UCLA SETI Search Jean-Luc Margot
16.20 - 16.50 Coffee Break
Session Chair: Silvia Casu
16.50 - 17.10 Twenty years of SETI at the University of Insubria: a remarkable history
and an exciting future
17.10 - 18.00 Panel Discussion: Communicate SETI to the public Chair: Claudia Mignone
18.00 - 18.15 Final Remarks Emilio Molinari
18.15 End of the Workshop