Symposium - San Marino (Italy), March 19-20, 2004

Program of the San Marino conference.

5th World Symposium on the EXPLORATION OF SPACE AND LIFE IN THE COSMOS
"Waiting for Aliens"
Teatro Turismo, San Marino (Italy), March 19-20, 2004
FRIDAY, MARCH 19th, 2004
15:00 Roberto Pinotti, Chairman of the Local Organizing Committee, Welcome
to Participants
15:10 Claudio Maccone, Co-Vice Chair of the SETI Permanent Study Group of
the International Academy of Astronautics, Scientific and Technological
Topics Covered by this Symposium
15:20 Giorgio Buonvino, Specola Vaticana, Rome, Italy, Mars and Alien Life
15:40 Juan Casanovas, Specola Vaticana, Rome, Italy, The Searches for
Extra-Solar Planets
16:00 Alfredo Magenta, Chair of the United Nations Communication Commission,
Telecommunications and Implications About Possible Alien Messages
16:20 Coffee Break
16:40 Stelio Montebugnoli, Director of the SETI-Italia Program, INAF,
Bologna, Italy,
SETI-Italia 2004: breaking new ground in technical advances and in using the
KLT
17:00 Patrizio Caini, Doctoral student at the University of Florence,
Astrobiology
17:20 Christian Maria Firrone, Doctoral student at Polytechnic of Turin,
The Human Factor through the History of Space Exploration
17:40 Paolo Musso, Pontifical University of Rome, Italy, Demythologizing
SETI
18:00 Roberto Pinotti, Sociologist, Florence, Italy, Sociological Trends in
SETI
18:20 Sabrina Mugnos, Exobiologist, External Consultant-Collaborator of the
SETI-Italia Program, Medicina, Italy, Recent Space Missions of interest to
Exobiology

18:40 Concluding Remarks by Roberto Pinotti and Claudio Maccone. End of
Session.
19:30 - 20:30 Dinner at the Grand Hotel
21:00 Evening Keynote Address: Claudio Maccone, Asteroid impacts and life on
Earth: past catastrophes and plans to defend the Earth (Planetary Defense)
by missiles shot from the L1 and L3 Points (Earth-Moon System). METEOR Movie
by Sean Connery, released Oct. 1994.
22:30 End of Session.
SATURDAY, MARCH 20th, 2004
9:00 Massimo Teodorani, SETI-Italia Program, Physics of Atmospheric Luminous
Anomalies
9:40 Morning Keynote Address: W. Paul Blase, TranOrbital Inc., La Jolla,
California, USA,
The TrailBlazer First Commercial Space Mission to the Moon and the RLI
Experiment
10:20 Claudio Maccone, The "Radiometro Lunare Italiano" (RLI) Experiment and
Space Mission
10:40 Coffee Break
11:00 Flavio Falcinelli, The Engineering Design of the RLI Experiment
11:30 Salvatore Pluchino, IARA, Italy, The RLI Experiment Simulator Software
12:00 Domenico Caliendo, Davide Bruzzi, Luca Derosa, Giovanni Greatti,
Corrado Marchetti
Other technical problems to be faced in the RLI Experiment and Space Mission
12:50 Roberto Pinotti and Claudio Maccone: Final Remarks Concluding the
Symposium
13:00 End of Symposium.