We are pleased to announce that the
IX EUROPEAN MARS SOCIETY CONVENTION
will be held in Italy from Thursday 15th to Saturday 17th October 2009

Download here the conference program

Date of the event: from Thursday 15th to Saturday 17th October 2009.

Location:the event will take place at Giovanni XXIII Congress Center (in Viale Papa Giovanni XXIII 106), in the heart of Bergamo.

How to reach: the Congress Center is just about 3 km from Milan/Orio al Serio International Airport. It is possible to reach Bergamo also by means of Milan Linate Airport (about 40 minutes from Bergamo) or Malpensa Airport (about 1 hour from Bergamo). The Congress Center is only 200 m from Bergamo railway station.

For the list of the available hotels click here. To register to the convention click here. To have further information contact our secretary.

Click here to read the abstracts of the conference.

Saturday 17th October at 11 a.m. there will be the presentation of the Italian version of Robert Zubrin's The Case for Mars (with Eugenio Sorrentino - scientific and aerospace journalist): the presentation is free and open to everyone, also to non-attendees.

Thursday 15th October

• Antonio Del Mastro - President of Italian Mars Society
• Robert Zubrin - President of Mars Society USA: "Humans to Mars within a Decade"
• Gennaro Russo - Head of Space Systems in Cira: "Present and Perspective Capabilities and Activities towards Mars Missions"
• G. Russo (Cira) & Luciano Miccichè (Thales Alenia Space): "Mars Exploration Scenarios"
• Luigi Fusco (ESA) & Roberto Giuliani (BIC Lazio): "ESA Business Incubation Initiative in Italy: Opportunities for Young SMEs and Start-ups"
• Mateusz Józefowicz - Polish Mars Society: Introduction to Polish Mars Society
• Sebastian B. Rodak and Wojciech Głażewski - Polish Mars Society: "Skarabeusz: Polish URC Rover"
• Stefano Debei, Cisas - University of Padua
• Giacomo Giovangrossi, Aero Sekur S.p.a: “Aero Sekur contribution to Mars exploration”
• Mariano Andrenucci & Salvo Marcuccio, Alta SpA: "Supporting the Vision: Alta’s Activities and Capabilities for Mars Exploration"

Friday 16th October

• Richard Heidmann - President of French Mars Society: “Martian Settlement: A Tentative Technical Assessment”
• Juergen Herholz - German Mars Society: "The Miriam Flight Test Campaign – A Major and Memorable Event of the Archimedes Project"
• Giancarlo Genta - Politecnico di Torino : "Mobility on Mars Surface: from Present Rovers to a Human Rated Transportation Network"
• Giovanni Bignami - Space Scientist: "We are the Martians"
• Jan Kotlarz - Polish Mars Society: "RODM: Mars Surface Modelling Software"
• Joanna Kozicka and Janek Kozicki - Polish Mars Society: "Martian Architectural Solutions and the Polish Hab Project"
• Luigi Freda & Tiziano Fiorenzani (U.T.R.I.S.p.a./DIS Università La Sapienza; Rome): “Robotic Methodologies for Planetary Exploration"
• Alberto Della Torre - Carlo Gavazzi Space: "ISRU Exploitation in Support to Mars Exploration"
• David Artus, Magali Boulard, François Stevenin, Sylvain Thénard - IPSA (Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées): "Engineering and Social-Economic Context of Mars Terraforming"
• Franco Bernelli, Department of Aerospace Engineering - Politecnico di Milano: "Studies at Politecnico di Milano in Support to Mars Exploration"
• Michele Bonerba, Spacecraft System Engineer: "Study of an Automatic Docking System for Mars Pressurized Rovers"

Saturday 17th October

• Giorgio Bianciardi - Researcher - University of Siena: "Life on Mars? Viking Data Reanalysis"
• Bernd Brincken - Das Mars-Projekt: "Financing Mars 2020 vs Moon 1969: Policy, Science, Culture”
• Presentation of the Italian version of Robert Zubrin's The Case for Mars
  (with Eugenio Sorrentino - Scientific and aerospace journalist)
• Robert Zubrin - President of Mars Society USA: "The Challenge Before US"

With the patronage of:

Association for Space-based Applications and Services	Italian Association of Small and Medium Space Enterprises