Events

ELF Takes Center Stage at Starmus Festival 2025

The telescope that will change history stood at the heart of the world’s most important science and art festival: STARMUS.
The LIOM project presented its technological jewel: the ELF telescope and its prototype, SELF. This is not just a scientific instrument—it’s the most advanced tool ever conceived to search for life on other worlds.
Jill Tarter, astrobiology legend and SETI pioneer, put it clearly: “Institutions must support ELF. ELF is the most advanced project in the search for life.”
Rafael Rebolo confirmed his ambition that ELF is the largest telescope ever built to detect biomarkers on exoplanets.
Adolfo Nemirovsky stated that ELF represents the boldest frontier of cosmic exploration, and that the Canary Global Foundation will collaborate in its creation.

SELF/ELF is not just science. It’s a vision that unites humanity, technology, and the cosmos in a single mission: to discover whether we are alone in the universe.

STARMUS was the stage. ELF, the revolution. What comes next… is just beginning.

 

Poster of the Starmus 2025 Science and Art Festival

Jeff Kuhn speaks about SELF/ELF in a beautiful square in La Palma

Poster of the Starmus 2025 Science and Art Festival

Poster of the Starmus 2025 Science and Art Festival

LIOM International Workshop

A yearly workshop will bring additional non-astronomical specialists for about a week. These workshops will be both pedagogic and dynamic covering the topics we expect to focus on a yearly cycle.

Kick-off Meeting and 3rd LIOM International Workshop: The Small ELF Telescope - achieving optical coherence

February 3th-5th, 2025

Kick-off Meeting and 1st LIOM International Workshop: Beyond Extremely Large Telescopes

February13th-17th, 2023

2nd LIOM workshop

February, 2024

Other Events

Talk: The new laboratory for innovation in Opto-Mechanics at the IAC

Jeff Kuhn (IAC – LIOM, University of Hawaii)

Tenerife (Spain): IAC Headquarters

Talk: “Tensegrity Structures” Mauricio de Oliveira (University of California, San Diego)

12th July 2023
Online Conference

Outreach Workshop: “Kick-off for a successful innovation journey” Reinhild Otten (MorphOptic)

20th May 2024
Tenerife (Spain): IACTEC