Alain Brillet passed away. He was one of the fathers of gravitational wave research

© Frédérique PLAS / CNRS ImagesIt is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of Alain Brillet, French physicist, who has been one of the founding fathers of gravitational interferometry and Virgo, along with Adalberto Giazotto, who left us in 2017. The...

The PAS Rome meeting 2026 at the Polish Embassy in Rome

This week the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Rome is hosting the Gravitational Waves and Detection Technologies - PAS Rome meeting 2026, jointly organized by the Polish Academy of Sciences, the University of Perugia and INFN Perugia, and supported by CAOS and...

Inauguration of Palpita: Pedro Torres engages with gravitational waves

Palpita, an exhibition by Brazilian artist Pedro Torres curated by Carolina Ciuti, opens today in Rome at AlbumArte, in collaboration with the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), which is home to Virgo, one of the world’s four gravitational wave detectors. The...

The LIGO – Virgo – KAGRA gravitational wave community meeting in Italy again after 15 years

This week (9-13 March) the global gravitational wave community conference, the LIGO - Virgo - KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration Meeting, is taking place in Pisa. 400 scientists from around the world are meeting to discuss the latest results in this field and the scientific...
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