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Marie Anne Bizouard elected as spokesperson of Virgo: she will be the first woman in this role

Marie Anne Bizouard, a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Nice, has been elected as the new spokesperson for the Virgo scientific collaboration, with effect on May 3rd. She is the first woman appointed in this role, since the...

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...