by Guglielmo Rossi | July 1, 2021 | News
Einstein Telescope included in ESFRI Roadmap 2021 Einstein Telescope, the proposed European third-generation gravitational wave detector, is now included in the ESFRI Roadmap 2021. ESFRI is the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures that aims to develop...
by Guglielmo Rossi | June 29, 2021 | News, PressRelease
Virgo and LIGO discover black hole and neutron star pairs Virgo, LIGO and KAGRA add another missing piece to our knowledge of extreme cosmic phenomena: the first direct observation of pairs consisting of a black hole and a neutron star. This represents a completely...
by Guglielmo Rossi | June 17, 2021 | News
Ornella Juliana Piccinni wins the L’Oréal-Unesco Award “For Women and Science” 2021 Today June 17th, during an online event, the names of the winners of the Italian edition of the L’Oréal-Unesco Award “For Women and Science” 2021...
by Guglielmo Rossi | June 11, 2021 | News
Announcing the Virgo Award, a yearly prize for Early Career Virgo Members The Virgo Collaboration is pleased to announce the Virgo Award: a prize that will be awarded annually to Early Career Virgo Members who have made a significant and sustained contribution to the...
by Guglielmo Rossi | June 8, 2021 | Events, News, Past events
Conurbazioni Nebulose, evento con Tomas Saraceno Wednesday 9 June 2021 Tomàs Saraceno, one of the most relevant contemporary artists, and Stavros Katsnevas, director of the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), will talk about science and art in live streaming...
by Guglielmo Rossi | May 26, 2021 | Events, News, Past events
EGO hosts the UAI’s day of inclusive outreach 2021 “Stelle per tutti” (Stars for all), the national day of inclusive dissemination of astronomy, promoted by the Unione Astrofili Italiani (UAI), is back. It is an opportunity to share tools and...
by Guglielmo Rossi | May 25, 2021 | News
French Ambassador to Italy, Christian Masset, will visit EGO and Virgo On Thursday May 27th and Friday May 28th, during a visit to Pisa, French Ambassador to Italy Christian Masset will pay an official visit to a number of academic and research institutions in the...
by Guglielmo Rossi | May 5, 2021 | News
Phase I of the upgrades to Advanced Virgo + completed Researchers from IFAE-Barcelona installing the instrumented baffle at Virgo Ten months after the beginning of the upgrade to Advanced Virgo+, Phase I of the installation is completed. “Despite considerable...
by Guglielmo Rossi | April 29, 2021 | News
Al via le selezioni di Famelab Pisa 2021 Al via la selezione dei due rappresentanti “toscani” dell’edizione 2021 di FameLab, il talent show internazionale della divulgazione scientifica. I due vincitori parteciperanno alla finale nazionale di Catania, prevista a...
by Guglielmo Rossi | April 15, 2021 | News
Roadmap for the future of gravitational-wave research published in Nature . In the latest issue of the scientific journal Nature, a roadmap dedicated to the future of gravitational wave research has been published. This is a field of research that promises to continue...
