Marie Anne Bizouard elected as spokesperson of Virgo: she will be the first woman in this role
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...
Alain Brillet passed away. He was one of the fathers of gravitational wave research
Alain Brillet passed away. He was one of the fathers of gravitational wave research © Frédérique PLAS / CNRS Images It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of Alain Brillet, French physicist, who has been one of the founding fathers of gravitational...
The PAS Rome meeting 2026 at the Polish Embassy in Rome
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...
Inauguration of Palpita: Pedro Torres engages with gravitational waves
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...
The LIGO – Virgo – KAGRA gravitational wave community meeting in Italy again after 15 years
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...
A kaleidoscope of cosmic collisions: the new catalogue of gravitational signals from LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA
A kaleidoscope of cosmic collisions: the new catalogue of gravitational signals from LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA The catalogue of all the new 128 events observed by LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA from May 2023 to January 2024 is being published. It reveals an even greater variety of...
Goodbye Andrzej Trautman
Goodbye Andrzej Trautman We are deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Andrzej Trautman, one of the pioneers of gravitational wave theory and a leading figure in mathematical relativity, who died on February 27, 2026 at the age of 93. In 1958, as a young...
Italy and France celebrate the era of gravitational waves at Palazzo Farnese in Rome
Italy and France celebrate the era of gravitational waves at Palazzo Farnese in Rome Ten years of Virgo science and the future prospects of a new way to explore the universe “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger”: this is the...
Director of the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO)
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