by Guglielmo Rossi | April 11, 2025 | last each category, News
Virgo awarded the prize of the Festa di Scienza e di Filosofia Today in Foligno during the 14th edition of “Festa di Scienza e di Filosofia – Virtute e Canoscenza” the LIGO – Virgo – KAGRA Collaboration received an award in celebration of...
by Guglielmo Rossi | April 1, 2025 | last each category, News
300 balloons to celebrate 10 years of gravitational wave detection [ Edit: April Fools’ Day! This post was an April Fool’s joke, thank you for having fun with us 🥳 Although we didn’t install 300 balloons on Virgo’s arms this year we will indeed...
by Guglielmo Rossi | March 20, 2025 | last each category, News
Record detection of 200 gravitational waves in the current run of LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA The international network of the LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA gravitational-wave observatories just announced the detection of their 200th candidate gravitational wave signal in this...
by Guglielmo Rossi | March 19, 2025 | last each category, News
Belgium is the fourth European country to join the EGO consortium The European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) continues to grow: today the Belgian research foundations FWO and FNRS joined the EGO consortium, the institution that hosts the Virgo gravitational wave...
by Guglielmo Rossi | February 27, 2025 | AHEAD2020, last each category, News
EGO team develops robot array to fight newtonian noise Robots, monitoring of seismic activity and gravitational wave detectors: three topics of cutting-edge science that come together through the Flexible Grid Mapping Tool (FGMT), developed at the European...
by Guglielmo Rossi | February 3, 2025 | last each category, News
LVK announces an update of the observing schedule As the third portion of the fourth observing run, O4c, is starting the LIGO – Virgo – KAGRA Collaboration is announcing an upcoming break from observing to dedicate some time to maintenance and commissioning work, and...
by Guglielmo Rossi | November 26, 2024 | last each category, News
Guido Pizzella, one of the fathers of gravitational wave research, has passed away It is with great sorrow that we learn of the death of Guido Pizzella, one of the founding fathers of gravitational wave research. Together with Edoardo Amaldi, he founded experimental...
by Guglielmo Rossi | November 7, 2024 | last each category, News
Winners of the Virgo Award 2024 announced Young researchers Mattia Boldrini (researcher at the Roma section of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics – INFN) and Enzo Tapia San Martín (researcher at the Dutch National Institute for Subatomic Physics –...
by Guglielmo Rossi | October 14, 2024 | last each category, News
INFN programme for teachers kicks off, first time at EGO Let teachers discover the experimental activities of INFN research laboratories and tell them about cutting-edge research in the field of fundamental physics, that is the goal of PID! Today, October 14th, marks...
by Guglielmo Rossi | October 4, 2024 | AHEAD2020, last each category, News
AHEAD2020 Announcement of Opportunity Cycle 8 The AHEAD2020 (Integrated Activities for High Energy Astrophysics*) calls for transnational access proposals in the Computational Astrophysics domain The main objectives are: This TNA will provide new opportunities for...
