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 | 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...
by Guglielmo Rossi | September 12, 2024 | last each category, News
Virgo researcher Simone Mastrogiovanni won a EUR 1.5 million ERC Grant Virgo’s gravitational wave research is among the scientific areas awarded this year by the prestigious ERC grants: €1.5 million to Simone Mastrogiovanni, a researcher in the Virgo...
by Guglielmo Rossi | September 3, 2024 | last each category, News, PICO
EGO joins EU project PICO We are happy to announce that EGO is a partner of the newly launched European Project PICO (PhysICs fOr all). The project aims to support all citizens to increase their awareness of fundamental, cutting-edge physics and of the impact that...
by Guglielmo Rossi | May 29, 2024 | last each category, News
1,000 visitors for EGO and Virgo Open Day! All day last Friday, the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) in Cascina welcomed almost 1,000 visitors for the research centre’s first big Open Day since the pandemic started. Workshops, games, shows and activities...
by Guglielmo Rossi | April 3, 2024 | last each category, News
LIGO and Virgo detectors restart gravitational wave observation Next week, the LIGO and Virgo detectors will resume their observing campaigns, which promise to collect more than 200 gravitational-wave events by the end of this current observing run (O4). Astronomers...
by Guglielmo Rossi | February 13, 2024 | last each category, News
Samaya Nissanke awarded AAS HEAD 2024 Mid-Career Prize Virgo researcher Dr. Samaya Nissanke, astrophysicist at the University of Amsterdam, received the 2024 Mid-Career Prize of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society. The Prize is...
by Guglielmo Rossi | January 25, 2024 | last each category, News
Space GW observatory LISA advances to the construction phase LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, has passed a major review with flying colours: the entire concept – from the definition of the overall mission and operations to the space hardware to be...
by Guglielmo Rossi | December 14, 2023 | last each category, News
Einstein Telescope: Italian Governement increases commitment to candidacy The Italian government formalized an increased commitment, both institutional and financial, to the Italian candidacy to host Einstein Telescope, the third generation European gravitational wave...
