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...
by Guglielmo Rossi | November 23, 2023 | last each category, News
Berrie Giebels passed away at 52 It is with great sadness that we learn of the death of former EGO Council president Berrie Giebels, who passed away earlier this week at the age of 52, after a year-long battle with cancer. From 2016 to 2022 he was first president and...
by Guglielmo Rossi | November 9, 2023 | last each category, News
Winners of the Virgo Awards 2023 announced Young researchers Yuefan Guo (Maastricht University), Kamiel Janssens (University of Antwerp) and Alba Romero-Rodriguez (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) are the winners of the third edition of the Virgo Award, given by the...
by Guglielmo Rossi | October 17, 2023 | last each category, News
Virgo will join O4 early 2024 The Virgo Collaboration updated the scientific community last week on the progress of the Virgo detector commissioning, in view of joining the fourth observing run (O4) already undertaken by the two US LIGO interferometers in...
