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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 awarded approximately every 18 months for a significant...
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 built - stood up to the intense scrutiny of ESA´s reviewers. Now the...
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 detector. This important step was done through a letter to Antonio...
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 then vice-president of the EGO...
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 international Virgo Collaboration, every year, to...
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 mid-2023.Over the summer months, Virgo...
EGO welcomes new observer members from Belgium, Spain and Poland
We are proud to announce that several new institutions from Belgium, Spain and Poland are joining, as observer members, the EGO council, the governing body of the European Gravitational Observatory, composed of members nominated by the funding institutions. The...
20th anniversary of Virgo’s inauguration
On July 23rd 2003, exactly 20 years ago the Virgo detector was inaugurated. The official start of its scientific and technological mission was celebrated in an important ceremony, attended by government representatives of Italy and France, the presidents of the two...
AHEAD2020 Announcement of Opportunity Cycle 6
The AHEAD2020 (Integrated Activities for High Energy Astrophysics*) calls for a program of transnational visits and remote access activities to be performed starting ~ October 2023. The main objectives are: 1) fostering new or strengthening existing collaborations on...
Luca Della Santina new administrative director of EGO
Luca Della Santina, an engineer and former top manager at the Region of Tuscany, is the new administrative director of the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) in Cascina, which hosts the Virgo gravitational wave interferometer. Della Santina began his tenure at...
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