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EGO in Spoleto at Festival dei Due Mondi with a work by Lulù Nuti
Born out of an artistic residency at the European Gravitational Observatory in Cascina (PI), home to Virgo, one of the three largest and most sensitive gravitational wave detectors on the planet, Lulù Nuti's project, IN MY END IS MY BEGINNING, curated by Spazio...
Past events
EGO and Virgo at Festival di Astronomia Livorno
From 14 to 16 June, the Festival of Astronomy organised by ALSA will be held at Livorno's evocative Fortezza Nuova. Once again this year, EGO, Virgo and gravitational wave research will be among the protagonists, with two events: The dark side of the Universe From...
EGO and Virgo Open Day is back!
On May 24th, from 2 PM to 10 PM, the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) will open its doors to visitors for the research centre's first Open Day since the beginningpandemic. Workshops, games, shows and activities will accompany people of all ages throughout the...
EGO and Virgo at Athens Science Festival 2024
Once again EGO is taking part in Athens Science Festival! From April 16th to April 21st hundreds of children, students and people of all ages will discover Virgo and the science of gravitational waves through many interactive activities organized by Ellinogermaniki...
EGO and Virgo at Festival delle Scienze di Roma 2024
Once again this year, gravitational waves will be among the protagonists of the Festival delle Scienze in Rome, themed Errors and Wonders, with a double event. Thursday 18 April 2024 - h. 21:00Sala PetrassiLe Mappe del Cosmo. Storie che hanno cambiato l’universo A...
Virgo and Einstein Telescope at Biblioteca delle Oblate in Florence
On Wednesday 17 April at 6 p.m., at the Sibilla Aleramo Conference Room of the Oblate Library in Florence, the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), in collaboration with the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) and the Galileo Museum, is organising 'The...
Creare Immaginando, Art&Science Across Italy in Pisa
Today, March 4, marks the opening at 6 p.m. of the Pisa edition of the Creare Immaginando exhibition of the national project for schools, Art&Science Across Italy, implemented by the INFN National Institute of Nuclear Physics and CERN in collaboration with Italian...
EGO and Virgo participate in Galilean Days in Pisa
From February 15th to 20th the city of Pisa will once again host the Giornate Galileiane (Galilean Days), a rich program of events to celebrate the birth of Galileo Galilei in 1564. Virgo and EGO join the city's academic and cultural institutions in this initiative to...
‘Cosmic’ concert at Teatro Verdi in Pisa to celebrate 20 years of Virgo
At the Pisa Theater, the "Music from the Cosmos. The Sound Universe of Sir John Williams": the finest soundtracks from science fiction and adventure films performed by a special orchestra of All Stars from Italian theaters, and a special tribute to Giacomo Puccini The...
In Florence, the exhibition ‘Splendori Celesti’: from Galileo to gravitational waves
Conceived by the Galileo Museum in Florence in collaboration with the European Gravitational Observatory, on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the publication of Galileo's Il Saggiatore - the book that laid the foundations of the modern concept of science - the...
Einstein Telescope and Sardinia at Festival Della Scienza di Genova
On Wednesday, Nov. 1, at 9 p.m., in the Sala del Maggior Consiglio of Palazzo Ducale at the Genoa Science Festival, the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) is organizing "The Future Under the Mountain - The Telescope in the Mine and Sardinia," a conference-show...
Second Einstein Telescope Annual Meeting in Orsay
The second Einstein Telescope Annual Meeting of the ET Scientific Collaboration will take place from November 14th to November 16th 2023 in Orsay, France. The meeting is hosted by the “Gravitational waves” group of the Astroparticles, Astrophysics and Cosmology (A2C)...
EGO and Virgo in Lucca at Comics&Science Palace
From November 1st to November 5th, in Lucca, at the Lucca Comics & Games, EGO and Virgo will participate in the Comics&Science Palace initiative, A hub, in the heart of the city and with free admission, all dedicated to science and comics. Authors, characters,...
Symposium in memory of Stavros Katsanevas
On June 1st 2023 a Symposium will take place in Paris to honour the memory of Stavros Katsanevas, former EGO director who passed away in November of last year, one month before the end of his mandate. The symposium, hosted at the Université Paris Cité in Paris,...
XIII Einstein Telescope Symposium in Cagliari
The XIII symposium of the Einstein Telescope (ET) took place this week in Cagliari, at the THotel. The Symposium is organised in parallel sessions, hosting workshops managed by the ET specific boards (EIB, ISB, OSB and SPB), and plenary sessions to have a global view...
Selections for Famelab Pisa will be held at EGO
19 maggio 2023
International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2023
Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a day promoted by resolution of the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 to recognize the critical role women and girls play in science and technology. To celebrate this day we are happy to announce that...
Black Hole: a new interactive installation by EGO and INFN at Città della Scienza in Naples
Today, November 23rd 2022, as part of the Futuro Remoto science festival in Naples, the exhibition 'Space (to the Future)' will be inaugurated. The European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) was involved in the creation of an interactive installation on black holes...
The first ET Annual Meeting at EGO
The first Einstein Telescope Annual Meeting, hosted at the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), started yesterday and will continue until Thursday November 17th. Hundreds of scientists from all over Europe are joining in person and remotely to discuss challenges,...
Sonification and inclusion at UNOOSA with Wanda Diaz-Merced
EGO researcher Wanda Diaz-Merced will be one of the key speakers of the online event “Sonification: a tool for research, outreach and inclusion in space sciences”, organized by UNOOSA (the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs) on Thursday November 17th at 2...
LGBTQ+ STEM Day 2022
November 18th is the International Day of LGBTQIA+ People in STEM, the Diversity Group of the Virgo Collaboration is organizing “LGBTQ+STEM Day: promoting the LGBTQ+ community in STEM and in life”, a virtual conference to explore the topics of this important day....
“The Sound of the Universe” at Genoa Science Festival
On Sunday October 30th at 9 p.m. in the Sala del Maggior Consiglio of the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, in the context of the Festival della Scienza, EGO is organising the event "The Sound of the Universe", a dialogue on what it means to 'listen' to the Cosmos and how it...
EGO at Athens Science Festival
EGO took part in Athens Science Festival (October 22nd and 23rd) where over 600 children, students and people of all ages discovered Virgo and the science of gravitational waves through many interactive activities organized by Ellinogermaniki Agogi. In the context of...
“Machine Learning in GW search” G2net workshop this week at EGO
This week, from the 28th to the 30th of September, EGO is hosting the workshop “Machine Learning in GW search: g2net next challenges”, organised by the CA17137 G2net COST Action. The goal of this COST Action is exploring, building on past work, the tremendous...
A two days workshop at EGO for fostering citizens role in fundamental science
Two days to explore the experiences and potential of Citizen Science projects in Physics and Astronomy. The workshop "Fostering citizens' role in the advancement of ground-breaking research in Fundamental Science", organised at EGO on September 1st and 2nd, was...
Bright Night 2022, European Researchers Night in Pisa
ìBright Night, the European Researchers' Night in Tuscany, returns again this year on September 30th. As always, EGO and Virgo will participate with various activities for people of all ages, guided tours in the morning at the Observatory in Cascina and other events...
Gravitational Waves and cosmic sounds during the summer around Pisa
A series of events about science, art and the cosmos organised and promoted by the European Gravitational Observatory, with the support of the Municipality of Cascina and the Municipality of Lajatico, will light up this year's summer around Pisa: shows and talks to...
International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2022
Friday February 11th 2022 is The International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a day promoted by resolution of the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 to recognize the critical role women and girls play in science and technology. On this occasion the European...
Codytrip at EGO/Virgo
On 9 February 2022, CodyTrip, the interactive virtual school trip, makes a stop at EGO and Virgo! Researchers Julia Casanueva, Irene Fiori, Valerio Boschi and Eleonora Capocasa, together with the Collaboration's spokesperson Giovanni Losurdo, will accompany tens of...
“Le Mappe del Cosmo” at Festival Della Scienza di Genova
30 Ottobre 2021, ore 19, Teatro della Tosse, Genova
Course on Physics for Senior Citizen Scientists
October 6 2021 -May 18 2022 – Biblioteca Comunale, Cascina (Pisa, Italy)
Bergamo Scienza: guided tour of Virgo
12 October 2021, 6.30 PM, Streaming
“Le Donne e i paesaggi dell’Astronomia”, at Pisa Book Festival 2021
3 Ottobre 2021, ore 18, Auditorium del Museo delle Navi Antiche, Pisa
Lo Spazio e i Sensi, science and music beyond the senses
September 24th 2021, La Nunziatina (Pisa, Italy)
EGO and Virgo at Bright Night, European Researchers Night
Research takes to the streets of Tuscany's cities with talks, demonstrations and events. It will happen on Friday 24 September, for the BRIGHT Night European Researchers' Night, an event - created by the European Commission - which every year offers citizens the...
E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle
EDIT: THE EVENT WAS POSTPONED TO OCTOBER 1ST AT 9 PM A special evening under the stars of Virgo to discover Dante's cosmos and how we listen to and narrate the Universe today, in the unique setting of the Cascina Gravitational Observatory. Accompanying Lina...
Einstein Telescope at the Venice Biennale
The project to turn the Sos Enattos disused mine in Sardinia into the new home of Einstein Telescope is the protagonist of one of the installations of the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale. To accompany the installation a series of events will be held in person...
Cascina meets Virgo
On Wednesday September 1st at 9 p.m., at the Banca di Pescia e Cascina, the panel Cascina incontra Virgo (Cascina meets Virgo) will be held, the last in the cycle of events Cascina Europa, organised by the Municipality of Cascina as part of the summer festival Metti...
Conurbazioni Nebulose, evento con Tomas Saraceno
Wednesday 9 June 2021 Tomàs Saraceno, one of the most relevant contemporary artists, and Stavros Katsnevas, director of the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), will talk about science and art in live streaming during Conurbazioni Nebulose / Conurbações...
EGO hosts the UAI’s day of inclusive outreach 2021
"Stelle per tutti" (Stars for all), the national day of inclusive dissemination of astronomy, promoted by the Unione Astrofili Italiani (UAI), is back. It is an opportunity to share tools and practices with the aim of making the dissemination of astronomy accessible...
IN2P3 turns 50!
50 years ago, on the 14th of April 1971 the “Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules” (IN2P3) of CNRS was founded, with the goal of coordinating and developing research in these domains.
Registration open for Famelab Pisa 2021 selections!
16th April 2021
IEEE Milestone dedication
to Virgo and LIGOs
Ceremony on February 3rd, 2021
Black holes and gravitational waves in the cosmic concert by Tomàs Saraceno
Concert by Tomàs Saraceno
December 31st, 2020
The Sound of the Universe
November 27th, 2020
Il ritmo dello spazio
October 12 – December 8, 2019
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