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...

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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...

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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...

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Past events

Creare Immaginando, Art&Science Across Italy in Pisa

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...

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EGO and Virgo participate in Galilean Days in Pisa

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...

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Second Einstein Telescope Annual Meeting in Orsay

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)...

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EGO and Virgo in Lucca at Comics&Science Palace

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,...

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Symposium in memory of Stavros Katsanevas

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,...

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XIII Einstein Telescope Symposium in Cagliari

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...

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International Day of Women and Girls in Science 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...

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The first ET Annual Meeting at EGO

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,...

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Sonification and inclusion at UNOOSA with Wanda Diaz-Merced

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...

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LGBTQ+ STEM Day 2022

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....

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“The Sound of the Universe” at Genoa Science Festival

“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...

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EGO at Athens Science Festival

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...

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Bright Night 2022, European Researchers Night in Pisa

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...

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International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2022

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...

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Codytrip at EGO/Virgo

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...

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EGO and Virgo at Bright Night, European Researchers Night

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...

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E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle

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...

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Einstein Telescope at the Venice Biennale

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...

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Cascina meets Virgo

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...

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Conurbazioni Nebulose, evento con Tomas Saraceno

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...

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EGO hosts the UAI’s day of inclusive outreach 2021

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...

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IN2P3 turns 50!

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.

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