On Saturday 8 March, Infini.to - Planetarium of Turin will inaugurate a new space dedicated to gravitational waves, created by Infini.to, in collaboration with the Scientific Partners of the Apriticielo Association (INAF, INFN and University of Turin) and the European...

Once again this year, EGO and Virgo are taking part in the "Giornate Galileiane" initiative organised by the Municipality of Pisa in collaboration with the Scuola Normale Superiore, the Pisa State Archives, the University of Pisa, the University Library, EGO - Virgo,...

This year at Lucca Comics & Games get ready to dance to the notes of gravitational waves! On Sunday 3 November at 11.00 a.m. meet us at the Community Village (Giardino degli Osservanti) for "8 bit cosmo beats", a DJ set organised by EGO in collaboration with IMT -...

The Genova Festival della Scienza, Italy's most important science festival, starts this week. As every year, EGO and Virgo will participate with laboratories, workshops and events. Here is all the information on where to find us in Genova over the next few days! 📆 24...

An exceptional parterre from the world of research and institutions is celebrating today, at the European Gravitational Observatory in Cascina, the first 20 years of the Virgo experiment and its crucial contribution to the revolution in gravitational and...

Like every year, the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) in Cascina, which hosts the Virgo interferometer, will participate in the European Researchers' Night, this year with the projects Bright Night and PICO! Three days of events in Pisa, Florence and Bergamo...

On Saturday 14 September, gravitational waves will be among the protagonists of the Public Program dialogues of the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale 2024. An unprecedented reflection between art and science, with Massimo Carpinelli (director of EGO) and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

  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,...

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...

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...

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 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,...

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...

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....

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

October 6 2021 -May 18 2022 – Biblioteca Comunale, Cascina (Pisa, Italy)