The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Vanderbilt Lunar Labs Initiative cordially invite the scientific community to the International LILA Meeting (2025 Lunar Gravitational-Wave Workshop), to be held 13–14 November 2025 at APL, Laurel, Maryland, USA. This is the fifth annual meeting in the Lunar GW Workshop series, following Belle-Île-en-Mer (2024), Nashville (2023), Bern (2022) and Cascina (2021). The 2025 Lunar GW workshop will take place in Building 200 on APL’s South Campus.
This meeting continues community discussions on the Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna (LILA) project – a proposed detector on the lunar surface to measure gravitational waves in the mid-band between ground-based detectors LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA and the future space mission LISA. The primary foci of this workshop will be on defining the science goals, instrument implementation, deployment timeline, and establishing the formal consortium structure for LILA. Sessions will include multi-messenger astrophysics, lunar geoscience, instrumentation, and technology development.
Scientific Organizing Committees
- Karan Jani, Vanderbilt University (co-chair)
- Jim Kinnison, Applied Physics Laboratory (co-chair)
- James Trippe, Vanderbilt University (co-chair)
- John Conklin, University of Florida
- Stephen Eikenberry, University of Central Florida
- Kris Izquierdo, Applied Physics Laboratory
- Philippe Lognonné, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
- Mark Panning, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Volker Quetschke, University of Texas Rio-Grande Valley
- Robert Reed, Vanderbilt University
- Brett Shapiro, Applied Physics Laboratory
- Joseph Silk, Johns Hopkins University