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GWPAW 2025, December 1-4 in Atlanta

Be part of a global gathering of gravitational-wave scientists, researchers, and enthusiasts at GWPAW 2025, hosted at Georgia Tech’s Exhibition Hall Midtown from December 1–4, 2025.

Location:
Georgia Tech – Exhibition Hall Midtown
311 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332

Key Dates to Remember:

  • June 15, 2025 – Registration and abstract submission open
  • August 1, 2025 – Abstract submission deadline
  • August 31, 2025 – Notification of accepted abstracts
  • September 20, 2025 – Early bird registration closes
  • November 19, 2025 – General registration closes
  • December 1–4, 2025 – Conference

Topics Covered Include:

  • LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA results
  • Pulsar Timing Arrays
  • Multi-messenger and multi-band GW astrophysics
  • AI/ML in GW science
  • Tests of general relativity
  • Extreme matter, compact objects, and more!

Questions?
Contact us at:GWPAW2025(at)gatech.edu


Workshop Website

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SN2025gw: First IGWN Symposium on Core Collapse Supernova Gravitational Wave Theory and Detection, July 21-25 2025, Warsaw

The LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA Collaboration invites the core-collapse supernova (CCSN) astronomy and astrophysics community for a 5-day Symposium on July 21–25, 2025, at the University of Warsaw, Poland. CCSNe are among the most violent explosions known to occur in the Universe, and the next Galactic or near-extra-Galactic exploding massive star will be one of the most interesting, and most important, astronomical events of the century. This Symposium aims to bring CCSN experts together to address how to maximize the scientific potential of the first detection of core collapse supernova gravitational waves (GWs). The Symposium hopes to bring together GW astronomers and CCSN modelers, as well as neutrino and nuclear theorists, neutrino astronomers, and astronomers across the electromagnetic spectrum.

The sensitivity of GW detectors and progress on CCSN modeling are unprecedented, and we expect them to further advance in the coming years. A joint effort across communities has great potential to fully utilize these advances for CCSN GW discovery. Each day, we will host (before lunch) a set of lectures on one of the key topics listed below, to establish a common understanding and a common language. Moreover, each day (after lunch) will also include invited and contributed talks, as well as discussion. The focus topics of the Symposium are:

Day 1: CCSN Theory
Day 2: CCSN Gravitational Wave Detection and Parameter Estimation
Day 3: CCSN Neutrino Detection
Day 4: CCSNe across the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Day 5: CCSNe over the Next Ten Years

The proceedings of the Symposium will be published in a special issue of Classical and Quantum Gravity. We hope the proceedings will serve as a reference for students, postdocs, and faculty in, or entering, the field, serve to capture the current state of core collapse supernova gravitational wave astronomy and astrophysics, outline lessons learned, and provide recommendations for future development.

Everyone who wishes to advance the field of CCSN GW science is welcome!

Symposium Website

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Multimessenger Astronomy in the Era of Foundational AI, August 4-5 2025, Vanderbilt University in Nashville

Two immersive days exploring how large foundation models, transformers, diffusion models, self-supervised learners can accelerate astronomical discovery. Experts from gravitational-wave astronomy, multimessenger astronomy, and AI will share insights through talks and panel discussions.

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Multimessenger astronomy is entering a transformative era. As next-generation observatories deliver an unprecedented volume and diversity of data—across gravitational waves, electromagnetic signals, and neutrinos—the complexity of extracting meaningful insights increasingly exceeds the capacity of traditional analysis pipelines. At the same time, foundational AI models—large pre-trained networks such as transformers and diffusion models—are reshaping the landscape of scientific discovery, from natural language processing to molecular design. This two-day workshop brings these revolutions together. We will convene researchers from gravitational-wave physics, broader observational astronomy, and artificial intelligence to explore how cutting-edge machine learning can accelerate real-time detection, multimodal data integration, source classification, and astrophysical inference.

Through keynote talks and interactive panel discussions, participants will:

  • Survey the current frontier of AI-driven multimessenger astronomy—what tools are proving effective, and where the next breakthroughs may arise.
  • Build collaborative bridges across observatories, academic institutions, and industry research groups to foster robust, open-source development.
  • Chart a roadmap toward interpretable, scalable AI systems that can adapt to rapidly evolving data streams and scientific goals.

Join us in Nashville, August 4–5, 2025, to shape the future of multimessenger astronomy in the era of foundational AI—and to help lay the groundwork for a new generation of discovery.

Organizing Committee

Prof. Karan Jani, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Prof. Jesse Spencer-Smith, Data Science Institute
Prof. Stephen Taylor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Dr. Chayan Chatterjee, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Data Science Institute
Dr. Abigail Petulante, Data Science Institute

Workshop Website

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Quantum Gravity 2025, July 21-25, Penn State University

This conference, held at Penn State University located in State College Pennsylvania from July 21 until July 25 2025, aims to bring together researchers from all approaches to quantum gravity working on the full range from general conceptual aspects to potential phenomenological implications, as well as adjacent fields such as cosmology, quantum field theory and quantum information. The meeting will provide a platform for discussions of the main open questions currently driving the research field in an open and constructive format. In the long term, the goal is to work towards combining the lessons learned within various complementary approaches followed by the general field.

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EREP 2025, Spanish and Portuguese Relativity Meeting, September 1-5, 2025, Alicante

The Spanish-Portuguese Relativity Meetings (EREPs) are a long-standing scientific tradition that began in 1977. Since then, they have served as a key forum for the Portuguese and Spanish communities working in General Relativity and Gravitation, promoting collaboration and the exchange of ideas across a broad range of topics. Organized annually by different research groups from both countries, EREPs have become the most prominent conference on gravitation and relativity in the Iberian Peninsula.

The 2025 edition (EREP 2025) will take place in Alicante, Spain, from September 1st to 5th, 2025. We warmly invite you to join us for a week of stimulating scientific discussions in a vibrant and sunny Mediterranean setting. As in previous editions, EREP 2025 will bring together researchers from across the Iberian Peninsula and beyond, offering a dynamic program in a friendly and collaborative atmosphere.

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Multimessenger Astronomy in the Era of Foundational AI at Vanderbilt University, August 4-5, 2025

Two immersive days exploring how large foundation models, transformers, diffusion models, self-supervised learners can accelerate astronomical discovery. Experts from gravitational-wave astronomy, multimessenger astronomy, and AI will share insights through talks and panel discussions.

Motivation
Multimessenger astronomy is entering a transformative era. As next-generation observatories deliver an unprecedented volume and diversity of data—across gravitational waves, electromagnetic signals, and neutrinos—the complexity of extracting meaningful insights increasingly exceeds the capacity of traditional analysis pipelines. At the same time, foundational AI models—large pre-trained networks such as transformers and diffusion models—are reshaping the landscape of scientific discovery, from natural language processing to molecular design. This two-day workshop brings these revolutions together. We will convene researchers from gravitational-wave physics, broader observational astronomy, and artificial intelligence to explore how cutting-edge machine learning can accelerate real-time detection, multimodal data integration, source classification, and astrophysical inference.

Through keynote talks and interactive panel discussions, participants will:

Survey the current frontier of AI-driven multimessenger astronomy—what tools are proving effective, and where the next breakthroughs may arise.
Build collaborative bridges across observatories, academic institutions, and industry research groups to foster robust, open-source development.
Chart a roadmap toward interpretable, scalable AI systems that can adapt to rapidly evolving data streams and scientific goals.

Join us in Nashville, August 4–5, 2025, to shape the future of multimessenger astronomy in the era of foundational AI—and to help lay the groundwork for a new generation of discovery.

Workshop Website

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SN2025gw: First IGWN Symposium on Core Collapse Supernova Gravitational Wave Theory and Detection, Warsaw, July 21-25, 2025

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration invites the core-collapse supernova (CCSN) astronomy and astrophysics community for a 5-day Symposium on July 21-25, 2025, at the University of Warsaw, Poland. CCSNe are among the most violent explosions known to occur in the Universe, and the next Galactic or near extra-Galactic exploding massive star will be one of the most interesting, and most important, astronomical events of the century. This Symposium aims to bring CCSN experts together to address how to maximize the scientific potential of the first detection of core collapse supernova gravitational waves (GWs). The Symposium hopes to bring together GW astronomers and CCSN modelers, as well as neutrino and nuclear theorists, neutrino astronomers, and astronomers across the electromagnetic spectrum.

The sensitivity of GW detectors and progress on CCSN modeling are unprecedented, and we expect them to further advance in the coming years. A joint effort across communities has great potential to fully utilize these advances for CCSN GW discovery. Each day, we will host (before lunch) a set of lectures on one of the key topics listed below, to establish a common understanding and a common language. Moreover, each day (after lunch) will also include invited and contributed talks, as well as discussion. The focus topics of the Symposium are:

Day 1: CCSN Theory
Day 2: CCSN Gravitational Wave Detection and Parameter Estimation
Day 3: CCSN Neutrino Detection
Day 4: CCSNe across the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Day 5: CCSNe over the Next Ten Years

The proceedings of the Symposium will be published in a special issue of Classical and Quantum Gravity. We hope the proceedings will serve as a reference for students, postdocs, and faculty in, or entering, the field, serve to capture the current state of core collapse supernova gravitational wave astronomy and astrophysics, outline lessons learned, and provide recommendations for future development.

Everyone who wishes to advance the field of CCSN GW science is welcome!

Conference web page with additional information

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APPEC Tech Forum Vacuum & Cryogenics – Industry meets Academia, November 24-26, 2025, Maastricht

European physicists in astro-particle physics as well as in neighboring fields are planning the next generation of experiments to be built within the next decade. The success of the projects in direct dark matter detection, low energy neutrino physics, neutrino properties, gravitational wave detection as well as related accelerator-based experiments in particle and nuclear physics highly depends on challenging technologies in the domain of vacuum and cryogenics. The first event of this series, focusing on vacuum and cryogenics,  took place in Darmstadt/Germany in 2012. A brochure was published after the meeting, providing an overview of participating  experiments and companies.

For a thorough planning of all stakeholders it is important to carefully elaborate the timing of the projects and their needs as well as the market availability of key products. The APPEC Technology Forum is organized jointly with the international union of vacuum societies IUVSTA, national vacuum societies from the Netherlands and Germany, Maastricht University, NIKHEF and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) to identify synergies between projects from neighboring fields. It shall provide a discussion forum for companies, project scientist and funding agencies to define future ways of boosting cooperation to the benefit of all stakeholders.

Full registration is expected to be available im May 2025. However, you can already register your e-mail address to help us with planning and to receive updated information, as it becomes available. You can also indicate, if you are interested in presenting a poster for your experiment, or if you would like to present products and information about your company.

At the end of the meeting we offer a visit to ET-Pathfinder, a R&D facility for the development and testing of technologies for the next generation gravitational wave observatory, the Einstein Telescope.

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First International Latin American Conference on Gravitational Waves: 10 years since first detection, September 15–19, 2025 Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)

A decade ago, science witnessed an extraordinary milestone: the first direct detection of gravitational waves, predicted by Albert Einstein in his Theory of General Relativity in 1915. These ripples in spacetime, generated by extreme cosmic events such as black hole mergers, remained merely a theoretical prediction until September 14, 2015, when the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) experiment captured this historic signal.

This achievement revolutionized astrophysics and earned the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, and Kip S. Thorne, recognizing their essential contributions to the design and implementation of LIGO, as well as the data analysis that confirmed the phenomenon.

The First International Latin American Conference on Gravitational Waves celebrates this milestone by bringing together researchers from across Latin America to discuss advancements in detection, theory, and instrumentation in the field of gravitational waves. Moreover, the event serves as a unique opportunity to unify and strengthen the Latin American scientific community, fostering institutional partnerships and collaborations that solidify the region’s presence in this cutting-edge field of science.

With a comprehensive program, the conference will feature lectures by renowned experts, technical sessions, discussion panels, and presentations of recent research. The primary goal is to foster the growth of the Latin American scientific community and encourage international cooperation, promoting regional leadership in a field that shapes our understanding of the universe.

Scientific Committee:

Dr. Odylio Denys Aguiar (Brasil, INPE)
Dr. Riccardo Sturani (Brasil, UNESP)
Dr. Henrique Pereira de Oliveira (Brasil, UERJ)
Dr. Márcio Eduardo da Silva Alves (Brasil, UNESP)
Dr. Antonio Enea Romano (Colombia, UNIANDES)
Dra. Claudia Moreno (México, UNAM)
Dra. Iara Tosta e Melo (UNICT- Itália e UNIFAL)
Dr. Florian Pretorius (África do Sul, UP)

Speakers:

Dr. David Shoemaker (EUA, MIT-LIGO)
Dra. Bangalore Sathyaprakash (Índia, Eberly College of Science-LIGO India)
Dr. Peter Saulson (EUA, Syracuse University-LIGO)
Dr. Barry Barish (EUA, Caltech-LIGO)
Dr. Matthew Evans (EUA, MIT-LIGO)
Dra. Gabriela González (Argentina, Louisiana State University-LIGO)
Dr. Michele Punturo (Itália, INFN-Virgo)
Dr. Sendhil Raja (Índia, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT)-LIGO India)

Conference Website

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APPEC Town Meeting 2025, September 23-24, Zaragoza, Spain

Town Meeting 2025: Preparation of the 2027-2036 Strategic Roadmap
As input for the preparation of the roadmap, a community survey took place beginning of this year. A briefing book including all Astroparticle Physics topics from the survey will be prepared by the APPEC Scientific Advisory Committee and released this summer, stay tuned!

During the APPEC Town Meeting, we will further discuss each of these topics with respect to the European and international context, and the new developments in Astroparticle Physics and in the neighbouring fields that will shape the strategic recommendations of the next roadmap.

This event includes plenary talks as well as round table discussions for each topic, to ensure a large participation of the community to shaping the future of Astroparticle Physics strategic orientations.

The discussions at this Town Meeting will serve as input for the European Astroparticle Physics Strategy 2027-2036.

Meeting Website