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Gravitational Waves and Detection Technologies – PAS Rome Meeting 2026, March 16-17

Gravitational Waves and Detection Technologies - PAS Rome meeting 2026, jointly organized by the Polish Academy of Sciences, the University of Perugia and INFN Perugia, will take place in Rome from 16 March to 17 March 2026. This event aims to provide a platform for sharing recent advancements in the rapidly evolving field of gravitational-wave science, with a particular focus on detector science and experimental technologies.

The program will bring together researchers working on both theoretical and experimental aspects of gravitational waves, fostering exchange across different detector concepts, data analysis techniques and astrophysical applications. Talks will focus on the future of interferometric detectors, modern sensing technologies, signal processing methods and multi-messenger connections encouraging discussions that span physics, engineering and data science.

Invited speakers

prof. dr hab. Andrzej Królak, Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences

prof. dr hab. Tomasz Bulik, Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw

dott. Gianluca Gemme, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, VIRGO Collaboration spoke-person

Important dates

  • Opening abstract submission: Tue, 2 Sep 2025
  • Opening registration: Tue, 7 October 2025
  • Closing abstract submission: Fri, 5 Dec 2025 (extended to Fri, 19 Dec 2025)
  • Abstract acceptance notification: Mon, 5 Jan 2026
  • Closing registration (final): Mon, 9 Mar 2026

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Massive Black Hole Spin Workshop, April 21-24 2026, Edinburgh

Astrophysical black holes can be entirely described by just two properties: their mass and their spin. While masses of black holes have been extensively studied, black hole spin remains poorly understood. This is because spin is both much more difficult to observe and more complex to model. Nevertheless, spin is no less integral to the evolution of massive black holes over time, and the role they play in shaping their host galaxies.

This workshop is a chance to discuss the nature and evolution of massive black hole spin from both an observational and theoretical point of view. It aims to bring together the theoretical and observational communities to advance our collective understanding of black hole spin evolution. In this workshop we will focus on the evolution of the massive black hole spin distribution across cosmic time, as informed by analytic models, numerical simulations as well as multi-frequency and multi-messenger observations.  Theoretical sessions will cover simulations and analytic models, from accretion-disc scale phenomena via the impact of binaries and inspiral on massive black hole spin to a discussion on what we can learn from galaxy scale and cosmological simulations on the spin distribution of massive black holes. Observation-focused sessions will include gravitational waves, X-ray based and interferometry-based spin measurements, and those based on transient events. The goal of this workshop is to bring together theorists and observers to exchange state-of-the-art insights and guide future efforts to maximise the understanding of black hole spin across cosmic time.

Core questions include:

– When and where can we observe massive black hole spin?

– What can we learn about massive black hole spin from current theoretical and numerical efforts on different astrophysical scales?

– What observations do we need most to constrain models?

– Where should modelling efforts be focused to make the most of the existing and upcoming observational missions?

– What do we need to prepare to make the most of upcoming missions?

Confirmed invited speakers so far

  • Matthew Liska
  • Davide Gerosa
  • Filip Husko
  • Margherita Giustini

 ** Please note there is no attendance fee for this workshop**

If you are interested in attending this workshop, please register by clicking on the registration section of this page. We will confirm your registration if your abstract is accepted.

Registration is now open and will close on the 19th of January 2026.

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From LISA Pathfinder to LISA: Celebrating 10 years of the LPF launch, December 3-4 2025 at CSIC Catalan Delegation

On 3 December 2015, the European Space Agency launched LISA Pathfinder, a pioneering mission designed to test the technologies required to open a new window onto the Universe: the detection of low-frequency gravitational waves from space. Over its operational lifetime, LISA Pathfinder surpassed expectations, demonstrating with unprecedented precision that free-falling test masses could be shielded from all external forces, and that their motion could be tracked with picometre accuracy.

Now, ten years later, we come together to celebrate the success of this extraordinary mission, which laid the foundations for LISA, ESA’s future space-based gravitational wave observatory. LISA Pathfinder not only proved the feasibility of revolutionary instrumentation — from drag-free control to micro-newton thrusters — but also paved the way for a completely new form of astronomy. This anniversary is an opportunity to look back on a milestone in space science, and to look ahead to the scientific revolutions that LISA will bring.

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SIGRAV International School 2026: Neutron Stars: Modelling and Detection, February 16-20 in Vietri sul Mare

This edition of the Italian Society of General Relativity and Gravitation (SIGRAV) International School is dedicated to the study of neutron stars as outstanding sources of gravitational and electromagnetic waves in the strong-field regime. The program is structured to promote scholarly interaction and collaboration, offering participants the opportunity to engage with leading experts in the field. Through a series of advanced lectures and discussions, the School aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of current developments in gravitational research and to equip attendees with the knowledge and tools necessary to advance their own scientific work in the study of gravity.

The School will take place in Vietri sul Mare (SA), Italy, 16-20 February 2026.

The program of the School comprises the following four courses:

  • B. Haskell (Milano Bicocca Univ., IT): Modelling of Neutron Stars as Gravitational Wave Sources
  • T. Hinderer (Utrecht Univ., NL) : Gravitational Signal from Late Inspiral and Merger of Neutron Stars
  • M.A. Papa (AEI, Hannover, DE) : Detection of Continuous Gravitational Waves
  • M. Ghirlanda (INAF, Brera, IT): Multimessenger Astrophysics with Neutron Stars

The School is intended for PhD students and young post-docs. In order to receive the certificate of participation, all lectures and seminars should be attended.

The Participation Fee (350 EUR for non-SIGRAV members, 300 EUR for SIGRAV members) guarantee the access to all courses and activities, including lunch and coffee breaks.

A reduced participation fee (50 EUR) is available for those which will be only able to attend the lectures remotely.

The room should be booked in the Lloyd’s Baia Hotel. Please, reserve your room by using the form available in the section “Practical Info – Accomodation and Transport”.

The deadline for registration and payment of the relative fee is 06 February 2025 (see Registration section).
A social excursion is planned for Wednesday, offering participants the opportunity to visit the Royal Palace of Caserta

School Website

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Listening to the Cosmos: New Frontiers in Gravitational Wave Physics, Aug 24 – Sep 26, 2026, Firenze

The first detection of gravitational waves from the Ligo-Virgo-Kagra collaboration and the recent results of several pulsar timing arrays have opened the exploration of the gravitational wave Universe. Over the next decade, several other ground and space-based experiments will join this exploration and allow us to access a broad band of the gravitational wave spectrum. This new exploration comes with a series of challenges that can only be overcome through close collaboration between experimentalists and theorists. This workshop will bring together experts working on the experiments enabling this exploration, as well as particle physicists and cosmologists, to discuss the open challenges that this new exploration presents and highlight the synergies between these different communities. Application deadline: April 30th 2026.

Topics
Week 1 (24th – 30th August): Pulsar Timing Arrays
Week 2 (31st August – 6th September): Space-Based GW Detectors
Week 3 (7th – 13th September): Conference Week
Week 4 (14th – 20th September): Ground-Based GW Detectors
Week 5 (21st – 27th September): Ultra-High Frequency GW Detectors

Application:
To submit your application, please click the Apply button above and complete the registration form. The minimum stay is one week; however, participants are strongly encouraged to stay for several weeks to make the most of the program. The application deadline is April 30, 2026.

Accommodation :
Selected participants will have the opportunity to book accommodation through GGI, ensuring access to the best available rates at local hotels. A limited number of participants may receive support from GGI to cover local expenses. If you wish to be considered for such support, please indicate this in your application.

Organizers

Diego Blas — ICREA and IFAE Barcelona
Neil Cornish — Montana State University
Valeriya Korol — Max Planck Institute and University of Birmingham
Andrea Mitridate — DESY
Mauro Pieroni — Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, Madrid
Michele Redi — INFN Florence
Alberto Sesana — University of Milano Bicocca, INFN and INAF Milan

Local organizer
Michele Redi

Contact
andrea.mitridate(at)nanograv.org
michele.redi(at)fi.infn.it

Workshop Website

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Workshop on the “New Frontiers in Strong Gravity IV” in Benasque in July 19-31 2026

The fourth installment of the two-week workshop “New frontiers in strong gravity” will take place in Benasque, Spain, from 19–31 July 2026 at the Science Center in Benasque (https://benasque.org/new_general/cgi-bin/years.pl?ano=2026) in the Spanish Pyrenees. The registration will open in Spring 2026.

The goal of the workshop is to foster new ideas and collaborations by bringing together experts across different disciplines, including gravity, gravitational wave astrophysics, numerical and mathematical relativity. We plan for only two talks per day, with ample time for informal discussions, sessions and collaborations. We aim at creating a diverse and inclusive meeting that thrives through communication and discussion, and we would greatly welcome participation and contributions from different communities, as well as researchers at different career stages.

Topics planned for this installment include:

  • Precision GW modeling
  • Future GW facilities
  • New detector proposals (atom IFOs, lunar, high frequency, deciHz, μHz) and sources
  • Future data analysis
  • Tests of beyond-GR
  • Cosmology
  • PBHs/Memory Burden
  • Formal mathematical relativity, perturbative methods (PN, PM)
  • Memory, tails, other soft effects
  • Analog gravity
  • Environmental effects (dark matter halos, accretion disks)
  • Scattering and Amplitudes
  • Developments in quantum gravity
  • New developments in NR / GPU computing

We would appreciate it if you could kindly note the dates if you plan to attend and forward the announcement to interested researchers in our field.

We look forward to welcoming you to Benasque.

On behalf of the organisers (D. Blas, P. Figueras, S. Nissanke, L. Stein, H. Witek)

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Amplitudes, Strong-Field Gravity and Resummation, April 7-17 2026, Stockholm

Registration is now open for the Nordita Program on Amplitudes, Strong-Field Gravity and Resummation, to be held at Nordita (Stockholm, Sweden) from 7 to 17 April 2026.

The program is structured as follows:

Week 1 [April 7–10, 2026 (4 days)]: The PhD school will focus on foundations and tools for gravitational self-force, amplitudes, self-force EFT, resummation strategies and data analysis relevant to waveform modelling. Theoretical lectures will be complemented by hands-on programming sessions and dedicated tutorials.

Week 2 [April 13–17, 2026 (5 days)]: Workshop focused on uniting the weak-field (PM) and strong-field (GSF) approaches to the two-body problem, as well resummation strategies relevant for gravitational-wave phenomenology. Individual talks will be complemented by discussion sessions to promote cross-community interaction and constructive debates.

PhD School (7-10 April 2026)

Topics will include:

  1. Scattering amplitudes and the EFT approach to self-force.
    Lecturers: Nabha Shah (NBI) & Chia-Hsien Shen (Uppsala Univ. and NTU, Taiwan)
  2. Introduction to gravitational self-force theory.
    Lecturers: Leor Barack (Univ. of Southampton) and Barry Wardell (UCD)
  3. Introduction to Numerical Relativity, Resummation strategies and Data Analysis.
    Lecturer: Patricia Schmidt (Univ. of Birmingham)

Workshop (13-17 April 2026)

There is pressing need for high-precision models of gravitational waveforms from binary black hole mergers, driven by the increasing sensitivity of gravitational-wave detectors. The central theme of this program is how to leverage particle physics methods when calculating processes relevant to gravitational-wave phenomenology. In particular, the workshop focuses on uniting two key perturbative approaches — post-Minkowskian (PM) theory, effective for weak-field, widely separated systems, and gravitational self-force (GSF) theory, suited to extreme-mass-ratio systems in strong fields. Crucial to combining these tools is understanding the resummation of the perturbative series. We aim to bring together both experts and younger theorists from these communities, fostering new collaborations and combining our efforts to address the pressing questions at the interface between these fields.

Invited speakers: [* To be confirmed]

D. Akpinar (University of Edinburgh), L. Bohnenblust (Humboldt University), D. Bini* (IAC, Rome), A. Buonanno* (AEI, Potsdam), T. Damour* (IHES), J. Hoogeveen (Humboldt University), K. Lee (APCTP, Pohang), O. Long (AEI, Potsdam), J. Mathews (National University of Singapore), S. Mougiakakos (LUTH, Meudon), J. Parra-Martinez* (IHES), H. Pfeiffer (AEI, Potsdam), J. Plefka (Humboldt University), R. Porto (DESY), T. Rahnuma (APCTP, Pohang), P. Rettegno* (University of Turin), R. Russo (QMUL), J. Steinhoff (AEI, Potsdam), C-H. Shen (Uppsala University), M. van de Meent (NBI), A. Vaswani (University of Southampton), N. Warburton (UCD), Z. Zhou (Princeton).

Venue

The program will be hosted by Nordita in Stockholm (Sweden) from 7th – 17th April 2026.

Application/Registration

Due to limited space, registration will be moderated for both the PhD school and the workshop. You may apply to the PhD school only, the workshop only, or both. Registration to be considered for on-site participation will close on 31 January 2026; after this date, registrants will receive an on-site/remote participation confirmation from the organizers.

Remote participation: All talks will be livestreamed via Zoom, and recordings will be made available to registered participants who cannot attend in person.

Organizers

Lucile Cangemi — University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Paolo Di Vecchia — Nordita, Sweden
Riccardo Gonzo — Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
Chris Kavanagh — University College Dublin, Ireland
Adam Pound — University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Geraint Pratten — University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Funding sources:

This workshop is partially supported by the UKRI/ERC grant GWModels.

Workshop Website

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European Einstein Toolkit Meeting, December 1-5 2025, online

The Einstein Toolkit is a community-driven software platform of core computational tools to advance and support research in relativistic astrophysics and gravitational physics.

The meeting is open to anyone interested in the Einstein Toolkit.

Program highlights:

  • Introductory lectures
  • Hands-on tutorials on the Einstein Toolkit
  • Research talks
  • Showcases from other numerical relativity codes
  • Friday discussion session : The Future of the Einstein Toolkit in Europe

Registration is moderated and remains open throughout the meeting, but early registration is encouraged.
Abstract submission deadline: 14 November 2025, 23:59 GMT.

Contact
Beyhan Karakaş, beyhannkarakas(at)gmail.com
Rahime Matur, r.matur(at)soton.ac.uk
Ian Hawke, i.hawke(at)soton.ac.uk

Dates & Time 1-5 December 2025, 10:00-17:30 (GMT)

Location – Zoom (link will be sent to participants)

Speakers
Steve Brandt, Louisiana State University
Katy Clough, Queen Mary University of London
Peter Diener, Louisiana State University
Tim Dietrich, Universitat Potsdam
Zachariah B. Etienne, University of Idaho
Deborah Ferguson, University of Rhode Island
Francois Foucart, University of New Hampshire
Philippe Grandclement, Observatoire de Paris
Carsten Gundlach, University of Southampton
Roland Haas, The University of British Columbia
Peter Hammond, Albert Einstein Institute
Ian Hawke, University of Southampton
Kota Hayashi, Albert Einstein Institute
Liwei Ji, Rochester Institute of Technology
Jay Kalinani, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Toru Kojo, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
Steven Liebling, Long Island University
Brian D. Metzger, Columbia University
Philipp Moesta, University of Amsterdam
Carlos Palenzuela, Universitat de les Illes Balears
David Radice, The Pennsylvania State University
Stephan Rosswog, University of Hamburg
Lucas Timotheo Sanches, Louisiana State University
Erik Schnetter, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Leo R. Werneck, University of Idaho
Helvi Witek, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Organisers
Beyhan Karakaş, Independent Researcher
Rahime Matur, University of Southampton
Ian Hawke, University of Southampton

Workshop Website

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PhD Winter School on Gravitational Physics, January 25-30, 2026 in Norway

Upcoming PhD Winter School on Gravitational Physics which will take place at a ski resort in Norway Jan. 25th - Jan. 30th, 2026. The application deadline is December 20th, 2025.

The school is located at an absolutely wonderful place (Tron Hotel Skeikampen https://www.thonhotels.com/our-hotels/norway/skeikampen/), which offers fantastic skiing opportunities between the lectures! This PhD winter school has been running for many years, and is one of the top PhD schools in Europe.

For the upcoming school we have the exceptional pleasure of announcing that the main lectures will be given by:

  • Netta Engelhardt (MIT)
  • Luis Lehner (Perimeter Institute)
  • Isobel Romero-Shaw (Cardiff University)
  • Jan Plefka (Humboldt University)

The topics of lectures include theory and observations of gravitational waves, black holes and quantum information, strong gravity and horizons, and analytical approaches to black hole dynamics. On top of that, scientists affiliated with the Niels Bohr Institute will give topical lectures on current hot topics in gravitational physics.

Interested students should apply through this website before December 20th, 2025: https://indico.nbi.ku.dk/e/nordic-school-2026

Organizers: Johan Samsing, Poul H. Damgaard, Emil Bjerrum-Bohr

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APS Global Physics Summit, March 15-20 2026 in Denver and online

The joint March and April American Physical Society Meeting, known as the Global Physics Summit, will be held in Denver, CO, USA March 16-19, 2026. 

Contributed abstracts are invited at https://summit.aps.org/attend/abstracts/ , and are due October 23, 2025

Abstracts are particularly welcome on O4 results (noting that the abstracts will be public well in advance of March 2026), preparations for O5, and status of ongoing work. Sessions are anticipated on instrumentation, analysis, results, and much more!

Please recall that abstracts, presentations, and posters are subject to PnP policies, so circulation within working groups ASAP is recommended.

Meeting Website