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PAFT26 – Quantum Frontiers in Gravity, March 29 – April 1 2026 in Vietri Sul Mare

The main objective of the conference "PAFT26 - Quantum Frontiers in Gravity" is to bring together theoretical physicists and phenomenologists who are experts in the complementary fields of classical and quantum gravity, modified gravity, and experimental aspects of gravity in quantum systems. The conference will give space to a constructive exchange of ideas and encourage new collaborations.

All conference participants will be accommodated at the Lloyd’s Baia Hotel (see Accommodation for details). The conference fee is 120 euros. Students can apply for a fee waiver during registration.

A Gala dinner is included in the social program at a cost of 70 euros, to be paid at the venue.
Important Dates

The conference starts on Sunday, March 29, at 2pm (after lunch) and it ends on Wednesday, April 1st, at 1pm (before lunch).
Deadline for Talk submission on February 23
Confirmation of acceptance will be given on February 28

Deadline for registration on March 13

Deadline for reservation at Lloyd’sBaia on March 2nd

Invited Speakers
A preliminary list of invited speakers includes:

G. Barnich (ULB), L.-Q. Chen (IQOQI), C. Curceanu (INFN), L. Diosi (Budapest, RMKI), J. Kowalski-Glikman (NCBJ & UWr), R. Loll (Nijmegen U & IMAPP), N. Mavromatos (Natl. Tech. U. Athens and King’s Coll. London), A. Pachol (USN), T. Sotiriou (U Nottingham)

Organising Committee
Michele Arzano (Napoli Federico II & INFN Napoli), Massimo Blasone (Salerno & INFN Napoli/Salerno), Goffredo Chirco (Napoli Federico II & INFN Napoli), Gaetano Fiore (Napoli Federico II & INFN. Napoli), Giulia Gubitosi (Napoli Federico II & INFN Napoli), Gaetano Lambiase (Salerno & INFN Napoli/Salerno), Fedele Lizzi (Napoli Federico II & INFN Napoli), Tanmay Kumar Poddar (IPPP, Durham), Luca Visinelli (Salerno & INFN Napoli/Salerno), Patrizia Vitale (Napoli Federico II & INFN Napoli)

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IberiCos 2026, April 22-24 2026 at University of Granada

The 2026 edition of the Iberian Cosmology Meetings (IberiCos 2026) will be held in Granada, Spain, from April 22 to 24, 2026, organized by the Theoretical Physics and Cosmos Department of the University of Granada (UGR).

The IberiCos meetings aim to promote exchange and collaboration among researchers working in Cosmology and related fields in Portugal and Spain, while also welcoming participants from all over the world.

The spirit of the meetings is to provide an open and inclusive forum for sharing ongoing research. Accordingly, IberiCOS 2026 will cover a wide range of topics, including primordial black holes, dark energy and dark matter, theoretical and observational cosmology, and gravitational waves. A key goal of the meeting is to foster dynamic interactions between theorists and observers.

All participants interested in presenting their work are invited to register and submit their title and abstract. We particularly encourage early-career researchers to contribute and share their results with the community.

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Black Holes & Cosmology, June 15-19 2026, Granada

The purpose of the international conference series Black Holes & Cosmology is to bring together world-renowned experts as well as junior researchers working on theoretical and observational aspects of black holes, particularly (but not limited to) their role in cosmology.

Topics include:

  • Dark Matter
  • Structure Formation
  • Primordial Black Holes
  • Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
  • Quantum Aspects of Black Holes

This event will take place in Granada, Spain, at ‘Carmen de la Victoria’ — an historic 19th-century estate with an unobstructed view onto the Alhambra — between the 15th and the 19th of June 2026. We look forward to meet you!

The opening talk will be held by Professor Alan Guth (MIT).

Invited Speakers (* = TBC):

  • Alessandra Buonanno* (MPI for Gravitational Physics)
  • Roger Blandford (Stanford)
  • Andreas Burkert (LMU)
  • Diego Blas (IFAE)
  • Volker Bromm* (UT)
  • Nico Cappelluti (UF)
  • Bernard Carr (QMUL)
  • Sébastien Clesse (ULB)
  • Tamara Davis (UQ)
  • Gia Dvali (LMU & MPI for Physics)
  • Netta Engelhardt (MIT)
  • Glennys Farrar (NYU)
  • Wendy Freedman (Chicago)
  • Katherine Freese (UT)
  • Jaume Garriga (ICCUB)
  • Sarah Geller (UCSC)
  • Alan Guth (MIT)
  • Günther Hasinger* (DZA)
  • Michael Hawkins (ROE)
  • Vicky Kalogera (NW)
  • Alexander Kusenko (UCLA)
  • Julien Lavalle (UoM)
  • Deyan Mihaylov (CWRU)
  • Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale)
  • Lisa Randall (Harvard)
  • Mairi Sakellariadou (KCL)
  • Pearl Sandick (UU)
  • Ravi Sheth (UPenn)
  • Adam Riess* (JHU)
  • Joe Silk (IAP & JHU & Oxford)
  • Glenn Starkman (CWRU)
  • Lárus Thorlacius (UI)
  • Vincent Vennin (ENS Paris)
  • Tanmay Vachaspati (ASU)
  • Alexander Vikman (CEICO)
  • David Wands (UoP)

Organisational Committee:

  • Florian Kühnel (LMU & TU Dortmund) [Chair]
  • Juan García-Bellido (UAM)
  • Mar Bastero-Gil (UGR)
  • David Kaiser (MIT)

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Glorious Women Symposium, March 5-6 2026, online

The first international online symposium Glorious Women will be held on March 5-6, 2026. “Glorious Women” will celebrate women scientists in the field of gravitational-wave astronomy.

The purpose of this symposium is to showcase the accessible, real-world role models, which may inspire young people to consider careers in astronomy and astrophysics.

This two-day event will bring together women scientists at different career stages to share their work in gravitational-wave science across various collaborations and research areas. The symposium will also feature panel discussions on “Women’s representation in GW science” and an interactive session “Ask a Woman Scientist”.

Registration is free and will remain open until 27 Feb 2026.

Speakers:

  • Manuela Campanelli (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
  • Isabel Cordero-Carrión (University of Valencia, Spain)
  • Shilpa Kastha (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, India)
  • Ju Li (University of Western Australia, Australia)
  • Maura McLaughlin (West Virginia University, USA)
  • Samaya Nissanke (DESY, Germany)
  • Archana Pai (IIT Bombay, India)
  • Surabhi Sachdev (Georgia Tech University, USA)
  • Andreea Monica Scorta (Institute of Space Science, Romania)
  • Manasa Thirugnanasambandam (IUCAA, India)

Panelists:

  • Debatri Chattopadhyay (Northwestern University, USA)
  • Shanika Galaudage (Northwestern University, USA)
  • Maria Haney (National Institute for Subatomic Physics, The Netherlands)
  • Disha Kapasi (California State University – Fullerton, USA)
  • Lorena Magana-Zertuche (Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark)
  • Debnandini Mukherjee (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom)
  • Isobel Romero-Shaw (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)
  • Kanchan Soni (Syracuse University, USA)
  • Nami Uchikata (University of Tokyo, Japan)

The event is hosted by LIGO-India Education & Public Outreach with support from the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, India.

Organizers:

  • Debarati Chatterjee (IUCAA, India)
  • Anuradha Gupta (University of Mississippi, USA)

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Save the date: GRASS 2026 – GRAvitational-wave Science&technology Symposium, Padova, Italy

The 5th GRAvitational-wave Science&technology Symposium (GRASS 2026) will be held in Padova (Italy) on 22 - 24 June 2026.

To help everyone connect and get to know each other, we’re organizing a kayak tour to Venice on the Sunday 21 June 2026 before the start of the conference. It’s a great way to enjoy the city and kick off the conference in a relaxed atmosphere.

The website of the conference is in preparation and will be advertised within a few weeks. Mark your calendar and stay tuned!

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BritGrav 2026, April 9-10 in Cardiff

The 26th BritGrav meeting will be hosted by the Gravity Exploration Institute at the School of Physics and Astronomy at Cardiff University.

The meeting will be held on the 9th and 10th of April 2026.

The aim of BritGrav is to bring together early-career researchers working on all aspects of gravitational physics, including astrophysics, cosmology, general relativity, quantum gravity, gravitational-wave data analysis and instrumentation.

Following the BritGrav tradition, the meeting will consist of short talks, with priority given to PhD students and postdocs. The meeting has no registration fee. Limited funding will be available from the IOP Gravitational Physics Group to support travel for PhD students based in the UK and Ireland. You may request travel support by emailing the organisers. See also the logistics page.

At the end of the meeting, a prize for the Best Student Talk, sponsored by the IOP Publishing Group, will be awarded.

Local organising committee: Fabio Antonini, Isobel-Romero Shaw, Parthapratim Mahapatra, Mukesh Singh, Beth Flanagan, Fani Dosoupolou, Ohkyung Kwon, Sama Al-Shammari, Ruaraidh Dumbreck, Meryl Kinnear

For any enquiries, please contact us:
Isobel Romero-Shaw: romero-shawi(at)cardiff.ac.uk
Fabio Antonini: antoninif(at)cardiff.ac.uk

BritGrav 26 is supported by the Institute of Physics and Cardiff University.

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CosmoVerse@Bilbao 2026, September 15-19

Our understanding of the Universe is at a turning point with the predictions of the standard cosmological model and the observations from different surveys are showing tensions in several key areas. The disagreement is expressed in the value of cosmic expansion as well as in the growth of large-scale structure in the Universe. New cosmological surveys, many of which are European, may expose tension in additional areas of the concordance model. The question of cosmological tensions can be confronted in a number of ways. Firstly, survey data needs to be further analyzed for potential systematic uncertainties or biases. Secondly, there have been numerous advances in approaches to data analysis and statistics, some of which provide less dependence on cosmological models to make cosmological parameter estimates. Lastly, there are a plethora of new proposals from fundamental physics which range from novel neutrino physics to dark energy proposals (and others) which may contribute to a solution to the cosmological tensions problem. These represent the three research themes through which cosmological tensions will either be alleviated or resolved.

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XVI Einstein Telescope Symposium, June 15-19 2026 in Aachen

The upcoming Symposium will take place in Aachen from June 15th at noon until June 19th early afternoon.

Hosted by the RWTH Aachen University, the event will be held at the central campus of the University in the heart of the city of Aachen.

Registrants can also participate in every session online via a two-way zoom connection. Zoom links for each session can be found as an attachment to the session in the Indico timetable.

Social events:

Early Career Researchers Meeting: Monday, 15.06.2026 Conference Dinner: Wednesday, 17.06.2026

Local Organizing Committee:

Markus Bachlechner, Charlotte Benning, Silke Christ, Ruth Jansen, Robert Joppe, Jan Kelleter, Stefan Krischer, Michael Kubocz, Tim Kuhlbusch, Niklas Nippe, Oliver Pooth, Achim Stahl

We look forward to welcoming all participants, both in person and online, for a productive and engaging meeting!

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Supermassive Black Holes and Blue Notes, June 29 – Juli 3 2026 at Université de Montréal

Held a week before the world-renowned Montreal International Jazz Festival, the conference aims to spotlight the significant progress made in the study of supermassive black holes, addressing open questions and exploring future prospects, particularly in the wake of the latest observations from JWST.

Main themes

  • Advanced Techniques for Measuring Supermassive Black Hole Properties
  • Observations of Supermassive Black Holes at the Event Horizon Scale
  • Feeding and Feedback Processes of Supermassive Black Holes
  • High-Redshift Supermassive Black Hole Formation and Growth

Registration Info

Registration has not opened, but you can pre-register here, and we will keep you updated.

Organising Committees

Scientific Organising Committee (SOC):
Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo (UdeM)
Martin Bureau (Oxford)
Daryl Haggard (McGill)
Romeel Dave (Edinburgh)
Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere (Northwestern)
Frank Eisenhauer (MPE)
Chiara Mingarelli (Yale)
Sara Issaoun (Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Roberto Maiolino (Cambridge/Kavli)
Priya Natarajan (Yale)

Local Organising Committee (LOC):

Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo (UdeM)
Martin Bureau (Oxford)
Daryl Haggard (McGill)
Marine Claude Anne Prunier (UdeM)
Olivia Pereira (UdeM)
Benjamin Vigneron (UdeM)
Hyunseop Choi (UdeM)
Hengyue Zhang (Oxford)
Anabel X. Li (UdeM)

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From Black Holes to the Cosmos, August 24-28 at SISSA, Trieste

This conference honors the scientific legacy of Matt Visser, whose pioneering work has profoundly influenced our understanding of general relativity, quantum field theory in curved spacetime, wormholes, energy conditions, analogue gravity, and beyond. Gathering colleagues, collaborators, and students from around the world, the meeting will highlight recent developments at the interface of geometry, gravitation, and quantum theory, while celebrating Visser's distinctive contributions to these fields. The conference will be hosted in the Aula Magna of SISSA Miramare Campus.

Invited speakers (TBC):

Matt Visser
Carl Bender
Ivan Booth
Erik Curiel
Fay Dowker
Ted Jacobson
Eleni-Alexandra Kontou
Francisco Lobo
Robert Mann
Erik Poisson
Ralf Schützhold
Thomas Sotiriou
Bill Unruh
Cliff Will
David Wiltshire

Conference Website