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GW:UK @ Nottingham, January 15-16 2026

GW:UK@Nottingham is the first meeting of the GW:UK initiative (website). It will bring together researchers from across the UK involved in gravitational wave science to celebrate 10 years of gravitational wave discoveries (day 1) and to engage in community-building activities (day 2).

Due to the nature of this meeting, we will only offer in person participation. Some funding to cover accommodation and travel expenses for UK-based participants is available. There will be a number of slots available for contributed talks, including flash talks. We especially encourage early career researchers to apply for a slot.

To be considered for financial support and a contributed or flash talk, please complete your registration by 16 December.

Conference Website

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42nd Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting – February 27-28, 2026 at UC Riverside

42nd Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting - February 27-28, 2026 at UC Riverside 
The 42nd Jim Isenberg Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting will be held on Friday, February 27, 2026 - Saturday, February 28, 2026 at the University of California, Riverside.

In the tradition of the Pacific Coast Gravity Meetings, students and postdocs are strongly encouraged to participate, and all areas of gravitational physics—classical and quantum, theory and experiment—are welcome. We would like this meeting to serve as a communication medium among all branches of gravitational physics. Because this is a regional APS meeting, many participants will be from the Western U.S., but all are welcome.

The meeting is free to attend. There is no registration fee. However, we are not able to provide financial assistance to speakers and participants. A prize sponsored by the APS Division of Gravitational Physics (DGRAV) will be awarded for the best student talk.

Registration

Please register using this registration form. For full consideration, your application should be received by 11:59 PM on February 18, 2025. Late applications will be considered at the discretion of the organizers.

The Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting has grown to the point where we can no longer promise to accommodate all requests to speak. Priority will be given to talks by graduate students and postdocs.

DGRAV Prize

A prize will be awarded for the best talk by a student at the meeting. If you are eligible (i.e., if you are a graduate or undergraduate student), please be sure to indicate that on the registration form. Detailed eligibility criteria can be found here.

Program

Below is the tenative schedule of program events. Assigned talk slots will be posted in late February 2026.

Thursday, February 26

   5:00 PM –     6:00 PM Welcome Reception,  University Lecture Hall (map)

   6:00 PM –     7:00 PM Frontiers of Cosmology Public Lecture,  University Lecture Hall (map)
 Featuring APS President-Elect Brad Marston, with introductory remarks by 2017 Nobel Laureate Barry Barish

Friday, February 27

   9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Session I,  HUB 302 North (map)

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Session II,  HUB 302 North (map)

12:30 PM –    2:00 PM Lunch

   2:00 PM –    3:30 PM Session III,  HUB 302 North (map)

   3:30 PM –    4:00 PM Coffee Break

   4:00 PM –    5:30 PM Session IV,  HUB 302 North (map)

Saturday, February 28

   9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Session V,  HUB 302 North (map)

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Session VI,  HUB 302 North (map)

12:30 PM –    2:00 PM Lunch

   2:00 PM –    3:30 PM Session VII,  HUB 302 North (map)

   3:30 PM –    4:00 PM Coffee Break

   4:00 PM –    5:30 PM Session VIII,  HUB 302 North (map)

Logistics

Meeting Room

The conference will take place in the Highlander Union Building (HUB) in Room 302 North (see this campus map). Room 302 North is located on the third floor of the building (see this building map).

Conference Website

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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

Meeting Website

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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.

Workshop Website

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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.

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GW-EM-Nu-2025: Multi-Messenger Science With Indian Facilities-Now and in the Next Decade, December 1-3 2025 at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

This year marks the 10-years of discovery of Gravitational Waves, which has opened a new window for multi-messenger science. The era of multi-messenger science using signals from astrophysical sources observed in different cosmic messengers such as Cosmic Rays (CRs), Electromagnetic Waves (EW), Gravitational Waves (GW), and Neutrinos opens a new paradigm in understanding the physics governing the Universe over different length scales from the size of a nucleus to the size of the observable Universe. The success of this research frontier relies on the coordinated observation between different existing telescopes/observatories which are observing in different messengers and also on building the next generation telescopes/observatories that can jointly observe signals using different cosmic messengers in the coming years in the frequency range (or energy band) which are of scientific interests based on our theoretical understanding of these astrophysical sources.

This conference plans to bring researchers from India working in different areas–instrumentation and theory on the same platform to discuss (i) the requirements and challenges in coordinated observations with existing Indian facilities between different messengers, (ii) key areas of development of telescope facilities and theoretical predictions for enhancing the scientific outcome, (iii) the roadmap for joint observations using multiple telescopes, and (iv) plan for strategically important future telescopes/observatories which will enhance multi-messenger science from India.

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Save the Date: Black Holes Inside and Out 2027 (BHIO27): August 23-27 2027

The conference Black Holes Inside and Out 2027 (BHIO27) will take place at Sapienza University of Rome from August 23 to August 27, 2027.

This event follows the highly successful 2024 edition [https://strong-gr.com/black-holes-inside-and-out/], which brought together leading experts in black hole physics, including astrophysics and observational astronomy, cosmology, data analysis, mathematical and numerical relativity, perturbation theory, and quantum gravity, to discuss the state of the field and its future directions.

Preparations for the 2027 edition are underway, so please save the date! A webpage with all relevant information is under development and will be announced in early 2026.

We would greatly value your input regarding potential topics and speakers for this edition. To contribute suggestions, please fill out the following form: https://forms.gle/po4h8ifWm3LhvyTs7.

We particularly encourage suggestions outside your main areas of expertise, especially if motivated by an interest in learning more about developments in other branches of black hole physics.

Further information about the conference will be shared in the coming months.

The BHIO27 Scientific Organizing Committee

Luca Buoninfante, Raúl Carballo-Rubio, Vitor Cardoso, Francesco Di Filippo, Astrid Eichhorn, Paolo Pani

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Capra 29 in Brussels, June 26 – July 3, 2026

We are pleased to announce that the 29th Capra Meeting on Radiation Reaction in General Relativity will be hosted in Brussels from Monday June 29th to July 3rd 2026. It will take place as a Solvay workshop organised by the International Solvay Institutes.

Further information about Capra 2026 will be posted in the coming months on https://www.caprameeting.org/ and https://solvayinstitutes.be/home/activities/workshop/ .

The Capra meeting is an annual conference on the topic of radiation reaction in general relativity. The primary focus of these conferences is the development of the gravitational self-force approach to model extreme mass ratio inspirals and further our understanding of the two-body problem in general relativity. This is done in synergy with other well-known modeling techniques such as post-Newtonian theory and numerical relativity. The canonical example of an extreme-mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI) is the inspiral of a stellar-mass compact object into a supermassive black hole. Gravitational waves from these systems are a promising target for the future space-based detector LISA.

The study of radiation reaction and self-force is not limited to EMRIs, and a range of topics and applications to other areas of gravitational physics have been discussed at past Capra meetings; an example is the scattering of massive particles, which is currently an active area of research. The format of the meeting is an amalgamation of a daily invited review talk, short contributed talks and organised discussion sessions.

Following the tradition of past Capra meetings, no registration fee is charged. A contribution of 50 euros to the banquet will be requested at registration for the attendees that would like to join the banquet. Several selected early career researchers will be funded by providing up to 6 nights of accommodation during the conference. Applications will be reviewed by members of the local organising committee and the equity, diversity and inclusion team at Capra.

The international scientific committee
Leor Barack, Susanna Barsanti, Béatrice Bonga, Alvin Chua, Lisa Drummond, Scott Hughes, Adam Pound, Vojtěch Witzany

The local organizing committee
Geoffrey Compère, Lidia Gomes Da Silva, Marc Henneaux, Loïc Honet, Guillaume Lhost, Gabriel Piovano

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4th Einstein Telescope Annual Meeting, November 11-14, 2025 in Opatija, Croatia

The 4th Einstein Telescope Annual Meeting presents an opportunity to discuss key aspects of the ET collaboration and design.

Hosted by the University of Rijeka, the event will be held at the Drago Gervais multifunctional hall, located in the heart of the nearby Opatija.

The meeting is open to all members of the ET collaboration, beginning on the morning of Tuesday, November 11, and concluding on Friday, November 14 at lunchtime.

Participants can join all sessions online via Zoom. Zoom links will be provided as attachments in the session timetable.

Social events:

  • Early Career Researchers Meeting: November 11
  • Conference Dinner: November 13

Local Organizing Committee:
Marin Karuza, Marina Manganaro, Karlo Veličan, Jonatan Lerga from University of Rijeka and Željka Bošnjak from University of Zagreb

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

The registration is not needed for online participants.

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New Windows on Fundamental Physics: from tabletop devices to large scale detectors, January 19–23 2026, University of Manchester

We are delighted to welcome you to the University of Manchester for the following joint programme. 

New windows on Fundamental Physics: from tabletop devices to large scale detectors (20 - 23 Jan)

This will be preceded by a one day UK Astroparticle Phenomenology (UK-APP) meeting (19 Jan).

The main workshop will consist of invited and contributed talks, as well as a poster session including a prize for best poster. The one-day meeting will comprise mainly contributed talks. We strongly encourage contributions for both meetings and welcome submissions from underrepresented groups. The focus of the 4-day meeting will be on tabletop detectors and quantum technologies for fundamental physics (QTFP), including

  • Precision metrology & quantum sensing
  • Cold atoms and molecules
  • Quantum analogues
  • Atom interferometry
  • 5th force tests
  • Axion/WIMP dark matter & dark energy
  • Neutrinos
  • Gravitational waves
  • Tabletop detectors

Note that the total number of participants is limited, and places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Registration will be closed early if capacity is reached.

Current confirmed speakers for the main workshop include:

  • Giovanni Bartoni Birmingham
  • Clare Burrage Nottingham
  • Aaron Chou Chicago
  • Ed Daw Sheffield
  • Joe Formaggio MIT
  • Andrew Geraci Northwestern
  • Hartmut Grote Cardiff
  • Takis Kontos ENS Paris
  • Tim Langen TU Wien
  • Sofia Qvarfort Stockholm
  • Kristof Schmieden Mainz
  • Wouter Van De Pontseele Colorado School of Mines
  • Silke Weinfurtner Nottingham
  • Stafford Withinton Oxford
  • DRD5 Representative
  • More TBD

    Local Organising Committee
  • Kieran Flanagan Manchester
  • Lucien Heurtier King’s College London
  • Jamie McDonald (chair) Manchester
  • Peter Millington Manchester

    External Advisory Committee
  • Diego Blas IFAE Barcelona
  • David DeMille Chicago
  • Babette Döbrich Max Planck Institute for Physics
  • Valerie Domcke CERN
  • Rachel Godun National Physical Laboratory
  • Ben Jones Texas at Arlington
  • Stefan Knirck Harvard
  • Axel Lindner DESY
  • Ruben Saakyan University College London

Conference Website