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General Announcements

This page lists announcements sent to announcement_submit@sympa.ligo.org . Announcements are posted to this page and sent out as a weekly email to the LSC every Friday morning (Eastern US). Job announcements sent to announcement_submit@sympa.ligo.org are not posted here but are instead posted on the LAAC page: https://wiki.ligo.org/LAAC/JobPostings.

If you know of an announcement that should be posted here or on the LAAC jobs page, please send it to announcement_submit@sympa.ligo.org .

Pre-apply virtual open house for prospective physics graduate students Saturday Dec. 2

Nancy Aggarwal has recently started a group at UC Davis Department of Physics. She will be building up the AMO/Quantum/precision measurements/GW research area here. Her group will build precision measurement experiments to search for gravitational waves and dark matter and am looking to aggressively hire capable students and postdocs.

The UC Davis Department of Physics and Astronomy will be holding a virtual open house for the PhD program in physics on Saturday Dec. 2 from 10-12 PST.

At the open house, prospective students will meet current UC Davis graduate students from all over the world, talk to professors and students about research opportunities, and attend an application workshop with members of the admissions committee and graduate students.

Sign up now! [https://forms.gle/s7DHhXvocpdj9xd77]

Schedule and additional information [https://sites.google.com/ucdavis.edu/ucd-grad-open-house/home]

The UC Davis Department of Physics and Astronomy provides a dynamic and diverse environment for the training of graduate students. We have vibrant programs in condensed matter, high energy physics, string theory, cosmology, nuclear physics, complexity, and atomic/molecular/optics. Graduate students can also work in interdisciplinary research on planet formation, photonics, quantum devices, and quantum computing. Our PhD graduates go on to prestigious postdoctoral positions and excellent industry placements.

Teaching and research fellowships are available for the entire duration of the study to cover the tuition and living expenses, including health benefits. Our graduate students regularly participate in topical summer schools, and present their results at workshops and conferences.

The Department and UC Davis as a whole value diversity and inclusion among students and faculty. Experiencing a variety of perspectives and interacting with colleagues from different backgrounds is rewarding for the entire community and enhances our research and teaching missions. The department strives to maintain a respectful, inclusive environment where all students can flourish. The department is an active participant in programs devoted to improving

diversity in the physics community, including APS Bridge, Cal-Bridge, and TEAM-UP.

For information on applying to UC Davis, including a program to waive application fees, click https://physics.ucdavis.edu/graduates/application-information

Nordic Winter School on Multi-Messenger Astrophysics

Dear All,

We are happy to announce upcoming PhD Winter School on Multimessenger Astrophysics taking place in Norway/Lillehammer on Jan. 28th - Feb. 2nd, 2024.

The school will be hosted at an absolutely wonderful place (Tron Hotel Skeikampen https://www.thonhotels.com/our-hotels/norway/skeikampen/), which offers fantastic skiing and hiking opportunities in between lectures!

The lectures will be on the following topics
) Theory and observations of astrophysical transients
*) Compact binary evolution
*) Multi-messenger detections
*) Nucleosynthesis
*) Fundamental physics in compact astrophysical sources
*) Strong gravity and gravitational waves

Interested students should apply through this website before *Dec. 20th, 2023: https://indico.nbi.ku.dk/e/nordic-school-2024 <br>
This webpage also contains a list of confirmed lecturers and other relevant information.

Kind regards,
The Organizers
(Irene Tamborra, Johan Samsing, Martin Pessah, Daniel D’Orazio, Poul H. Damgaard, Jose María Ezquiaga, Emil Bjerrum-Bohr)

LAAC recognition initiative

The LAAC team is excited to announce a new initiative to help increase the external visibility of the LVK service contributions of collaboration members. This initiative came out of a desire to remedy the lack of recognition for collaboration service work—particularly for early career researchers—incorporating the feedback we received on an earlier circulation of our proposal.

Our new publicly accessible website tracks and displays the contributions of individual collaboration members. The system is now open to LVK members to add their own contributions following the git instructions and using the existing entries as an example. Collaboration members from all three collaborations of all career stages are encouraged to add their contributions. The system allows individuals to add evidence for their contributions without supervisor involvement. The recording of a tutorial for how to use the git interface is available on the DCC. Any questions can be sent via the LAAC chat on Mattermost.

Distinguished Student Program (DS) 2024

Application Deadline: January 4, 2024
The APS recognizes that bringing outstanding young researchers to the annual APS meetings can be a career-changing experience.

Since 2015, the APS and Forum on International Physics (FIP) established the Distinguished Student Program (DS) to provide outstanding non-US young researchers with financial support to participate in the APS Meetings.

Conditions
Applicants must be:
  • Non-US citizen
  • Young researchers (Postdoctoral researchers, PhD or Master’s students) enrolled in the US or outside the US
  • Have submitted an abstract at the March or April Meeting 2024
  • Applicants must be both APS members and also be FIP members.
If you are not an APS member, visit the page See how to join APS.

PhD and Master’s students are eligible for one-year Free Trial Student APS Membership. After registering for APS membership, you can join FIP (membership is free).

Grant Amount: For in-person meeting
The DS travel award will cover the following costs for traveling, lodging and registration fees for attending the APS March or April in-person meetings 2024:
  1. up to $2000 to assist young researchers enrolled in developing countries
  2. up to $500 to assist young researchers enrolled outside the US (excluding developing countries)
  3. up to $300 to assist young researchers enrolled in the US
The costs will be reimbursed to the awardees after participating in the meetings.

Grant Amount: For virtual meeting
The DS travel award will cover the costs of the registration fees for attending the APS March or April virtual meetings 2024.

APPLY NOW: https://info.aps.org/e/640833/x811TRqXBVS9L8QQ7/2qhp14/1070452863/h/0YHJAhGAsOk5gFKABlSdKMjbYbBX1OG_7-MeyjwEPew

Applications should include the following items:
  1. CV
  2. Motivation letter (1 page)
  3. At least one reference Letter
  4. Abstract submitted to the March or April APS Meeting 2024
The deadline is January 4, 2024.

If you have any questions, email the DS Program Chair, Maria Longobardi. These travel awards will be reimbursed to the awardees after the meetings.

Simons Foundation invites applications for Scientific Software Research Faculty Award (SSRF Award)

The Simons Foundation’s Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS) division invites applications for its Scientific Software Research Faculty Award (SSRF Award) in the MPS program for faculty appointments to start between September 2024–September 2025. The foundation strongly encourages scientists from disadvantaged backgrounds or underrepresented groups to apply.

Scientific software is a critical component of research, enabling scientists to analyze and reduce data, perform simulations, automate tasks, and produce and visualize results. As such, the development and maintenance of broadly-applicable scientific software has become an increasingly important intellectual endeavor. While scientific software experts are crucial members of research ventures, their career prospects beyond postdoctoral-level positions are limited.

The Simons Foundation invites applications for funding to support new research professor positions in existing academic departments (the “host institutions”) to be filled by scientific software-focused researchers. The SSRF Award will support researchers who have a strong track record of leadership in scientific software development. The aim of this program is to stimulate the development and maintenance of core scientific software infrastructure in academic environments through creating a new, long-term, faculty-level career path.

LOI due by 12 p.m. (noon) EST December 8, 2023

More information can be found here:

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/scientific-software-research-faculty-award/

Multimessenger Cosmic Frontiers and CosPA23 conference open for registration

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 15 OCTOBER 2023

Two meetings in November in Hong Kong: Cosmic Frontiers (8-9 November) followed by CosPA23 (10-13 November):

Multimessenger Astronomy: Bridging Transients, Lensing, and Dark Matter (Cosmic Frontiers)
Dates: 8-9 November 2023
Register at: https://www.phy.cuhk.edu.hk/events/multimessenger-astronomy2023/
Venue: Inno2, Multi-function Room 2-3, 2/F, Building 17W, Hong Kong Science Park

International Symposium on Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (CosPA 2023)
Dates: 10-13 November 2023
Register at: https://www.phy.cuhk.edu.hk/CosPA2023
Venue: Henry Cheng International Conference Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Registration is now open and free of charge.

Questions regarding the workshop can be sent to: pyho@phy.cuhk.edu.hk.

On behalf of the organizing committee members, we look forward to welcoming you at the events.

12th Australasian Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (ACGRG)

Dear Colleagues,

I'd like to advertise the next Australasian Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (ACGRG) that will take place at the end of November in Hobart.

The purpose of the ACGRG is to provide a regional forum to discuss general relativity, foster collaboration, and promote ideas and insight into the nature of gravity. The topics covered are broad, ranging from gravitational wave physics and astrophysics, exact solutions, and quantum gravity to cosmology and simulations. The primary focus is on in-person participation. However, the proceedings will be streamed via Zoom, and it is anticipated that 25% of talks will be allocated to online speakers.

The deadline for Abstract submission will close on 30 September 2023, but a late submission (up to a week) will also be accepted.

The registration deadline is 10 November 2023.

For more information please visit the conference website: https://www.acgrg12.org/ or send an email to info@acgrg12.org .

Best wishes,

Krzysztof

LOC Chair

Registration Now Open for GWADW 2024

We are pleased to inform you that the official website for the 2024 Gravitational Wave Advanced Detector Workshop (GWADW) is now accessible at www.gwadw2024.org

Please visit our website to find important information regarding the event, including details about the venue, accommodation options, and registration.

Key Information:

  • Event Dates: May 12 to May 18, 2024
  • Early Bird Registration Available: Register now and take advantage of our early bird discount.

Registration is now open. Secure your participation in GWADW 2024 and stay updated via our website as we move forward with the program development after the abstract submission phase.

We look forward to your participation in the 2024 Gravitational Wave Advanced Detector Workshop.

Best wishes,

Bram Slagmolen and David Ottaway,

on behalf of the GWADW scientific and local organising committees

27th Capra Meeting on Radiation Reaction in General Relativity

The 27th Capra Meeting on Radiation Reaction in General Relativity will take place at the National University of Singapore from 17 to 21 June 2024.

The Capra Meeting is an annual conference/workshop on the topic of radiation reaction in general relativity. Its primary focus is the development of the gravitational-self-force approach to further our understanding of the two-body problem in general relativity, and to model gravitational waves from the extreme-mass-ratio binaries that will be a key target for the near-future space-based detector LISA. The Capra Meeting will comprise invited review talks, short contributed presentations, and focused discussion sessions. The tradition of the meeting is that there is no registration fee for participating.

At the Capra Meeting, we provide equal opportunities regardless of gender, age, race, disability, ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, civil status, or family status. If you have any feedback or suggestions as to how we can ensure a successful and inclusive meeting, please do not hesitate to get in touch at edi@caprameeting.org.

The meeting website will be accessible at https://www.caprameeting.org in due course, and we will be in touch again when registration opens. We look forward to seeing you in Singapore next year!

Mitacs Globalink Research Internship student applications due Sept 21 at 1pm Pacific

The Mitacs Globalink Research Internship (GRI) is a competitive program that brings undergraduate students to universities across Canada for a three-month fully-funded research experience: https://www.mitacs.ca/en/programs/globalink/globalink-research-internship.

There are currently several gravitational-wave research projects based at Canadian LSC institutions available for summer 2024 (including 32124 at UBC; and 32729; 33851, 33903, and 33868 at CITA): https://globalink.mitacs.ca/#/student/application/projects

Student applications for projects in Summer 2024 are due September 21 by 1pm Pacific.

The Mitacs GRI program is open to undergraduates from the following countries and regions: Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, Pakistan, South Korea, Taiwan, Tunisia, Ukraine, United Kingdom and the United States. From May to October of each year, top-ranked applicants participate in a 12-week research internship under the supervision of Canadian university faculty members in a variety of academic disciplines, from science, engineering, and mathematics to the humanities and social sciences.

Globalink Research Internship alumni interested in returning to Canada for graduate studies are eligible for the Globalink Graduate Fellowship.

“Gravitational Wave Probes of Physics Beyond the Standard Model” workshop, Osaka Metropolitan University in Japan, Nov. 06-09, 2023

Dear Colleagues,


We are delighted to announce the 3rd edition of the “Gravitational Wave Probes of Physics Beyond the Standard Model” workshop. This year, for the first time, it will be held in person at the Nambu Yoichiro Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (NITEP),

Osaka Metropolitan University, from November 6th to 9th, 2023. The programme will include review talks as well as short talks, on various cosmic and astrophysical sources of Gravitational Waves (GW) and GW detectors, as probes of BSM and gravity.

For detailed information about the workshop, please visit the following webpage:
https://indico.nitep.osaka-cu.ac.jp/event/130/overview

Registration is now open and we encourage contributions to the short talk and poster sessions.
Your active participation is most welcome!

We also kindly request you to share this announcement within your research communities.


With kind regards,

Marek Lewicki

On behalf of the Scientific Organizing Committee:
John Ellis (CERN & King's College London, UK)
Anish Ghoshal (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Hideki Ishihara (NITEP, Osaka Metropolitan U., Japan)
Hiroshi Itoyama (NITEP, Osaka Metropolitan U., Japan)
Nobuyuki Kanda (NITEP, Osaka Metropolitan U., Japan)
Marek Lewicki (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Nobuhito Maru (NITEP, Osaka Metropolitan U., Japan)
Nobuchika Okada (University of Alabama, USA, Chair)
Qaisar Shafi (University of Delaware, USA)
Mitsuyo Suzuki (NITEP, Osaka Metropolitan U., Japan)
Bogumiła Świeżewska (University of Warsaw, Poland)

Belize IMBH conference reminder/announcement

Dear Colleague,

I am excited to announce that Abstract Submission and Registration are now open for the conference

INTERMEDIATE-MASS BLACK HOLES: THE DAWN OF A REVOLUTIONARY ERA

From Saturday 2 December through Tuesday 5 December 2023 - San Pedro, Belize

Abstract Submission You can find details on the conference webpage https://sites.northwestern.edu/imbh23/registration/ . You are invited to submit an abstract for a talk or poster presentation. The deadline for abstract submission is August 30.

Registration Registration fee includes breakfast, mid-morning and mid-afternoon coffee + snacks, and lunch for every conference day, plus the banquet dinner (including drinks) and social activities. A discounted registration fee is available for all students attending the conference. The deadline for registration is September 15.

Conference Hotel We have reserved several rooms at a discounted price at the resort where the conference will be hosted. Discounted prices are guaranteed from two days prior to the start of the conference until two days after the end of the conference. See details at https://sites.northwestern.edu/imbh23/travel-information/ .

Social Events We are planning to have plenty of time for social interactions among the participants. Social activities will include an event with a Belizean musical group, an archeology presentation, and much more!

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For further information, please do not hesitate to contact me (giacomo.fragione90@gmail.com); I would be more than happy to answer your questions. Please feel free to forward to anyone who might be interested.

Hope to meet you all in Belize,

Giacomo Fragione

On the behalf of the LOC

Giacomo Fragione (Northwestern University; Chair)

Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale University; co-Chair)

Madeline Wilson (Northwestern University; Staff)

On the behalf of the SOC

Giacomo Fragione (Northwestern University; Chair)

Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale University; co-Chair)

Vivienne Baldassare (Washington State University)

Emanuele Berti (Johns Hopkins University)

Laura Blecha (University of Florida)

Zoheyr Doctor (Northwestern University)

Jenny Greene (Princeton University)

Vicky Kalogera (Northwestern University)

Tom Maccarone (Texas Tech University)

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (University of California Santa Cruz)

Fred Rasio (Northwestern University)

Deirdre Shoemaker (University of Texas Austin)

Jay Strader (Michigan State University)

   

2023 Lunar GW Workshop: Merging Lunar Exploration with Multi-Messenger Revolution

Vanderbilt Lunar Labs Initiative is thrilled to announce the 2023 Lunar Gravitational-wave Workshop: Merging Lunar Exploration with Multi-Messenger Revolution. The workshop will be hosted at the historic Alumni Hall in Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, from 4-6 October 2023.

The goal of this meeting is to explore the technology and science cases for developing gravitational-wave astronomy on the lunar surface, specifically centering on technologies for the Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna (LILA), the field’s overlap with geoscience and active NASA/ESA missions, and the multi-messenger astrophysics landscape near the deci-Hertz spectrum. More information can be found at the workshop webpage.

This meeting will be in person with a maximum of 50 participants. Registration for the workshop is free; the registration link can be found here. The deadline for in-person registration and contributed talk abstract submission is 14 September 2023.

A list of speakers is being assembled and will be released when finished.

We hope to see many of you in October!

Sincerely,

Karan Jani and the Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC):

Eleonora Capocasa (Université Paris Cité)

Kelly Holley-Bockelmann (Vanderbilt University)

Philippe Lognonné (Université Paris Cité)

Robert Reed (Vanderbilt University)

Simone Dell'Agnello (INFN-Frascati National Labs)

Stuart D. Bale (University of California, Berkeley)

Announcement | GWADW 2024

First Announcement for the Gravitational Wave Advanced Detector Workshop 2024


SAVE THE DATE

GWADW will be held in Hamilton Island, Australia, 12-18 May 2024.

We are delighted to announce the 2024 Gravitational Wave Advanced Detector Workshop, a one-week event dedicated to exploring cutting-edge research and advancements in technologies and their implementations for current and future gravitational wave detectors.

Stay tuned for further details and registration information, as we prepare to launch the official website in the coming weeks.

Save the date in your calendars, and we look forward to having you at the 2024 GWADW!

Best wishes,

Bram Slagmolen and David Ottaway,

on behalf of the GWADW scientific and local organising committees

First Announcement — Windows on the Universe: Establishing the Infrastructure for a Collaborative Multi-messenger Ecosystem (16–18 October 2023)

NSF’s NOIRLab, in partnership with NSF and NASA, is happy to announce the workshop Windows on the Universe: Establishing the Infrastructure for a Collaborative Multi-messenger Ecosystem. This workshop will be hosted at the Westward Look Wyndham Grand Resort & Spa in Tucson, Arizona, on 16–18 October 2023.

The goals of this workshop are to identify pathways that increase the coordination of Multi-messenger Astronomy (MMA) observation campaigns and reduce operational redundancy across the network of ground- and space-based observatories. We invite the community to review the current state of resources for MMA, report on existing collaborations and partnerships, and identify potential obstacles to success. More details can be found on the workshop webpage.

The meeting will be in person with a maximum of 90 participants. Virtual participation will also be supported. Registration for the workshop is free (link here). We encourage in-person contributed talks but expect to be able to support a small number of virtual talks. The deadline for in-person registration and contributed talk abstract submission is 1 September 2023.

A list of invited speakers is being assembled at the moment and will be advertised with the second announcement.

Prior to this workshop, we would also like to solicit science and infrastructure ideas from the community. These papers (one page limit) can review the current state of follow-up resources, report on existing collaborations and partnerships, identify potential obstacles to success, and/or make recommendations to address the workshop goals. Further instructions can be found at this link. The deadline for submission is 8 September 2023. We encourage the authors to also post those to the arXiv.

Finally, the main outcome of this workshop will be a community-driven white paper to guide planning by NSF, NASA, and NOIRLab to facilitate infrastructure for a collaborative MMA ecosystem.

Hope to see many of you in October!

Sincerely,

The Science Organizing Committee (SOC):

Jennifer Andrews (Gemini/NSF’s NOIRLab, Co-Chair)
Ryan Lau (NSF’s NOIRLab, Co-Chair)
Monika Soraisam (Gemini/NSF’s NOIRLab, Co-Chair)
Patrick Brady (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Brad Cenko (NASA/GSFC)
Alessandra Corsi (Texas Tech University)
Adam Goldstein (USRA/STI)
Armin Rest (STScI)
Jessie Runnoe (Vanderbilt University)
Hugo A. Ayala Solares (Penn State)
David Sand (University of Arizona/Steward Observatory)
Rachel Street (LCO)

and the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) from NOIRLab:

David Jones (Co-Chair)
Yuanyuan Zhang (Co-Chair)
Jessica Harris
Clara Martínez-Vázquez
Tom Matheson
Bryan Miller
Jayadev Rajagopal

GR/Amaldi 2025 logo competition

The 24th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation and the 16th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves will be held in Glasgow in July 2025. The local organising committee wishes to draw upon ideas from the community for the conference logo. We are pleased to announce a competition sponsored by the Institute of Physics to design the logo. The winner will receive £250.

The logo may draw upon connections to the University of Glasgow's research in gravitational-wave science or the UK and Ireland's long history of gravitation research; the Scottish setting; current topics in the field of general relativity and gravitation, or combinations thereof.

Submissions should be emailed to gr-amaldi@glasgow.ac.uk by 09:50 GMT 14 September 2023.

Submissions may be from individuals or teams, and multiple submissions are permitted. In submitting your design, you grant the conference organisers and the Institute of Physics the worldwide right to use, copy, display and distribute your design on any materials connected to the GR and Amaldi conferences (including, but not limited to, the website banner, programme, on-site posters and banners, videos, presentations, and branded items). You also acknowledge that the organiser may use an edited or modified version of the design without prior consultation. Please do not include your signature or other identifying information on your design, such that it can be judged anonymously.

GWPAW 2024 - Save the Date! May 27-31 in Tel aviv

Dear all,

We are happy to announce that the next Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop (GWPAW) will be held in Tel Aviv, Israel, on May 27-31, 2024. Registration opens December 1st. See the linked poster for further details. Additional information will be provided in the coming months. Questions may be directed to the locals Iair Arcavi (Tel Aviv University) and Ofek Birnholtz (Bar-Ilan University); other Scientific Organizing Committee members are listed in the poster.

See you!

IMBH Conference Announcement

Dear Colleague,

I am excited to announce that Abstract Submission and Registration are now open for the conference

INTERMEDIATE-MASS BLACK HOLES: THE DAWN OF A REVOLUTIONARY ERA

From Saturday 2 December through Tuesday 5 December 2023 - San Pedro, Belize

Abstract Submission You can find details on the conference webpage https://sites.northwestern.edu/imbh23/registration/ . You are invited to submit an abstract for a talk or poster presentation. The deadline for abstract submission is August 30.

Registration Registration fee includes breakfast, mid-morning and mid-afternoon coffee + snacks, and lunch for every conference day, plus the banquet dinner (including drinks) and social activities. A discounted registration fee is available for all students attending the conference. The deadline for registration is September 15.

Conference Hotel We have reserved several rooms at a discounted price at the resort where the conference will be hosted. Discounted prices are guaranteed from two days prior to the start of the conference until two days after the end of the conference. See details at https://sites.northwestern.edu/imbh23/travel-information/ .

Social EventsWe are planning to have plenty of time for social interactions among the participants. Social activities will include an event with a Belizean musical group, an archeology presentation, and much more.

For further information, please do not hesitate to contact me; I would be more than happy to answer your questions. Please feel free to forward to anyone who might be interested.

Hope to meet you all in Belize,

Giacomo Fragione

ASTROINFORMATICS 2023

ASTROINFORMATICS 2023

October 1-6, 2023, Napoli (Italy)



Registrations are open for ASTROINFORMATICS 2023

https://astroinfo2023.org/

Astroinformatics 2023 -will be hosted in the INAF National Auditorium in the Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte.

The meeting aspires to continue the successful series of meetings over the last decades have attracted researchers engaged in the processing of astronomical data using modern computational methods. The scientific exchange between the astronomical and computational worlds is, as always, the main focus of the event.

This year, the workshop will focus on the new scenarios opened by the emerging deep learning and AI methodologies. During the 5 days meeting, specific sessions will be devoted to:
  • Data challenges from ongoing and future projects
  • Generative AI and Explainable AI in Astrophysics
  • Novel AI applications
  • The evolving computing landscape (HPC and quantum)
  • AI-assisted discovery of analytical relations in the data
  • Methodological transfer.

The meeting is structured around invited talks , contributed talks and ample space for posters.

Panel discussions on selected topics are foreseen at the end of each session.

The meeting proceedings will be published in a special issue of Frontiers. The lecture will be made available (with a doi) through the Media platform of the Italian Astronomical Society. The best posters will be selected and will receive a prize.

For other information, such as the list of Keynote and invited speakers please check the website of the meeting: https://astroinfo2023.org/

Jointly organized by: University Federico II in Napoli, Italian Astronomical Society – SAIt, Italian National Institute for Astrophysics -INAF, Heidelberg Institute of Theoretical Studies - HITS, International Astroinformatics Association - IAIA

Amaldi15 abstract deadline May 29

Dear Colleagues,

As a reminder, the 15th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves will be held as a fully virtual event on July 17-21, 2023, and the abstract deadline is in one week, on May 29th.

The theme for this year's meeting is “The broad reach of gravitationalwave science,” and the meeting will be free and all talks will be live-streamed and recorded. More information is available at https://amaldi15.org.

Please note that you need to make an account at Oxford Abstracts before you register as a second step and/or submit an abstract. Make sure that your account/registration email is the one where you want conference information to be sent.

Please forward this reminder to any pertinent mailing lists, and see you in July!

Laura Cadonati, Scott Ransom, Michele Vallisneri

(for the Science and Local Organizing Committees)

European Physical Journal early career travel grant

2023 sees 25 years since of the launch of the (EPJ), with the first issues of the core EPJ titles being published in 1998. To mark this anniversary, and in keeping with the long-held EPJ tradition of supporting early career researchers, EPJ is making available a number of grants to support meetings for young researchers throughout 2023.

Topics covered should be in fields covered by the EPJ portfolio; i.e. pure and applied physics and related interdisciplinary areas.

Applications are welcome from all over the world, but if there are too many requests of the same quality, meetings taking place in member countries will be given preference.

For details, see here:

MTW@50

The International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation (ISGRG) will organize an online event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of Misner, Thorne and Wheeler’s “Gravitation” (or “MTW”).

The meeting (hopefully the first in a series - stay tuned!) will be on May 3 at 8:30am Pacific Time = 11:30am Eastern US Time = 5:30pm Central European Time via zoom.


David Kaiser, who wrote the preface for the 2017 reprint of the book, will start off the meeting with an introduction. Both Charles Misner and Kip Thorne will participate. Kip will give a talk on "The Creation, Life, Death and Resurrection of MTW: A 50 Year Retrospective".

More details and Zoom link in http://www.isgrg.org/

Benasque workshop July 2023: "Understanding cosmological observations"

Dear colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention to the meeting, Understanding cosmological observations, that will take place this summer at a beautiful village of the Spanish Pyrenees (Benasque), from July 23rd to August 5th.

This workshop will focus on the data and theoretical modelling required to robustly understand the new observations as non-linear and foreground physics becomes increasingly important, and on the range of theoretical models that could explain the data and be empirically tested in the next decade. The program will consist mainly of a few lectures and discussion sessions, leaving plenty of time in the afternoon for interactions and research, as well as for mountain hiking. There will be plenty of opportunity for people to organise more specialized discussions where they can also present contributed talks.

More information and registration details can be found on the webpage:

https://www.benasque.org/2023uco/

We look forward to seeing you this summer in Benasque!

Regards,

Samaya Nissanke on behalf of the SOC

Multi-messenger Continuous-wave Workshop, 11-13 July 2023, Amsterdam

Dear all,

Registration is now open for the first Multi-Messenger CW workshop, in Amsterdam 11-13 July 2023, https://indico.nikhef.nl/e/mmcw.

The aim of this workshop is to bring scientists together, both inside and outside the LVK, who work on aspects related to continuous waves, including neutron star experts, radio astronomers, CW data analysts, dark-matter experts, and anyone who wishes to learn about how CW analyses are done. The workshop will feature tutorials about radio astronomy and CW data analysis, and we especially welcome the participation of early-career scientists, and expect to be able to offer some registration fee waivers for them.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

cheers

Andrew, for the LOC

Hardware focus survey on open source science (will close April 23rd, Sunday)

Dear Colleagues,

You are invited to participate in a survey about open source science. We are especially interested in your opinion about whether and how hardware developed in large international collaborative settings can move open source science, and specifically open source hardware, forward.

If you worked on/with hardware in general in the collaboration we would appreciate it if you could fill out a survey about your experience. Even if you are not developing hardware you may be using open source software and open scientific data regularly and thus we would love to hear your opinion. It will take about 15 minutes of your time to fill out the form. Your participation is anonymous and entirely voluntary. The results of this study will be shared publicly after the P&P review process.

The survey is available at: https://forms.gle/JEjWfpcYHmmaSckB9

Our goal is to map out how hardware succeeds in academia and identify ways that enable an "open source mindset" for hardware to gain traction in academic settings. Thank you in advance for your help!

Zsuzsa Marka

Please do not hesitate to contact me at zsuzsa@astro.columbia.edu if you have any questions.

GW data workshop @KIW10

Dear colleagues,

LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA (LVK) will start the fourth observing run with unprecedented sensitivity from 24 May, 2023. To promote gravitational wave science with LVK data, the KAGRA collaboration in Taiwan will host a 1.5-day GW data workshop right before KIW10 at National Tsing Hua University on 27-28 May, 2023.

The data workshop will provide an opportunity to learn/study GW data analysis with mentors in person. This workshop is intended for students or scientists who wish to learn about GW data and software in order to conduct research in the field of gravitational-wave astrophysics.

The program includes a mixture of lecture style presentations and hands-on programming exercises. This workshop will be an in-person event.

Advance registration for the workshop is required and it is free for everyone; it is not necessary to register KIW10. To learn more and apply, please go to

https://indico.phys.sinica.edu.tw/event/74/page/165-gw-data-workshop

Please forward this to others who might be interested.

Albert Kong SFHEA

Distinguished Professor | National Tsing Hua University

Taiwan

Announcement: 15th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves, July 17-21, 2023

The 15th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves will be held as a fully virtual event on July 17-21, 2023

Amaldi Conferences, held biannually under the auspices of the Gravitational Wave International Committee, are the premier forum for gravitational waves. Amaldi15 will be hosted by the North-American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves, and it will address the full spectrum of gravitational-wave science, including current and future detectors, data analysis, source modeling and populations, multi-messenger astronomy, and more.

The theme for Amaldi15 will be “The broad reach of gravitational wave science.”

The meeting will be free, and all talks will be live-streamed and recorded, during three daily sessions spread over a 24-hour period. Registration and abstract submission will open on Monday, April 17 at amaldi15.org, and abstracts will be accepted through Monday, May 29. All further information, including the program of plenary talks and parallel sessions, will be continuously updated on the amaldi15.org website.

Please forward this announcement to any pertinent mailing lists, and feel free to post the attached poster at your institutions. Mark your calendars, make sure you register, and see you in July!

Laura Cadonati, Scott Ransom, Michele Vallisneri

(for the Science and Local Organizing Committees)

PS: Please note that you need to make an account at Oxford Abstracts before you register as a second step. Make sure that your account/registration email is the one where you want conference information to be sent.

KAGRA International Workshop

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the 10th KAGRA international workshop (KIW), to be held on 29-30 May 2023 in National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Hsinchu City, Taiwan.

KIW focuses not only on the KAGRA project, but also encompasses all related fields such as other gravitational wave experiments, gravitational wave sciences, and multi-messenger astronomy. Here, we are inviting all of you to join this event in person, right after the beginning of the O4.

On the evening of May 29th, Prof. Takaaki Kajita, the Nobel Laureate of Physics in 2015, will also give a public talk as the PI of KAGRA project.

The early-bird registration ends by 15th April, 2023 and the deadline for abstract submission is 30th April, 2023.

Information about the travel and accommodation can also be found via the conference website below

https://indico.phys.sinica.edu.tw/event/74/

For further information, please do not hesitate to contact us!

Please also feel free to forward to anyone who might be interested!

Hope to see you all in Hsinchu.

Jun'ichi Yokoyama and Sadakazu Haino
On behalf of the SOC

Ray-Kuang Lee
On behalf of the LOC

Hardware focus survey on open source science

Dear Colleagues,

You are invited to participate in a survey about open source science. We are especially interested in your opinion about whether and how hardware developed in large international collaborative settings can move open source science, and specifically open source hardware, forward.

If you worked on/with hardware in general in the collaboration we would appreciate it if you could fill out a survey about your experience. Even if you are not developing hardware you may be using open source software and open scientific data regularly and thus we would love to hear your opinion. It will take about 15 minutes of your time to fill out the form. Your participation is anonymous and entirely voluntary. The results of this study will be shared publicly after the P&P review process.

The survey is available at: https://forms.gle/JEjWfpcYHmmaSckB9

Our goal is to map out how hardware succeeds in academia and identify ways that enable an "open source mindset" for hardware to gain traction in academic settings. Thank you in advance for your help!

Zsuzsa Marka

Please do not hesitate to contact me at zsuzsa@astro.columbia.edu if you have any questions.

First Announcement: The Transient and Variable Universe Conference, 20-22 June 2023

Dear Colleagues,

We are excited to announce “The Transient & Variable Universe” conference to be held 20-22 June 2023 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

The goal of the conference is to bring together the scientific community working on transient and variable science across all wavelengths. The motivation is to identify the major fundamental scientific questions that can be addressed with the upcoming time-domain survey facilities in the gamma-ray, X-ray, optical, millimeter, and radio wavelengths. We hope to identify synergies between the various surveys and which rapid followup and pointed instruments will be needed to maximize the scientific return. The science topics will be wide and ambitious, covering both Galactic and extragalactic science.

The meeting will be in-person with between 100-200 participants. The talks will be broadcast remotely.

The meeting will be hosted by the Center for AstroPhysical Surveys (CAPS) and held at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The meeting is sponsored by CAPS, CMB-S4, LSSTC, NCSA, ngVLA, and the Roman Space Telescope, and STScI.

Please save the date: 20-22 June 2023
Sign up for announcements here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ig3jrwNrUfm-NyI0akINnY3lPH08RG8xHvVqGxlpH9M/edit

A second announcement will be coming in March with more details, a list of invited participants, and a link for registration.

Looking forward to seeing many of you in Urbana in June !

On behalf of the scientific organizing committee:
Marco Ajello
Barnali Das
Gregg Hallinan
Philip Lucas
Tom Maccarone
Julie McEnery
Gautham Narayan
Rachel Osten
Nico Yunes
Joaquin Vieira

Announcement for IMBH Conference

Dear Colleague,

On behalf of the Local and Scientific Organizing Committees, I enthusiastically invite you to attend the meeting

INTERMEDIATE-MASS BLACK HOLES: THE DAWN OF A REVOLUTIONARY ERA

From Saturday 2 December through Tuesday 5 December 2023 - San Pedro, Belize

Scientific TopicIn this meeting we aim to explore the various observational and theoretical aspects of intermediate-mass black holes, and their unique role in: (1) Cosmology and galaxy evolution; (2) Formation of gravitational wave sources; (3) Accretion, tidal disruption events, and high-energy phenomena. The workshop aims to serve as a focal point for researchers working on intermediate-mass black holes on all scales, to connect theorists and observers, and to link together and share knowledge and tools between groups working on similar questions.

Meeting FormatThe meeting will consist of contributed talks and active discussion, for about 6 hours per day from Saturday 2 December through Tuesday 5 December 2023. Plenty of time will be dedicated to fruitful discussions and interactions among the participants, and to enjoy the beautiful venue of Belize.

WebsiteFor registration, abstract submission, and updates, please visit the meeting website https://sites.northwestern.edu/imbh23/ .

Pre-RegistrationIf you plan to attend the meeting, we kindly ask you to pre-register. Pre-registration is not mandatory, and it will only be used to have an estimate of the number of possible participants and of the number of people that need a reduced conference fee. Registration and abstract submission will open at the end of May.

Social EventsWe are planning to have plenty of time for social interactions among the participants. Social events will include a guided historical tour, the social dinner, scuba diving, and much more!

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For further information, please do not hesitate to contact me; I would be more than happy to answer your questions.

Please feel free to forward to anyone who might be interested.

Hope to meet you all in Belize,

Giacomo Fragione

On the behalf of the LOC

Giacomo Fragione (Northwestern University; Chair)

Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale University; co-Chair)

Madeline Wilson (Northwestern University; Staff)

On the behalf of the SOC

Giacomo Fragione (Northwestern University; Chair)

Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale University; co-Chair)

Vivienne Baldassare (Washington State University)

Emanuele Berti (Johns Hopkins University)

Laura Blecha (University of Florida)

Zoheyr Doctor (Northwestern University)

Jenny Greene (Princeton University)

Vicky Kalogera (Northwestern University)

Tom Maccarone (Texas Tech University)

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (University of California Santa Cruz)

Fred Rasio (Northwestern University)

Deirdre Shoemaker (University of Texas Austin)

Jay Strader (Michigan State University)

XV International Conference on Gravitation, Astrophysics and Cosmology (ICGAC15)

XV International Conference on Gravitation, Astrophysics and Cosmology
(ICGAC15)
• 2023-07-03 ~ 2023-07-07
• Gyeongju, Kolon Hotel

ICGAC15 is the series of biennial conferences on Gravitation, Astrophysics
and Cosmology which take place in the Asia-Pacific region, with the goals to
promote cooperation among the member countries and within an international
context, high level studies on hot topics and to encourage young physicists
on these fields.

ICRC 2023 Conference, July 26-August 3, 2023, Nagoya, Japan

The 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2023) will be held at Nagoya University in Nagoya, Japan, July 26-August 3, 2023, including sessions on Multimessenger Astronomy and Gravitational Waves. The abstract deadline is February 10.

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Dear Colleagues,

The organizers of the 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2023) would like to invite all interested persons to attend the ICRC2023 that will be held at Nagoya University in July-August 2023.

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For the conference details, please visit the ICRC2023 website, https://www.icrc2023.org/ or contact the conference office at info@icrc2023.org.

The International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC) is a physics conference series organized biennially by the Commission C4 (Astroparticle Physics) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) since 1947. Physicists from the whole world present the results of their research in astroparticle physics at ICRCs. This time a new session topic, Gravitational Wave (GW), is covered in addition to the other topics from past ICRCs.

<Topics>
- Cosmic-Ray Physics
- Dark-Matter Physics
- Gamma-Ray Astrophysics
- Multi-Messenger Astronomy
- Neutrino Physics and Astronomy
- Solar and Heliospheric Physics
- Outreach and Education
- Gravitational-Wave Physics and Astronomy <-- New!

<Location change from Osaka to Nagoya>
The city and venue of ICRC2023 have been changed due to the unpredictable COVID-19 situation and travel restrictions in 2023. To smoothly prepare and organize the large in-person conference, we decided to change the venue from Osaka International Convention Center to Nagoya University.

<Registration and Abstract Submission>
The dedicated webpage and website for the registration and abstract submission procedures are scheduled to open in December 2022.

We look forward to seeing you in Nagoya.

Best regards,
Shoichi Ogio for the ICRC2023 Local Organizing Committee

NCfA Symposium 2023

We are happy to announce the inaugural Symposium of the Nevada Center for Astrophysics, to be held at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas between 22-24 February 2023.
This year, the symposium will focus on multi messenger astrophysics covering aspects of EM-, neutrino- and GW-observations.
More information (including the list of invited speakers, link to registration etc.) can be found at https://www.physics.unlv.edu/~kheirand/#home.
Throughout the symposium, there will also be an opportunity to showcase submitted posters. If you want to present a poster, there is a link to submit a poster abstract on the website above as well.
I’m also happy to answer any further questions you might have through email (carl.haster@unlv.edu)

Carl, on behalf of the organising committee:

Ali Kheirandish

Carl-Johan Haster

Bing Zhang

Workshop on Very Light Dark Matter 2023 (March 28-30, 2023)

Workshop on Very Light Dark Matter 2023 (March 28-30, 2023)

Dear colleagues,

Let us announce the workshop on very light dark matter 2023 (VLDM2023) on March 28-30, 2023.
https://indico.ipmu.jp/event/416/

It is a hybrid workshop at Mario Royal Kaikan in Chino Nagano.
Recent experimental results as well as future prospects, and theoretical progress of very light dark matter will be discussed.
In particular, the topics will be around
* Axion and axion like particles
* Dark photon and other light dark matter
* Light dark matter search experiments
* Black hole superradiance
* Cosmic birefringence
* Structure formation
* Weak gravity conjecture

We will have talks by several invited speakers (to be confirmed), and contributed talks and posters.
We will also have time for brain stream, discussions, and collaborations.
Registration and abstract submissions are now open and we look forward to seeing you soon!

Best regards,
Elisa Ferreira, Tomohiro Fujita, Motoko Fujiwara, Nagisa Hiroshima, Naoya Kitajima, Eiichiro Komatsu, Yuta Michimura, Ippei Obata, Maresuke Shiraishi, Fuminobu Takahashi, Yuko Urakawa, Masaki Yamada, and Wen Yin

GWADW 2023 21-27 May 2023

Dear colleagues,

here is the first announcement for the Gravitational Wave Advanced Detector Workshop that will take place in La Biodola, Elba, Italy starting May 21st until May 27th, 2023. Registration opening will be announced early next year.

Despite the strong limitations imposed in the last years, work on current and future Gravitational Wave detectors has been relentlessly going on. By the time of this edition of the Gravitational Wave Advanced Detector Workshop, the world wide network of interferometers will have started another observation run. Instruments have been upgraded to achieve unprecedented sensitivity and a new regime of event collection is expected. Interferometers to be hosted in large new infrastructures are gaining momentum, stepping from concept to real design. The accumulated experience is guiding the exploration of completely different working conditions, with cryogenics or different light wavelength. This is being blended with new ideas and new teams joining the enterprise. The time gap between currently planned observation runs and first data from new interferometers gives the unique opportunity to push current infrastructures to their limits, allowing to work on long standing limitations so to be ready for the future instruments. This critical period has to be used to continue building the gw community, training new instrument scientists to run large observatories, and data analysts to use better and better data. The workshop is an opportunity to introduce and discuss the many challenges for the near and far future of gravitational wave detection, with a format designed to favor informal discussion and ample time for poster presentation.

The Scientific Organizing Committee

Rana Adhikari

Marica Branchesi

Francesco Fidecaro

Shinji Miyoki

Kentaro Somiya

Gabriele Vajente

Winter School on Gravitational Astrophysics

Dear colleagues,


We are happy to announce the Nordic Winter School on Gravitational Astrophysics from Jan 29th to Feb. 3rd 2023.


The Nordic Winter School on Gravitational Astrophysics aims to introduce Ph.D. students, advanced Master's students and Postdocs to current exciting topics in gravitation, particle physics and cosmology. It takes place at the beautiful Thon Hotel Skeikampen, approximately 40 kilometers north of Lillehammer (200 km north of Oslo). You can find details about the area here.


This year, the school has a particular focus on Gravitational Physics and the science behind gravitational wave analysis. The School will feature the following invited guest lecturers:

• Elisa Bortolas (University of Milano Bicocca) -- Formation of Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

• Simon Portegies Zwart (University of Leiden) -- Computational Astrophysic and Gravitational wave sources

• Aaron Zimmerman (University of Texas Austin) -- Gravitational Wave physics and observations Together with shorter topical lectures by:

• Johan Samsing -- Formation channels for binary black holes

• Jose M. Ezquiaga -- Fundamental Physics and Cosmology with Gravitational Waves

• Daniel J. D'Orazio -- Finding Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

• Maarten van de Meent - Modelling Black Hole Binary Dynamics The Winter School attendance will be limited to 40 participants. Please check the Registration page for detailed information about the necessary registration materials and deadlines.

Preference will be given to applicants from the Nordic countries, but there will be more spaces available and we encourage participants from all nationalities and backgrounds to apply. Young post-docs are encouraged to participate as well. Exceptionally talented M.Sc. students can apply too.

Transportation between Oslo Airport and the hotel will be provided without cost. All participants are expected to arrange their own travel to and from Oslo.


Please feel free to distribute this announcement to potential applicants.

Best,

Marteen van de Meent, Daniel D’Orazio, Jose M. Ezquiaga, Johan Samsing, Poul H. Daamgard and Martin Pessah

Important LVK Meeting Announcement

Dear LVK Members,
The registration for the March 2023 LVK Collaboration Meeting (March 13-16, 2023) held at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, USA will be opening soon. In advance of that, there are TWO IMPORTANT REQUESTS from the local organizing committee.
Firstly to ensure there are sufficient rooms for the conference and space at the banquet/awards ceremony, we need to know whether you currently plan to attend the meeting and ceremony using this form, even if tentative, and please ask others in your group to fill it out as well:
https://forms.gle/YZBzSJgqaxkpq9tX7
Please fill this out by no later than December 5.

Second, if you need a support letter to apply for a US visa in order to attend, please use the following form, using the password "gw191109":
https://forms.gle/iHU5AS2bVdojDgA5A

If you have any questions at all, please send an email to lvk2023ciera@gmail.com.

Thank you,

LVK Meeting March 2023 Local Organizing Committee

Detecting continuous gravitational-wave signals: a Kaggle competition

As a collaboration between the University of Glasgow and the University of the Balearic Islands, with the support of the G2Net COST Action CA17137, we have launched a Kaggle competition for the detection of continuous gravitational waves. In this competition, participants are asked to develop a machine-learning-based solution to identify data samples in which a simulated continuous wave is present. The competition lasts for three months (October 2022 - January 2023) and there is a prize of $25,000 generously donated by Google to be split among the three winners of the competition.

https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/g2net-detecting-continuous-gravitational-waves

Continuous gravitational waves are a long-lasting form of gravitational radiation, yet to be detected by the current generation of interferometric detectors operated by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. They are expected to be emitted by non-axisymmetric rapidly-spinning neutron stars and they would allow us to probe the physics of such compact objects, as well as accessing the electromagnetically-quiet population of galactic neutron stars, otherwise inaccessible. Their detection would constitute the next major milestone of gravitational-wave astronomy.

Current continuous-wave searches are computationally limited, as the most optimal methods incur a computational cost orders of magnitude greater than typical budgets nowadays available. Latest advancements in machine learning, on the other hand, suggest that other, more efficient methods, could be used to develop more sensitive searches.

Kaggle is an open online platform associated with Google which hosts data-analysis competitions for different entities. Any individual can take part in this competition regardless of their background at no cost. Upon completion, the source code of winning solutions should be disclosed in order to be eligible for a monetary prize.


Join the competition and find all the info at:
https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/g2net-detecting-continuous-gravitational-waves

Thank you very much,

Rodrigo Tenorio, on behalf of G2Net

APS DGRAV seminars

The American Physical Society (APS) Division of Gravity (DGRAV) is initiating an online monthly seminar series. Starting on Oct 6 this fall, we plan to have an online seminar on the first Thursday of the month, at 3 pm Eastern time, covering a broad range of topics within gravitational physics.

The format for these seminars will be to have a more senior person, typically the research supervisor, give a short (about 15 mins) overview talk introducing the topic and open questions, and a more junior person, typically a graduate student or postdoc, give a research talk (about 30 mins) that should be accessible to the DGRAV membership. We hope that the seminar will help all of us learn about new subjects, while providing junior researchers with the opportunity to introduce themselves to our community. The talks will be live-streamed on Zoom, and recordings will be available on the APS Youtube Channel (details on how to access the recordings to be announced later).

The schedule for the next two seminars is as follows (please mark your calendar!):

Oct. 6: Prof. Emanuele Berti (Johns Hopkins U) and Dr. Kaze Wong (Flatiron Institute)

Nov. 3: Prof. Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute) and Prof. Masha Baryakhtar (U. Washington)

DGRAV would very much appreciate suggestions for future speakers - to do so, please make a suggestion (name, affiliation, email address, and research topic) here. Please contact Kent Yagi (ky5t@virginia.edu) for any questions.

Call for Nominations for HEAD Prizes

Please see https://head.aas.org/awards for information on eligibility and nomination American Astronomical Society (AAS) High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD). Deadline is October 1, 2022.

This is the first call for nominations for the 2023 HEAD prizes. In addition to the annual Bruno Rossi Prize, we’ll be accepting nominations for the following awards:

  • The Distinguished Career Prize: This is a new prize to recognize an individual high-energy astrophysicist who has made outstanding contributions to the field of high energy astrophysics throughout their career. Outstanding contributions include a body of important research results (observational, theoretical or experimental) which have led to ground-breaking results in high-energy astrophysics, and/or a career of mentorship to a new generation of high-energy astrophysicists, especially if this mentorship helped to support under-represented or under-resourced scientists and increased the diversity of the HEA community. The prize is intended to honor astrophysicists who have made significant contributions to the high energy astrophysics community which have not been recognized by previous award (so nominations of previous winners of the Rossi Prize or other major awards are discouraged).
  • The Mid-Career Prize
  • The Early-Career Prize
  • The Dissertation Prize
  • The Innovation Prize

The deadline for nominations for all these prizes is October 1, 2022.

Please see for https://head.aas.org/awards information on eligibility and nomination for these prizes. And please consider nominating your colleagues!

September LVK Collaboration Meeting Deadline reminder

September LVK Collaboration Meeting Deadline reminder:

The early-registration deadline for the Sept LVK meeting (https://ligo.gravity.cf.ac.uk/lvk2022/) at Cardiff is Monday Aug 15. The direct link to the registration page is https://www.eventsforce.net/cbs/frontend/reg/thome.csp?pageID=132994&eventID=538&traceRedir=2

We look forward to seeing you in Cardiff!

Best wishes,

-- The LOC

AHEAD2020 Announcement of Opportunity Cycle 4



The AHEAD2020 (Integrated Activities for High Energy Astrophysics*)
calls for a program of transnational visits and remote access activities
to be performed starting ~mid October 2022. The main objectives are:
1) fostering new or strengthening existing collaborations on science and
technology topics in high energy astrophysics (visitor program);
2) provide access free of cost to selected European astronomical
institutes and data centres for support in high energy and
multimessenger data analysis, as long as computational astrophysics.
3) providing access free of cost to some of the best European ground
test and calibration facilities relevant for high-energy astrophysics.

Visitor grants include full reimbursement of travel and subsistence
expenses. To face possible restrictions to travel as effect of the
pandemic, the possibility of remote access for a number of services in
the area of data analysis, tools and computational astrophysics will be
provided.

AO-4 Calls Opening: 11 July 2022

Submission Deadline: 31 August 2022(*)

For further information and links to the AO-4 calls:


* AHEAD2020 is a Research Infrastructure program funded by EU Horizon
2020. Its main goal is to integrate and open research infrastructures
for high energy Astrophysics.
For general information on AHEAD2020:


* For activities concerning access to experimental facilities,
submission will remain always open and proposals can be submitted
anytime until 28 June 2024; they will be evaluated typically within one
month from delivery.

--
Prof. Stavros Katsanevas,
Director
European Gravitational Observatory, EGO,
Via Edoardo Amaldi
56021 S. Stefano a Macerata (Pisa), Italy

Tel: +39 050 752 300
Mob: +39 335 7321 385
Zoom link:

ID: 894 896 2430, password:stavros

Discussion forum at ask.igwn.org

A new discussion forum for GW data analysis and science is available at:

This forum is accessible to everyone. We strongly encourage all LVK members to use the forum for questions related to data analysis software, EM counterparts, and published papers. Doing so will allow your questions and answers to be archived, and discovered via search engines for future reference.

Because this is a public forum, it is not an appropriate place to discuss “private” LVK business, such as future paper plans.

More information:



Fellowships at the ICG in Portsmouth

Hi all,

The Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at Portsmouth welcomes
applicants for fellowships. Currently the STFC Ernest Rutherford
Fellowships, the Royal Society University Research Fellowships, Royal
Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships and UKRI Future Leader Fellowships
have open calls for nominations. For some of these schemes we can only
support a limited number of applicants and therefore an internal
selection process will apply.

For more details please see our page here:

https://www.port.ac.uk/research/research-centres-and-groups/institute-of-cosmology-and-gravitation/research-with-us

and to find out more about the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation
please see here:

https://www.port.ac.uk/research/research-centres-and-groups/institute-of-cosmology-and-gravitation

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about applying.

Thanks!
Ian

AlGaAs Coating Workshop August 15-17, Washington DC

Dear Colleagues,

There will be a workshop on crystalline aluminum gallium arsenide coatings (AlGaAs) for use in future gravitational wave detectors August 15-17, 2022 on campus at American University in Washington DC. There are options for both in person and remote participation, but we encourage those interested to try to attend in person if possible.

Registration and travel arrangements are at this webpage.

Gregg Harry on behalf of the organizing committee

Registration and Abstract submission is now open for the Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop (GWPAW)

Dear Colleagues

On behalf of the Local and Scientific Organising Committees, I am pleased to announce that Registration and Abstract submission is now open for the 2022 Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop (GWPAW).

The Workshop will be held 5-9 December at the Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, Melbourne Australia.

Please visit the GWPAW website to register .

The website will be updated as the program is finalised.

If you have any questions please email info@ozgrav.org.

Kind regards

Erin

Supernovae in the Gravitational Wave Detection Era Workshop

Hello,

We are glad to announce the Supernovae in the Gravitational Wave Detection Era workshop that will take place in Melbourne, Australia, 28th Nov- 2nd Dec, 2022 (just the week before the Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop GWPAW). More information about the workshop can be found at the webpage: https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/supernova2022

We look forward to seeing you in Melbourne

Jade Powell, Bernhard Müller, Pablo Cerdá-Durán

GMT Community Science Meeting

Registration is open for Black Holes at All Scales !

This meeting is the 8th annual Community Science Meeting hosted by the Giant Magellan Telescope project and will take place August 31–September 2, 2022 at the Hilton Sedona Resort at Bell Rock in Sedona, AZ.

The meeting is open to all with no registration fee. Partial travel reimbursement may be provided for graduate students and postdocs. The registration deadline is August 22, 2022, but there is a registration cap so don’t wait.

This meeting has been designed to bring together a cross-disciplinary group on black hole research. Revolutionary strategies for studying Black Holes — from gravitational wave detection of merging black holes to imaging of event horizon scale regions. These discoveries have revolutionized the field while demonstrating how much remains to be learned about black hole demographics, formation and evolution, and interactions with their environment. This conference will focus on dynamics as a way to probe and learn about black holes across all mass scales, and topics will include the environment around Sgr A*, black hole mass measurements, demographics, rates for gravitational wave events, accretion disk dynamics around single and binary black holes, and tidal disruption events. Experts across this wide range of subfields will be brought together to canvass observational and theoretical progress, highlight key unanswered questions, and motivate future directions, particularly in the era of extremely large telescopes.

The meeting program will encourage workshop-style discussion at a beautiful retreat in Sedona.

Regardless of local masking requirements, we will require masks indoors and hold all poster sessions and meals outside. Please see the conference website for more information.

Scientific Organizing Committee:

Laura Blecha (U Florida) & Jonelle Walsh (TAMU) (Co-Chairs)

Laura Brenneman (SAO)

Jenny Greene (Princeton)

Karl Gebhardt (UT Austin)

Dan Holz (U Chicago)

Dan Marrone (UA)

Rodrigo Nemmen (Sao Paulo)

Minjin Kim (Kyungpook National University)

Michele Trenti (AAL/U Melbourne)

Christian Wolf (ANU)

Invited Speakers include:

Richard Ananuta, UT San Antonio

Katie Auchettl, University of Melbourne

Jillian Bellovary, AMNH

Misty Bentz, Georgia State University

Laura Blecha, University of Florida

Thomas Callister, Flatiron Institute

Jason Dexter, CU Boulder

Maya Fishbach, University of Chicago

Suvi Gezari, University of Maryland

Jenny Greene, Princeton University

Kayhan Gultekin, University of Michigan

Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Vanderbilt University

Nora Lützgendorf, ESA/STScI

Chung-Pei Ma, UC Berkeley

Morgan Macleod, Harvard CfA

Chiara Mingarelli, Flatiron Institute

Smadar Naoz, UCLA

Amy Reines, Montana State University

Jessie Runnoe, Vanderbilt University

More information, including the registration portal, can be found on the Community Science Meeting website.

We look forward to seeing you there!

IWARA2022 - September 5th to 9th, 2022, Antigua, Guatemala

Dear Colleagues.

We just would like to inform you that the deadline for registration for the event IWARA2022 is August 31, 2022. The event will be held in a hybrid format, and participants can attend either in person or online. Priority will be given to in-person presentations.

For registration please access:

We count on your participation.

Rodrigo Sacahuí and César Zen Vasconcellos

In behalf of the Organizing Committee - IWARA2022

More information may be found below:

IWARA2022, the10th International Workshop on Astronomy and Relativistic Astrophysics (From Quarks to Cosmos) will be held in Antigua, Guatemala, from September 5th to 9th, 2022. In addition to face-to-face participation, the event will enable virtual participation.

Virtual Sessions. As in the last edition (IWARA2020), the event has programmed virtual sessions for posters and lectures presentations.

Proceedings. The proceedings will be published by Astronomische Nachrichten.

IWARA topics. The topics range from Cosmology and Gravitation to Quark Physics, including Astrophysics, Cosmic Rays, Exotic Matter, New States of Matter in the Universe, Galaxies, Quasars, Neutron Stars and Pulsars, Dwarfs Stars and Black Holes, Nuclear Physics, Astroparticle Physics and related topics.

Fees. There will be a reduced application fee for virtual participation: $25 for students and $50 for professors/researchers.

In the links below please access more inform about IWARA2022:

IWARA2022 Bulletin

IWARA2022 WebPage

IWARA2022Registration

Virtual Poster Session

Gravitational Wave Orchestra, September 8-9, 2022 at Université catholique de Louvain

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the Gravitational Wave Orchestra, a two-day
workshop, will be held (in-person) at Université catholique de Louvain,
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium on September 08-09, 2022. The workshop aims to
provide an ideal backdrop to listen to the various aspects of the
gravitational-wave symphony.

During the workshop, we will have separate talks about the searches for
stochastic backgrounds in multiple frequency bands including:
– Review on stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds.
– Theoretical development in stochastic gravitational-wave background
modeling.
– Most updated results from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration and Pulsar
Timing Arrays.
– Future probes and strategies using: Einstein Telescope, Cosmic Explorer,
and LISA.
Along with this, we will also have a poster session. You are strongly
encouraged to submit a poster abstract on stochastic gravitational-wave
background-related research.

For registration and further information (regarding accommodation, travel,
and financial support), please visit the conference website:
https://agenda.irmp.ucl.ac.be/e/gwo2022
Registration and Abstract submission to the workshop are open until August
05.

Please feel free to share it with other colleagues.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Louvain-la-Neuve,
Jishnu, on behalf of the organizing committee

Fellowships at QMUL

Fellowships in Gravitational Wave Science at Queen Mary University of London

The Cosmology and Relativity group at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) is seeking to support fellowship applicants for the following schemes:

This year the group is particularly keen to receive applications related to gravitational wave science, to support the launch of a new gravitational wave research centre planned for later this year.

The URF, DHF and ERF fellowships are aimed at mid- to senior-level postdoctoral researchers ready to transition into a faculty-style, independent research position. The group at QMUL has an excellent track record of converting fellowships into permanent positions.

More information on the available fellowships can be found at:

More information about the Cosmology and Relativity group can be found at:

and about the QMUL Astronomy Unit in general at:

To express your interest in applying for these fellowships, or to find out more about gravitational wave science at QMUL, please contact Dr. Tessa Baker at t.baker@qmul.ac.uk .

The Astronomy Unit at QMUL has enjoyed considerable success in supporting senior research fellowship applications. We currently host three Royal Society URFs, a Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow, a Winton Capital Fellow and two ERC Starting Grant holders. We enjoy strong connections and interaction with the Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation group in the School of Mathematical Sciences.

Please note, for the Ernest Rutherford Fellowships we are able to support a limited number of candidates. These candidates are selected via a competitive internal application process. Our internal application deadline this year is 11pm (UK time) on 26th June 2022; late applications are possible, but may not receive full consideration. If you are interested in applying for an ERF with QMUL as your host institution, please read the instructions on our website (link above), and contact Dr Thomas Haworth (t.haworth@qmul.ac.uk) and Dr. Tessa Baker (t.baker@qmul.ac.uk) with informal queries. Please contact us if you would like to discuss any details of the internal application process.

GR23 abstracts due May 16

The , “GR23” will be be held in Liyang, China, July 3-8, 2022, as a hybrid meeting. There are relevant for LVK people to present their work, we encourage you to submit an abstract.

Important dates are listed below:


● May 16, 2022, Abstract submission deadline
● May 31, 2022, Notification of the accepted abstracts
● June 8, 2022, Registration deadline

Announcement of Iberian GW meeting 2022

12th Iberian Gravitational Waves Meeting, 6-8 June 2022
University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, CP2 (Room B1), Braga, Portugal
Webpage of the event: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1141427/

Deadline for Abstract Submission: May 20, 2022
Registration Deadline: June 6, 2022

The Iberian Gravitational Waves Meeting is an International Conference set up
yearly since 2011 by different groups around the Iberian Peninsula with
interest in Gravitational Waves. The series of meetings have been associated
to the Spanish Network on Gravitational Waves (REDONGRA) and in 2022 the
meeting will take place, for the first time in the University of Minho, in
the city of Braga, Portugal, organized by Gr@v and Center of Physics of the
University of Minho and University of Porto.

The goal of these meetings is to bring together researchers working in
Gravitational Waves with the aim at promoting collaboration and synergies
among them, keeping track of recent advances in the Iberian Gravitational
Wave community. The meeting covers all aspects of Gravitational Waves,
including Theory, Data Analysis, Experiments and Multi-Messenger Astronomy.

The scientific program consists of plenary sessions with talks by invited
speakers and selected contributed talks by participants. You can request a
contributed talk during the registration process.

The meeting will be held in a Mixed Format (in person and online)
Registration here: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1141427/
is needed regardless of whether you attend the meeting online or in person.

Gravitational Wave Physics MSc at Cardiff University

Dear colleagues,

please share the announcement below with any undergraduate student interested in studying Gravitational-wave Physics:

The Gravity Exploration Institute (cardiffgravity.org) at Cardiff University offers an MSc program in Gravitational-wave Physics:

Gravitational-wave observations are now transforming our understanding of the universe, and the field will continue to grow in the next decades.

The Gravitational Wave Physics MSc provides broad and comprehensive training in both theory and experiment in gravitational wave (GW) physics and astronomy: techniques in laser interferometry for GW detection, general relativity, astrophysics, modelling of GW sources, and data analysis for GW detection and source interpretation. Cardiff University staff are at the forefront of world-leading research in all of these areas, which span the core topics at the heart of the field, and which make this a unique degree programme.

On completion of the programme you will have the knowledge, skills and experience necessary to begin a research career in gravitational-wave physics, and be a competitive candidate for jobs in industry.

Call for PhD candidates at the University of Padova - Deadline May 13th

Dear colleagues,

We would like to bring to the attention of the gravitational-wave community the calls for application to the PhD schools in both Physics (https://www.dfa.unipd.it/index.php?id=919) or Astronomy (ttps://www.dfa.unipd.it/didattica/dottorati-di-ricerca/corso-di-dottorato-di-ricerca-in-astronomia/english-version/admission/) at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Padova. We invite all interested candidates to apply. The call deadline is May 13th, 2022. Padova has a vibrant and long tradition in gravitational-wave related science. It is currently home to several internationally recognized groups working on many theoretical, phenomenological, computational, data analysis and hardware aspects of all major present and future GW experiments (Ligo-Virgo, Einstein Telescope, LISA). For more information and to identify possible supervisors, we invite you to contact us: Giacomo Ciani (giacomo.ciani@unipd.it): hardware R&D and data analysis for ground-based GW detectors http://www.dfa.unipd.it/en/research/research-areas-and-groups/experimental-physics-of-fundamental-interactions/astroparticle-physics/gravitational-waves/ Michela Mapelli (michela.mapelli@unipd.it): binary compact object populations, numerical models and computational astrophysics Sabino Matarrese - (sabino.matarrese@pd.infn.it): primordial gravitational waves, cosmology with GWs, stochastic backgrounds (astro & cosmo) of GWs, clustering of GW mergers, cross-correlations of GW. More info at: http://www.dfa.unipd.it/ricerca/linee-e-gruppi-di-ricerca/astronomia-astrofisica-fisica-della-terra-e-dei-pianeti/astrofisica-teorica-e-cosmologia/

8th PAX

We would like to advertise the 8th PAX workshop, in person at MIT Aug 1-3 2022 focusing on next-generation ground-based detectors science: https://indico.mit.edu/event/285/

Please notice that for practical reasons the total number of attendees is capped.

GWADW2022

We have extended the abstract submission deadline for GWADW2022
for one week. The new deadline is May 7 23:59 JST. We would like
to ask invited speakers to submit an abstract as well.

The registration deadline has been set to May 15. Please complete
the payment of the registration fee by the deadline to receive the
workshop information in time.

Find the workshop webpage below.


Send an email to the LOC () or to us
directly if you have any question or suggestion.

Best Regards,

Francesco Fidecaro <>,
Kentaro Somiya <>,
on behalf of GWADW2022

Bayesian Deep Learning workshop for Cosmology and Time Domain astrophysics -- Paris, Jun 20-24 2022

We are glad to announce that the second edition of the workshop on Bayesian Deep Learning for Cosmology and Time Domain Astrophysics 2022 is open for registration < https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/26887/ >. It will be held in Paris, France the week of June 20th to 24thand a call for contributions is open until May 18th CET.

The goal of this workshop, sponsored by the LSSTC Enabling Science effort – with contributions from DESC, ISSC and TVS collaborations – is to bring together physicists and machine learning specialists to exchange recent results at the crossroads between cosmology, time-domain astrophysics (including gravitational wave astronomy) and probabilistic machine learning frameworks to leverage uncertainties. During registration, young scientists are invited to apply for grants covering lodging and part of the conference fees. Please follow the indications on the registration website for grant applications < https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/26887/page/3006-grant-application-students-postdocs >.

The first day of the workshop will be structured as a school to introduce the Bayesian framework and probabilistic machine learning concepts. The rest of the workshop will alternate between keynote talks, topical presentations, interactive tutorials and poster sessions.

We welcome in particular contributions that target, or report on, the following non-exhaustive list of topics:

• Applications of Bayesian Deep Learning in Cosmology and Time Domain Astrophysics
• Methodology for Model Uncertainty Quantification
• Anomaly and outlier detection
• Probabilistic ML frameworks and methodology
• Use of Bayesian deep learning outside of academia
• Ethical considerations of large-scale machine learning

Contributions do not necessarily need to be astrophysics-focused. Work on relevant ML methodology, or similar considerations in other scientific fields are welcome.

Confirmed keynote speakers and panelists
• Anja Butter, ITP Heidelberg, Germany
• Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, LIP6, Paris, France
• Stephen Green, MPI, Potsdam, Germany
• Alan Heavens, Imperial College, London, UK
• Tomasz Kacprzak, ETH Zurich / PSI, Switzerland
• Ashley Villar, Penn State University, USA
• Ben Wandelt, IAP, Paris, France

More information is available on the workshop website: https://astrodeep.net/workshop2022 < https://astrodeep.net/workshop2022 >and specific inquiries can be directed to workshop@astrodeep.net.

We look forward to welcoming you in Paris.

All the best,
The organizing committee
Eric Aubourg (CEA) – Federica Bianco (Univ. of Delaware) – Alexandre Boucaud (CNRS) François Lanusse (CNRS) – Cécile Roucelle (Univ. Paris Cité) – Chad Schafer (CMU)

GRASS2022 abstract submission deadline extended

We remind you that the 2022 GRAvitational-wave Science&technology Symposium (GRASS 2022), will be held on June 6 and 7 in Padova.
Abstract submission is still open as we are pleased to inform you that the deadline has been postponed to April 30th.
Kindly send us your abstract as soon as possible to help us to better organize the scientific agenda of the workshop.


Thanks for your cooperation. Best Regards,
The GRASS LOC Gacomo Ciani Livia Conti Andrea Grimaldi Claudia Lazzaro

TDAMM Meeting announcement

NASA workshop on Time Domain and Multi-Messenger Astrophysics, August 22-24 in Maryland, USA

The NASA Physics of the Cosmos (PCOS) Program Office is organizing a TDAMM Initiative Workshop. The goal of the 3-day workshop, to be held August 22–24, 2022, in the Annapolis (Maryland) area, is to identify and prioritize the top science questions for Time Domain and Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (TDAMM) that need to be addressed to implement the recommendations of the Astro 2020 Decadal Report. NASA invites US and international members of the ground and space science community and of the astronomy and physics communities to attend the workshop and contribute to its final product, a publicly available report with findings for the NASA Headquarters Astrophysics Division.

Example questions the workshop will address include:
* What are or will be the most pressing scientific questions for TDAMM in the next several years?
* Which capabilities (top level) are needed to address them?
* How well does the current mission fleet address them?
* Which avenues of inquiry will be most ripe for discovery in the next few years?
* What collaboration between the ground and space can be done to maximize the science?

Note that this workshop is focusing on sources and science, not on specific proposed missions or experiments.

For more information, see https://pcos.gsfc.nasa.gov/TDAMM/ . Registration is open now and abstracts for contributed talks are due by May 16th.

KAGRA international workshop

Every year, KAGRA has been organizing an international conference
called KAGRA International Workshop KIW in Asian countries outside Japan
to attract more people from nearby countries. This time, due to Covid,
it will be held as a fully online conference hosted by our colleagues
in Beijing. Since it is open to everybody and colleagues of LIGO and
Virgo are especially welcome to join, could you circulate the information
attached to LIGO and Virgo communities?
Thank you for your help.

Best wishes,

Jun'ichi

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GRASS2022 - GRAvitational-wave Science&technology Symposium, Padova, Italy

Dear colleagues (on behalf of Giacomo Ciani and the GRASS LOC),

It is our pleasure to invite you to the 3rd GRAvitational-wave Science&technology Symposium (GRASS 2022), which will be held in Padova (Italy) on June 6th and 7th, 2022. With the easing of covid restrictions, we are happy to announce that the symposium will be in person only.

The GRASS is a series of meetings aimed at exploring the experimental science related to the gravitational-wave panorama. The symposium will emphasize open issues and key enabling technologies at the forefront of the most advanced detection techniques. It represents an informal and unique meeting occasion for experts from different fields involved in experimental aspects of future gravitational-wave science and technology.

This year four topical sessions are foreseen:

  1. Optical coatings New materials, crystalline, cryogenic, new ideas, higher-order modes applications

  2. Stray light modelling, characterisation, monitoring, and mitigation

  3. Wavefront sensing and control Sensing and control, mode matching, aberrations, application to higher-order modes interferometry

  4. Data analysis Overlapping signals identification, multi-detector, multi-messenger

A general session to discuss any other open issue is foreseen as well. All sessions will be plenary, with both invited and contributed talks.

The deadline for abstract submission to the 3rd GRAvitational-wave Science&technology Symposium (GRASS 2022) is April 26th, 2022.

Contributions are particularly welcome from communities not yet deeply involved in gravitational-wave science and from researchers whose work is related to these topical sessions.

Participation by young researchers is strongly encouraged, and financial support may be available upon request.

The International Scientific Advisory Committee is composed by:

  • MarieAnne Bizouard - Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur, France

  • Paola Leaci - Università di Roma “La Sapienza” and INFN Rome, Italy

  • Peter Veitch - University of Adelaide, Australia

  • Stefan Ballmer - Syracuse University, USA

  • Massimo Granata - Laboratoire des Matériaux Avancés - IP2I, CNRS, France

  • Jessica Steinlechner - Maastricht University and Nikhef, Netherlands

  • Michal Was - Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules, France

  • Mario Martínez Pérez - Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies and ICREA, Spain

  • Harald Lück - Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Germany

  • Keiko Kokeyama - Cardiff University, United Kingdom

You can find more information on the symposium web page https://agenda.infn.it/event/30681/ .

We are looking forward to seeing you in Padova.

Kind regards, the GRASS LOC

Giacomo Ciani, Livia Conti, Andrea Grimaldi and Claudia Lazzaro

ICTS summer school on GW astronomy

Applications are invited for the ICTS summer school on GW astronomy. This school is part of the annual ICTS summer schools on gravitational-wave (GW) physics and astronomy. Recent observations of nearly a hundred GW signals from coalescing binaries of compact objects have firmly established the field of GW astronomy. Physicists and astrophysicists are using these observations to not only study the properties of individual GW signals but also of the populations of these compact binaries as well as their progenitor stellar population. Recognizing this, this year's summer school will focus on foundational lectures on the astrophysics of GW sources, including the structure and evolution of stars that form progenitors of compact objects; and the evolutionary history of compact binaries and their population statistics. These lectures are organized into two graduate-level courses:

  • Stellar structure, evolution, collapse and supernovae: Anthony Mezzacappa (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA)
  • Compact binary evolution, rates and population modelling: Christopher Berry (University of Glasgow, UK)

The school is primarily meant for graduate students and postdocs in GW astrophysics and related fields. A small number of highly motivated senior undergraduates can also be considered. A basic understanding of general relativity and statistics is a prerequisite for the courses.

Lectures will be held online. Depending on the pandemic situations, we will consider the possibility of accommodating some of the participants at the ICTS campus so that the tutorials are conducted in person.

DATES: 30 May 2022 to 10 June 2022

LOCATION: ICTS, Bangalore + Online
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 15 April 2022
CONTACT US: gwschool@icts.res.in
PROGRAM LINK: https://www.icts.res.in/program/gws2022

Institute for Nuclear Theory Workshop on r-process nucleosynthesis workshop

The workshop “The r-process and the nuclear EOS after aLIGO's third observing run” (INT 20R-1b) will be held as a hybrid event consisting of both virtual participants and in-person participants visiting the national Institute for Nuclear Theory (INT) at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, from May 23 - 27, 2022. The scientific goal of the 2022 workshop is to bring together experts in galactic chemical evolution, numerical relativity, nuclear physics, and both gravitational wave and electromagnetic astronomy to understand the contribution of merger events to r-process nucleosynthesis. We aim to lay the foundations needed to interpret upcoming results from the next LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA observation run. Details of the program can be found at: . The organizers of the program encourage you to apply by April 1, 2022 for full consideration. The online application link can be found on the webpage.

UK National Astronomy Meeting 2022 (NAM2022)

We are pleased to announce that abstract submission for the UK National Astronomy Meeting 2022 is now open – please see for details.

We welcome abstracts from all members of the community who wish to contribute to one of the many parallel sessions at the conference. A full list of the sessions is available on the NAM2022 website and there is a session on gravitational-wave astronomy. We welcome abstracts for both in-person and remote presentation (in keeping with the hybrid nature of our conference).

The deadline for abstracts is 23:59 on Thursday 14th April 2022. Late abstracts will not be accepted.

All the best,

Greg Ashton

Gravitational Wave Open Data Workshop

Gravitational Wave Open Data Workshop
May 23 - 25, 2022
https://www.gw-openscience.org/odw/odw2022/

This Open Data Workshop is the 5th in a that began in 2018. Participants will receive a crash-course in gravitational wave data analysis. The workshop includes lectures by data analysis experts, hands on experience with software tutorials, and a data challenge designed to test your new skill in GW data analysis. Workshop registration will open on March 23.

Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop (GWPAW) 2022 first announcement

On behalf of the Local and Scientific Organising Committees, this is the first announcement of the Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop (GWPAW).

The conference will be an in-person event taking place in Melbourne Australia, 5-9 December 2022. Hybrid participation will be possible for those who are unable to attend in person. Further details including registration and the exact conference venue will be finalised shortly.

Preliminary information can be found on the GWPAW2022 website , and we will be regularly updating this with event details.

We look forward to seeing you in Melbourne in December.

Kind regards

Erin O'Grady & Ilya Mandel
On behalf of the Local & Scientific Organising Committees

New astronomy graduate student mentorship program with NASA Hubble Fellows

Dear colleagues,

A group of postdoctoral fellows from the NASA Hubble Fellowship Program are initiating a virtual mentorship program designed to provide professional and academic advice to PhD students who are conducting astronomy-related research and planning to apply for postdoctoral positions in the near future. The goals of this mentorship program are to 1) make the process of launching a scientific career more transparent and equitable and 2) to foster the kinds of cross-institutional interactions that many students have been lacking during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A full description of the program and instructions on how students can apply are available at . Please forward to graduate students who might be interested. We particularly encourage applications from students with backgrounds traditionally underrepresented among professional astronomers. (Note that this program is not sponsored or managed by the NASA Hubble Fellowship Program, and participation in it does not influence the review process for the NASA Hubble Fellowships.)

Thank you for your time.

Regards,

Jane Huang & David Jones

On behalf of the NHFP Mentoring and Outreach Working Group

New doctoral thesis Prize in Classical Gravity and Applications

Please distribute this announcement to interested candidates and/or advisors. This prize recognizes doctoral thesis research of outstanding quality and achievement in the area of classical gravity and its applications in gravitational wave physics, astrophysics and cosmology. Nominations (normally by the thesis advisor) will be accepted for any doctoral student (present or past) in any country in Latin America for work performed as part of the requirements for a doctoral degree. Nominees must have passed their thesis defense not more than 18 months before the nomination deadline of April 30 (i.e. defended their thesis after October 31, 2020 and before April 30, 2022).

Welcome to LISA Symposium 14, July 25-29 2022

Registration is now open for the 14th International LISA Symposium, which will take place July 25 – 29 2022. This Symposium is the main biennial gathering for the worldwide LISA community and it promises to be an excellent meeting.

LISA Symposium 14 is being hosted by the University of Glasgow and the UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Edinburgh. The meeting is fully online and there is no registration fee. Participation is welcomed from LISA enthusiasts across the globe and at all career stages. Note that abstract submission will open on April 1st 2022.

For more information, and links to the registration page, see .

Third EPS (European Physical Society) Conference on Gravitation will be held in person in Nice (France) on May 23-25, 2022

(Posted here March 4, 2022)

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to call you attention to -

The Third EPS (European Physical Society) Conference on Gravitation will be held in person in Nice (France) on May 23-25, 2022.

You can register and submit an abstract (talk or poster) here:

https://3epsgpd.sciencesconf.org/

The topics for third EPS Conference on Gravitation: from foundation to observation, are:

• Mathematical relativity/Quantum gravity/Strings

• Quantum gravity phenomenology/Foundations of gravity

• Quantum properties of BHs/Tests of gravity with cosmological probes

If you have any questions they can be directed to:

3epsgpd@sciencesconf.org

We hope to see you in Nice!

Thanks,

Nelson Christensen for the organizers

IAU Symposium 368 - Machine Learning in Astronomy: Possibilities and Pitfalls

(Posted here March 4, 2022)

This IAU symposium, held August 2-4 2022 in Busan, South Korea, is under the broad umbrella of astroinformatics and astrostatistics but with an emphasis on the dissemination and demystification of deep learning techniques. We hope to encourage fusion of large datasets to enable exploration of combined parameter spaces that have so far remained unexplored. Using such diverse types as images, time series, spectra, and astrophysical simulations, one of our aims is to establish a list of reproducible "best-practices" solutions for astronomy data.

The symposium will also have sessions on more traditional machine learning, such as random forests, especially elucidating areas where deep learning is an overkill (and also sometimes ill-advised). We will supplement this with other astroinformatics sessions including those on methodology transfer to and from other science (e.g. Earth science, medical sciences etc.), visualization, simulations, astrostatistics and so on.

As things stand the symposium will be in-person and part of the IAU General Assembly in Busan.

For more information and registration: https://sites.astro.caltech.edu/IAUS368/

2022 North American Einstein Toolkit School

(Posted here March 4, 2022)

We are pleased to announce that the 2022 North American Einstein Toolkit School will be held at the University of Idaho June 13-17, 2022. This will be a hybrid meeting, with both in-person and virtual attendees welcome to participate. The school will provide an opportunity for researchers and students to gather and learn about the Einstein Toolkit.

The Einstein Toolkit provides a community-driven software platform of computational tools to advance and support research in relativistic astrophysics and gravitational physics. As such, the Workshop will offer a mixture of talks and tutorials designed to build a community around this important research and the software that helps sustain it. The talks will report on both the latest developments in numerical relativity, as well as new applications of the Einstein Toolkit to generate interesting science.

This year, a special field trip will be offered for in-person participants to nearby LIGO Hanford, whose direct observation of the gravitational waves from a coalescing pair of black holes led to the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. During the visit, LIGO Hanford will be gearing up for the start of O4 (Observing Run 4), due to start at the end of this year. On the same day, virtual participants will have the opportunity to attend an Einstein Toolkit hackathon.

Event dates: June 13-17, 2022.

Registration and abstract submission: Opens March 1, and will remain open through May 1. To register or learn more, please visit our webpage: https://einsteintoolkit.github.io/et2022uidaho/

If you have any questions, please contact the organizers at
workshop@einsteintoolkit.org

We look forward to seeing you there!

The Scientific Organizing Committee

Host a Study Hub for the Open Data Workshop

(Posted here Feb 25, 2022)

HOST STUDY HUB FOR OPEN DATA WORKSHOP: The LVK Open Data Working Group is currently planning the next GW Open Data Workshop for May 23-26, 2022. This innovative workshop will include both online lectures and “Study Hubs” around the world for participants to meet in person and work on tutorials. We are looking for volunteers to host Study Hubs, and/or help as workshop mentors. A Study Hub can be as simple as 5-15 workshop participants in a conference room. Some travel funding is available to support this activity. If interested, please contact Jonah Kanner (jonah@caltech.edu). Additional information at https://openscience-dev.ligo.caltech.edu/odw/odw2022/

GWADW2022

(Posted here Feb 25, 2022)

Dear all,

We would like to announce the date and the program of the remote-style

GWADW2022. The date has been shifted for 1 week to avoid concentrations

of meetings in June. The new dates are

May 23 (mon) - May 27 (fri), 2022

The meeting style will be updated from GWADW2021. There will be two

sessions per day. No parallel sessions. The poster session is divided

into three sessions. One big difference from 2021 is that we set up a

central subject of the meeting; we focus on the improvement of the

sensitivity at low frequencies.

We are going to ask each participant to pay 25 USD as the registration

fee. It mainly covers the fee to use GatherTown. The registration page

will open from Apr 1 through May 15, and the abstract submission page

will open from Mar 15 through Apr 30. Please note that the schedule may

be changed according to the readiness.

Please find below a link to the GWADW2022 webpage:

https://indico.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/event/255/

Send an email to the LOC (gwadw2022@gw.phys.titech.ac.jp) or to me if

you have any question or suggestion.

We hope to see many of you online in May, hoping to see you in person

after one year.

Cheers,

Kentaro Somiya,

on behalf of the LOC GWADW2022

Low Latency Integrated Testing Webinar

(Posted here Feb 11, 2022)

This webinar will focus on the Low-Latency Integrated Test Suite developed by the group at PSU. This software is being developed for the purpose of performing pipeline consistency checks in low-latency. Use of the Test Suite can improve the ability to monitor the scientific reliability of low-latency searches as well as streamline review of code development. Our goal is for this software to be useful for any and all of the low-latency searches in the LVK leading up to and during O4.

The full announcement and registration info is on this wiki page here: https://git.ligo.org/rebecca.ewing/low-latency-integrated-test-suite/-/wikis/Home/Low-Latency-Integrated-Testing-Webinar.

Special Session on GW and MMA Astronomy at the European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting

(Posted here Feb 11, 2022)

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the special session SS14 about

“Gravitational Wave and Multi-messenger Astronomy: current results and future perspectives”

at the European Astronomical Society (EAS) Annual Meeting which will take place on 27 June – 1st July, in Valencia Spain.

The session (SS14) will focus on the emerging field of gravitational-wave and multi-messenger astronomy which has demonstrated a transformative potential for astrophysics and fundamental physics. An enormous amount of information has been gathered by the gravitational-wave detections made by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo interferometers. The next generation gravitational-wave detector Einstein Telescope (ET), thanks to its improved design, will explore the Universe through gravitational-waves along its cosmic history up to the cosmological dark ages. The session will cover i) the capabilities of present and future gravitational-wave and electromagnetic observatories, ii) the current observational results and iii) the science perspectives for the next generation gravitational-wave observatories; the theoretical challenges that need to be undertaken from now to the ET era.

For more details please visit the SS14 website:

The EAS 2022 registration has opened:

https://eas.unige.ch/EAS2022/registration.jsp

We kindly invite your contributions. In addition to 7 invited talks our session will include about 10 contributed talks as well as ePosters.

To submit an abstract for an oral contribution or a poster:

https://eas.unige.ch/EAS2022/abstract_submission.jsp

(deadline 1st March)

Please circulate this announcement to all colleagues you may think could be interested

Looking forward to seeing you in Valencia!

Best,

Marica Branchesi and Toni Font

on behalf of the SOC:

Marica Branchesi (Chair), José Antonio Font (Chair), Andreas Freise (co-Chair), Pablo Cerdá-Durán (co-chair), Giancarlo Ghirlanda (co-Chair), Susanna Vergani (co-Chair), Marie-Anne Bizouard, Sarah Caudill, Selma de Mink, Michele Maggiore, Raffaella Margutti, Ornella Piccini, Ed Porter, Mairi Sakellaridou, Stephen Smartt

“New frontiers in strong gravity”, Benasque, Spain, Jul 03–16, 2022

(Posted here Feb 11, 2022)

Dear colleagues,

We would like to announce the two-week workshop “New frontiers in strong gravity” taking place in Benasque, Spain from Jul 03–16, 2022; please see the announcement below and the website

http://benasque.org/general/cgi-bin/years.pl?ano=2022

for further information. Limited travel funds are available, with priority given to PhD students and participants from underrepresented groups. To help us create a safe environment, we ask that all participants are fully vaccinated against Covid-19.

We would appreciate it if you could forward the announcement to interested researchers in our field.

We look forward to welcoming you in Benasque.

Samaya on behalf of the organizers (D. Blas, P. Figueras, S. Nissanke, L. Stein, H. Witek)

New frontiers in strong gravity

The highly nonlinear, strong-field regime of gravity holds the key to address long-standing puzzles in modern physics. These range from deeply theoretical questions concerning a consistent theory of quantum gravity and resulting modifications to general relativity, over the stability properties of black holes in traditional general relativity, to new insight into nuclear matter under extreme conditions in the context of neutron star and multimessenger astronomy.

In this two-week workshop (Jul 03–16, 2022) we will bring together leading experts as well as junior scientists and PhD students in these diverse research areas, to encourage communication and training across the fields and to foster new research collaborations.

Invited speakers include:

Masha Baryaktar • Laura Bernard • Beatrice Bonga • Katerina Chatziioannou • Katy Clough • Mihalis Dafermos • Will East • Roberto Emparan • Tanja Hinderer • Aaron Kovacs • Macarena Lagos • Luis Lehner • Lionel London • David Mateos • Maria Okounkova • Carlos Palenzuela • Paolo Pani • Patricia Schmidt • Thomas Sotiriou • Rita Teixeira • Toby Wiseman • Nicolas Yunes

The number of participants is limited. We ask students to upload a short CV (maximal 2 pages). Limited travel support will be available, with priority given to students and participants from underrepresented groups. To apply for travel support please include some text justifying your request for support on the registration page. Registration will close on May 31, 2022. Registration will open shortly.

To help us create a safe and healthy environment, we ask that all participants are fully vaccinated against Covid-19

GWADW2022 moved to online

(Posted here Feb 4, 2022)

Dear all,

Due to the continuation of a severe entry condition to Japan, we have to
cancel the GWADW 2022 at Hokkaido. It is quite unfortunate not being
able to have an in-person meeting at the venue surrounded by the
beautiful nature of Hokkaido. We hope to have a meeting there in the
near future.

We will plan to have an online meeting like the one we had in 2021.
The date is not fixed yet but we are hoping to have it in the same week
as was planned for the in-person meeting (May 30- Jun 3).

Cheers,

Kentaro Somiya.
on behalf of the GWADW2022 LOC

BritGrav 22, online, April 2022

(Posted here Jan 28, 2022)

The 22nd British Gravity (BritGrav) Meeting will be held online on 4–5 April 2022, hosted by the University of Glasgow.

https://www.gla.ac.uk/events/conferences/britgrav22/

The meeting covers all areas of gravity, classical and quantum, including astrophysics, cosmology, mathematical general relativity, gravitational-wave data analysis and instrumentation. It is intended to bring together the entire UK/Ireland gravitational research community to further collaboration and allow early-career researchers to showcase their work.

In keeping with BritGrav tradition, the meeting will consist of short talks with priority given to PhD students and early-career researchers. There will be a prize for the best student talk awarded at the end of the meeting.

Registration is free. The abstract submission deadline is 28 February, and the registration deadline is 31 March.

For further information, email britgrav22@glasgow.ac.uk or follow @BritGrav22 on Twitter.

Conference at KITP "Storming the Gravitational Wave Frontier"

(Posted here Jan 21, 2022)

Dear All,

some of you may be interested in attending the conference at KITP on April 19-23, 2022:

Storming the Gravitational Wave Frontier

The detection of gravitational waves by Advanced LIGO/Virgo has opened a new frontier in physics, with impact on areas ranging from field theory through stellar evolution and cosmology. It has also seeded new connections between theoretical communities, especially between field theorists and classical relativists. An even brighter future lies ahead, with more sensitive ground-based detectors and, eventually, a space-based observatory. Current and future experiments demand precision modeling of gravitational-wave signals in order to interpret the strongest gravitational-wave events and to enable sensitive searches for new physics which may be embedded in these signals. The conference will bring together experts from three communities: classical relativity, effective field theory, and scattering amplitudes. Building on the current state of the art, we will discuss the needs of the next generation of gravitational-wave experiments; identify which challenges theory must overcome; highlight recent advances in gravitational wave modeling for more detailed study; and uncover the most promising emerging tools and techniques from classical and quantum field theory for further development.

which is part of the 4-month KITP program: High-Precision Gravitational Waves (https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/gwaves22)

The deadline for registration is March 20, 2022. Please register here: https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/gwaves-c22

On behalf of the organizers,

Alessandra Buonanno, Donal O'Connell, Ira Rothstein, Mikhail Solon, and Aaron Zimmerman

IMBH Meeting in Puerto Rico

(Posted here Jan 21, 2022)

INTERMEDIATE-MASS BLACK HOLES: NEW SCIENCE FROM STELLAR EVOLUTION TO COSMOLOGY

From Saturday 30 April through Tuesday 3 May 2022 – San Juan, Puerto Rico

Application and abstract deadline: January 23, 2022

Website: https://sites.northwestern.edu/imbh/

GWIC-Braccini thesis Prize deadline soon

(Posted here Jan 7, 2022)

GWIC-Braccini Thesis Prize for 2021: Call for Nominations

PLEASE NOTE: The nomination deadline is 31 January 2022.

The Gravitational Wave International Committee and the Friends of Stefano Braccini are pleased to announce the yearly prize recognising an outstanding Ph.D. thesis in the field of gravitational waves, the GWIC-Braccini Thesis Prize. Nominations for the 2021 GWIC-Braccini Thesis Prize are now open.

Members of the gravitational wave community are invited to nominate students who have performed notable research on any aspect of gravitational wave science. Theses will be judged on 1) originality and creativity of the research, 2) importance to the field of gravitational waves and gravitational wave detection, broadly interpreted, and 3) clarity of presentation. The winner will receive a certificate of recognition and a prize of US$ 1,000. We aim to award the 2021 prize at a relevant conference in 2022. Depending on the situation, we may be able to offer support for travel (up to US$ 1,000) to receive the prize in person.

Eligibility: In this cycle, the prize will be awarded on a calendar year basis for 2021. The theses should have been accepted by their institutions between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2021. It is expected that many of the nominations will come from the member projects of GWIC, but this is not a requirement. Nominated theses may be in any language. A committee selected from the gravitational wave community will evaluate the nominations and select the winner. The selection committee will make all determinations about eligibility.

Nominations: Nominations should be submitted by 31st January 2022. The nomination package consists of (i) the thesis, (ii) a letter of nomination, preferably from the thesis advisor, and (iii) a supporting letter from another scientist familiar with the work, and iv) an 1-2 page abstract of the thesis written by the nominee. The nomination and supporting letters should describe the importance and novelty of the research and the student’s particular contribution.

Electronic submission of the thesis and letters is strongly preferred, with the thesis, abstract and the letters in separate pdf files (4 files in total). Electronic copies of the nomination materials may be sent to Martin Hewitson <>. All submissions will be acknowledged; if an acknowledgement is not received shortly after the deadline, please contact Martin Hewitson <>. Please also provide a contact email address, and current institution for the nominee in the nomination letter.

If electronic submission is impossible, please contact Martin Hewitson <> for instructions concerning paper submission, or for any other concerns or queries.

Finally, we are aware that due to COVID, it is highly possible that thesis plans could be delayed, and in some cases formal extensions to thesis submissions may be in place in certain institutions. Please let us know if such delays and extensions affect any students you would otherwise nominate. Our preference at the moment is to continue with the normal schedule for the prize, but if there is significant evidence that a delay to the process would be appropriate, we will consider it.

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