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Karsten Danzmann receives honorary doctorate from RWTH Aachen University for his groundbreaking contributions to gravitational-wave Research
09.05.2025 Karsten Danzmann receives honorary doctorate from RWTH Aachen University for his groundbreaking contributions to gravitational-wave Research The Senate of RWTH Aachen University awarded Karsten Danzmann the academic degree of “Doktor der Naturwissenschaften honoris causa” for his outstanding contribution to the development of the technologies that led to the discovery of gravitational waves and that will significantly improve further research into them, as well as for his support of the Einstein Telescope project. Read more
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Karsten Danzmann receives honorary doctorate from RWTH Aachen University for his groundbreaking contributions to gravitational-wave Research
Award for experimental physicist from Hannover The Senate of RWTH Aachen University awarded Karsten Danzmann the academic degree of “Doktor der Naturwissenschaften honoris causa”. Danzmann is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) and director of the Institute for Gravitational Physics at Leibniz University Hannover. The honorary doctorate ceremony took place in Aachen on 9 May 2025. Karsten Danzmann receives the award for his outstanding contribution to the development of the technologies that led to the discovery of gravitational waves and that will significantly improve further research into them, as well as for his support of the Einstein Telescope project. “I am absolutely excited about…
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WINSENT Large-N Experiment
Within the green energy deal of the German Federal Government, the installation of new and re-powering of existing wind turbines is seen as a high priority to reach the goal of 2% aerial coverage by 2032. This development is visible across the country, but also in the seismic data of the nationwide and federal states seismometer networks. Characteristic frequencies originating at wind turbines affect the seismic records and may hide weaker signals from physically interesting sources within and outside of the Earth. To mitigate these effects, the seismological community initiated different projects to understand the induced seismic signals and relate them to mechanical processes at the wind turbines. While the…
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Wind turbines, seismic noise and measuring gravitational waves: WINSENT Large-N Experiment
Wind turbines, seismic noise and measuring gravitational waves: WINSENT Large-N Experiment Understanding the influence of wind turbine induced seismic noise is a key question of the ET Site Characterization Board (SCB). A German-Dutch cooperation between KIT (lead), LMU Munich and KNMI installed a Large-N Seismic Array (560 Stations) to study the radiated seismic wavefield and seismic source properties of wind turbines. Read more
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APPEC Tech Forum Vacuum & Cryogenics – Industry meets Academia, November 24-26, 2025, Maastricht
APPEC Tech Forum Vacuum & Cryogenics – Industry meets Academia, November 24-26, 2025, Maastricht European physicists in astro-particle physics as well as in neighboring fields are planning the next generation of experiments to be built within the next decade. The success of the projects in direct dark matter detection, low energy neutrino physics, neutrino properties, gravitational wave detection as well as related accelerator-based experiments in particle and nuclear physics highly depends on challenging technologies in the domain of vacuum and cryogenics. Meeting Website
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Launch of UPSaclay-STAR-phi Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme University Paris-Saclay
06.05.2025 Launch of UPSaclay-STAR-phi Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme University Paris-Saclay The Graduate School of Physics at Université Paris-Saclay (France) is launching a new postdoctoral fellowship programme: UPSaclay-STAR-phi, supported by the EU Marie Curie COFUND programme. Application deadline: July 31st, 2025. The programme will recruit up to 41 international postdoctoral researchers over two calls, for 24-month research projects in one of the 40 laboratories of the Graduate School, at the SOLEIL synchrotron, or at the French National Metrology Lab (LNE). Application deadline: July 31st, 2025. Read more
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First International Latin American Conference on Gravitational Waves: 10 years since first detection, September 15–19, 2025, INPE, Brazil
First International Latin American Conference on Gravitational Waves: 10 years since first detection, September 15–19, 2025, INPE, Brazil A decade ago, science witnessed an extraordinary milestone: the first direct detection of gravitational waves, predicted by Albert Einstein in his Theory of General Relativity in 1915. These ripples in spacetime, generated by extreme cosmic events such as black hole mergers, remained merely a theoretical prediction until September 14, 2015, when the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) experiment captured this historic signal. Conference Website
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APPEC Town Meeting 2025, September 23-24, Zaragoza, Spain
APPEC Town Meeting 2025, September 23-24, Zaragoza, Spain own Meeting 2025: Preparation of the 2027-2036 Strategic RoadmapAs input for the preparation of the roadmap, a community survey took place beginning of this year. A briefing book including all Astroparticle Physics topics from the survey will be prepared by the APPEC Scientific Advisory Committee and released this summer, stay tuned! Meeting Website
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International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP) 2025, August 25-29 2025
International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP) 2025, August 25-29, 2025 TAUP2025 is designed to convene theorists and experimentalists in the field of astroparticle physics to assess and deliberate on the current state and future directions of our discipline’s thematic areas, including: Cosmology and particle physics, Dark matter and its detection, Neutrino physics and astrophysics, Gravitational waves, High-energy astrophysics and cosmic rays. Conference Website
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Exploratory borehole in Lusatia
29.04.2025 Exploratory borehole in Lusatia On 29 April, representatives from the federal and Saxon parliaments, relevant ministries, the region, and the scientific community visited the first exploratory borehole for the Einstein Telescope at the potential site in Lusatia. They were briefed on the current status, ongoing progress, and upcoming steps. Read more