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Summer School, ISAPP GRAVITATIONAL WAVES: from theory to detection, Vienna, July 7-18 2025
Summer School, ISAPP GRAVITATIONAL WAVES: from theory to detection, Vienna, July 7-18 2025 Registration is now open for the ISAPP Summer School „GRAVITATIONAL WAVES: from theory to detection“, at the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics in Vienna. This astroparticle physics graduate school will cover important and timely topics connected to gravitational waves taught by internationally renowned experts. The primary focus will be on understanding how gravitational waves emerge from the theory of general relativity and how these can be detected using modern technologies. School Website
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The German ET Community Meeting in Hamburg
31.01.2025 The German ET Community Meeting in Hamburg The Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld hosted the German ET Community, with more than 150 in-person participants underwriting the strong enthusiasm of the German community to work towards the realisation of the Einstein Telescope and the maximisation of its science. Highlights of the meeting included the keynote talk by Samaya Nissanke about Multi-Messenger Astrophysics today and in the ET era and talks about the status of ET and the ET Project by Harald Lück and Andreas Freise – and the social dinner on the Cap San Diego museum ship, which allowed the hosting city to showcase their strong maritime tradition. Read more
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The German ET Community Meeting in Hamburg
31.01.2025 The Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld hosted the German ET Community, with more than 150 in-person participants underwriting the strong enthusiasm of the German community to work towards the realisation of the Einstein Telescope and the maximisation of its science. Highlights of the meeting included the keynote talk by Samaya Nissanke about Multi-Messenger Astrophysics today and in the ET era and talks about the status of ET and the ET Project by Harald Lück and Andreas Freise – and the social dinner on the Cap San Diego museum ship, which allowed the hosting city to showcase their strong maritime tradition. The German ET Community acknowledges the generous support by the…
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2nd Annual Workshop on Self-Force and Amplitudes, September 9-12, 2025, Southampton
2nd Annual Workshop on Self-Force and Amplitudes, September 9-12, 2025, Southampton Recent developments in perturbative quantum field theory have offered new insights into the classical two-body dynamics in the post-Minkowskian expansion (i.e., expansion in Newton’s constant), leveraging efficient computational techniques traditionally used for collider physics. Workshop Website
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Prospects in Theoretical Physics 2025:Gravitational Waves from Theory to Observation, July 14-25, 2025, Princeton
Prospects in Theoretical Physics 2025:Gravitational Waves from Theory to Observation, July 14-25, 2025, Princeton PiTP is an intensive two-week summer program designed for advanced graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. The program will be held from July 14-25, 2025 at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ. The school will explore the field of gravitational wave physics and astrophysics, bridging the gap between theory and observation. Gravitational waves offer a unique window into the Universe, allowing us to probe extreme astrophysical environments and primordial cosmological epochs. School Website
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Aspen Summer 2025: Physics in the Era of Nanohertz Gravitational Waves
Aspen Summer 2025: Physics in the Era of Nanohertz Gravitational Waves We are excited to announce that our 2025 summer Aspen workshop proposal for „Physics in the Era of Nanohertz Gravitational Waves“ has been accepted and applications are now open. The program is scheduled for August 3-24, 2025. The application deadline is January 31, 2025. Workshop Website
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ERC Synergy Grant: Making sense of the unexpected in the gravitational-wave sky
The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics is one of the four partners in the international consortium GWSky, which the European Research Council has awarded 12 million euros to develop a deeper understanding of gravitational waves. Existing and future gravitational-wave detectors will be capable of observing signals with such precision that they may reveal possible deviations from Einstein’s general theory of relativity and the standard model of particle physics. To fully exploit this unique instrumental capability, fundamental advances are required in the theoretical description of black holes and their dynamics, the gravitational waves they emit, their cosmic environment, and the physics beyond the standard model. To provide the necessary theoretical…
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Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ) has joined ET
12. 12. 2024 Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ) has joined ET The IKZ in Berlin has joined the ET Collaboration as a research unit (RU-Berlin). The IKZ is a state-of-the-art competence center for crystalline materials. Its mission for ET is to provide crystalline silicon material and crystal growth know-how for the production of ET interferometer mirror and mirror suspensions. Read more
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ULTRA-PURE SILICON
11.12.2024 ULTRA-PURE SILICON Development of High-purity Silicon Mirrors for the Einstein Telescope The Einstein Telescope (ET) will be a third-generation detector with a tenfold increase in sensitivity for gravitational waves that will expand the observing window for previously hidden cosmic events. ET will have the potential to discover new, so far unknown sources of gravitational waves. To achieve this extremely high sensitivity, the interferometer’s mirrors will be made of silicon crystals. Crystalline silicon offers excellent material properties for detection at cryogenic temperatures, where the interferometer will operate to minimise thermal noise. Read more
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ULTRA-PURE SILICON
Development of High-purity Silicon Mirrors for the Einstein Telescope The Einstein Telescope (ET) will be a third-generation detector with a tenfold increase in sensitivity for gravitational waves that will expand the observing window for previously hidden cosmic events. ET will have the potential to discover new, so far unknown sources of gravitational waves. To achieve this extremely high sensitivity, the interferometer’s mirrors will be made of silicon crystals. Crystalline silicon offers excellent material properties for detection at cryogenic temperatures, where the interferometer will operate to minimise thermal noise. High-purity silicon mirrors The mirrors of the interferometer will be made of ultra-pure and highly perfect crystalline silicon to ensure that the…