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20250130

Einstein Telescope German Community Annual Meeting, January 30-31, 2025 in Hamburg

The German Einstein Telescope Community is invited to a face-to-face meeting in Hamburg to present status and perspectives in Gravitational Wave Astronomy. Current German activities towards the realization of the Einstein Telescope (ET) and the status within the international community will be presented and discussed in view of a German contribution to this future Gravitational Wave interferometer.

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20250324

LVK Collaboration Meeting, March 24-27 2025, Melbourne

We are delighted to host the 2025 March LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration Meeting in Melbourne, Australia, from March 24th – 27th at the Pullman Melbourne Albert Park Hotel. This year’s meeting will be hosted by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav).

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20250330

Moriond Gravitation 2025, March 30 - April 6, La Thuile

The next Rencontres de Moriond and GRAM Colloquium on Gravitation will take place from March 30 to April 06, 2025 in La Thuile (Italy). It will be an "in person" meeting. The conference will review the subject two years after the last edition. The conference will include both review and contributed talks and will be organized only in plenary sessions.

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20250401

Ten Years to LISA: New Challenges and Opportunities in Multimessenger/Multiband Science, April 1-3, 2025, hybrid

The conference website for Ten Years to LISA: New Challenges and Opportunities in Multimessenger/Multiband Science is now online. This is a hybrid meeting, meaning participation can be virtual or in-Person. Dates: April 1-3, 2025. In-Person Location: von Karman Auditorium, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA

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20250411

11th Gulf Coast Gravity Meeting, April 11-12, 2025 at University of Mississippi

The GCGM returns to the University of Mississippi! The 11th Gulf Coast Gravity Meeting will be held at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS, on April 11 and 12, 2025. In keeping with its tradition, this will be an open, relaxed, and informal conference. We are inviting researchers and students interested in all areas of gravitational physics: classical and quantum gravity, general relativistic astrophysics and cosmology, quantum cosmology, gravitational waves, and experimental gravity. Because this is a regional meeting, many attendees will be from the southeastern United States, but all are welcome.

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20250420

APCTP Workshop on Gravitational Waves 2025, April 20-25, Taipei

The workshop APCTP-GW2025 aims to bring together researchers from the Asia Pacific region who are working on various aspects of the rapidly advancing field of GW astronomy. Set in the beautiful backdrop of Taipei in the spring, participants will not only engage in discussions but also enjoy the excellent weather, vibrant culture, and authentic traditional cuisine.

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20250428

BritGrav25, April 28-29 2025, University of Birmingham

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

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20250428

3rd LISA Sprint, April 28-30, 2025 in Huntsville

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a joint effort of ESA and NASA to develop and operate the first space-based observatory of gravitational waves (GWs) in the millihertz frequency band. To prepare for LISA observations and its unique data products, we are organizing the 3rd LISA Sprint in Huntsville, AL, from Monday April 28 to Wednesday April 30, 2025.

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20250428

The Dawn of Gravitational Wave Cosmology, April 28 - May 17 2025, Benasque

Starting at its very origin, the universe is awash with mechanisms for gravitational wave (GW) production. The upcoming launch of an unprecedented array of gravitational wave missions, capable of testing more than 20 decades in frequencies, will usher in the era of gravitational wave cosmology and open up a new window on fundamental physics. It is thus more timely than ever for the physics community to identify priorities and coordinate the efforts in the field.

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20250512

2025 GW Open Data Workshop, May 12-14

Open Data Workshops provide participants with a hands-on introduction to working with data from LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA. The workshops include lectures, software tutorials, and a data challenge that asks participants to find binary black hole merger signals in real observatory data. Hybrid format.

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20250515

5th Meeting on Gravitational Wave Science in Scandinavia, May 15-16, 2025

The gravitational physics landscape has been evolving rapidly, driven in good part by our ability to study strong-field regions, in particular black holes, with gravitational waves. Gravitational-wave astronomy will celebrate a decade of existence in 2025, and with it we celebrate a revolution in physics. The Scandinavian community has been producing exciting results in the field and will meet for the 5th Meeting on Gravitational Wave Science in Scandinavia.

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20250518

Gravitational-Wave Detector Workshop (GWADW) May 18-23, Cocoa Beach, Florida

The 2025 Gravitational-Wave Advanced Detector Workshop (GWADW) occurs on May 18 to 23 at the Hilton Cocoa Beach, Florida, Oceanfront hotel. May 18 (Sunday) is the arrivals day, with an evening reception. We plan to end Friday, May 23rd. The workshop will provide a forum for exchange of ideas, novel concepts and unpublished results in the interdisciplinary research on the detection of gravitational waves (GW).

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20250522

24th Eastern Gravity Meeting, May 22 & 23, 2025 at University of New Hampshire, Durham

Researchers and students from all areas of gravitational physics, including computational gravity, observational gravity, theoretical classical and quantum gravity, cosmology and gravitational astrophysics are welcome to attend. We especially encourage students and younger researchers to attend and present.

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20250526

XV ET Symposium, May 26-30 2025 in Bologna

The Symposium will be organized in parallel sessions, hosting workshops managed by the ET boards (EIB, ISB, OSB, and SPB), and plenary sessions. The complete timetable is under construction and will soon be released. The registration is open.

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20250602

Scientific Machine Learning for Gravitational Wave Astronomy, June 2-6, 2025 in Providence, Rhode Island

The aim of this workshop is to bring together participants from computational mathematics and gravitational wave astronomy to tackle computational challenges in leveraging data-driven methods in key areas of gravitational wave data analysis in order to maximize the science output of the ongoing and upcoming observations. The areas of focus will be: (i) noise classification and detection, (ii) waveform modeling and uncertainty quantification, and (iii) source parameter and astrophysical population Bayesian inference.

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20250602

12th LISA CosWG Workshop, June 2-6, 2025 in Tallinn

The workshop's objective is to convene the LISA Cosmology Working Group community to examine recent advancements in cosmology pertinent to LISA. Its purpose is to kickstart collaborative projects and tackle unresolved issues in LISA cosmology.

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20250609

2025 North American Einstein Toolkit Workshop, June, 9-13 at University of Texas at Austin

The 2025 edition of the North American Einstein Toolkit Workshop will be held at the University of Texas at Austin. This is an opportunity for researchers and students to learn about the Einstein Toolkit (https://einsteintoolkit.org/), a community-driven software platform of core computational tools to advance and support research in relativistic astrophysics and gravitational physics.

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20250609

Making Neutron Stars a Laboratory for New Physics, June 9-13, 2025 at CERN

This one-week TH-Institute (June 9-13, 2025) aims to bring together leading experts in nuclear physics, astrophysics, and particle physics to address the key questions surrounding the equation of state (EOS) of neutron star (NS) matter and its impact on multi messenger astronomy and new physics searches.

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20250615

2nd European AI for Fundamental Physics Conference (EuCAIFCon 2025), June 15-20 2025, Cagliari

This event aims to provide a platform for establishing new connections between AI activities across various branches of fundamental physics, by bringing together researchers that face similar challenges and/or use similar AI solutions. The conference will be organized “horizontally”: sessions are centered on specific AI methods and themes, while being cross-disciplinary regarding the scientific questions.

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20250616

IAU Symposium 398: Compact Objects and Binaries in Dense Stellar Systems, June 16-20, 2025, Seoul

This symposium is intended to discuss the astrophysical origin of gravitational waves and to establish connections between theoretical and observational data concerning dynamics, populations, binaries, multiples, and compact objects (including binaries containing them) in dense star clusters.

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20250616

Black Holes, Neutron Stars, and Gravitational Waves @ Black Sea, June 16-20 2025, Varna

Black Holes, Neutron Stars, and Gravitational Waves @ Black Sea aims to highlight the significance of these discoveries, discuss the latest theoretical and observational advancements, and explore future directions in the field. For this purpose, we will bring together gravity researchers from different backgrounds.

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20250623

Dark Matter, Dark Energy and the Cosmological Tensions, June 23-27, 2025 at Lake Como

The Schools are directed to PhD students and young Post-Docs in Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics who are interested in widening their knowledge in the fields of Physical Cosmology, Relativistic Astrophysics, General Relativity, Experimental Gravity and the Modern Quantum Theories of Gravitation.

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20250623

Gravitational Wave Probes of Physics Beyond Standard Model 4, June 23-27, 2025 at University of Warsaw

The purpose of this workshop is to discuss how gravitational waves may serve as tools to explore possible fundamental physics beyond the Standard Model, such as first-order phase transitions in the early Universe, cosmic strings, primordial black holes and scenarios for cosmological inflation. In addition, it will explore how gravitational wave signals may reveal possible modifications of general relativity. With these aims in mind, the workshop will bring together experts in particle physics, cosmology and the gravitational wave community.

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20250623

Massive Black Holes at EAS 2025, Cork, June 23-24, 2025

Symposium on "Understanding and Interpreting Massive Black Holes in the Early Universe" at EAS 2025 in Cork, organized by John Regan and Michael Tremmel. This symposium will take place across June 23rd and 24th (first two days or the symposium). Within this session there will be dedicated blocks focused on signatures of massive black hole binaries and the organizers encourage abstracts from the GW community in this direction. Within EAS there are of course multiple other sessions and symposia focused on Massive Black Holes (e.g.Modelling the First Billion Years) all of which may appeal those with research interested in MBH(B)s.

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20250623

EMRI Search and Inference within the LISA Global Fit - Part I, June 23–25 2025, APC Paris

The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts in EMRI science and LISA data analysis, to assess the state of the art in the field and to further develop plans for the optimal extraction of science from such sources.

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20250630

Geometric Foundations of Gravity 2025, June 30 - July 4 in Tatu

Geometric Foundations of Gravity is a conference dedicated to the various approaches to gravity that venture beyond the basic formalism of general relativity, i.e., the description in terms of a massless metric field in Riemannian geometry derived from the Einstein-Hilbert action. The topics will range from the foundational issues to the applications in cosmology, gravitational waves, black holes, and other objects.

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20250630

10th Physics and Astrophysics at the eXtreme Workshop and 3rd Cosmic Explorer Symposium, June 30 – July 3, 2025, Urbana, Illinois

The meeting aims to explore how gravitational and electromagnetic wave observations can help us understand extreme physics, including strong gravitational fields, dark matter, nuclear physics, cosmology, and multimessenger astrophysics. The Cosmic Explorer Symposium will bring together the community to discuss important aspects of the design and operations of the Cosmic Explorer gravitational-wave observatories, covering both observational and instrument science. Together, PAX-X and the Cosmic Explorer Symposium will explore the science opportunities that come with the next-generation gravitational-wave detectors.

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20250630

Cosmic Explorer Symposium and Physics and Astrophysics at the eXtreme workshop (PAX-X) at UIUC from 30 June - 3 July 2025

The 10th Physics and Astrophysics at the eXtreme workshop (PAX X) and the 3rd Cosmic Explorer Symposium will be held jointly at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 30 June – 3 July 2025. Registration will open shortly.

20250630

Enabling future gravitational waves astrophysics in the milli-hertz regime, June 30 - Juli 25, 2025, Munich

Join us to explore the uncharted milli-Hertz regime of the gravitational wave spectrum, a domain soon to be unlocked by space missions. With a special emphasis on the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, our workshop also broadens its scope to include other milli-Hertz missions and aims to explore synergies with the next generation of ground-based gravitational wave detectors.

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20250630

Fourth MaNiTou Summer School on Gravitational Waves: A new window to the Universe, Jun 30 - July 5, 2025, Marseille

The school is collaboratively organized by scientific communities involved in Gravitational Waves, from 3 French locations in Southern France, namely Marseille, Nice and Toulouse, thus the MaNiTou name for the school. Registration to the 4th edition of the MaNiTou Summer School on Gravitational Waves is now open for registration until April 6th, 2025.

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20250707

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.

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20250707

Gravitational Waves meet Nuclear Astrophysics Conference (GravNu 2025), July 7-11, 2025, Fullerton

Our goal is to bring researchers from multiple fields together to understand how gravitational-wave astronomy will help us understand the dense matter equation of state and heavy-element nucleosynthesis in our universe.

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20250707

Dark Side of the Universe 2025, July 7-11, Toronto

The 19th International Workshop on the Dark Side of the Universe (DSU2025) will be held from July 7 - 12 2025 at the new science campus of the Université de Montreal and is co-organized by McGill University and the Université de Montreal.

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20250714

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.

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20250714

Dark Matter and Stars, July 14-16 2025, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

The International Conference "Dark Matter and Stars: Multi-Messenger Probes of Dark Matter and Modified Gravity" aims to bring together scientists working across the different research fields of astrophysics, cosmology, and modified gravity.

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20250714

GR24 & Amaldi16, July 14-18, 2025, Glasgow

The GR24–Amaldi Meeting will be held as a primarily in-person event at the Scottish Event Campus, Glasgow. Online resources will be made freely available after the event. Meeting organisation is led by the Institute for Gravitational Research at the University of Glasgow and the Institute of Physics.

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20250721

28th Capra Meeting on Radiation Reaction in General Relativity, July 21-25, 2025 in Southampton

The conference will be hosted at the Centenary Building (Building 100) on the University of Southampton's Highfield Campus. The five days will be filled with contributed talks and extensive discussion sessions. The conference will be held primarily as an in-person event with live remote participation via Zoom.

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20250721

New Frontiers in NR 2025 - July 21-25 2025 at University of Balearic Islands

The upcoming “New Frontiers 2025: past, current and future challenges in Numerical Relativity” will emphasize the significant theoretical and computational challenges ahead, not only in understanding the observations of gravitational waves and electromagnetic counterparts but also in comprehending the nature of gravity at a more fundamental level. Reflecting on past adversities and how our community overcame them may guide us in current and future endeavors.

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20250803

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.

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20250805

Black Holes & Cosmology, August 5-9, 2025 at University of Iceland

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

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