Collaboration Meeting

Ligo-Virgo-Kagra week

March 18, 2021

Gravitational Waves Group

The IFAE GW group is presenting 2 posters in the plenary poster session of the Ligo-Virgo-Kagra week

  • Detection of CBC events in O3a using convolutional neural networks, Alexis Menéndez
  • Implications for first-order cosmological phase transitions from the third LIGO-Virgo observing run, Alba Romero
Aerial view of Virgo

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