Conference
IFAE GW group at the GWADW workshop and the PPC conference
May 19, 2021
Gravitational Waves GroupThe IFAE GW group has contributed talks to 2 conferences this week: the Gravitational Wave Advanced Detector Workshop (GWADW2021) and the XIV International Conference on Interconnections between Particle Physics and Cosmology (PPC2021)
GWADW2021 , Gravitational Wave Advanced Detector Workshop, 17-21 May 2021
- Ll. Mir: Instrumented baffle for Virgo input mode-cleaner end-mirror
- M. Martinez: Summary of Stray Light Mitigation Strategies at 2G interferometers
PPC2021 XIV International Conference on Interconnections between Particle Physics and Cosmology, May 17-21, 2021, Norman, Oklahoma
- Alba Romero: “First Order Phase Transition signal in O3 data”
Prize
Alba Romero-Rodriguez winner of the 2023 Virgo Awards
November 15, 2023
Alba Romero-Rodriguez (former PhD Student at IFAE and now at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel) is one of the wiiners of the third edition of the Virgo Awards
New Publication
New GW group publication
May 8, 2023
Searches for mass-asymmetric compact binary coalescence events using neural networks in the LIGO/Virgo third observation period by M. Andrés-Carcasona, A. Menéndez-Vázquez, M. Martínez, and Ll. M. Mir has been published by Phys.Rev.D
IFAE organization
New positions in the IFAE Organization
January 16, 2023
Mario Martinez, ICREA professor at IFAE and head of the Gravitational Waves Group, is the new Director of the Experimental Division and takes on the role of IFAE Deputy Director. Martine Bosman, retiring Director of the Experimental Division, assumes the status of IFAE Emeritus.