Conference

The IFAE GW group at the Almadi14 Conference

The GW group at IFAE is contributing talks and posters to Almadi 14 , the most important conference in the field.

  • M. Martinez, Talk: “A new instrumented baffle for Advanced Virgo”
  • A. Romero, Poster: “Implications for first-order cosmological phase transitions and the formation of primordial black holes from the third LIGO-Virgo observing run”
  • A. Menendez, Poster: “Searches for Compact Binary Coalescence Events using Neural Networks in LIGO/Virgo data”
  • Ch. Karathanasis, Poster: “Estimating cosmological parameters and testing general relativity using LIGO/Virgo data.”

Latest Group News

Results

LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA complete their richest gravitational-wave observation run to date

November 18, 2025

The LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has announced the completion of O4, the most productive gravitational-wave observation run so far, yielding an unprecedented number of candidate events and high-quality data for the scientific community.

Results

LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA observed 'second generation' black holes for the first time

October 29, 2025

LVK announced the detection of two gravitational-wave signals — designated GW241011 and GW241110 — that indicate the merger of binary black holes exhibiting unusual mass ratios and spin orientations.

New Member

New member in the Gravitational Waves group

October 29, 2025

Jam Sadiq is joining the Gravitational Waves group as a PostDoctoral researcher