Conference
The IFAE GW group at the Almadi14 Conference
July 21, 2021
Gravitational Waves GroupThe 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.”
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.