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News

Gravitational Waves Group

Conference

IFAE at EPS-HEP 2021

July 28, 2021

The European Physical Society conference on high energy physics 2021 (EPS-HEP 2021 ), one of the most important conferences in HEP of the year, is taking place online this week. Three IFAE groups are participating:

Conference

The IFAE GW group at the Almadi14 Conference

July 21, 2021

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

Workshop

The IFAE GW group at the 8th KAGRA International Workshop

July 7, 2021

The IFAE GW group is contributing a talk and a poster to the 8th KAGRA International Workshop on 7 Jul - 9 Jul 2021

Conference

The IFAE GW group at the 2nd EPS on Gravitation: measuring gravity

July 7, 2021

The IFAE GW group is contributing talks to the Second European Physical Society Conference on Gravitation: measuring gravity on 5 Jul - 7 Jul 2021.

Instrumentation

Phase I of the upgrades to Advanced Virgo+ completed

May 26, 2021

Ten months after the beginning of the upgrade to Advanced Virgo+, Phase I of the installation is completed. The upgrade includes the new instrumented baffle designed and built at IFAE to control and monitor the stray light inside the experiment.

Conference

IFAE GW group at the GWADW workshop and the PPC conference

May 19, 2021

The 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)

Conference

The IFAE GW group at the American Physics Society Meeting

April 21, 2021

The IFAE GW group contributed 3 talks to the April APS meeting 2021 (April 17-20)

Publication

New GW group Publication

March 24, 2021

Implications for first-order cosmological phase transitions from the third LIGO-Virgo observing run ” by Alba Romero, Katarina Martinovic, Thomas A. Callister, et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.

Collaboration Meeting

Ligo-Virgo-Kagra week

March 18, 2021

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