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ICFO hosted the closing event of the Plan Complementario de Comunicaciones Cuánticas, presenting the project’s results and new infrastructure developments in quantum communications.

On 26 November, the ALBA Synchrotron hosted the event marking the completion of the IN-CAEM project and the presentation of its new advanced facilities for the study of materials relevant to the energy transition. Gonzalo Merino attended on behalf of PIC.

The event took place from 18 to 23 November

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.

Stefan Stelzl joined the Theory group at IFAE as a postdoctoral researcher

Daniel Lozano is joining the Observational Cosmology group as a PhD

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

Researchers from the Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), through its Gravitational Waves group, participate in the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA collaboration that has reported the first observational evidence of candidate second-generation black holes. The analysis of two gravitational-wave signals reveals binary systems with unusual mass ratios and spin configurations, opening a new window on black-hole formation in dense astrophysical environments.

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