Name: GWADW2026 - Gravitational-Wave Advanced Detector Workshop
Start: 2026-05-17T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-05-23T14:30:00+02:00
Location: Hotel Hermitage, La Biodola, Isola d'Elba

Monday, 18 May 2026

09:00 Welcome and Introduction

09:00 - 09:05
09:05 Introductory Talks: Science
Science
09:05 - 10:35
Contributions

09:35 Searching for continuous and stochastic gravitational waves in LVK data: latest results and perspectives

10:05 Science with 3G detectors - Michele Maggiore (Geneva University)
10:35 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:35 - 11:00
11:00 Introductory Talks: Second-generation Detectors
Second-generation Detectors
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:30 Status and plans for Advanced Virgo+ - Maddalena Mantovani (EGO)

12:00 KAGRA Extension and Plan for O5 - Shinji Miyoki
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 16:00
16:00 Introductory Talks: Third-Generation Detectors
Third-Generation Detectors
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Towards a Technical Design of the Einstein Telescope - Jan Harms (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

16:25 Cosmic Explorer Status - Michael Landry (Caltech)

17:10 ETpathfinder: prototyping low-frequency technologies for the Einstein Telescope - Luise Kranzhoff
17:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
17:30 - 18:00
18:00 Collaborative and R&D directions
18:00 - 19:30
Contributions

18:00 Panel discussion: Collaborative Design and R&D Directions - Lisa Barsotti (LIGO-MIT) Jan Harms (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Tuesday, 19 May 2026

09:00 Optical Design

09:00 - 10:30

10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00

11:00 Optical Design

11:00 - 12:30

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 16:00
16:00 High Power
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 First Demonstration of Optical Feedback Control to Parametric Instability at Advanced LIGO - Juntao Pan

16:18 A high power bench top coupled cavity system to investigate LIGOs thermal state - Sophie Muusse (University of Adelaide)

16:36 Thermal Compensation System tackling Optical Aberrations in Advanced Virgo for O5 and beyond - Ilaria Nardecchia (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Matteo Lorenzini (Università di Roma Tor Vergata - INFN Roma Tor Vergata)

16:54 Static adaptive correction to compensate for non-axisymmetric wavefront distortions in future gravitational wave detectors - Luciano Antonio Corubolo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

17:12 ET OPT - Advancing High Power Precision Interferometry - Swapnil Dhage (UCLouvain)
17:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
17:30 - 18:00

18:00 Poster Session: First Sparkler Session
First Sparkler Session
18:00 - 18:30

18:30 Poster Session

18:30 - 19:30
Wednesday, 20 May 2026
09:00 Thermal Noise
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Status of Glasgow/Strathclyde amorphous coatings research for Advanced GW Detectors - Margot Hennig (University of Glasgow)

09:18 Cryogenic loss angle of ion-beam sputtered SiNx thin films - L. O. Mereni (CNRS)

09:36 Crystallization kinetics in Ta2O5 coatings - Valeria Milotti (University of Padova, INFN PD)

09:54 The Dawn of Low Thermal Noise Coatings for Room Temperature and Cryogenic Gravitational Wave Detectors: A Path to 30 cm AlGaAs - Steven Penn

10:12 Results from the MIT Coating Thermal Noise facility - Peter Fritschel (M.I.T.)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Thermal Noise
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Low-loss dielectric metasurface mirror for precision optical cavities in the near-infrared - Swadha Pandey (MIT)

11:18 High Frequency Thermal Noise in Michelson Interferometers - Daniel Grass (Caltech)

11:36 Vertical suspension thermoelastic noise - Kentaro Somiya (Institute of Science Tokyo)

11:54 Suspensions for A# - Brian Lantz

12:12 Experimental Validation of Cryogenic Suspensions with Silicon Fibres for Next-Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors - Ardiana Nela
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 16:00

16:00 Low Frequency Noise

16:00 - 17:30

17:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
17:30 - 18:00

18:00 Low Frequency Noise

18:00 - 19:30
Thursday, 21 May 2026
09:00 Quantum Noise
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Mode mismatch is not loss: observing hyperloss obliterate squeezing - Mikhail Korobko (University of Hamburg)

09:18 Robust Generation of Frequency-Dependent Squeezing in the Presence of Mode Mismatch - Byeong-Yoon Go

09:36 Birefringence-induced SQZ/anti-SQZ mixing in gravitational-wave interferometers - Yuheng Ye (The University of Tokyo)

09:54 Bidirectional parametric readout: One crystal to produce squeezing and evade injection and detection losses - Jonas Rittmeyer (Institut für Quantenphysik, Universität Hamburg)

10:12 Experimental demonstration of frequency-dependent squeezing based on quantum teleportation - Ryo Iden (Science Tokyo)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Quantum Noise
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Balanced homodyne detection design and application at the AEI 10m Prototype sub-SQL interferometer - Matteo Carlassara (Max Plank Institute for Gravitational Physics - AEI Hannover - 10 m Prototype)

11:18 Quantum experiments for future gravitational wave detectors - Robert Ward (Australian National University)

11:36 Optimizing Frequency-Dependent Quantum Squeezing for Next-Generation Gravitational-Wave Detectors - Isander Ahrend

11:54 Quantum-Enhanced Optical Spring via Intracavity Signal Amplification for High-Frequency Detection - Kaido Suzuki (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 16:00
16:00 Stray Light
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Scattered light noise at LIGO Livingston Observatory in O4 - Debasmita Nandi (Louisiana State University)

16:18 New instrumented baffles for the main input mirrors of the Virgo experiment - Lluïsa-Maria Mir

16:36 Stray Light Analysis and Mitigation Perspectives for Next Generation Gravitational-Wave Detectors - Eleonora Polini (CNRS / OCA / ARTEMIS)

16:54 Modeling of the Cosmic Explorer beam tube baffles - Hiroaki Yaamoto

17:12 Beamtube Design Optimization from a Stray Light Perspective - Antonios Kontos (Bard College)
17:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
17:30 - 18:00

18:00 Poster Session: Second Sparkler Session
Second Sparkler Session
18:00 - 18:30

18:30 Poster Session

18:30 - 19:30
Friday, 22 May 2026
09:00 Exploring New Directions: Future Techniques for Next Generation Detectors
Future Techniques for Next Generation Detectors
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 StrainForge: A Benchmark for the Computational Design of Gravitational Wave Detectors - Jonathan Klimesch (University of Tübingen)

09:18 Current status of TOsion Bar Antenna experiment - Tatsuya Sugioka (University of Tokyo)

09:36 Bidirectional Internal Squeezing for Gravitational-Wave Detectors - Sander M. Vermeulen (Caltech)

09:54 Gingin Technology Demonstrator and Future ~kHz Gravitational Wave Detectors - Carl Blair (University of Western Australia)

10:12 Multiparameter quantum limits in realistic gravitational-wave detectors - Jacques Ding
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Exploring New Directions: GW Techniques for other Physics Experiments
GW Techniques for other Physics Experiments
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Proposal for a unified optomechanical platform for high-frequency gravitational wave and vector dark matter detection - David Rousso (DESY)

11:18 Magnetically levitated resonators with low mechanical loss for quantum sensing - Shilu Tian

11:36 Beyond the ALPS II Experiment: An Interferometric Test-bed for Fundamental Particle Physics and High-Frequency Gravitational Waves - Todd Kozlowski

11:54 Sensitivity improvement of Dark matter Axion search with riNg Cavity Experiment (DANCE) - Hinata Takidera (Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo)

12:12 Testing the quantum nature of gravity with levitated mirrors - Yuta Michimura (RESCEU, University of Tokyo)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 16:00
16:00 Others
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 A dual tunnel configuration for the Einstein Telescope - Riccardo Desalvo

16:18 Laser noise requirements for the Einstein Telescope - Debanjan Adhikari (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Hannover)

16:36 Determining interferometer beam offset via the photon calibrator. - Francisco Llamas (The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)

16:54 The Residual Amplitude Modulation Stabilization in Virgo - Flavio Nocera

17:12 GWexpy: GWpy Expansions for Experiments - Tatsuki Washimi
17:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
17:30 - 18:00
18:00 Observatories in Space
18:00 - 19:00
Contributions

18:00 Validation of the performance of LISA on ground - Maxime Vincent (APC CNRS)

18:18 Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna: a sub-Hertz detector on the Moon - Volker Quetschke (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)

18:36 Low-Frequency Sensitivity of the Lunar Interferometer Laser Antenna - Teviet Creighton (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)
19:00 Summary

19:00 - 19:30
Saturday, 23 May 2026

07:00 Bus Departure
Bus Departure
07:00 - 14:30