Name: GRaviCon 2026 - Gravitational Waves: The Age of Discovery
Start: 2026-04-22T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-04-24T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Scuola Normale Superiore

GRaviCon 2026 - Gravitational Waves: The Age of Discovery

from Wednesday, 22 April 2026 (08:00) to Friday, 24 April 2026 (18:00)

Monday, 20 April 2026
Tuesday, 21 April 2026
Wednesday, 22 April 2026

08:00 Registration
Registration
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Sala Azzurra

09:00 Welcome
Welcome
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Sala Azzurra

09:30 The Role of LiteBIRD in the Age of Discovery

09:30 - 10:00
Room: Sala Azzurra

10:00 Divide and Rule: Minimising foreground contamination in CMB B-mode component separation

10:00 - 10:30
Room: Sala Azzurra

10:30 The properties of the parent population of merging SMBHs

10:30 - 11:00
Room: Sala Azzurra

11:00 Coffe Break
Coffe Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Sala degli Stemmi

11:30 Sco X-1 as a continuous gravitational waves source: modelling the secular evolution using MESA

11:30 - 12:00
Room: Sala Azzurra

12:00 Multimessenger astronomy with Gamma Ray Bursts in the LVK

12:00 - 12:30
Room: Sala Azzurra

12:30 Isolating the ET Low Frequency test masses

12:30 - 13:00
Room: Sala Azzurra

13:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Sala degli Stemmi

14:30 Suspension Thermal Noise and Cryogenic Suspensions Development in ET-LF

14:30 - 15:00
Room: Sala Azzurra

15:00 Frequency-Dependent Squeezing for Einstein Telescope and the Possibility of Using EPR Quantum-Entangled Beams

15:00 - 15:30
Room: Sala Azzurra

15:30 Panel Session: Site characterization: how to?
Site characterization: how to?
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Sala Azzurra

17:00 Poster Session

17:00 - 18:30
Room: Sala degli Stemmi

Wine & Cheese
Wine & Cheese
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Sala degli Stemmi
Thursday, 23 April 2026

10:00 TBA

10:00 - 10:30
Room: Sala Azzurra

10:30 Finding Supermassive Black Hole Binary Mergers in PTA Data

10:30 - 11:00
Room: Sala Azzurra

11:00 Coffe Break
Coffe Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Sala degli Stemmi

11:30 Multi-messenger searches for supermassive black hole binaries

11:30 - 12:00
Room: Sala Azzurra

12:00 Bias from small-scale leakage in Pulsar Timing Array maps

12:00 - 12:30
Room: Sala Azzurra

12:30 LiteBIRD Satellite - How to Detect Primordial Gravitational Waves with CMB Polarization All Sky Surveys

12:30 - 13:00
Room: Sala Azzurra

13:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Sala degli Stemmi

14:30 Time-Delay Interferometry for LISA Science and Instrument Characterization

14:30 - 15:00
Room: Sala Azzurra

15:00 Observing Galactic binaries with LISA: challenges and opportunities

15:00 - 15:30
Room: Sala Azzurra

15:30 Panel Session - LISA Global Fit

15:30 - 17:00
Room: Sala Azzurra

17:00 Poster Session

17:00 - 18:30
Room: Sala degli Stemmi

Wine & Cheese
Wine & Cheese
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Sala degli Stemmi

20:00 Social Dinner

20:00 - 23:00
Friday, 24 April 2026

09:30 Measurement science and free-falling test masses for the LISA gravitational wave observatory

09:30 - 10:00
Room: Sala Azzurra

10:00 Latest Results and Insights from the LVK O4 Observing Run and GWTC-4

10:00 - 10:30
Room: Sala Azzurra

10:30 The population properties of merging compact binaries with GWTC-4.0

10:30 - 11:00
Room: Sala Azzurra

11:00 Coffe Break
Coffe Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Sala degli Stemmi

11:30 Assembling GW231123-like mergers in star clusters

11:30 - 12:00
Room: Sala Azzurra

12:00 Tests of General Relativity with the Gravitational Wave Transient Catalog 4.0

12:00 - 12:30
Room: Sala Azzurra

12:30 Tests of General Relativity with Einstein Telescope

12:30 - 13:00
Room: Sala Azzurra

13:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Sala degli Stemmi

14:30 Interpreting the spin properties of GWTC-4.0 events from first principles

14:30 - 15:00
Room: Sala Azzurra

15:00 Shaping binary black hole merger efficiency and time-delay with GWTC-4.0

15:00 - 15:30
Room: Sala Azzurra

15:30 Panel Session: O5 and post O5?
O5 and post O5?
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Sala Azzurra

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