Speaker
Francesco Pannarale
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Description
The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration recently completed its fourth observing run. This is the culmination of ten years that started with the first gravitational-wave observation, and now allow us to count hundreds of additional observations. I will summarise the discoveries made possible by the data collected during this decade, the analysis of which has pushed our knowledge and understanding of fundamental physics and astrophysics to unprecedented levels. Finally, I will address some of the exciting open questions that remain to be answered with gravitational waves in the years to come.