Contact: gw10thanniversary[AT]outlook.comLocation: Palma de Mallorca, Spain
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the momentous first detection of gravitational waves, GW150914, a three-day event will be held in Mallorca, Spain. Monday, September 15, and Tuesday, September 16 there will be an international scientific meeting at the Auditorium of the ParcBit campus, adjacent to the University of the Balearic Islands. This will be followed by outreach activities for local students and the general public on Wednesday, September 17. The full programme is now available at https://grg.uib.es/10thAnniversaryGW150914/ and registration remains open until 31 August.
The meeting will cover the historical context and impact of the first discovery itself, the highlights of the exciting present of gravitational-wave astronomy, and its bright future prospects. There will be high-level talks by invited speakers, a limited number of contributed talks and a poster session open to all participants, room for strategic discussions with a focus on GW science in Spain, and a festive reception on Monday evening. We encourage broad participation from the GW community in Europe for this unique occasion.
Abstract submission for contributed talks is now closed, but registration for attendance is still open until August 31 and all participants are welcome to also present scientific posters (please provide a title on registration, but no abstract is needed). There is no registration fee. Further details and the registration form are available at
The 10th Anniversary of the discovery of Gravitational Waves
As Palma remains a popular tourist destination in September, if you have not made your travel and accommodation arrangements yet, we recommend you to do this as soon as possible. The ParcBit campus is easily reachable from Palma city centre by metro and bus.
We are pleased to announce the attendance at the event of the director of the Spanish national research agency (AEI) José Manuel Fernández de Labastida del Olmo, of the scientific coordinator of the AEI’s astronomy & astrophysics area Minia Manteiga Outeiro, and the following invited speakers:
- Bernard Schutz: Gravity Exploration Institute, Cardiff University, United Kingdom and Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Germany
- Clifford Will: University of Florida, United States and Paris Institute of Astrophysics, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Sorbonne University, France
- Carlos Barceló Serón: Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA‑CSIC), Spain
- Alberto Javier Castro Tirado: Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA‑CSIC), Spain
- Nacho Chueca: Lipsync Medialab, Spain
- Isabel Cordero Carrión: University of Valencia, Spain
- Thomas Dent: Galician Institute for High Energy Physics (IGFAE), University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- José Manuel Fernández de Labastida del Olmo: State Research Agency (AEI), Spain
- José Antonio Font: University of Valencia, Spain
- Sascha Husa: Institute of Space Sciences (ICE‑CSIC) and University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), Spain
- Harald Lück: Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) and Institute for Gravitational Physics of Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
- Andrew Lundgren: Institute for High Energy Physics (IFAE) and Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Spain
- Minia Manteiga: University of A Coruña, Spain
- Elisa Marinas: Lipsync Medialab, Spain
- Mario Martínez: Institute for High Energy Physics (IFAE) and Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Spain
- Miquel Oliver Almiñana: UBS AG, Switzerland
- Rosalba Perna: Stony Brook University, United States
- Carlos Sopuerta: Institute of Space Sciences (ICE‑CSIC) and Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), Spain
- Nadia Tonello: Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS), Spain
To mark the occasion, there will also be an exhibition at the ParcBit. We warmly invite and encourage participants to contribute additional outreach posters for this exhibition—featuring your institutes and projects or focused on general gravitational-waves outreach.
We look forward to welcoming you to beautiful Mallorca for this historic occasion!
Alicia M. Sintes, David Keitel, Sascha Husa, Pep Covas, Toni Ramos-Buades, Xisco Jimenez Forteza
(IAC3 Institute, University of the Balearic Islands), with support from the REDONGRA strategic network