Contact: ilaria.caporali[AT]phd.unipi.itLocation: Pisa, Italy
It is our great pleasure to announce the conference “GRaviCon2026 – Gravitational Waves: The Age of Discovery”, which will take place in Pisa, Italy, at the Scuola Normale Superiore from 22 to 24 April 2026.
This is the first edition of GRaviCon, a gravity conference held in Pisa, organized by early-career scientists from University of Pisa, University of Florence, University of Trento, and Scuola Normale Superiore.
The conference aims to strengthen the connection between data analysis, instrument science, and observations fostering collaboration across these areas to tackle the challenges of gravitational-wave research. We will also highlight different experiments and missions – such as LVK, Einstein Telescope, LISA, PTA, and LiteBIRD – and explore how their findings can complement one another.
Applications for talks and posters are now open (deadline 31/03/2026).
Talk sessions will review state-of-the-art advancements in the main scientific areas covered by the conference, while three focused panel discussion sessions will address ongoing efforts and future directions in:
* O5 and post O5 with current GW detectors
* Global Fit with LISA
* How to: site characterization with current and future GW ground based detectors
Speakers:
Francesco Di Renzo – EGO, Universita’ di Firenze
Giacomo Galloni – Universita’ di Ferrara
Masashi Hazumi – Foreign Visiting Scientist at INFN Ferrara; Visiting Professor at Physics Department and Center for High Energy and High Field Physics, National Central University, Taiwan
Thomas Jacquot – IJCLab
Panagiota Kolitsidou – Universitat de les Illes Balears
Patrick M. Meyers – ETH Zurich
Martina Muratore – Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (AEI), Potsdam
Ardiana Nela – University of Glasgow
Lavinia Paiella – GSSI
Filippo Santoliquido – GSSI
Alberto Sesana – Universita’ degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Sharon Mary Tomson – Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (AEI), Hannover
Alexandre Toubiana – Universita’ degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
William Joseph Weber – Universita’ di Trento
Panelists:
Diego Bersanetti – INFN Genova
Riccardo Buscicchio – Universita’ degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Viviana Fafone – INFN Roma Tor Vergata
Irene Fiori – EGO
Nikolaos Karnesis – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Luca Naticchioni – INFN Roma 1
Alessio Rocchi – INFN Roma Tor Vergata
Maria Concetta Tringali – EGO
The event is fully funded by SNS and INFN and no fee is requested. The organizers are grateful to SNS and INFN for the support.
Organizers:
Giovanni Losurdo – Scuola Normale Superiore
Dario Rossi – Universita’ di Pisa
Elisa Bigongiari – Scuola Normale Superiore
Gabriele Astorino – Universita’ di Pisa
Giulia Capurri – Universita’ di Pisa
Ilaria Caporali – Universita’ di Pisa
Lorenzo Valbusa Dall’Armi – Universita’ di Pisa
Luca Muccillo – Universita’ di Firenze
Maria Antonietta Palaia – Universita’ di Pisa
Matteo Baratti – Universita’ di Pisa
Michele Vacatello – Universita’ di Pisa
Paolo Dal Bo – Universita’ di Trento