Seminars and meetings
Meetings organised
27–31 July 2026
Precision Gravitational Wave Astronomy: From Theory to Discovery
Haus Sexten · Sexten / Sesto, Italy
Second annual GWSky meeting. Scientific organising committee: E. Barausse, Z. Bern, A. Buonanno, M. van de Meent.
Meeting website8–12 June 2026
Perspectives on Gravity: From Theory to Observation
IFPU · Trieste, Italy
IFPU Focus Week on black holes and gravitational-wave phenomenology, from detectors to strong-field tests of gravity.
Meeting website2–4 February 2026
LISA Fundamental Physics and Waveforms Working Groups Meeting
SISSA · Trieste, Italy
In-person meeting of the LISA Consortium Fundamental Physics and Waveform Working Groups.
12–16 January 2026
The Dynamics of Black Hole Mergers and Gravitational Wave Generation
IFPU · Trieste, Italy
IFPU Focus Week. Organisers: E. Barausse, A. M. Frassino, R. Hennigar, J. Rocha.
Meeting website9–12 December 2025
GWSky Kick-off Meeting
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (AEI) · Potsdam, Germany
First consortium meeting, hosted at AEI. Opened 9 December at 13:45 in the Lecture Hall of the Central Building, Max Planck Campus.
Meeting website17–21 November 2025
EPTA Meeting 2025
SISSA · Trieste, Italy
Annual European Pulsar Timing Array meeting, hosted at SISSA.
Meeting website29 September – 3 October 2025
Ultralight dark matter and observable phenomena
IFPU · Trieste, Italy
IFPU Focus Week. Organisers: D. López Nacir, F. Urban, E. Barausse.
Meeting website26–30 May 2025
Gravitational Wave Probes of Black Hole Environments
IFPU · Trieste, Italy
IFPU Focus Week. Organisers: G. Bertone, E. Barausse.
Meeting website
Hosted at SISSA
23 Sept 2026
GWSky / APG seminar
The search for massive black hole binaries in electromagnetic surveys
Massimo Dotti · Università di Milano-Bicocca
SISSA, Trieste
Organised around Lorenzo Copparoni’s PhD defence; title and abstract confirmed August 2026.
9 Jul 2026
APG seminar
APG seminar
Vaishak Prasad · Pennsylvania State University
SISSA, Room 137, Trieste
25 Jun 2026
APG seminar
APG seminar
Devin Becker · MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
SISSA, Room 137, Trieste
Visit supported by GWSky (SISSA node) funds.
18 Jun 2026
APG seminar
Observational constraints on distant black holes and their immediate environments
Hannah Übler · Max Planck Institute
SISSA, Room 138, Trieste
26 May 2026
APG seminar
APG seminar
Taillte May · CENTRA, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon
SISSA, Room 138, Trieste
19 May 2026
APG seminar
APG seminar
Johan Georg Mulvad Samsing · Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
SISSA, Room 138, Trieste
GWSky consortium speaker (NBI node).
30 Apr 2026
APG seminar
Towards long and accurate NR simulations beyond GR
Guillermo Lara · Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (AEI), Potsdam
SISSA, Room 137, Trieste
SlidesGWSky consortium speaker (AEI node).
10 Apr 2026
APG seminar
Machine learning for gravitational waves
Stephen Green · University of Nottingham
SISSA, Room 004, Trieste
Special morning seminar on ML for GW, flagged to the GW group.
9 Apr 2026
APG seminar
APG seminar
Irene Tamborra · Niels Bohr Institute
SISSA, Room 138, Trieste
26 Mar 2026
APG seminar
Fix the Frame, Resolve the Memory: The Bondi–Sachs Gauge in Black Hole Perturbation Theory
Andrew Spiers · University College Dublin
SISSA, Room 139, Trieste
Slides26 Feb 2026
APG seminar
Signatures of ultralight bosons in the orbital evolution of binary black holes
Mateja Bošković · DESY
SISSA, Room 138, Trieste
Slides5 Feb 2026
APG seminar
Ergoregion instability: the nonlinear story
Nils Siemonsen
SISSA, Trieste
Slides29 Jan 2026
APG seminar
Agnostic ringdown tests of general relativity
Nicola Franchini
SISSA, Trieste
Slides18 Dec 2025
APG seminar
Simulation-Based-Inference (SBI) (for GWB reconstruction)
Mauro Pieroni · IEM–CSIC, Madrid
SISSA, Room 137, Trieste
Slides26 Nov 2025
APG seminar
Binary Neutron Star Simulations with Tabulated Equation of State in Spritz
Fatemeh Hossein Nouri
SISSA, Trieste
Slides13 Nov 2025
APG seminar
Testing general relativity with the ringdown of gravitational-wave observations
Elisa Maggio
SISSA, Trieste
Slides6 Nov 2025
APG seminar
APG seminar
Anjali Abirami Kugarajh
SISSA, Trieste
Listed on the previous gwsky.sissa.it seminars page; title was not given there.
10 Sept 2025
APG seminar
Challenges in inference of beyond-vacuum-GR effects in gravitational wave sources
Shubham Kejriwal
SISSA, Trieste
Slides14 Jul 2025
APG seminar
Advanced Numerical methods to unlock a new era of gravitational wave astronomy
Lidia Joana Gomes da Silva · SISSA
SISSA, Trieste
Seminar given by a SISSA GWSky member.
25 Jun 2025
APG seminar
Geometric k-essence from nonmetricity and late-time cosmology
Erik Jenson
SISSA, Trieste
Slides19 Jun 2025
APG seminar
Classical time evolution in presence of ghosts: From scalar models to black-hole binaries
Aaron Held
SISSA, Trieste
Slides5 Jun 2025
APG seminar
Finding the ringdown of rotating black holes in higher-derivative gravity
Simon Maenaut
SISSA, Trieste
Slides14 May 2025
APG seminar
Fast detection and reconstruction of merging Massive Black Hole Binary signals
Sen-wen Deng
SISSA, Trieste
Slides
Talks given
31 Aug 2026
Gravitational waves: Where data science meets physics
Enrico Barausse · Astrophysics and Space Science in Marche III: Big Bang, Big stars, Big Computers
Jesi, Italy
24 Aug 2026
Gravitational waves as cosmological probes
Enrico Barausse · 2nd New Horizons for Psi Workshop
Beijing, China
27 Jul 2026
GWSky overview (accomplished, ongoing, on the horizon)
Enrico Barausse, Alessandra Buonanno, Zvi Bern, Maarten van de Meent · Second annual GWSky meeting, Sexten Center for Astrophysics
Sexten / Sesto, Italy
Consortium annual meeting. Giuseppe Troian and Kallol Dey also spoke.
13 Jul 2026
Environmental effects for low-frequency gravitational-wave astrophysics
Enrico Barausse · EMRI data analysis workshop, NUS
Singapore
7 May 2026
Gravitational waves as cosmological probes
Enrico Barausse · UniVersum VII
Naples, Italy
27 Oct 2025
LISA astrophysics
Enrico Barausse · The future of gravitational-wave astronomy, ICTS
Bengaluru, India
29 Sept 2025
Constraints on Dark Matter from black holes and PTAs
Enrico Barausse · IFPU Focus Week on Ultralight dark matter and observable phenomena
Trieste, Italy
2 Jul 2025
Gravitational wave generation in effective field theories of dark energy
Enrico Barausse · Black holes and their symmetries
Tours, France
8 May 2025
Gravitational wave generation in effective field theories of dark energy
Enrico Barausse · The dawn of gravitational wave cosmology, Benasque Science Center
Benasque, Spain
Lecture courses
14 Sept 2026
Gravitational waves and compact objects
Enrico Barausse · Gravity Prague Workshop
Prague, Czech Republic
6-hour lecture course (14–18 September 2026).
29 Jun 2026
Gravitational waves
Enrico Barausse · ICTP Cosmology Summer School
Trieste, Italy
6-hour lecture course (29 June – 10 July 2026).
31 Jul 2025
Gravitational wave data analysis
Enrico Barausse · Petnica Science Institute
Petnica, Serbia
8-hour lecture course (31 July – 10 August 2025).