Name: Gravitational Waves and Detection Technologies – PAS Rome Meeting 2026
Start: 2026-03-16T09:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-03-17T19:00:00+01:00
Location: Polish Academy of Sciences

Gravitational Waves and Detection Technologies – PAS Rome Meeting 2026

from Monday, 16 March 2026 (09:30) to Tuesday, 17 March 2026 (19:00)

Monday, 16 March 2026

09:30 Registration desk
Registration desk
09:30 - 10:45

10:45 Opening
Opening
10:45 - 11:00
11:00 Planary
11:00 - 13:00
Contributions

11:00 Listening to the Universe: Recent Discoveries from LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA - Andrzej Krolak (Polish Academy of Sciences)

11:30 Einstein Telescope and the world of binaries - Tomasz Bulik

12:00 Einstein-telescope - the future of gravitational-wave observations - Jan Harms

12:30 Overview of the Virgo Upgrade Project - Alessio Rocchi (INFN Roma Tor Vergata)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Planary
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Squeezed light for gravitational-wave detection: current performance and future pathways - Mikhail Korobko

14:30 Upgrades to the detection optical benches of Virgo in preparation for the next observing run O5 - Anne Daumas

14:50 New Instrumented Baffles for the Main Optical Arms of the Virgo Experiment - Mario Martinez (ICREA-IFAE Barcelona)

15:10 Status of crystalline monolithic suspension for ET-LF - Michele Arcangelo Dicorato Nicolo Baldicchi (Università degli studi di Perugia)
15:30 Coffe break
Coffe break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Planary
16:00 - 17:20
Contributions

16:00 Birefringence measurements on crystalline silicon - Luca Craighero (Università di Torino)

16:20 Validation of the Interferometric Detection System of LISA on ground - Maxime Vincent (APC CNRS)

16:40 Towards an anomaly detection pipeline for gravitational waves at the ET - Huw Haigh
19:00 Social event
Social event
19:00 - 21:00
Tuesday, 17 March 2026
09:00 Planary
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Can we form gravitational wave sources from binaries? The role of stellar winds and envelope structure in the formation of the most massive black holes - Amedeo Romagnolo (University of California, San Diego)

09:20 Estimating the General Evolution of the Core-collapse Supernova High Frequency Feature in Interferometric Noise - Alejandro Casallas Lagos (University of Warsaw)

09:40 Detecting the Microlensing pattern in the microlensed long-duration signals. - Sudhagar Suyamprakasam

10:00 Uncertainty Quantification in Gravitational-Wave Burst Waveform Reconstruction with coherent WaveBurst 2G - Alessandro Martini (Virgo)
10:30 Coffe break
Coffe break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Planary
11:00 - 12:20
Contributions

11:00 Performance of the 4-year operation of the IMC instrumented baffle in Virgo - Dounia Nanadoumgar Lacroze

11:20 From data acquisition to noise mitigation, environmental sensor arrays in Gravitational-Wave Observatories - Mariusz Suchenek

11:40 Modelling Newtonian noise of acoustic origin in the caverns of the ET gravitational wave detector - François Gautier (Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université du Mans, UMR CNRS 6613)

12:00 A Deep RL Framework for locking optimization in simulated optical cavities. - Andrea Svizzeretto
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Final Roundtable: Insights, Outcomes, and Next Steps - valeria sequino Mateusz Bawaj (University of Perugia)
Final Roundtable: Insights, Outcomes, and Next Steps
- valeria sequino
- Mateusz Bawaj (University of Perugia)
14:00 - 16:00
This closing discussion will synthesize key insights from the meeting, identify strategic opportunities for international contributions to current and next-generation gravitational-wave detectors and encourage new collaborations across participating communities.