It is we great sadness that we have to announce the passing of one of the most esteemed members of our Society, Professor Andrzej Trautman, who was recipient of the Edoardo Amaldi Medal (2021). He passed away on February 27, 2026, at the age of 93. Professor Trautman was one of the architects of modern […]
The XXVII SIGRAV Conference on General Relativity and Gravtation will take place in Palermo from August 30 to September 3 2027.
The Executive Board of SIGRAV wishes to express its full solidarity with and support for the civilian population of Iran, which is paying an unacceptable price in terms of human lives in its struggle to claim fundamental freedoms and respect for human rights. In particular, we wish to convey our closeness to the many members […]
This conference honors the scientific legacy of Matt Visser, whose pioneering work has profoundly influenced our understanding of general relativity, quantum field theory in curved spacetime, wormholes, energy conditions, analogue gravity, and beyond. Gathering colleagues, collaborators, and students from around the world, the meeting will highlight recent developments at the interface of geometry, gravitation, and […]
Sigrav joins the family in mourning the passing of Prof. Vittorio Gorini and recalls his important contribution to the development and teaching of gravitational physics. In his memory, we include below a eulogy written by his friend and colleague Sergio Cacciatori. On the evening of December first, Vittorio Gorini passed away suddenly, just a few […]
SIGRAV expresses its satisfaction with the truce reached in the Gaza Strip and with the release of the hostages abducted during the deplorable Hamas attack of 7 October 2023. Nevertheless, it feels the need—precisely in this less frantic moment—to reiterate the urgency of achieving a lasting peace in the short term and of definitively resolving […]
New Sigrav Online Colloquium by Prof Bernard F. Schutz FRS FLSW MembNAS ML Gravity Exploration Institute, Cardiff University, UK Director (retired) Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) December 17th, 2025 16.00 CET “Gravitational Wave Astronomy” More than 40 years of interferometric detector development were rather spectacularly rewarded by the first detection on […]
On the occasion of the Sigrav 2025 Congress, which will be held at the University of Milan Bicocca starting Monday, September 8th, we would like to highlight the public event on Thursday, September 11th at 6:00 PM. For more information, visit 👇 https://sites.google.com/unimib.it/sigrav2025/public-event
Dr. Mieling’s Ph. D. thesis, “Gupta–Bleuler Quantization of the Electromagnetic Field in Curved Spacetimes with Applications to Gravitational Photon Interferometry,” recognized by the Austrian Ministry of Sciences as one of the best PhD Theses of the year, offers a comprehensive and brilliant analysis of a new approach to the theory of gravitational photon interferometry that combines […]
The recipients of the 2025 SIGRAV prizes are: Dr. Martina Gerbino: for her outstanding contributions to cosmology, in particular to our understanding of neutrino properties and fundamental physics through cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure observations. Her work exemplifies the power of precision cosmology in probing physics beyond the Standard Model and has helped shape […]