The XIV series of Majorana Lectures in Naples will be delivered by prof. Thibault Damour, from June 16th to June 18th 2025. For more info and registration, please click here: https://agenda.infn.it/event/44541/

Dear Members, With deep sorrow, we inform you of the passing of Professor Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, which occurred yesterday. In her long career, Professor Choquet-Bruhat gave fundamental contributions to the mathematical understanding of General Relativity, such as the first proof of the existence of general solutions to Einstein’s equations demonstrating the phenomenon of wave propagation. She […]

The call for nominations of the Giulio Rampa PhD Thesis Prize 2025 is now open. Please, follow the link below for more information: https://hyperspace.uni-frankfurt.de/2024/12/25/giulio-rampa-phd-thesis-prize-call-for-nominations-2025-edition/

During the night between November 21 and 22, at the age of 91, Professor Guido Pizzella passed away peacefully. He was a prominent figure in the landscape of Italian physics and a founding member of SIGRAV. A pioneer of experimental research on gravitational waves in Italy, he was, together with Professor Edoardo Amaldi, one of […]

The XXVI SIGRAV Conference will be hosted at the University of Milano Bicocca, from 8 to 12 September 2025. The website will be soon online.

The SIGRAV board is happy to share the following information, on behalf of SIGRAV fellow Carlo Rovelli: The Center for SpaceTime and the Quantum is inviting applications for the Enrico Fermi Fellowships program (see website https://cstq.org/eff), an initiative funded by the John Templeton Foundation. We would be very grateful if you would share this information […]

Voting to elect the president and four councilors ended on June 18. You can find the results in the attachments. Congratulations to the re-elected president and four new councilors. The election commission Massimo Bassan Roberto Casadio Paolo Natoli Ballot – Election of President Ballot – Renewal of four board members

From Monday 17 June (starting at 9:00 CEST) to Tuesday 18 June (ending at 19:00) SIGRAV will vote for its president and to renew four board members. The e-voting procedure will be carried out via the ELIGO platform. Electors should have already received their credentials. If you did not receive your own (please do check […]

The INFN theory group collaboration (“Iniziativa Specifica”) FLAG will meet in Catania 9-11 September. Check out https://agenda.infn.it/event/40951/

The SIGRAV CD is happy to announce the first SIGRAV Colloquium, to be held online on Thursday 23 may at 16:00 CEST. Our first speaker will be Nobel laureate Reinhard Genzel ((Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany). A zoom link will be provided soon. Title: Galaxies and Black Holes Abstract: The discovery of the […]