10 Years of Gravitational Waves

Special Lecture of the Gravitational Wave Physics course

  • Date: 21 November 2025 from 15:00 to 17:30

  • Event location: Aula Magna DIFA, via Irnerio 46

  • Access Details: Free admission

In 2015, a signal lasting less than a second changed forever our way of observing the Universe. Ten years after that first detection, the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA Collaboration has reported nearly two hundred confidently detected mergers of black holes and neutron stars. This special lecture will retrace the journey from the first discovery to the current frontiers of gravitational-wave science, exploring the instrumentation, detection techniques, astrophysical sources, and their use as cosmological probes.

Speaker:
Elena Cuoco (University of Bologna);

Massimiliano Razzano (University of Pisa);

Tommaso Chiarusi (INFN Bologna);

Helios Vocca (University of Perugia);

Simone Dall’Osso (University of Bologna);

Nicola Borghi (University of Bologna)

Organized by:
The Bologna Virgo Group

In collaboration with:
INFN

PROGRAMME

15:05

Welcome

15:10

Elena Cuoco

University of Bologna

15:40

Massimiliano Razzano

University of Pisa

16:00

Tommaso Chiarusi

INFN Bologna

16:20

Helios Vocca

University of Perugia

16:40

Simone Dall’Osso

University of Bologna

17:00

Nicola Borghi

University of Bologna

17:15

Q&A Session