To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the momentous first detection of gravitational waves, GW150914, a two-day international scientific meeting will be held at the Auditorium on the ParcBit campus, adjacent to the University of the Balearic Islands in Mallorca, Spain, on Monday, September 15, and Tuesday, September 16. The event will be followed by outreach activities for local students and the general public on Wednesday, September 17.
The meeting will cover the historical context and impact of the first discovery itself, the highlights of the exciting present of gravitational-wave astronomy, and its bright future prospects. There will be high-level talks by invited speakers, a limited number of contributed talks and a poster session open to all participants, room for strategic discussions with a focus on GW science in Spain, and a festive reception on Monday evening.
There is no registration fee. The deadline for registrations including abstracts for contributed talks is July 20, and for general attendance, the deadline is August 31. (No abstracts are required for posters.) As Palma remains a popular tourist destination in September, we recommend booking your travel and accommodation as soon as possible.
There will also be representatives from the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, and local institutions.
To mark the occasion, there will also be an exhibition at the ParcBit. We warmly invite and encourage participants to contribute additional scientific posters or outreach material for this exhibition, whether showcasing your institutes and projects or highlighting general gravitational wave outreach.
We look forward to welcoming you to Mallorca for this occasion.
Important dates:
- Deadline for registration with abstracts for contributed talks: 20 July 2025
- Deadline for general registration (including posters): 31 August 2025
Invited speakers include:
- Carlos Barceló Serón: Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA‑CSIC), Spain
- Nacho Chueca: Lipsync Medialab, Spain
- Isabel Cordero Carrión: University of Valencia, Spain
- Thomas Dent: Galician Institute for High Energy Physics (IGFAE), University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- José Antonio Font: University of Valencia, Spain
- Sascha Husa: Institute of Space Sciences (ICE‑CSIC) and University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), Spain
- Harald Lück: Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) and Institute for Gravitational Physics of Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
- Andrew Lundgren: Institute for High Energy Physics (IFAE) and Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Spain
- Elisa Marinas: Lipsync Medialab, Spain
- Mario Martínez: Institute for High Energy Physics (IFAE) and Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Spain
- Miquel Oliver Almiñana: UBS AG, Switzerland
- Bernard Schutz: Gravity Exploration Institute, Cardiff University, United Kingdom and Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Germany
- Carlos Sopuerta: Institute of Space Sciences (ICE‑CSIC) and Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), Spain
- Clifford Will: University of Florida, United States and Paris Institute of Astrophysics, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Sorbonne University, France
Organising Committee:
- Alicia Calafat Jaso – PhD Student
- Josep Covas Vidal – Assistant Professor
- Sascha Husa – Scientific Researcher at CSIC and UIB
- Francisco Jiménez Forteza – Beatriz Galindo Researcher
- David Keitel – Associate Professor
- Antoni Ramos-Buades – Beatriz Galindo Researcher
- Alicia M. Sintes Olives – Full Professor
If you would like to contact us, please write to: gw10thanniversary(at)outlook.com