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This school will feature a set of advanced lecture courses around the theme of gravity given by experts in the field. The courses will be aimed at advanced graduate students and young postdocs with a strong interest in the theoretical aspect of gravity and applications of the theory to modelling the universe.

The school is co-organised by CEICO, a centre in the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences for research in cosmology, gravity and fundamental physics and the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University in Prague. We are bringing together excellent lecturers from the global community and hope to foster a diverse audience. There will be limited space for the presentation of a poster, but no submitted talks by participants are planned.

There is no registration fee, and participants should arrange their own accommodation (see Venue).

Programme

LECTURERS

LECTURER	TOPIC
Enrico Barausse SISSA, Trieste	Compact Objects
Chris van den Broeck NIKHEF, Amsterdam & Utrecht U.	Gravitational Waves
Agnès Fienga Côte d’Azur Observatory	Tests of General Relativity
Ruth Gregory King’s College London	Overview of Black Holes
Eugene Lim King’s College London	Numerical Relativity
Robert Mann Perimeter Institute & U. Waterloo	Approaches to Quantum Gravity
Simone Speziale CPT, Marseille	Gravitational Charges and Isolated Horizons
Neil Turok Edinburgh U & Perimeter Institute	Special Colloquium

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Welcome to our intensive one-week doctoral school on Bayesian Statistics, a program designed to bridge the gap between foundational theory and the cutting edge of modern inference. This is the second edition of a series of schools on the use of AI and modern computing in Physics, building upon the foundations laid during the previous edition.

Over the course of five days, participants will start from the core principles of Bayesian Data Analysis to the advanced frontiers of Bayesian Neural Networks and Simulation-Based Inference.

Common pitfalls in application will be analysed and a flagship case study in the detection and characterisation of gravitational waves will be studied.

The schedule integrates extensive hands-on sessions after each lecture.

The program also features a free-of-charge half-day visit to the underground facility of the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso .

The school is offered with no registration fee and includes coffee breaks and lunches. Travel, dinner and accommodation are to be covered by participants.

Attendees are expected to check the previous knowledge page prior to attending the school.

Registration will close on June 30th. Please note that applicants must provide a short reference letter from their supervisor.

Lecturers

• Eleni Tsaprazi (Paris Observatory)
• Davide Valsecchi (ETH Zurich)
• Alan Heavens (Imperial College London)
• Filippo Santoliquido (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

Organising Committee

• Martino Borsato (Unimib and INFN)
• Pietro Govoni (Unimib and INFN)
• Jan Harms (GSSI)
• Ezio Previtali (Unimib and LNGS/INFN)
• Tommaso Tabarelli de Fatis (Unimib and INFN)

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Join us in Geneva for the 2026 POSYDON School and learn how to use POSYDON, a state-of-the-art binary population synthesis code now in its second version. This four-day workshop is designed to help participants incorporate POSYDON effectively into their own research.

Through a series of hands-on labs, we will explore astrophysical scenarios such as mass-transfer stability, supernovae, binary black-hole populations, and more, showcasing how POSYDON can advance your research goals. Participation is limited to 25 attendees to keep the school highly interactive and discussion-driven.

Registration Is Now Open

Registration for the 2026 POSYDON School is now open and will remain open until April 30, 2026. Attendance is limited to 25 participants. To apply, please complete the registration form here: POSYDON School 2026 Registration Form.

There is no registration fee for the school. We will provide free coffee breaks and lunches to all participants throughout the week.

We ask all participants to plan to attend the full school from August 24 to August 27, 2026.
Participants are expected to have a solid background in the physics of single and binary stellar evolution, typically acquired through advanced undergraduate or graduate-level coursework, or through relevant research experience.
Participants are not expected to know how to use POSYDON but should bring a personal laptop for the hands-on sessions.
We recommend that participants read the instrument papers for POSYDON v1 and POSYDON v2 to familiarize yourself with the code infrastructure.
Familiarity with Python and command line usage is expected.
For PhD, Master’s, and Bachelor’s students, we will reach out to your supervisor to confirm that you meet the availability, funding, and preparedness requirements. Make sure you have your supervisor’s permission before applying.

Limited financial support may be available. Applicants for whom financial support is necessary for participation should, after submitting the registration form, send a separate email to posydon.school@gmail.com explaining and motivating their request.

Please email posydon.school(at)gmail.com with any questions or concerns. We expect to notify participants after the application period closes.

The school will take place at the Geneva Observatory, located at Chemin Pegasi 51, CH-1290 Versoix, Switzerland.

POSYDON School Science Organizing Committee:
Jeff Andrews, Tassos Fragos, and Vicky Kalogera

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The school is collaboratively organized by scientific communities involved in Gravitational Waves, from 3 French locations in Southern France, namely Marseille, Nice and Toulouse, thus the MaNiTou name for the school.

The school will take place in Nice this year, on the beautiful Valrose Campus of Université Côte d'Azur (see here). It will be held in English.

Goals of the school

The school will cover the emerging field of gravitational wave detection and of its scientific exploitation. Following their discovery by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration, many other gravitational wave detections are expected at the existing and future gravitational antennas. They will open up a new window of exploration, sometimes unique and sometimes complementary to what other messengers such as electromagnetic radiation (radio, IR, visible, UV, X-rays, gamma rays) and neutrinos can reveal of the physics at work in our Universe. The objective of the school is to provide the students with a solid introduction to most aspects of this interdisciplinary field in accelerated expansion 🙂

The school is open in priority to Master and PhD students, and also to young or not so young scientists who would like to get better acquainted with Gravitational Waves.

For attendees to fully benefit from the school program, it is highly recommended that they have had at least an introductory exposure to General Relativity before. We also strongly suggest that prior to attending the school, the participants read some of the references that can be found here.
School organization

In order to make the School efficient for the attendees in terms of knowledge transfer and training interaction with the scientists in charge of the different activities of the school, the attendance is limited to about 70 participants, not including organizers and teachers. If more than 70 people apply to the School, a selection will be applied based on the criteria outlined on the registration page.

The School has no online attendance option. All participants are expected to attend in-person.

No fee is required to attend the School.

The School will provide coffee breaks and lunches to all participants. Dinners, travel and accommodation expenses are not covered.

However, accommodation free of charge will be provided by the CROUS at Valrose Campus for up to 50 master and PhD students who request it in the registration form. For more information about this opportunity and the selection, please see the accommodation section on this webpage.

Moreover, since the school is labelled by CNRS as “Ecole Thématique”, the expenses to attend the school for CNRS employees (staff CNRS people and people with a CNRS term contract [PhD student, Postdoc,…]) will also be covered. Please do not forget to mention in the registration form if that case applies to you!
Poster sessions

Posters sessions will be organized during the school so that the attendees can display posters describing their research work and results and discuss them with the other school participants.
Apply to the school

To apply, please go to the Registration (Inscription) tab or directly follow the link here

Pre-registration will be open from February 20th to April 10th.
The pre-registered candidates will be informed of the result of the selection process during the first week of May.

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The ISAPP school on "High-Energy Astrophysics: Sources and Detection" will be held at the Institut Pascal, within the Paris-Saclay University, France. The goal of the school is to offer a general overview on topics in high energy astrophysics related to cosmic rays, from observations to the modelling of high-energy particle sources. It will particularly focus on mult-messenger observations, at the dawn of the CTA era. The school is primarily aimed at PhD students working in this field, as well as young postdocs.

The scientific program consists of lectures including introductory pre-courses on particle physics and astrophysics. It will also include a few hands-on sessions, and some time will be dedicated to student presentations, giving an opportunity to all students to present their research topic.

Registrations will open on February 15th, 2026.

Key topics:

Introductory courses in astrophysics, particle physics and statistics
Physics of high-energy showers
Radiation, acceleration, propagation mechanisms
Galactic sources
Extragalactic sources
Cosmic ray probes of fundamental physics
Cosmic ray and gamma-ray detections: ground and space-based
CTA + visit to CTA-related infrastructures at Paris-Saclay
Multi-messenger approach
Neutrinos: detectors and results
Gravitational waves: detectors and results
Hands-on sessions
Student research projects
Public lecture

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The thematic school Gravitational Waves emission from proto-neutron stars and Neutron Star mergers (GWsNS-2026) is a graduate school that will cover several aspects of the gravitational wave (GW) emission from neutron stars, with special attention to neutron star mergers and proto-neutron stars. This is the 2026 edition of the event GWsNS-2023 (check the website for the lecture material of the previous edition!), and will take place at the Station Biologique de Roscoff (Brittany, France), a CNRS facility with full conference infrastructure and on-site accommodation.

The rapidly evolving field of multi-messenger astronomy and the arrival of third-generation detectors (like the European Einstein Telescope project and the American Cosmic Explorer) are expected to lead to further advances in both our understanding of neutron star astrophysics and the possibility of constraining theoretical models of ultra-dense matter with astronomical observations.

A complete understanding of the observations expected from third-generation gravitational-wave detectors will only emerge through a close dialogue between theory and data. Achieving this demands a broad and interdisciplinary skill set — spanning nuclear and hadronic physics, numerical relativity simulations, Bayesian inference, and multi-messenger astronomy.
The GWsNS-2026 school aims to bring together both young and experienced researchers wishing to gain a comprehensive view of this rapidly evolving and highly interdisciplinary field.

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The WE Heraeus Physics School and the 62nd Karpacz Winter School in Theoretical Physics "Multimessenger Astrophysics and Cosmology" will be held from 28 February to 6 March 2026. 

Compact stars, dense remnants of supernovae, compress about 1.4 solar masses into a 10 km radius—reaching densities beyond atomic nuclei. Their extreme compactness makes them unique laboratories for high-density matter. Gravitational-wave detections of binary neutron star mergers now allow direct probes of such conditions, with hot, dynamic post-merger remnants offering complementary insight to cold pulsars.

With next-generation observatories like the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer, multi-messenger astrophysics—combining gravitational waves, electromagnetic signals, and neutrinos—will sharpen constraints on the dense-matter equation of state, extreme gravity, and heavy-element nucleosynthesis. Mergers also serve as standard sirens, enabling independent measurements of the Hubble constant.

The school will cover the thermal history of the Universe after its first second, from the quark–hadron transition to neutrino decoupling, linking microphysics to cosmological observables. Topics include the Hubble tension, modified gravity, primordial magnetic fields, compact-object mergers, future gravitational-wave science, and primordial black holes as dark-matter or galaxy-seed candidates—offering a unified view across astrophysics, cosmology, and particle physics.

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This edition of the Italian Society of General Relativity and Gravitation (SIGRAV) International School is dedicated to the study of neutron stars as outstanding sources of gravitational and electromagnetic waves in the strong-field regime. The program is structured to promote scholarly interaction and collaboration, offering participants the opportunity to engage with leading experts in the field. Through a series of advanced lectures and discussions, the School aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of current developments in gravitational research and to equip attendees with the knowledge and tools necessary to advance their own scientific work in the study of gravity.

The School will take place in Vietri sul Mare (SA), Italy, 16-20 February 2026.

The program of the School comprises the following four courses:

• B. Haskell (Milan Univ., IT): Modelling of Neutron Stars as Gravitational Wave Sources
• T. Hinderer (Utrecht Univ., NL) : Gravitational Signal from Late Inspiral and Merger of Neutron Stars
• M.A. Papa (AEI, Hannover, DE) : Detection of Continuous Gravitational Waves
• G. Ghirlanda (INAF, Brera, IT): Multimessenger Astrophysics with Neutron Stars

A social excursion is planned for Wednesday, offering participants the opportunity to visit the Royal Palace of Caserta

The School is intended for PhD students and young post-docs. In order to receive the certificate of participation, all lectures and seminars should be attended.

The Participation Fee (350 EUR for non-SIGRAV members, 300 EUR for SIGRAV members) guarantee the access to all courses and activities, including lunch and coffee breaks.

A reduced participation fee (50 EUR) is available for those which will be only able to attend the lectures remotely.

The room should be booked in the Lloyd’s Baia Hotel. Please, reserve your room by using the form available in the section “Practical Info – Accomodation and Transport”.

The deadline for registration and payment of the relative fee is 06 February 2025 (see Registration section).

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