The 22nd meeting of the AAS High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) will be held 12-16 October 2025 at the Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark in St. Louis, Missouri.
The 10th Anniversary of the discovery of Gravitational Waves, September 15-17 2025 in Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain
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
HEAD 22 Meeting, October 12-16 2025 in St. Louis
The 22nd meeting of the AAS High Energy Astrophysics Division will be held 12-16 October 2025 in St. Louis, Missouri. HEAD 22 promises to provide a lively environment, a jam-packed scientific schedule, and the chance to connect with colleagues and friends.
Science topics include:
- Active Galactic Nuclei
- Galaxy Clusters / Large Scale Structures
- ISM / Galaxies
- Mission and Instruments
- Multi-messenger Astrophysics
- Stellar / Compact Objects
- Time-domain Astrophysics
Abstracts for oral presentations or posters are due by June 30th at 9:00 pm EDT.
Background for LVK members: The High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) includes gravitational-wave astronomy and astrophysics in its scope. For instance, HEAD newsletters routinely include summaries of LVK observing runs and results, multi-messenger aspects of X-ray and gamma-ray space missions, progress toward LISA, and news from NASA’s GW Science Interest Group. *
CoCoNuT meeting 2025, October 27-30 in Strasbourg
The CoCoNuT Meeting is a series of workshops aiming at fostering collaboration among relativistic astrophysics groups, specially within Europe. The series has been taking place yearly since 2009 and this year is hosted by Strasbourg University.
This edition will be focused on relativistic asteroseismology, in particular for studying compact objects with matter, such as proto-neutron stars, supernovae and neutron star mergers. The different topics will be introduced by the invited speakers, followed by contributed talks. The traditional three-day CoCoNuT workshop will be followed on October, 30th, by a hands-on session on the CUTER tool.
The meeting will take place at the Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg.
Confirmed invited speakers
- Michal Bejger, INFN Ferrara, Italy
- Debarati Chatterjee, IUCAA, Pune, India
- Fabian Gittins, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Code of conduct
The meeting is supported by the Action Thématique Phénomènes Extrêmes et Multimessagers (ATPEM) of CNRS/INSU and IN2P3, and by the Interdisciplinary Thematic Institute IRMIA++ of the University of Strasbourg.
Starts 27 Oct 2025, 08:00
Ends 30 Oct 2025, 20:00
Venue
Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg
11 rue de l’Université
Strasbourg, France
Organizing committee
- Pablo Cerda-Duran, University of Valencia, Spain
- Isabel Cordero-Carrion, University of Valencia, Spain
- Jérôme Novak, Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg, France
- Micaela Oertel, Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg, France
- Alejandro Torres-Forné, University of Valencia, Spain
GW session at TeVPA, November 3-7 2025 in Valencia
TeVPA is an international conference focused on the field of Particle Astrophysics, covering exciting and timely topics such as cosmic ray physics, gamma-ray astronomy, neutrino astronomy, cosmology, dark matter searches, gravitational waves, and connections to particle physics. Plenary and parallel sessions will be devoted to explore the current status and the future perspectives of these topics. This year the conference will take place in Valencia, Spain, where we will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the series, initiated in Fermilab in 2005.
The meeting will take place at the Bancaja Foundation, an emblematic building of the city of Valencia, and at the ADEIT Foundation, the University-Enterprise Foundation of the University of Valencia.
Please, note that registration in both sites, indico and ADEIT, is required. Fee payment and social program are managed from the ADEIT site. The fee includes conference materials, coffee breaks, lunches from Monday (Nov 3) thru Thursday (Nov 6), reception cocktail on Monday (Nov 3) and gala dinner on Thursday (Nov 6).
Important dates
JUNE 30: Deadline for abstract submission
JULY 31: Abstracts selection
AUGUST 22: Deadline for early registration fee (400€)
OCTOBER 5: Deadline for late registration fee (450€)
LISA Consortium kick-off meeting June 26
With the adoption of the LISA mission by the European Space Agency, the scientific community is organizing itself into a revitalized LISA Consortium. To celebrate this transition and to begin organizing the scientific and engineering community around the exciting work needed to bring LISA to fruition, you are warmly invited to an online kick-off meeting that aims to bring together long-time LISA community members and people new to the LISA effort.
The evolved LISA Consortium kick-off meeting will be on June 26 at UTC 13:00-16:00 via zoom (the link will be available about a week before the meeting).
The meeting is open to all interested people regardless of consortium membership status and aims to share the evolution of the consortium structure and membership with brief presentations from the working groups. It will also present the wider LISA landscape, status of the mission, new consortium governance, and interaction with ESA, NASA, and the LISA Science Team. There will be ample time for Q&A.
SN2025gw: First IGWN Symposium on Core Collapse Supernova Gravitational Wave Theory and Detection, July 21-25 2025, Warsaw
The LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA Collaboration invites the core-collapse supernova (CCSN) astronomy and astrophysics community for a 5-day Symposium on July 21–25, 2025, at the University of Warsaw, Poland. CCSNe are among the most violent explosions known to occur in the Universe, and the next Galactic or near-extra-Galactic exploding massive star will be one of the most interesting, and most important, astronomical events of the century. This Symposium aims to bring CCSN experts together to address how to maximize the scientific potential of the first detection of core collapse supernova gravitational waves (GWs). The Symposium hopes to bring together GW astronomers and CCSN modelers, as well as neutrino and nuclear theorists, neutrino astronomers, and astronomers across the electromagnetic spectrum.
The sensitivity of GW detectors and progress on CCSN modeling are unprecedented, and we expect them to further advance in the coming years. A joint effort across communities has great potential to fully utilize these advances for CCSN GW discovery. Each day, we will host (before lunch) a set of lectures on one of the key topics listed below, to establish a common understanding and a common language. Moreover, each day (after lunch) will also include invited and contributed talks, as well as discussion. The focus topics of the Symposium are:
Day 1: CCSN Theory
Day 2: CCSN Gravitational Wave Detection and Parameter Estimation
Day 3: CCSN Neutrino Detection
Day 4: CCSNe across the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Day 5: CCSNe over the Next Ten Years
The proceedings of the Symposium will be published in a special issue of Classical and Quantum Gravity. We hope the proceedings will serve as a reference for students, postdocs, and faculty in, or entering, the field, serve to capture the current state of core collapse supernova gravitational wave astronomy and astrophysics, outline lessons learned, and provide recommendations for future development.
Everyone who wishes to advance the field of CCSN GW science is welcome!
EREP 2025, Spanish and Portuguese Relativity Meeting, September 1-5, 2025, Alicante
The Spanish-Portuguese Relativity Meetings (EREPs) are a long-standing scientific tradition that began in 1977. Since then, they have served as a key forum for the Portuguese and Spanish communities working in General Relativity and Gravitation, promoting collaboration and the exchange of ideas across a broad range of topics. Organized annually by different research groups from both countries, EREPs have become the most prominent conference on gravitation and relativity in the Iberian Peninsula.
The 2025 edition (EREP 2025) will take place in Alicante, Spain, from September 1st to 5th, 2025. We warmly invite you to join us for a week of stimulating scientific discussions in a vibrant and sunny Mediterranean setting. As in previous editions, EREP 2025 will bring together researchers from across the Iberian Peninsula and beyond, offering a dynamic program in a friendly and collaborative atmosphere.
APPEC Tech Forum Vacuum & Cryogenics – Industry meets Academia, November 24-26, 2025, Maastricht
European physicists in astro-particle physics as well as in neighboring fields are planning the next generation of experiments to be built within the next decade. The success of the projects in direct dark matter detection, low energy neutrino physics, neutrino properties, gravitational wave detection as well as related accelerator-based experiments in particle and nuclear physics highly depends on challenging technologies in the domain of vacuum and cryogenics. The first event of this series, focusing on vacuum and cryogenics, took place in Darmstadt/Germany in 2012. A brochure was published after the meeting, providing an overview of participating experiments and companies.
For a thorough planning of all stakeholders it is important to carefully elaborate the timing of the projects and their needs as well as the market availability of key products. The APPEC Technology Forum is organized jointly with the international union of vacuum societies IUVSTA, national vacuum societies from the Netherlands and Germany, Maastricht University, NIKHEF and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) to identify synergies between projects from neighboring fields. It shall provide a discussion forum for companies, project scientist and funding agencies to define future ways of boosting cooperation to the benefit of all stakeholders.
Full registration is expected to be available im May 2025. However, you can already register your e-mail address to help us with planning and to receive updated information, as it becomes available. You can also indicate, if you are interested in presenting a poster for your experiment, or if you would like to present products and information about your company.
At the end of the meeting we offer a visit to ET-Pathfinder, a R&D facility for the development and testing of technologies for the next generation gravitational wave observatory, the Einstein Telescope.
APPEC Town Meeting 2025, September 23-24, Zaragoza, Spain
Town Meeting 2025: Preparation of the 2027-2036 Strategic Roadmap
As input for the preparation of the roadmap, a community survey took place beginning of this year. A briefing book including all Astroparticle Physics topics from the survey will be prepared by the APPEC Scientific Advisory Committee and released this summer, stay tuned!
During the APPEC Town Meeting, we will further discuss each of these topics with respect to the European and international context, and the new developments in Astroparticle Physics and in the neighbouring fields that will shape the strategic recommendations of the next roadmap.
This event includes plenary talks as well as round table discussions for each topic, to ensure a large participation of the community to shaping the future of Astroparticle Physics strategic orientations.
The discussions at this Town Meeting will serve as input for the European Astroparticle Physics Strategy 2027-2036.