This year, the city of Aachen, Germany, will host the 16th Symposium of the international Einstein Telescope (ET) community. The event, scheduled from June 15 to 19, is organized by RWTH Aachen University and will take place on the university’s main campus in the heart of the city. The symposium is one of the key annual meetings for the international collaboration working on the development of ET, the future third-generation European observatory for gravitational-wave research, and provides an important opportunity for discussion among researchers, institutions, and stakeholders involved in the project.
The program includes presentations, thematic meetings, and plenary sessions devoted to the scientific, technological, socio-economic, and organizational aspects of the observatory’s design and construction. Throughout the week, participants will also be presented with the latest results from ongoing research activities aimed at the geological characterization of the Sos Enattos site in Sardinia, which is a candidate location for hosting the infrastructure. Significant attention will also be given to updates on the experiment’s configuration, which could consist either of a single triangular detector with three arms approximately 10 kilometers long to be built at a single site, or of two twin L-shaped interferometers, each with two perpendicular arms of about 15 kilometers, located at two sites sufficiently distant from one another.
Image credit: Igor Shalyminov.