From November 12 to 15, the 3rd annual meeting of the Einstein Telescope collaboration will take place in Warsaw, at the ADN Conference Center. The event brings together the scientific community from across Europe and the world, highlighting the commitment to cooperation on a transnational scale.
Organized by the University of Warsaw, in collaboration with the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the event will be an important opportunity to present and discuss developments related to the Einstein Telescope (ET), the future gravitational wave observatory. Currently, the ET consortium includes over 1,700 scientists from 254 institutions in 30 countries, with researchers and engineers actively collaborating on feasibility studies and technological innovations, making the objectives of this ambitious enterprise increasingly concrete.
The program includes technical workshops, scientific sessions, and discussions on the next steps of the project, including strategic planning and international partnerships. There will also be moments of discussion on geological characterization studies of the area around the former Sos Enattos mine, as well as updates on other candidate sites to host the infrastructure and the configuration of the experiment, which could consist of a single triangular-shaped detector or two L-shaped observatories to be built at two separate sites.
“The collaborative spirit that drives ET’s scientific community has been a source of inspiration and has attracted growing support from astronomy, astrophysics and related fields”, says Michele Punturo, spokesperson of the Einstein Telescope Scientific Collaboration and research director at the INFN Perugia division.
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