July 17, 2023
Last week my group and I hosted the international workshop “Gravitational-wave populations: what’s next?.” It’s been a blast! An unconventional conference, with almost zero talks and the vast majority of the time dedicated to discussions. I report the program here … Continue reading
June 19, 2023
The advanced class “Big data within science and industry” will take place on September 22nd at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy). https://sites.google.com/unimib.it/bigdatamasterclass Data are everywhere. Exploring scientific data is now at the heart of both scientific advances as well as industrial applications. This one-day … Continue reading
January 12, 2023
It is a pleasure to announce the workshop “Gravitational-wave populations: what’s next?” which we are currently organizing for next summer: https://sites.google.com/unimib.it/gwpopnext As the catalog of detected gravitational-wave events grows from O(10) to O(100) sources (but think millions in a few … Continue reading
April 13, 2022
We’re at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore) today, for a brainstorming workshop we organized together with the gravity groups at JHU and Penn State. A ton of interesting people, cool science, fun numerics, big black holes, future detectors, and many new … Continue reading
March 31, 2021
This is a quick update some of our group activities… In the past few months we’ve been busy learning about the formation of stellar-mass black-hole binaries in the disks of active galactic nuclei. We organized a journal club and studied … Continue reading
January 22, 2021
We are running a virtual workshop with my group (Bham) and Emanuele Berti’s group at Johns Hopkins University (Hop). It’s an attempt to feel a bit less lonely during the COVID pandemic. Hope this is the opportunity to start new … Continue reading
October 28, 2019
This week I am organizing the GrEAT PhD winter school. GrEAT (which stands for Gravitational-wave Excellence through Alliance Training) is a synergy network between the UK and China. Our program features informal talks in the mornings and hands-on sessions in … Continue reading
June 16, 2018
Happy to report about the great success of our workshop ”Numerical Relativity beyond General Relativity”. This was organized by me, Helvi Witek, and Leo Stein at the Benasque physics center (Spain), in the beautiful region of the Pyrenees, on June … Continue reading
March 24, 2018
The 34th edition of the Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting, sponsored by the APS, was held at Caltech on March 16-17, 2018. This year’ edition was organized by me, Leo Stein and a few others, and was dedicated to Jim Isenberg … Continue reading
May 31, 2017
Our workshop “The disc migration issue: from protoplanets to supermassive black holes” took place in May (2017) at the Cambridge Institute of Astronomy. Chaired by Cathie Clarke and co-organized by me, Giovanni Rosotti and a few other people, we tried … Continue reading