wrapped

In 2025… We welcomed Matilde and a new Giulia. Ana, Rafael, and Sterling also joined for a bit. We said bye to Costantino who moved to Crete, no sorry I meant Rome, and Arianna who moved to Zurich, best of luck! Viola graduated, Giulia submitted, Alice is up next. We organized the SIGRAV conference, leaks from the roof included. Caroline knit beautiful things, Giulia baked beautiful cakes, Rodrigo and Federico vibed a beautiful cluster, Ssohrab made the most complicated plots in the history of plots… all of this while Alex keeps on discussing p_det. Chiara got a prize, Pippa got a prize, Federico got a prize, Tristan got a prize, Davide got an email from China that turned out to be a prize. Eleven undergrads completed projects with us (probably Alessandro, Arianna, Federico, Lorenzo, Nicole, Olga, Giovanni, Leonardo, Erika, Simone, Beatrice, woooooo). We analyzed GW data, run SBI inference, cried with SBI inference, triangulated what could be triangulated, played Sudoku hypercubes, screamed together under the waterfalls, and got lots of sushi.

In 2024…. We welcomed Tristan, Chiara, Caroline, Rodrigo, Alex, Federico, and Zachos (group accretion at the Eddington limit). Michele started a faculty in Marseille, Daria graduated, Viola almost graduated and is fighting the paperwork in Marseille, Giulia went to Cambridge, Alice went to the AEI, Cecilia went to Nottingham, Costantino went to Novara. Ringdowns, EMRIs, stochastic backgrounds, p_det, catastrophes, SBI, and 3G detectors don’t have secrets for us. I think 13 BSc and 3 MSc students defended their projects with us, not sure. Arianna and Nick are two Giovani Talenti, Alex is a Young Researcher. We went to the lake together, got risotto together, and organized a conference named after Inter’s striker. If you don’t know what to eat for dinner, define a likelihood and sample it (Loutrel et al. 2024). Or put pins on google maps (Borhanian et al. 2024). You look at data, I look at the physics (Bruel et al. 2024).

Much like Spotify, here is our group “Wrapped”, 2023 edition!

Some of the group highlights include… We welcomed Pippa, Nick, Arianna, Sshorab, and Matteo. We said bye to Matt who moved to MIT and Nate who moved to Canada, while Daria remains our UK stronghold. Michele got a faculty job, Viola got a postdoc, Davide got a PRIN grant, and Giulia got a SigmaXi grant. We graduated something like 12 BSc students and 4 MSc students (and all 4 of them now have PhD positions). A few long-term visitors (Francesco, Giulia, Harrison) made the group even better for a while. We wrote lots of papers, gave lots of talks, and ate lots of cakes. LIGO is taking data, LISA is being adopted, Virgo has seen better days, and GR is still true. Arianna was in the newspaper, Sshorab broke Davide’s ribs, Alice danced Greek dances, and Costantino got his first American coffee ever. Our gwpopnext conference was a blast and we discussed too much, thunderstorms included.

… now get ready for all the 2024 surprises!