Gravitational Wave

Organizers:

Carlos F. Sopuerta (ICE-CSIC), Mario Mart�nez (IFAE), Ernestro Contreras (U Alicante), David Keitel (U Illes Balears), Jose Juan Blanco Pillado (EHU/UPV), Angeles Perez Garcia (U. Salamanca) y Paclo Garcia Abia (CIEMAT)

The Iberian Gravitational Wave Meetings (IGWM) are annual meetings organized by the REDONGRA community which have played a key role in establishing a Spanish GW community, and in integrating new groups.

We organize these meetings with focus on specific joint R&D activities, in particular toward maximizing the Spanish role in the breakthrough discoveries expected in the next few years (the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detections and the new Pulsar Timing Array data), and in developing the future Einstein Telescope (ET) and LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) observatories.

In the context of the new REDONGRA funded network, we add the International School on Gravitational Wave Physics (ISGWP), which will consist of a series of lectures and hands-on sessions covering all relevant aspects of GW science (instrumentation, simulations, data analysis algorithms, theory), to be delivered by internationally recognized experts. We profit from the joint organization of the IGWM and ISGWP by the presence of these experts in both events. The ISGWP will be mainly addressed to PhD students and young postdocs, with the aim of training the next generations of GW scientists.

International School of Gravitational Wave Physics (ISGWP)
'Simulations and Data Exploitation in Gravitational Wave Astronomy'

The ISGWPwill take place from 27th to 29th of April

The list of topics

- Simulations of Compact Binary Coalescences
- Simulations and Data Analysis for Supernovae and other Burst Events
- Tools of Bayesian Inference in Gravitational Wave Astronomy
- Basics of Searches of Compact Binary Coalescence Events
- Basic Elements of Data Analysis for LISA
- Simulation Based Inference in Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Iberian Gravitational Wave Meeting 2026 (IGWM 2026)

The IGWM 2026 will take place from 30th of April to 2nd of May

Registration fee information

The registration fee for this conference is:

Regular fee: 150 eur.
Students (PhD or postdocs coursing first 2 years) fee: 100 eur.

The registration fee includes:

- organised bus transportation (reserve seat in advance)
- one reception buffet
- one coffee break with pastries a day
- use of the Centro de Ciencias facilities
- technical assistance and secretarial support

*Cancellation Policy*
A 30 euro charge will be applied for cancellations made up to 10 days before the conference start date.
A no refund policy will be applied to cancellations made after this date.

Bus transportation

The center provides free buses:
From Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 686, Metro: L3 Palau Reial at 15:00h (Note that the bus stops opposite University of Barcelona, Facultat de Física i Química)

From Barcelona airport ('El Prat', Terminal T2A: on leaving exit, turn left and you will find a police building called 'Mossos d'Esquadra'.
Cross the road using the zebra crossing and turn left. The bus will stop there) at 15:30h.

From Lleida, in front of the railway station at 18:00h.

Return buses:
From Benasque to Barcelona airport and then university, departure at 9:00h.
The trip by bus to Barcelona takes 4-5h. approximately. The trip by car only takes 3h 30m.

From Benasque to Lleida railway station, departure at 09:00h.

Bus trajectories and dates:
- Barcelona-Benasque, April 26 and Lleida-Benasque, April 26.
- Benasque-Barcelona, May 02 and Benasque-Lleida, May 02.