Name: LGWA Meeting 2026
Start: 2026-09-28T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-02T12:30:00+02:00
Location: No location set

LGWA Meeting 2026

from Monday, 28 September 2026 (14:00) to Friday, 2 October 2026 (12:30)

Monday, 28 September 2026

14:00

14:00 - 17:00
Tuesday, 29 September 2026
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 ESA's HRE program and fundamental science opportunities - Sébastien Vincent-Bonnieu (ESA)

09:30 Status of the LGWA - Jan Harms (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

09:50 Toward better lunar seismic noise measurement with FSS & SPSS - Taichi Kawamura (University Paris Cité)

10:10 SILENCE - A deployment and operation study of the LGWA - Pascal Kaufmann (ETH Zurich) Vuadens Thubalenkosi (ETH Zurich)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Lunar science - Ana Plesa (DLR)

11:30 LISA Science - Alessandra De Rosa (INAF - IAPS)

11:50 Scientific synergies with the Einstein Telescope - Gabriele Perna (KBFI in Tallinn)

12:10 Report from the LGWA Outreach and Communications group - Ferdinando Patat (ESO)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 16:00
Contributions

14:30 Intermediate-mass black holes in the deci-Hz window: formation, detection, and multiband prospects - Lavinia Paiella (GSSI)

15:00 Building Up an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole: The Role of Stellar Collisions - Filippo Simonato (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

15:20 Tracing Massive Black Hole evolution with Gravitational Waves and dual AGN - Jasbir Singh (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera)

15:40 More Than a Sidekick: Secondary Black Holes in Hierarchical Mergers - Cristiano Ugolini (GSSI)
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30
16:30 - 18:05
Contributions

16:35 Constraining the microphysical properties of neutron stars and white dwarfs with the observation of mergers - David Radice (PSU)

17:05 Modeling the local population of double white dwarfs - Giovanni Benetti (University of Padova)

17:25 LSST and the role in the identification of LGWA counterparts - Silvia Piranomonte (INAF)

17:45 Grawita - Maria Grazia Bernardini (INAF)
19:00 Social Event: LGWA stand up show
Social Event: LGWA stand up show
19:00 - 21:00
Wednesday, 30 September 2026
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 The payload of the Lunar Gravitational-wave Antenna (session introduction) - Joris van Heijningen (VU Amsterdam)

09:10 Cryogenic Interferometric Inertial Sensors for next-generation Gravitational-Wave Detectors - Morgane Zeoli (Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve)

09:30 Design and Numerical Modeling of a Breadboard Leveling Platform for the LGWA Mission - Veronika Glazkova (GRAN SASSO SCIENCE INSTITUTE)

09:50 Development of a Moon Emulator for the Lunar Gravitational-Wave Antenna (LGWA) - Tarun Singh (Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'aquila, Italy)

10:10 LGWA Soundcheck E-Box. Requirements, Design and Legacy from the Insight E-Box - Luigi Ferraioli (ETH Zurich)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Stochastic backgrounds of gravitational waves (also) in the deciHz band - Angelo Ricciardone (University of Pisa)

11:30 Extreme and intermediate mass-ratio inspirals - Chris Berry (University of Glasgow)

11:50 Gravitational-wave parameter estimation to the Moon and back: synergies between ground and LGWA for BBHs - Francesco Iacovelli (Johns Hopkins University)

12:10 Applying the LISA Science Ground Segment Model to the Lunar Gravitational-wave Antenna - Marco Frailis (INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Trieste)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 16:00
Contributions

14:30 NbN Superconducting Coil Platform for Cryogenic Sensing and Actuation - Meenakshi Sharma (CPFS)

14:50 Latest results on numerical superconducting coil simulations - Veerle Ellenbroek (VU Amsterdam)

15:10 A Superconducting Resonant LC Displacement Sensor using a Digital Phase-Locked Loop - Christopher Collins (Nikhef)

15:30 Lunar silicon cavity - Jun Ye (JILA, NIST, University of Colorado)
16:00

16:00 - 18:00

19:00 Social dinner
Social dinner
19:00 - 23:00
Thursday, 1 October 2026
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 SONACA

09:30 Space Applications Services

10:00 Redwire - Building a sustainable base on the Moon - Frank Preud'homme
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00

11:00

11:00 - 12:30

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 16:00
Contributions

14:30 Modeling the Lunar Response to GWs in the Era of China’s Chang’E Mission - Xian Chen (Peking University)

15:00 Gravitational-wave Tomography of the Moon: Constraining Lunar Structure with Calibrated Gravitational Waves - Han Yan (Peking University)

15:30 The lunar science case of Soundcheck (t.b.c.)
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30

16:30

16:30 - 18:00

18:00 Social Event: Belgian beer degustation
Social Event: Belgian beer degustation
18:00 - 20:00
Friday, 2 October 2026

09:00

09:00 - 12:00