LGWA

15 Sept 2025, 08:00 → 19 Sept 2025, 16:00 Europe/Rome

Polo Didattico di San Benedetto, University of Camerino

Andrea Perali (University of Camerino)

The Collaboration of the Lunar Gravitational-wave Antenna (LGWA) is inviting to its annual meeting at San Benedetto del Tronto campus of the University of Camerino, Italy

On Monday, an event organized by early-career scientists for early-career scientists will take place in the afternoon in parallel to the meeting of the LGWA Steering Committee.

The main scientific program will take place from Tuesday to Thursday covering gravitational-wave science, multi-messenger and multi-band observations, and lunar science.

People are invited to join the field trip on Friday, which is organized separately from the meeting as an opportunity to socialize.

The workshop fee is 150€ for people not participating in the social dinner, and 200€ including the social dinner.

Local Organizing Committee

Andrea Perali (University of Camerino)
Ilaria Arosio (INAF-OABrera)
Laura Barbalini (INAF-OABrera)
Gaia Lops (INAF - OABrera)
Jasbir Singh (INAF -OABrera)
Maria Grazia Bernardini (INAF -OABrera)

Scientific Organizing Committee

Alessandro Frigeri (INAF-IAPS)
Jan Harms (GSSI)
Joris van Heijningen (VU Amsterdam)
Andrea Maselli (GSSI)
Gianluca Di Rico (INAF Teramo)
Roberto Serafinelli (Diego Portales University)
Paola Severgnini (INAF OABrera)
Angela Stallone (INGV Bologna)
Morgane Zeoli (UC Louvain)

 

Monday 15 September

14:30 → 18:00 LGWA steering committee

Convener: Jan Harms (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

Tuesday 16 September

09:00 → 10:30 Introduction

Convener: Roberto Della Ceca (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09:00 Welcome

Speaker: Andrea Perali (University of Camerino)

09:15 LGWA: status of the project

Speaker: Jan Harms (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

LGWA.pptx

09:40 ASI roadmap for astrophysics in space

Speaker: Gianluca Polenta (ASI)

10:05 India’s plans for science from the Moon (online)

Speaker: Shyama Narendranath (ISRO)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Missions and projects of interest

Convener: Jan Harms (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

11:00 ACES: Preliminary results from space

Speaker: Luigi Cacciapuoti (ESA)

ACES_LGWA_LC.pdf

11:30 The Einstein Telescope

Speaker: Flavio Travasso (University of Camerino)

50-Travasso-ET status - LWGA25 - San Benedetto - 16 September 2025.pdf

12:00 Mars InSight (online)

Speaker: Amir Khan (ETH Zurich)

mars.pdf

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:00 Science with GWs

Convener: Paola Severgnini (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

14:30 Simulation of WD mergers (online)

Speaker: Friedrich Röpke (Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg)

15:00 Core-Collapse Supernova Simulations

Speaker: David Vartanyan (Carnegie Observatories)

15:30 Cosmology in the dHz: opportunities from single sources and stochastic backgrounds

Speaker: Francesco Iacovelli (Johns Hopkins University)

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 18:00 Public event

16:30 - 17:00 VR tour on the Moon
17:00 - 18:00 Public talk by Ferdinando Patat

Convener: Ferdinando Patat (ESO)

poster.pdf

Wednesday 17 September

09:00 → 10:30 Science with GWs

Convener: Ajith Parameswaran (ICTS)

09:00 Black hole seeding schemes and their impact on merger rates: insights and perspectives for LGWA

Speaker: Jasbir Singh (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09:30 Multiple IMBH candidates in the local dwarf galaxy UGCA320

Speaker: Xin Li (Nanjing University)

10:00 Observational quest for Massive Black Hole Binaries

Speaker: Fabio Rigamonti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

LGWA_meeting_no_backup.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Payload

Convener: Andrea Perali (University of Camerino)

11:00 Demonstrating sub-femtometer precision displacement sensing using heterodyne cavity-tracking

Speaker: Shreevathsa Subrahmanya (University of Hamburg)

20250917_LGWA-SanBenedetto.pdf

11:20 Superconducting coil actuators

Speakers: Andrea Perali (University of Camerino), Meenakshi Sharma (MPG CPFS)

11:40 E-TEST seismic isolation facility

Speaker: Mayana Teloi (University of Liège)

LGWA_Teloi.pdf

12:00 GEMINI’s Moon Emulator

Speakers: Ilaria Caravella (GSSI), Jan Harms (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

GEMINI.pptx

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:00 Science with GWs

Convener: Alexey Bobrick (Monash University)

14:30 GW synergies in the deciHz band

Speaker: Ajith Parameswaran (ICTS)

15:10 Binary compact object populations: from LVK results to Deci-Hz prospects

Speaker: Giuliano Iorio (ICCUB)

15:35 Transforming ultra-compact binary modelling with LGWA

Speaker: Alexey Bobrick (Monash University)

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 18:00 Lunar science

Convener: Angela Stallone (INGV)

16:30 Planetary Wavefield Simulations: Methods and Applications (online)

Speaker: Lion Krischer (Mondaic Ltd)

16:55 Observing, characterizing, and inverting lunar ground motions for near-surface structure

Speaker: Heiner Igel (LMU)

lgwa_igel.pptx

17:20 Single station inference

Speaker: Sheng Wang (ETH Zurich)

WANG.pdf

20:00 → 23:00 Social dinner

Thursday 18 September

09:00 → 10:30 Lunar industry projects

Convener: Gianluca Di Rico (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09:00 ESA Moonlight Project

Speaker: Carlo Albanese (Telespazio)

09:30 Powering technologies in PSR

Speaker: Alexey Martinov (Sab Aerospace)

10:00 T.B.D.

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Technology panel discussion

Convener: Jan Harms (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:00 Science with GWs

Convener: Francesco Iacovelli (Johns Hopkins University)

14:30 Role of environmental effects for EMRIs dynamics

Speaker: Alessia Franchini (Milano Bicocca)

14:55 Estimates on the visibility of LGWA of gravitational counterparts of tidal disruptions

Speaker: Elisabeth Keppler (SISSA)

15:25 QPEs in the Tidal Disruption Events

Speaker: Erwan Quintin (ESA)

Erwan QUINTIN - LGWA Workshop 2025.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 18:00 Lunar science

Convener: Sheng Wang (ETH Zurich)

16:30 Digging Deeper: VIPER and the Foundations toward Lunar Sustainability (online)

Speaker: Caitlin Ahrens (NASA GSFC)

AHRENS_LGWA2025.pptx

16:55 Echoes from the Planetary Cores

Speaker: Hrvoje Tkalcic (ANU)

17:20 Imaging the Moon using scattered waves

Speaker: Luca De Siena (University of Bologna)

LGWA.pptx

18:00 → 19:00 Saxophone concert

CamarS'ax Ensemble

Concerto_LGWA2025.jpg

Friday 19 September

09:00 → 16:00 Field trip

Convener: Andrea Perali (University of Camerino)