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On November 1^st at 15:00 UTC, the LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave detectors resumed their search for gravitational waves. All three sites halted operations for the entire month of October to perform some maintenance and upgrades. more

Dr. Tim Dietrich, currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Nikhef in Amsterdam, receives the Heinz Billing Award for his numerical-relativity simulations of binary neutron star mergers. more

Dr. Jan Steinhoff becomes a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics more

Researchers from the AEI in Potsdam and from the CEA in Saclay, Paris suggest how the planned space-based gravitational-wave observatory LISA can detect exoplanets orbiting white dwarf binaries everywhere in our Milky Way and in the nearby Magellanic Clouds. more

Key experts for searching gravitational waves from space assemble in Potsdam on May 13-15 more

The gravitational-wave candidates were likely produced by mergers of a neutron star-black hole binary and a binary neutron star more

The distinguished data-analysis expert from the University of Edinburgh comes to Potsdam. more

AEI researchers expect many more observations in one-year long data taking period more

More computing power to find and interpret gravitational-wave events in the data of the upcoming observation runs more

This strategic committee will make recommendations concerning the scientific themes of the next ESA science program Voyage 2050. more