Am Montag, den 20. April 2009 besucht Han Seung-soo, der Premierminister Südkoreas, gemeinsam mit Max-Planck-Präsident Prof. Dr. Peter Gruss das Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut, AEI) in Hannover, um eine Intensivierung der wissenschaftlichen Zusammenarbeit zu erörtern. [more]

AIGO, GEO600, LIGO, TAMA and Virgo participate in ESO ́s "Around the World in 80 Telescopes" [more]

Anyone who has a computer with an Internet connection can now participate in the search for radio pulsars through Einstein@Home, an international project for the evaluation of scientific data, which has recently analysed the data of the radio telescope in Arecibo (Puerto Rico) and that searches for corresponding signals in this data. At the Mannheim Planetarium visitors can learn more about this project and the search for gravitational waves and radio pulsars up to the end of May 2009. [more]

Einstein@Home is one of the world’s largest public volunteer distributed computing projects. More than 200,000 people have signed up for the project and donated time on their computers to search gravitational wave data for signals from unknown pulsars. [more]

Are we living in a holographic Universe? Are space and time grainy? Is there quantum noise in spacetime? American physicist Craig Hogan is convinced that he has found proof in the data of the German-British gravitational wave detector GEO600. [more]

The award is conferred for exceptional scientific achievement and is the Academy’s most prestigious award in addition to the Helmholtz Medal. The award ceremony takes place on the next Leibniz Day of the Academy, on 27 June 2009. [more]

The Royal Astronomical Society honours Prof. Bernard F. Schutz by election as an Honorary Fellow for his distinguished leadership in stellar astronomy and gravitational wave research. [more]

Public lecture in honour of the International Year of Astronomy by Dr. Stefan Fredenhagen, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) on Friday, 9 January at 7 pm. Location: Bruno H. Bürgel Observatory, Heerstraße 531, 13593 Berlin. [more]

In just five weeks the corks will pop at New Year and the whole of Germany will see stars. The 2009 International Year of Astronomy (IYA 2009) begins in January. The ambitious goal is to make the universe something that everyone can experience. [more]

In the context of the “November of Science” Dr. Peter Aufmuth will be explaining the background of the fascinating research at AEI that seeks to significantly expand our view of the world in the foreseeable future. He will take his guests on a miraculous journey where clocks run at slower and faster speeds, twins are suddenly not be the same age and the cosmos can be seen with new eyes, through the "light" of gravitational waves. [more]

An English-language lecture by Prof. Luc Blanchet on 6 November 2008 at 5:30 pm in the new Physics Building of the University of Potsdam/Golm Campus, Room 0.104 in Haus 28 Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 24/25, 14476 Potsdam. [more]

Scientists at Albert Einstein Institute calculate the first complete relativistic simulation of colliding neutron stars [more]

English-language lecture by Dr. Martin Bojowald, of Pennsylvania State University, on Thursday, 13 November 2008 at 6:00 pm in the Einstein Hall of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jägerstr. 22/23, 10117 Berlin, Germany [more]

By allocating three million Euro within the FP7 programme for preliminary studies for the Einstein Telescope (ET) – a pan-European gravitational wave observatory – the European Commission has made a decisive step towards the exploration of the universe with gravitational waves. [more]

Vor einem Jahr, im Oktober 2007, wurde der Hannoveraner Exzellenzcluster QUEST (Centre for Quantum Engineering and Space-Time-Research) im Rahmen der Exzellenzinitiative von Bund und Ländern bewilligt. QUEST bringt sechs Institute der Leibniz Universität Hannover mit fünf weiteren Forschungszentren aus Niedersachsen zusammen, um erstklassige Forschung am Quantenlimit zu betreiben. [more]

Dr. Daniele Oriti wird von der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung mit einem Sofja Kovalevskaja-Preis ausgezeichnet. Mit dem Preisgeld in Höhe von knapp 1,41 Millionen Euro wird Oriti am Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut, AEI) ab Dezember 2008 eine Forschungsgruppe aufbauen und daran forschen, neue Einsichten in die Frühzeit des Universums zu gewinnen. [more]

Mitarbeiter des Max-Planck-Instituts für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut, AEI) demonstrieren ab kommenden Montag im Rahmen der „Highlights der Physik“ in Halle (Saale), wie sie mit den modernsten Lasern der Welt Jagd auf Gravitationswellen machen. [more]

The National Science Foundation has selected former AEI astrophysicist Edward Seidel as its director of the Office of Cyberinfrastructure. This office awards competitive, merit-based grants to researchers who demonstrate cutting-edge information technology that can lead to breakthroughs in science, engineering and other academic disciplines. [more]