A satellite workshop on Gravitational Wave Astronomy will be held on 19 March 2014, one day before the Astronomical Society of India (ASI) Meeting (20-22 March 2014) at IISER-Mohali. The workshop is partially supported by the local organizers of ASI Meeting and the Max the Planck Partner Group on Gravitational Waves at IISER-Thiruvananthapuram.

LIGO Laboratory at California Institute of Technology hosts a 10-week summer student research program every year, called the LIGO SURF Program. Considering the imminent possibility of the LIGO-India project, LIGO has graciously agreed to host a few talented and motivated undergraduate students from Indian institutions, pre-selected by IndIGO, as part of this program.

International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (ICTS-TIFR) and TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics (TIFR-CAM) invite applications from highly motivated candidates for a number of EADS Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship positions. These fellowships are supported by the EADS Corporate Foundation through an International Teaching and Research Chair titled “Mathematics of Complex Systems” at ICTS-TIFR and TIFR-CAM. The EADS Chair is aimed to develop innovative research involving theoretical, applied, and computational work related to mathematics of complex systems.

GEO600 is a 600m long interferometric GW detector located near Hannover, Germany and run by the Albert Einstein Institute in Hannover.  As the other large interferometer sites are currently installing the next generation of instruments, GEO600 is the only place where experience can be gained on an operating, interferometric GW detector.  The GEO600 group invites applications in the post-doctoral or graduate researcher level.  The main lines of research currently pursued are increasing the laser power, integrating a squeezed light source, novel control schemes, and searching for unexplained sources of noise.  Independent of what the work turns out to be, because of the large similarity between all GW interferometers, experience gained at GEO600 will prove to be invaluable to those looking toward commissioning the next generation of instruments.

23-28 Dec, 2013
Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore

Applications are now invited for the ICTS Winter School on Experimental Gravitational-Wave Physics, organized by the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore. The school will be held at the Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore from 23 to 28 December, 2013.

December 17- 20, 2013
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, India

This year’s Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop (GWPAW) will be held at IUCAA, Pune during December 17- 20, 2013. GWPAW is an open annual workshop on the physics and astronomy of gravitational waves (GWs), techniques for their detection, and interpretation of data and results. Formerly, the GWPAW was called the GWDAW. This conference is one of the special events being hosted by IUCAA to mark 25 years of its existence.



AHMEDABAD: The proposal to set up an advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detector for detection of gravitational waves is under active consideration of Indian funding agencies like DST and DAE.

If approved, the mega science project — as part of an Indo-US joint programme — will help expand the worldwide network of detecting gravitational waves-holding key to mysteries behind the black holes...

The Economic Times

AHMEDABAD: India is now set to join a global scientific effort to detect gravitational waves emanating from various sources in the universe. Currently, the US and some European countries are the only nations involved in this enterprise. A project titled, 'Indian Initiative in Gravitational-Wave Observations (IndIGO)', is under consideration for initiation under the current Five-Year Plan...

The Times of India
Correction from IndIGO: The proposed gravitational-wave observatory project is called LIGO-India. IndIGO, the umbrella organization, is a consortium of Indian scientists working in the field of gravitational-wave astronomy.

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AHMEDABAD: The proposal to set up an advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detector for detection of gravitational waves is under active consideration of Indian funding agencies like DST and DAE.

If approved, the mega science project — as part of an Indo-US joint programme — will help expand the worldwide network of detecting gravitational waves-holding key to mysteries behind the black holes...

The Economic Times