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Second Roman Juszkiewicz Symposium, Warsaw

ByTessa October 3, 2022October 10, 2022

I was lucky enough to be an invited speaker at the Second Roman Juszkiewicz Symposium, which took place the last week of September at the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre in Warsaw, Poland. The conference was packed in right before the start of term, and online attendance was an option. But weary of online talks, I…

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LVK Meeting, Cardiff

ByTessa September 11, 2022October 10, 2022

11th September I’m on the train from London to Cardiff, for my first real-world meeting of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration — i.e., us folks behind the ground-based gravitational wave detector network. All LVK meetings since I joined the collaboration in January 2022 have been online, an after-effect of the Covid-19 pandemic. So I’m looking forwards…