Analog Gravity Meets Gravitational Waves
IFPU
19 – 23 January 2026
Black holes are the most extreme objects in the Universe and challenge our
fundamental understanding of space, time, and quantum mechanics in a unique way. In this
workshop, we want to connect communities that explore black hole physics from different
perspectives: laboratory experiments of analog black holes and gravitational wave
measurements from binary compact mergers. While modeling and data analysis have been
essential cornerstones of the gravitational wave community, they have not been widely explored
in applications of analog gravity experiments. At the same time, analog gravity systems allow for
rich phenomenology and are valuable for exploring novel effects beyond general relativity that
could be searched for in gravitational wave data. The tentative list of invited participants
represents a broad range of experts and junior researchers who want to join forces to find
synergies. We firmly believe that finding synergies between these communities is at the heart of
IFPU’s scope to explore the fundamental physics of the Universe.
Meeting program:
Organisers:
- Stefano Liberati
- Sebastian H. Völkel