Every 2-3 years, the community of physicists working on ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors holds a discussion-based “Dawn” meeting to plan for the future of the field.
This year the global ground-based GW community, including experts in GW detector technology, GW astrophysics, multi-messenger astronomy, cosmology, nuclear physics, and tests of general relativity, is converging in Vancouver: Blusson QMI is hosting the Dawn VII meeting June 12-13 in the Scarfe building: https://dawn7.phas.ubc.ca/
Dawn VII will be a good introduction to challenges, opportunities, and relevant timescales for astrophysics, nuclear physics, and fundamental physics (including cosmology and tests of general relativity) we can achieve with future GW detectors, as well as the development of enabling detector technologies.
There will also be satellite workshops devoted to GW detector technology (including a workshop on thin-film coatings hosted in Brimacombe), multi-messenger astronomy with GWs, and machine learning for GW analysis (taking place in Hebb) on Friday June 14.