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Proceedings of the 5th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves, Tirrenia, Italy, 6-11 July 2003

2004; IOP Publishing; Volume: 21; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1088/0264-9381/21/5/e01

1361-6382

C. Bradaschia,

Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics

The 5th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves took place in Tirrenia, near Pisa, Italy on 6-11 July 2003. The choice to hold the conference there was made by the GWIC (Gravitational Wave International Committee) at the last Amaldi conference two years previously in Perth. The Tirrenia candidature had been put forward by the Pisa Virgo team, anticipating that the Virgo interferometer would be completed by Summer 2003. This was, in fact, the case: Virgo was inaugurated by the French and Italian ministers for research, higher education and technology 20 days after the conference. Every day, at the end of the conference sessions, transport was available to take participants to the Virgo site. It is significant that the Mayor of Cascina has accepted the proposal to name the road giving access to the Virgo site after Edoardo Amaldi.