We are pleased to announce that NCN has awarded a grant for the project titled "Gravitational Wave Research in the Era of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Discoveries" as part of the OPUS 25 competition.
The grant has been awarded to a group of institutions:
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University of Warsaw - leader of the group,
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Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences,
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Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences,
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National Centre for Nuclear Research,
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University of Białystok,
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Jagiellonian University.
Project Leader: Prof. Tomasz Bulik (UW)
Funding Amount: 4,417,010 PLN
Duration: 4 years
Link to the project’s popular science description
Project: "Virgo-PL: Polish Participation in the Virgo Gravitational Wave Observatory"
The Ministry of Education and Science, under the program "Support for Polish Research Teams in International Research Infrastructure Projects," awarded the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences a grant of 1,282,163.75 PLN to cover the membership fee of the Polgraw team in the Virgo gravitational wave project.
The funding obtained by IM PAN continues the funding of the Polgraw team, led by Prof. A. Królak. The Polgraw team is a member of the Virgo gravitational wave detection project (https://www.virgo-gw.eu/).
The Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences is the leader of the Polish Virgo Project Consortium and has been the leader of three NCN grants funding the Consortium's participation in the Virgo project.
The last funding awarded for this purpose was an NCN grant from the Harmonia 9 program, awarded to IM PAN and completed in May 2023.
Link to the project page
Link to the project description
