Program
•Astrophysical sources of gravitational waves: supernovae, coalescence of neutron stars and blacks holes, pulsars.
•Stochastic background of gravitational waves.
•Experiments for the detection of gravitational waves on the ground and in space.
•The principle of equivalence. Measurements of G and of the universality of free fall.
•Experiments and limits on deviations from Newton's law and on the existence of additional interactions.
•Gravitomagnetism. Measurements of the Lense-Thirring effect.
•PPN formalism and alternative theories.
•Experiments for the detection of dark matter
•Noise reduction in experiments for the detection of weak signals
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