The official award ceremony for the 2023 SIGRAV Prize (see this earlier news item), during which I received the medal from SIGRAV President Professor Stefano Liberati, was held today during the XXV SIGRAV conference. It is really a great honor to receive this Prize, given the extremely prestigious list of earlier winners. Beyond a symbol of academic recognition, it is of course a symbol of responsibility to continue carrying out quality research and mentoring the younger generations, and I will strive to continue doing so. Upon receiving the Prize I have also officially become a lifetime member of SIGRAV.
XXV SIGRAV conference
I’m really excited to be attending the XXV SIGRAV conference of the Italian Society for General Relativity and Gravitation in the beautiful city of Trieste! I will be picking up the 2023 SIGRAV Prize (see this earlier news item) and on the occasion I will also be delivering a plenary talk on “Searching for dark energy off the beaten track” (whose slides you can find here), presenting some of the ideas I’ve been developing over the past years. This is my second in-person conference after the pandemic, but the first which actually required travelling (the previous one took place in Trento). There are lots of people attending whose work I’ve been following for years, or whom I’m working together with or even wrote papers with, but never had the chance to meet in person (just to mention a few, Vitor Cardoso, Che-Yu Chen, Gaetano Lambiase, Gabriele Gionti, and Joe Silk), so I look forward to many interesting discussions!
