April 7 2017 was the official kick-off of our COST Action CA16104 Gravitational waves, black holes and fundamental physics (GWverse). After a discussion of the COST structure, a brief presentation of the outline of the Action was given. The slides summarizing the scope and goals of the Action are here.

The MC members voted unanimously for the following core group:

Chair: Prof. Vitor Cardoso

Co-Chair: Prof. Valeria Ferrari

Working Group leaders:

    WG1: Prof. Samaya Nissanke

    WG2: Prof. Leor Barack

    WG3: Prof. Thomas Sotiriou

Dissemination Coordinator: Prof. Carlos Herdeiro

Diversity Advisor: Prof. Alicia Sintes

Coordinador of STSMs: Prof. Andreja Gomboc

In addition, the Action has elected the following synergy agents: Prof. Bernd Brugmann, Prof. Kostantinos Kokkotas and Prof. Marta Volonteri.