The 3rd LISA Sprint | Huntsville, AL

About the Workshop

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a joint effort of ESA and NASA to develop and operate the first space-based observatory of gravitational waves (GWs) in the millihertz frequency band. To prepare for LISA observations and its unique data products, we are organizing the 3rd LISA Sprint in Huntsville, AL, from Monday April 28 to Wednesday April 30, 2025.

The meeting's goals are two-fold:

Connect LISA data scientists with astronomers and astrophysicists who will incorporate LISA data products into their research.
Advance the research community’s readiness to capitalize on LISA observations.

Workshop Theme

The theme for this third meeting is Time Domain and Multimessenger Astronomy with LISA. During the workshop, small interdisciplinary teams of researchers will come together to make concrete progress on concise projects and goals related to this scientific area.

Participants are encouraged to propose ideas and contribute material that aligns with the workshop’s format. This is a hands-on workshop with no traditional talks—only brief project pitches and a final "show and tell" to share progress with the group.

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Logistics

The 2025 LISA Sprint will take place at the Downtown Branch of the Huntsville Public Library. As you can see on the map to the left, the library is a short walk from Downtown Huntsville’s Big Spring Park and its nearby hotels and restaurants. There is also a Publix in this walking area as well for any grocery or other needs. The downtown area requires an Uber (or rental car) to get to from the airport. But, once you are in the downtown area, you will not need a vehicle to get around.

Huntsville is specifically known as the “Rocket City” for a reason: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center lead the creation of the Saturn V rocket, the Space Shuttle, and the Space Launch System (SLS) which will return humans to the moon. While Marshall Space Flight Center is behind the gates of the Redstone Arsenal, you can find some of these rockets and other really cool rocketry history at the US Space and Rocket Center, and specifically its “Rocket Garden!” With the sprint only three days long and meant to drive work forward, and the open hours of the Space and Rocket center, we are not planning to go to the Space and Rocket center during the Sprint. If you want to travel to Huntsville a day early or stay a day later, it is a really great way to spend a few hours! To get there, you can go by bus (not very easily) or Uber. It is ~10 min from downtown and right in the middle of downtown and the airport.