The 2nd Sino-Europe Workshop on Lunar Gravitational Wave Detection

Name: The 2nd Sino-Europe Workshop on Lunar Gravitational Wave Detection
Start: 2026-07-26T09:00:00+08:00
End: 2026-07-30T17:00:00+08:00
Location: No location set

26 Jul 2026, 09:00 → 30 Jul 2026, 17:00 Asia/Shanghai

Description

Announcement: 2nd Sino-Europe Workshop on Lunar Gravitational Wave Detection

26-30 July 2026, Dunhuang, China

Following the success of the inaugural meeting in 2024, we are pleased to announce the 2nd Sino-Europe Workshop on Lunar Gravitational Wave Detection, to be held in Dunhuang, China.

Rationale

Lunar gravitational wave detection is transitioning from theoretical exploration to mission reality. The LGWA (Lunar Gravitational Wave Antenna) concept has matured into a detailed mission design. Concurrently, China’s Chang’e‑7 mission is scheduled for 2026, and will carry a high‑precision seismometer to the lunar south pole, offering the first opportunity to characterize the Moon’s seismic environment with modern instrumentation.

These developments create both opportunity and urgency to address critical questions such as: What scientific breakthroughs will lunar GW missions bring? How does real lunar structure modulate the seismic response across frequency bands relevant to GW detection? Can GW-induced signals be reliably distinguished from intrinsic lunar noise (moonquakes, thermal fluctuations, meteoroid impacts)? What instrument performance can be realistically achieved under lunar surface conditions?

The first Sino-Europe workshop held in 2024 established a collaborative foundation, bringing together gravitational physicists, planetary seismologists, and instrument engineers. The second meeting aims to advance this integration, bridging theoretical modeling with experimental development.

Conceptual illustration of the Lunar GW instrument (generated by ChatGPT)

Join Us in Dunhuang

Dunhuang offers a uniquely fitting setting for this gathering. Situated along the ancient Silk Road and at the edge of the Gobi Desert, the city has long been a crossroads of cultures, ideas, and traditions. Its extraordinary historical legacy, most notably the Mogao Caves, reflects centuries of exchange across civilizations and continues to inspire reflection on humanity’s shared pursuit of knowledge, creativity, and discovery.

This spirit of connection and exploration closely resonates with the aim of this workshop: to bring together researchers from different backgrounds to exchange ideas, build collaborations, and look toward new scientific frontiers.

For those seeking both rigorous science and a glimpse of the sublime, Dunhuang offers a journey worth taking.

More about Dunhuang can be found here: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g303695-Activities-Dunhuang_Gansu.html

We look forward to welcoming you to Dunhuang.

Dunhuang Dunhuang Mogao Caves

Crescent Moon Pool and the Mogao Caves (Image source: ifeng.com. All rights belong to the original copyright holder. Used here for illustrative purposes only.)

Conference Venue

Tianhe Hotel (Dunhuang) / 敦煌天河大酒店（沙州夜市鸣沙山月牙泉店）

Address: No. 106 Mingshan Middle Road, Dunhuang, Gansu, China（甘肃省敦煌市鸣山中路106号）

(Images are provided by the hotel for reference only)

Important Dates

25 June: Online registration closes.

26 July: Arrival and registration.

27-28 July: Talks and presentations. Conference banquet is on 27 July.

29 July: Focused discussions.

30 July: Focused discussion & departure.

Registration fee:

Academic: 1500 RMB

Student or postdoc: 800 RMB

Registration fee covers refreshments, the conference banquet, and two lunches during 27-28 July. You can pay on-site, at the registration desk.

Confirmed Participants:

Parameswaran Ajith (ICTS)
Pau Amaro-Seoane (Polytechnic U. of Valencia)
Lars Anderson (KTH, Stockholm)
Zhoujian Cao (Beijing Normal U.)
Wenzhe Fa (Peking U.)
Wenbiao Han (Shanghai Astronomical Obs.)
Jan Harms (GSSI)
Yiming Hu (Sun Yat-Sen U.)
Hongqing Huo (Lanzhou U.)
Dali Kong (Shanghai Astronomical Obs.)
Haixing Miao (Tsinghua U.)
Wei-Tou Ni (Lanzhou U.)
Ho Jung Paik (Mariland U.)
Lijing Shao (Peking U.)
Sichun Sun (Beijing Inst. Tech.)
Mengyao Wang (Beijing Normal U.)
Gang Wang (Ningbo U.)
Lianfu Wei (Northwestern Jiaotong U.)
Morgane Zeoli (U. Liège, online)
Bing Zhang (Hongkong U.)
Fan Zhang (Beijing Normal U.)
Lei Zhang (Inst. Geology and Geophysics, CAS)
Xin Zhang (Northeastern U.)
Wen Zhao (U. Science and Technology of China)
...

Science Organizing Committee:

Xing Bian (IMECH-CAS)
Xian Chen (PKU)
Jan Harms (GSSI)
Yu-Xiao Liu (LZU)
Ziren Luo (IMECH-CAS)
Peng Xu (IMECH-CAS)
Jinhai Zhang (IGG-CAS)
Xiao-Min Zhang (LZU/AZSPACE)

Local Organizing Committee:

Yu-Xiao Liu (Chair)
Shaowen Wei
Jie Yang
Yupeng Zhang
Han Wang (Website maintenance)
Jie He (Conference secretary)

Participants

An Chen
Andrew Lawrence Miller
Anzhong Wang
Baocheng Zhang
Bing Zhang
Changfu Shi
Changqing Wang
Da Huang
Dali Kong
Daqiang Gao
Dijun Chen
Dongqing Shao
Fen Gao
Gang Wang
Guihao Wu
Haibo Tu
Hainan Lin
Haixing Miao
Han Wang
Han Yan
Hanlin Song
He Wang
Ho Jung Paik
Hong Zhang
Hongbo Jin
Hongkun Huang
Hongqing Huo
Huaike Guo
Jan Harms
Jie He
Jie Yang
Jieci Wang
Jiliang Jing
Jin Li
Jingfei Zhang
Jinhai Zhang
John J. Oh
Jun Zhang
Junchen Gao
Ke Yang
Lars Anderson
Lei Liang
Lei Qu
Lei Zhang
Lianfu Wei
Lie Qiang
Lijing Shao
Linxiao Cong
Liwei Yang
Meng Ding
Min Zhang
Ming Li
Minghui Du
Ningbiao Tang
Panpan Wang
Parameswaran Ajith
Pau Amaro-Seoane
Peng Xu
Pengcheng Wang
Puxun Wu
Qifan Li
Qiong Deng
Qiuhan He
Qiyuan Pan
Qunying Xie
Rongzu Li
Rui Luo
Ruihong Yue
Ruiqi Yang
Shaodong Zhao
Shaoping Shi
Shaowen Wei
Sichun Sun
Songbai Chen
Tong Liu
Wei Bian
Wei-Tou Ni
Wen Zhao
Wenbiao Han
Wenshuai Ye
Wenzhe Fa
Xian Chen
Xiangcheng Meng
Xianhui Ge
Xiaobin Lai
Xiaomin Zhang
Xin Li
Xin Zhang
Xing Bian
Yanchong Liu
Yang Li
Yanwei Ding
Yapeng Hu
Yiming Hu
Yinbowen Zhang
Yong Tang
Yongliang Ma
Yuanchuan Zou
Yulin Xia
Yulin Yang
Yunlong Zhang
Yupeng Zhang
Yuqi Dong
Yuxiao Liu
Yuzhi Fan
Yuzhu Zhang
Zebing Zhou
Zemin Zhang
Zhao Li
Zhiming Cai
Zhongguang Yang
Zhoujian Cao
Ziren Luo
Zongkuan Guo

Monday, 27 July
- 09:00 → 09:10
  
  Opening remark by Prof. Ziren Luo 10m
  
  Opening ceremony
  
  Speaker: Ziren Luo (Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
- 09:10 → 10:50
  Session 1: Missions
  
  Convener: Xian Chen (Peking University)
  - 09:10
    
    Lunar Gravitatioan Wave Antenna 20m
    
    Speaker: Jan Harms (GSSI)
  - 09:30
    
    CIGO Progress 2026 20m
    
    Speaker: Xiaomin Zhang (Beijing Ziwei Yutong Technology Co., Ltd.)
  - 09:50
    
    Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) with millimeter accuracy: Prospects 20m
    
    Speaker: Wei-Tou Ni (Lanzhou University)
  - 10:10
    
    Thermal noise modeling of lunar gravitational-wave detector suspensions based on temperature-dependent dissipation dilution and finite-element strain-energy partition 15m
    
    Speaker: Qifan Li (Sun Yat-sen University)
  - 10:25
    
    Photo & coffee break 25m
- 10:50 → 12:05
  Session 2: Instruments
  
  Convener: Jan Harms (GSSI)
  - 10:50
    
    LANGO - a Mid-Frequency Tensor GW Observatory 30m
    
    Speaker: Ho Jung Paik (Department of Physics, University of Maryland, USA)
  - 11:20
    
    DONGA: Decihertz Omni-directional Network of Gravitational-wave Accelerometry 10m
    
    Speaker: John J. Oh (NIMS)
  - 11:30
    
    Recent Progress of Superconducting Weak-Force Sensing Technology at IMECH 20m
    
    Speaker: Xing Bian (Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  - 11:50
    
    (Online) Torsional-X seismometer for lunar decihertz gravitational-wave detection 15m
    
    Speaker: Yulin Xia (Tsinghua University)
- 12:05 → 14:00
  
  Lunch 1h 55m
- 14:00 → 15:30
  Session 3: Lunar response
  
  Convener: Ziren Luo (Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  - 14:00
    
    Challenges of gravitational wave detection on the Moon and preliminary solutions 20m
    
    Speaker: Jinhai Zhang (Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  - 14:20
    
    Understanding the Moon for Future Gravitational Wave Observatories 20m
    
    Speaker: Wenzhe Fa (Peking University)
  - 14:40
    
    Thick Lunar Crust Amplifies Deci-Hertz Gravitational-Wave Signal 20m
    
    Speaker: Lei Zhang (Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  - 15:00
    
    Gravitational-wave tomography of the Moon: Constraining lunar structure with calibrated gravitational waves 15m
    
    Speaker: Han Yan (Department of Astronomy, Peking University)
  - 15:15
    
    Impact of Lunar-Crust Amplification of GW-Induced Seismic Response on LGWA Source Detectability 15m
    
    Speaker: Qiong Deng (Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
- 15:30 → 16:00
  Coffee Break & Poster Viewing
  - 15:35
    
    [*POSTER*] Response of the Moon to an anisotropic stochastic gravitational wave background 10m
    
    Speaker: Baocheng Zhang (China University of Geosciences (Wuhan))
  - 15:45
    
    [*POSTER*] Improving the Dynamic Resolution of Micro-force through Vibration Isolation 10m
    
    Speaker: Linxiao Cong (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
- 16:00 → 17:15
  Session 4: Experiments
  
  Convener: Xiaomin Zhang (Beijing Ziwei Yutong Technology Co., Ltd.)
  - 16:00
    
    Mach-Zehnder Laser Interferometer System for Moon-Based Gravitational Wave Detection 20m
    
    Speaker: Lianfu Wei (Southwest Jiaotong University)
  - 16:20
    
    (Online) Laser stabilisation using hollow core fibre based interferometers 20m
    
    Speaker: Meng Ding (Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  - 16:40
    
    (Online) LGWA E-Box Requirements, Design and Legacy from the Insight E-Box 20m
    
    Speaker: Ferraioli Luigi
  - 17:00
    
    Toward Practical Magnetic Dipole Inversion: From High-Precision Recovery to Low-Observation Noise-Robust Localization 15m
    
    Speaker: Junchen Gao (School of Physical Science and Technology, Lanzhou University)
- 18:00 → 20:00
  
  Banquet 2h
Tuesday, 28 July
- 09:00 → 11:00
  Session 5: Lunar & astrophysics
  
  Convener: Jinhai Zhang (IGGCAS)
  - 09:00
    
    Triadic resonance in a latitudinally-librating triaxial ellipsoidal fluid core 20m
    
    Speaker: Dali Kong (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  - 09:20
    
    Breaking Decihertz Parameter Degeneracies with the Moon 20m
    
    Speaker: Pau Amaro-Seoane (Polytechnic U. of Valencia)
  - 09:40
    
    Probing ultralight dark matter on the ground, in space and on the moon with gravitational-wave detectors 20m
    
    Speaker: Andrew Lawrence Miller (ICTP-AP/ UCAS)
  - 10:00
    
    Cosmological perturbations and gravitational waves in the general Einstein-vector theory 15m
    
    Speaker: Xiaobin Lai (Lanzhou University)
  - 10:15
    
    Constraining Black-Hole Dipole Radiation with Multiband Gravitational Waves from Eccentric Binary Black Holes 15m
    
    Speaker: Han Wang (Peking University)
  - 10:30
    
    Coffee break 30m
- 11:00 → 12:15
  Session 6: Fundamental physics
  
  Convener: Yuxiao Liu (Lanzhou University)
  - 11:00
    
    Probing Dark Matter with Laser Interferometers in Space 20m
    
    Speaker: Yong Tang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  - 11:20
    
    Stimulated Emission from Boson Clouds 20m
    
    Speaker: Xianhui Ge (Shanghai University)
  - 11:40
    
    Black Hole Quasinormal Modes and New Compact Star Models 20m
    
    Speaker: Hong Zhang (Shanghai University)
  - 12:00
    
    Gravitational wave polarization modes and stability analysis in Weyl geometry gravity 15m
    
    Speaker: Yuzhi Fan (Lanzhou University)
- 12:15 → 14:00
  
  Lunch 1h 45m
- 14:00 → 16:00
  Session 7: Multi-messenger and multi-band observations
  
  Convener: Xing Bian (Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  - 14:00
    
    GRBs, FXTs and FRBs are possible EM counnterparts of 0.1 Hz GWs 20m
    
    Speaker: Bing Zhang (University of Hong Kong)
  - 14:20
    
    Probing the formation and evolution of supermassive black holes through multi-wavelength gravitational-wave observations 20m
    
    Speaker: Parameswaran Ajith (ICTS)
  - 14:40
    
    Observing Electromagnetic response of GWs on the Moon 20m
    
    Speaker: Wenbiao Han (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  - 15:00
    
    Host Identification of Strongly Lensed BBH Events with Simulation-Based Inference 15m
    
    Speaker: Qiuhan He (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
  - 15:15
    
    One Merger, Three Bands: Multiband Observations of Stellar Binary Black Holes by LISA-LGWA-LVK 15m
    
    Speaker: An Chen (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  - 15:30
    
    Coffee break 30m
- 16:00 → 17:15
  Session 8: GW data analysis
  
  Convener: Peng Xu (Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  - 16:00
    
    The new generation lunar gravitational wave detectors: sky map resolution and joint analysis 20m
    
    Speaker: Sichun Sun (Beijing Institute of Technology)
  - 16:20
    
    Near Real-time data analysis of massive black holes 20m
    
    Speaker: Yiming Hu (Sun Yat-sen University)
  - 16:40
    
    Detection Methods for the Chiral Gravitational Wave Background 20m
    
    Speaker: Yunlong Zhang (National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  - 17:00
    
    Closing remarks 15m
Wednesday, 29 July
- 09:00 → 17:00
  
  Focused discussion
  
  Sciences, instumentation, bilateral collaboration, joint proposals, future meetings