WLCG Sustainability Forum Meeting #5: Perspective from gravitational waves and astrophysics

Wednesday 29 Apr 2026, 15:30 → 16:30 Europe/Zurich

31/S-027 (CERN)

After surveying the landscape for HEP experiments (the main target for the WLCG strategy) in the previous meetings, we are now organising a meeting to understand the environmental sustainability strategies and needs of future experiments in gravitational waves and astrophysics that are building their distributed computing models - the Einstein Telescope and the Square Kilometer Array.

This meeting will include a short presentation from HEP/WLCG to set the scene, and two presentations, one for ET and one for SKAO. 

This meeting is intended as a first step to understand points of contacts and potential shared strategies and work.  

15:30 → 15:35 Introduction

Speakers: Caterina Doglioni (The University of Manchester (GB)), David Britton (University of Glasgow (GB)), Markus Schulz (CERN)

15:35 → 15:55 Einstein Telescope

Speaker: Luciano Gaido (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))

15:55 → 16:15 Sustainable computing for the SKA science data processors (SEAMS project)

Speaker: Denisa-Andreea Constantinescu