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  1. World Mental Health Day 2022

    Monday 10 October is World Mental Health Day 2022 and this year's theme is to 'Make mental health and wellbeing for all a global priority'.

  2. Bob Steventon

    We have received the sad news that our former Energy and Environment Manager Bob Steventon passed away earlier this week.

  4. Ramadan 2020

    We wish a peaceful Ramadan to all those observing the Holy Month.

  7. Staff flu jabs

    As part of LJMU's focus on staff wellbeing, we are offering free e-vouchers to get your flu jab.

  9. ARI Seminar: Nikhil Sarin (Stockholm University)

    A neutron star binary merges somewhere in the Universe approximately every 10 to 1000 seconds, creating violent explosions potentially observable in gravitational waves and across the electromagnetic spectrum. The transformative coincident gravitational wave and electromagnetic observations of the binary neutron star merger GW170817 gave invaluable insights into these cataclysmic collisions and fundamental astrophysics. However, despite our high expectations, we have failed to see any other event like it. In this talk, I will highlight what we can learn from other observations of mergers seen directly in gravitational waves or indirectly as a gamma-ray burst and/or kilonova. I will also discuss the diversity in electromagnetic and gravitational-wave emission we can expect for future mergers and showcase tools to help maximally extract physics from existing and future observations.