On Sunday, March 8th, he participated in a workshop organized by Professor Giovanni Losurdo at the Palazzo della Carovana.

PISA, March 9 2026. Japanese physicist Takaaki Kajita, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2015, was at the Scuola Normale Superiore yesterday, March 8th, for a workshop of the International Gravitational Wave Network.

The meeting, held at the Palazzo della Carovana and organized by Professor Giovanni Losurdo, Full Professor at the Scuola Normale and INFN associate, was attended—alongside Prof. Kajita—by several leading international physicists. Among them were Dave Reitze, Executive Director of the LIGO Laboratory, the spokespersons of the international LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA Collaborations (Stephen Fairhurst, Gianluca Gemme and Masaki Ando) and Alessandra Buonanno, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam.

Kajita is currently the principal investigator of the KAGRA gravitational wave project in Kamioka, Japan. He received the Nobel Prize together with Canadian physicist Arthur B. McDonald for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which demonstrated that these elementary particles have mass.