The Amaldi conferences are held under the auspices of the Gravitational Wave International Committee (GWIC). Since 1997, they have been held every two years and are regarded as the most important international conferences for the gravitational wave detection community.
The 2007 conference promises to be an extremely exciting meeting for the field. The LIGO detectors will have completed a one and half year data taking run in coincidence with GEO600, TAMA 300 and VIRGO at various times during the run. This will produce the greatest chance yet of the first direct observation of gravitational waves, a momentous event in physics. Direct detection will open a new field in Astronomy. Exciting plans for second generation detectors and beyond will guarantee a rich return. Major advances in acoustic detectors will see their future assured, complementing the interferometric detectors in various frequency ranges, whilst research on space based detectors is gathering momentum. New theoretical results in fields such as numerical relativity will add greatly to our understanding of such phenomena as the inspiral of black holes.

Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour, Sydney,

8-14 July 2007