The direct detection of gravitational waves opens a new window to explore our Universe and indicates the coming of a new era of gravitational wave astronomy. In 2015, the KITPC program on “The Next Detectors for Gravitational Wave Astronomy” was successfully held at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China (KITPC) just before the first discovery of gravitational waves by LIGO. This year, the International Symposium on Gravitational Waves (ISGW2017) will be held from May 25 to 29 on the Yanqi campus of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Beijing, China.

The aim of the symposium is to bring together leading experts in gravitational wave physics and gravitational wave detection to present the latest research advances and to discuss possible collaborations on gravitational wave detection.