Gr@v is a team of researchers, based at the Mathematics and Physics Department of Aveiro University, Portugal, working on strong gravity and high energy physics. The group was established in 2010. In January 2015 Gr@v integrated the FCT funded CIDMA research unit (UIDB/04106/2020 and UIDP/04106/2020), as the Gravitational Geometry and Dynamics research group. The group scientific coordinator is C. Herdeiro.
P. Cunha and C. Herdeiro were invited speakers at the online workshop on numerical and analytical relativity (NAR-2024), organized by the Department of Applied Sciences, Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad (IIITA) during 20 - 22 March 2024. The video recorded lectures can be seen here.
A call for two 12-month research grants in Strong Gravity for M.Sc. holders, within the scope of the project Gravitational waves, black holes, and fundamental physics, 2022.04560.PTDC, is open from April 5 to April 19 (2024). See attached documents for details or the Euraxess announcement here.
Miguel Zilhão will be giving a series of lectures on Computer Vision with PyTorch. Anyone who might be interested in the topic is encouraged to sign up. Details can be found here.
C. Herdeiro was one of the plenary invited speakers of the International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology (ICGC 24) and the International Conference on Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology (ICRAC 24) that took place in Lahore, Pakistan on 29-31 Jan and 1-2 Feb 2024. Wonderful hospitality and great interactions. Science brings people together.
The CIDMA meeting 2024 took place on 22-23 January 2024. Our group was represented by Hector Olivares and Jordan Nicoules, who gave communications on Black hole imaging and Numerical Relativity, respectively.
Visakan Balakumar, Marie Curie seconded fellow within the RISE FunFiCO project, coordinated by Gr@v, authored a YouTube outreach video on superradiance. Check it out here!
Read here the phys.org coverage of two papers published in Phys. Rev. X and Phys. Rev. D in December 2023, involving members of Gr@v.
15 years after the first edition of the Black Holes Workshop that took place at the Faculty of Sciences of Porto University, the XVI Black Holes Workshop returned to Porto, this time in the Faculty of Engineering. The next edition will take place at the University of Aveiro on 19-20 December 2024.
An article on the parameter inference from gravitational wave signals using a novel methodology based on the Newman-Penrose scalar was published this month (December 2023) in Physical Review X. The article is co-authored by Gr@v members C. Herdeiro and E. Radu. PRX has similar quality standards as Physical Review Letters but for longer papers. It has an impact factor of 12.5 (2022).
A call for a 7-month research grant in Strong Gravity for M.Sc. holders, within the research grant Gravitational waves and black holes as ultralight dark matter particle detectors, CERN/FIS-PAR/0024/2021, is open from December 7th to 21st, 2023. See attached document for details or the Euraxess announcement here.