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.
Dr. Eugen Radu will join our group in 2013 as an FCT researcher. Dr. Radu, an expert in black hole physics, topological and non-topological solitions and quantum field theory in curved space-time, has been a post-doctoral researcher/research fellow in Germany, Ireland and France and has co-authored over one hundred published papers in peer-reviewed journals. Welcome Eugen!
Professor Jacques Laskar visited the University of Aveiro between 6-12 December and gave a talk on the "Stability and Chaos in the Solar System: from Poincaré to present" (click here to watch the video), which took place on December 10th 2012.
The NRHEP white paper edited by V. Cardoso, L. Gualtieri, C. Herdeiro and U. Sperhake was published as a Focus paper in Classical and Quantum Gravity. This paper was a written summary of the discussions and presentations that took place in the Numerical Relativity and High Energy Physics Workshop, organized in Madeira, Portugal in the Summer 2011.
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation has awarded one of the 2012 prizes for stimulating research to Gr@v Ph.D. student Flávio Coelho, distinguishing his work on alternative theories of gravity and trans-Planckian scattering physics. Congratulations Flávio!
Gr@v member C. Herdeiro was the guest interviewee of the "Researcher of the Month" initiative, promoted by the Research Support Office (GAI) of the University of Aveiro. Read the interview.
On September 14th 2012 Miguel Zilhão had his Ph.D. exam obtaining his doctoral degree. The leading examiners were Prof. Harvey Reall (Cambridge) and Prof. Luis Lehner (Perimeter Institute). Congratulations Miguel, and keep on the good work!
Our group co-organized and participated in the Amazonian workshop on Black Holes and Analogue models of gravity, held at Universidade Federal do Pará, in Belém do Pará, gateway to the Amazonian region of Brazil from 7-9 August 2012.
Watch a movie made by Luis Carlos Crispino with photos of the meeting and of Belém do Pará.
Gr@v members M. Sampaio, F. Coelho, M. Zilhão and C. Herdeiro visited Observatório Nacional and Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro in early August 2012, to present seminars on Shock wave and Black hole collisions.
Professor Gary W. Gibbons visited the University of Aveiro and participated in the jury of Carlos Herdeiro's Habilitation (Agregação) which took place in 30-31 July 2012.
