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.
Proca stars, first discovered in this paper, are a vector cousin of the well known model of scalar boson stars - see these papers for reviews [1], [2] and comparisons between the two models [3], [4].
The Iranian Conference on High Energy Physics took place from 20-22 November 2023 (online). C. Herdeiro was one of the Plenary Speakers. See the programme here.
During the week of 13-17 November 2023 we had the pleasure to host Rodrigo Vicente from IFAE, U. Barcelona and Roman Pasechnik from the U. Lund to tell us about their latest research. Of course, discussions are better over a nice lunch!
C. Herdeiro visited the St. Kliment Ohridski U. Sofia (Bulgaria) delivering a talk on Boson stars and Black holes with synchronised hair, invited by Prof. Stoytcho Yazadjiev (both in the photo).
The annual meeting of the Maths Department Ph.D. students will take place on 27 Oct 2023. Marco Brito and Etevaldo Costa, both enrolled in the MAP-Fis Ph.D. programme will represent our group.
Elsevier published the "Updated science-wide author database of standardized citation indicators" in October 2023
A. Morais and C. Herdeiro visited the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Mexico) giving a seminar at the institute of physics, at the invitation of Prof. Alfredo Herrera (in the photo at the centre of Puebla).
The first scientific meeting of the NewFunFiCO network took place in Cuernavaca, Mexico, from 4-6 Oct 2023. Three intense days of workshop and discussions. Many ideas, synergies and collaborations ahead!
The Fourth European Physical Society conference on gravitation will be devoted to Black Holes. The meeting will take place in Valencia, 13-15 Nov 2023, with the participation of our group.
Springer published the book "Modified and quantum gravity: from theory to experimental searches on all scales" (2023), with a contribution from Gr@v.