Astrophysics News & Events

Group members Sonia Anton and Carlos Herdeiro, as well as Tiago Campante from IA and U. Porto, participated in the outreach activity "Café de Ciência", at Fábrica, Centro de Ciência Viva de Aveiro, as part of the conference cycle "À descoberta do Universo" promoted by Tiago Campante.

The Spanish-Portuguese Relativity Meeting (EREP2020) will take place at the University of Aveiro, from 14-17 September 2020. Registration will open on February 1st.

Taishi Ikeda, a post-doctoral researcher at IST-Lisbon, visited Gr@v from 6-11 January 2020 and gave a seminar on "Tidal effect on scalar cloud".

The XII Black Holes workshop took place on 19-20 December 2020, at the University of Minho, in the Azurém Campus, Guimarães. As always, a fast paced, intense and stimulating meeting!

Alexandre Correia, Professor at Coimbra University, ended his term as scientific coordinator of the Gravitational Geometry and Dynamics Group (informally dubbed Gr@v) of CIDMA on 16 December 2019. Prof. Correia will cease to be a full member of CIDMA at the end of 2019 by virtue of his move to Coimbra University. The group is very grateful for his leadership. The new elected scientific coordinator is Carlos Herdeiro.

Alexandre Correia, Gr@v member and Professor at Coimbra University, gave an outreach talk on the part of the 2019 Nobel Physics Prize awarded for the discovery of the first exoplanets. Not only Professor Correia is a working scientist on the field, but he also worked, as a post-doc, in the group of the two laureates, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz. A knowledgeable and entertaining account!