XII Black Holes Workshop
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!
Astrophysics News & Events
Alexandre Correia ceases role as group coordinator
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 on the 2019 Nobel Physics Prize
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!
V Amazonian Symposium on Physics
The V Amazonian Symposium on Physics was held in Belém, Brazil, from 18-22 November 2019. This meeting was co-sponsored by the Marie Curie RISE FunFiCO network and co-organised by Gr@v members. The invited speakers included Bill Unruh, Bob Wald, John Friedman, Jorge Zanelli and Mirjam Cvetic, amongst others.
Hybrid metric-Palatini gravity: applications to cosmology and astrophysics
Speaker
João Luis Rosa (IST-Lisbon)
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online
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In this work, we study cosmological and astrophysical applications of the recently proposed generalized hybrid metric-Palatini gravity theory, which combines features of both the metric and th
Quasinormal modes of neutron stars in R^2 gravity
Speaker
Jose Blázquez-Salcedo (Oldenburg U., Germany)
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Maths. Dept. Room 11.3.21
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In this talk we will discuss the quasinormal modes of neutron stars in modified theories of gravity, in particular, in R^2 gravity. In this model, in addition to the space-time and fluid degrees of freedom that are present in General Relativity, we naturally find a (massive) scalar field.
Spontaneous Scalarization in general Scalar-Vector-Tensor theory
Speaker
Tomohiro Nakamura (Nagoya University, Japan)
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Maths. Dept. Room 11.3.21
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Spontaneous scalarization is an interesting phenomenon that black holes with a sufficiently large mass or charge spontaneously transit to a solution with scalar hair in some class of th
2019 Nobel Physics Prize: Searching for New Planets
Speaker
Alexandre Correia (U. Coimbra)
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Maths. Dept. Room Sousa Pinto
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 was awarded in one half to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star".
COST Workshop - "Exoplanets in the era of Gaia"
COST Workshop - "Astrometry and gravitation - A dynamical view of the sky"
In the framework of the COST action MW-Gaia, related with the Gaia (ESA) mission, for which Gr@v member Sonia Anton serves as MC member, a 3-days workshop on "Astrometry and gravitation - A dynamical view of the sky" is being organised on 4-6 December 2019, at the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Mont Gros site, Nice, France. More info here.