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Our understanding of the cosmos is shaped by what we are able to observe in the sky. Resolving progressively smaller astrophysical structures requires instruments with increasingly high angular resolution. However, even an ideal telescope is limited by nature through diffraction, which ties its resolving power to the diameter of its collecting aperture.

The 10th anniversary of the Portuguese Society of Relativity and Gravitation (SPRG), along with the anniversary of the first gravitational wave (GW) detection, was celebrated with a specially made cake at the XVIII Black Holes Workshop.

Nov 2025 - Gr@v ellaborated this guide to help New (and old) PhD students. 

Dyson, just before the first detection of Gravitational Waves (GWs) by LIGO, raised the question of whether the detection of a single graviton can be achieved with GW strain detectors. If this is possible, then it would be a direct evidence for the quantization of the gravitational field.

We present a general inverse scattering formalism for systems with quasi-zero curvature representations, extending the tools of integrable models to the quasi-integrable setting.

The 2025 summer school of the Portuguese Mathematics Society takes place in Mirandela. C. Herdeiro is one of the invited speakers.

Miguel Zilhão will be giving a series of lectures on Computer Vision with PyTorch. Details can be found here.

Plasmas in fusion reactors are highly prone to instabilities. Edge-localized modes (ELMs) occurring at the scrape-off layer (SOL) are instabilities that are responsible for large energy losses in the plasma core and present large potential for damage to the plasma-facing components.