IberiCos 2023
Miguel attended the IberiCos 2023 meeting in Ponte de Lima, the oldest village in Portugal. Here he is together with former Gr@v member João Rosa.
Strong Gravity News & Events
Meeting with a scientist
Gr@v member Miguel Zilhão was the guest for the activity "Meeting with a scientist", organized by the outreach centre Fábrica.The audience was a group of 4th grade students from the Primary Schools of Glória and São Jacinto. They were all very curious about the Universe and asked a lot of interesting questions.
Marco Brito at U. Valencia
Gr@v Ph.D. student Marco Brito, visited the U. Valencia within the NewFunFiCO Marie Curie Staff Exchange grant, coordinated by our group. [In the photo with his host, former group member Nico Sanchis-Gual]
"Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded"
Our group visited Colégio de Lamas, in Santa Maria da Feira, to explain basic concepts about Earth and Space. Inevitably, the questions end up discussing black holes!
Discussion of the paper "Fuzzball Shadows: Emergent Horizons from Microstructure", by Fabio Bacchini, et al.
Speaker
Luís F. M. A. M. Reis (UFRN, Brasil)
Event date
Venue
Sala 11.2.21 and online
Ends on
Event type
Fuzzball Shadows: Emergent Horizons from Microstructure
Fabio Bacchini, Daniel R. Mayerson, Bart Ripperda, Jordy Davelaar, Héctor Olivares, Thomas Hertog and Bert Vercnocke
arXiv:2103.12075[gr-qc]
Research grant in Strong Gravity for M.Sc. holders
A call for one 1-year research grant in Strong Gravity for M.Sc. holders enrolled in a doctoral programme at Aveiro University, within the research grant “Gravitational waves and black holes as ultralight dark matter particle detectors", CERN/FIS-PAR/0024/2021, is open from 20 March to 10 April 2023. See attached document for details (in Portuguese) or the Euraxess announcement (in English) here.
Sergio Gimeno-Soler
Full Name: Sergio Gimeno-Soler
Position: Junior Research Fellow (2023-24)
Challenging black-hole spectroscopy: quasinormal modes, spectral instabilities and the pseudospectrum
Speaker
Kyriakos Destounis (Sapienza University of Rome - INFN - IAAT Tuebingen)
Event date
Venue
Online (only)
Event type
Black hole spectroscopy is a powerful tool to probe the Kerr nature of astrophysical compact objects and their environment.
Seminar at the Albert Einstein Institute
On March 1, Gr@v member Miguel Zilhão gave an invited seminar at the Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam, at the Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity group. The seminar was entitled "The piercing of a boson star by a black hole", and focused on the dynamics of scalar fields and boson stars in the presence of black holes.
Celebration group lunch
Celebrating the recent "UA Investigador" prize and the group's many (great) guests on Mar 7th 2023. Thank you to Prof. Carolina Benone (U. F. do Pará, Brazil) for the visit and welcome to Prof. Maurício Richartz (U. F. ABC, Brazil), who is joining us for a month. And we also got the short visit of Francisco Duque, from IST-Lisbon, who presented the group seminar on Mar 8th.