Merry Xmas and happy holidays from Gr@v
Merry Xmas and happy holidays from our team. Photo from the group Xmas lunch on 16 December 2022, with some collaborators and our wonderful secretary Cristina Grosso.
Strong Gravity News & Events
Five new Gr@v Seminars are now online!
The last five sessions of the Gr@v group seminars are now on YouTube in our dedicated channel https://www.youtube.com/@Gravchannel. These include the talks from Guilherme Raposo (University of Aveiro), Roberto Emparan (ICREA and Univeristy of Barcelona), Daniela Doneva (University of Tubingen), Andrew Coates (Koc University) and Renate Loll (Radboud University).
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Madrid Winter Workshop
The Madrid Winter Workshop took place at Complutense University, Madrid, from 12-15 December 2023. C. Herdeiro was one of the invited speakers.
6-years researcher positions at Gr@v
The Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT) announced the 6th edition of the individual call to scientific employment stimulus, open from April 4th to May 3rd 2023, for researchers with a Ph.D. and including four different seniority levels. Applications require the support of a host research unit. Researchers wishing to join our group should contact the group coordinator (C. Herdeiro).
The fate of the light-ring instability in PRL
The recent Gr@v work on the fate of the Light Ring instability (arXiv:2207.13713) will appear in the prestigious Physical Review Letters.
Visits of Blazquez-Salcedo, Gervalle, Khoo and Tchrakian
Jose Blázquez-Salcedo (Complutense, Madrid), Romain Gervalle (Tours), Fech Scen Khoo (Oldenburg) and Tigran Tchrakian (DIAS, Dublin) visited us in the week of Dec. 5 2022, and lectured in the 1 day Strong Gravity Workshop our group organized.
Outreach seminar at UFPA (Campus Salinópolis)
On November 29, Gr@v member Nuno M. Santos gave an outreach seminar at Universidade Federal do Pará (Campus Salinópolis) on the peculiar nature of black holes and the observational evidence for their existence. He was hosted by Prof. Carolina Benone, a former Gr@v member and current collaborator.
VIII Amazonian Workshop on Gravity and Analogue Models
The VIII Amazoniana Workshop on Gravity and Analogue models took place from 21-25 November 2022. The video recording of the courses and lectures will soon be put online.
Latin American Symposium on HEP
The Latin American Symposium on High Energy Physics 2022 (XIV SILAFAE) took place in Quito, Ecuador, from 14-18 November 2022. Gr@v member C. Herdeiro was one of the invited speakers.
1 year (post-doctoral) researcher fellowship in Strong Gravity
A call for a 1 year (post-doctoral) researcher position in Strong Gravity. within the research grant “Gravitational Waves and black holes as ultralight dark matter particle detectors", CERN/FIS-PAR/0024/2021, is open. The call closes on December 2nd 2022. See attached documents for details or the Euraxess announcement here.