Nico Sanchis-Gual was one of the 8 selected researchers for a junior grant, nationwide, within 74 applicants in the Physical Sciences panel, in the fourth individual call for scientific employment stimulus, promoted by FCT. Congratulations Nico!
Our group had the pleasure to host the visits of Prof. Tiberiu Harko and Prof. Miguel Angel Sanchis Lozano, who presented stimulating seminars on modified gravity and particle physics/cosmology.
Nuno Santos, a Gr@v Ph.D. student was an invited speaker at the Grav@Zon group meeting. The talk is available in YouTube.
Gravity may be an emergent phenomenon instead of a fundamental force. This may lead to a viable theory for quantum gravity. The basic concepts of emergent gravity will be introduced. It will be shown that the requirement of energy conservation through off-shell process generates a gravity-like force. The necessary conditions for gravity to emerge from QFT will be discussed.
E. Radu was one of the invited plenary speakers of the Tim 20-21 conference, organized by the West University of Timisoara, Romania, on November 11-13, 2021.
The 2021 update of the Stanford/Elsevier author database of the standardized citation indicators, features Gr@v members C. Herdeiro and E. Radu in the career long data and (additionally) P. Cunha and N. Sanchis-Gual in the single year 2020 data. All information and data files available here.
We propose an extension of the $f(R,L_m)$ gravity theory by considering the coupling between matter and geometry in conformal quadratic Weyl gravity, explicitly formulated in the Weyl geometry.
Extremal black holes that are not extremal: maximal warm holes
Oscar J. C. Dias, Gary T. Horowitz, and Jorge E. Santos
arXiv:2109.14633 [hep-th]
