Invited talk by J. Delgado at Grav@Zon
Jorge Delgado, a Gr@v Ph.D. student was an invited speaker at the Grav@Zon group meeting. The talk is available in YouTube.
Strong Gravity News & Events
EREP2021 programme online
M.Sc. thesis defense of Zeus Sales Moreira
Zeus Sales Moreira a student from Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil, successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis entitled “Black hole spacetimes: radiation emission and light rings” on July 29th. The thesis was advised by C. Herdeiro and L. Crispino and the examiners were E. Radu and G. Olmo (U. Valencia). Congratulations Zeus!
New members and grants
Guilherme Raposo (left, Ph.D. from Rome, La Sapienza, 2021) joined our group in a partnership with IST-Lisbon from July 2021. Welcome Guilherme! João Novo (middle) and João Pino (right) were awarded individual FCT PhD scholarships in the 2021 call. Congratulations to both!
End of academic year group lunch
We celebrated the end of the 2020/21 academic year with a sunny and delicious group lunch at the seaside. And it was a wonderful year for the group made science!
Visits of Yasha Shnir and Massimo Vaglio
Yasha Shnir (from Dubna, Russia) and Massimo Vaglio (from Rome, Italy) visited our group in June-July 2021 within the COST action GWVerse, to strengthen the collaboration with different group members, on several aspects of strong gravity. Thank you for your visit!
Guilherme Raposo
Position: Long term research fellow - CEEC Junior research position (6 years, 2023-29)
Research Area: Strong Gravity
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Best Pitch award for Jorge Delgado
Gr@v Ph.D. student Jorge Delgado got a best pitch award for his pitch (short talk) in the UA Research Summit 2021, in the session for students of the MAP-Fis Ph.D. programme. Congratulations Jorge!
Two years Post-Doctoral Grant in Strong Gravity
A call for a 2 years postdoctoral grant in Strong Gravity, within the research grant “Testing the Kerr hypothesis with gravitational waves and lensing", PTDC / FIS-AST / 3041/2020, is open from 1 to 20 August 2021. See attached document for details (in Portuguese) or the Euraxess announcement (in Portuguese and English) here.
The Black Hole Photon Ring
Speaker
Alex Lupsasca (Princeton University)
Event date
Venue
online (only)
Event type
The photon ring is a narrow ring-shaped feature, predicted by General Relativity but not yet observed, that appears on images of sources near a black hole. It is caused by extreme bending of light within a few Schwarzschild radii of the event horizon and provides a direct probe of the unstable bound photon orbits of the Kerr geometry.