The V Amazonian Symposium on Physics was held in Belém, Brazil, from 18-22 November 2019. This meeting was co-sponsored by the Marie Curie RISE FunFiCO network and co-organised by Gr@v members. The invited speakers included Bill Unruh, Bob Wald, John Friedman, Jorge Zanelli and Mirjam Cvetic, amongst others.
Gra@v members C. Herdeiro and E. Radu, together with Nuno Santos from IST-Lisbon, visited Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPa), Brazil, in Amazonia, during November 2019, within the Marie Curie RISE FunFiCO partnership. In the photon in the river Guamá, with Carolina Benone, a former UFPa/Aveiro PhD student, now staff at UFPa.
Gr@v members C. Herdeiro and E. Radu, were two of the speakers of the Mini-workshop on "Black holes and symmetries" at the Instituto de Física, Pontifica Universidad Católica Valparaíso, Chile. The workshop was organised by Olivera Moskovic and Dumitru Astefanesei. The other speaker was Marc Henneaux from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
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Nelson Eiró visited Gr@v just before successfully defending his M.Sc. thesis on "Strong lensing of light and shadow of a Black Hole surrounded by a heavy accretion disk", at IST-Lisbon, supervised by C. Herdeiro and P. Cunha. This visit coincided with the beginning of a long term visit by Aichen and Ruyong Li, both graduates from Beijing University of Technology.
Nico Sanchis-Gual and Nuno Santos visited Gr@v. Nico gave a seminar on "Non-linear dynamics of spinning bosonic stars: formation and stability". Nuno, an IST graduate, will join Gr@v as a PhD student in 2020, having been the top ranked candidate in the 2019 Individual FCT grant call in the Physics panel.
