Strong Gravity News & Events

Professor Péter Forgács from the University of Tours (France) visited Gr@v and presented a seminar on "Non-linear eigenmodes of asymptotically Anti-de-Sitter space".

Gr@v and MAP-PDMA Ph.D. student João Oliveira was awareded an "Outstanding Presentation Award - Gold Prize" for his scientific presentation at the 29th workshop on General Relativity and Gravitation, in Japan, at the University of Kobe.

More than 200 researchers participated in this conference, of which 66 were selected to deliver oral presentations. Of these, 56 were nominated for the outstanding presentation award, but only 4 were awarded this distinction, including João Oliveira.

Grigoris Panotopoulos, from IST-Lisbon, visited Gr@v on 28-29 November to discuss tidal Love numbers of compact objects.

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.