High Energy Physics News & Events

C. Herdeiro was the invited speaker for the Research Center of Gravitation at Lanzhou University, China, webinar on 27/7/2022.

Gr@v members J. Pino, V. Vatellis and A. Morais participated in the FLASY 2022 (Lisbon) and ICHEP 2022 (Bologna) international conferences with a total of 6 parallel and 1 plenary presentation.

Gr@v is one of the 126 groups/institutions that joined the European Consortium for Astroparticle Theory (EuCAPT). EuCAPT purpose is to bring together theoretical cosmologists and astroparticle physicists across Europe aiming at increasing the exchange of ideas, coordinate scientific activities, help in the attraction of adequate resources as well as promoting a stimulating, fair and open environment in which young scientists can thrive. Gr@v's participation is coordinated by A. Morais.

Group member Felipe Freitas embraced a new career at Électricité de France (EDF), at the bureau based on Brighton UK. Felipe's expertise on machine/deep learning will now be applied to other problems. Felipe will remain a collaborator of the group still developing some of our current research directions. See you soon Felipe!

To close our academic year seminar/webinar programme we had the pleasure to host Leong Khim Wong, from Saclay, France, who gave an on campus seminar on "Gravitational Waves from spontaneously scalarized black holes", on June 29 2022.

Gr@v members A. Morais, F. Freitas and C. Herdeiro, reuniting with former member N. Sanchis-Gual, in Valencia, Spain, during the 2nd Workshop on Compact Objects, Gravitational Waves and Deep Learning (20-23 June 2022).

A two days workshop "Exact solutions in classical field theory: Solitons, black holes and bosons stars", that will take place on 2-3 June will honour the work of Yves Brihaye, former head of the Research Unit of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics and currently Professor Emeritus in the Unit Physics of the Univers,  Fields and Gravitation. As long time collaborators, E. Radu and C. Herdeiro are two of the invited speakers of the workshop.

The 2nd Workshop on Compact Objects, Gravitational Waves and Deep Learning will take place in Valencia, from 20-23 June 2022, co-organized by our group. The first edition of this series of workshops took place in Aveiro, in September 2020.

May 12th 2022 will go down in history as the first day when the public saw the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. This historical announcement came together with 10 scientific papers. Paper VI cites work by our group.