VIII scalar field dark matter workshop
The VIII scalar field dark matter workshop will take place in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, on 29-30 September 2023. C. Herdeiro is one of the invited speakers.
High Energy Physics News & Events
Self-interacting dipolar boson stars and their dynamics
Boson stars are a remarkable type of self-gravitating soliton, which admits multipolar configurations. The simplest non-spherical stars, but still static, are the dipoles, but are they dynamically stable? In the paper "Self-interacting dipolar boson stars and their dynamics", it is shown self-interactions help make these dipoles dynamically robust.
11th School on Astrophysics and Gravitation
The 11th School on Astrophysics and Gravitation will take place at Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, from 1-6 September 2023. C. Herdeiro and M. Zilhão are two of the lecturers. More info here.
Great visits
At the end of June 2023 we have enjoyed the visits of Juan Carlos Degollado (UNAM - Mexico), Nico Sanchis Gual (Valencia - Spain) and Mikaela Carrasco (USFQ - Ecuador). Nine nationalities in this group photo taken on June 28 - science brings people together!
Post-doctoral researcher position in Strong Gravity
A call for a 10 month researcher position within the project Testing the Kerr hypothesis with gravitational waves and lensing, PTDC/FIS-AST/3041/2020, is open until July 3rd 2023. The call in Portuguese and English is attached. The Euraxess link is here.
NewFunFiCO workshop
Within the NewFunFiCO network, coordinated by our group, we are co-organizing a workshop on fundamental fields and compact objects: new opportunities, at ICF - UNAM - Campus de Morelos, Mexico, from October 4-6 2023.
Journées Relativistes de Tours
The Journées Relativistes de Tours, France, took place from 31 May - 2 June 2023 discussing the latest developments in the field. C. Herdeiro and E. Radu were two of the invited speakers.
Discussion of the paper "Relativistic drag forces on black holes from scalar dark matter clouds of all sizes", by Dina Traykova, et al.
Speaker
Miguel Zilhão (U. Aveiro)
Event date
Venue
Sala 11.2.21 and online
Ends on
Event type
Relativistic drag forces on black holes from scalar dark matter clouds of all sizes
Research grant in Strong Gravity for M.Sc. holders
A call for a 5-months research grant in Strong Gravity for M.Sc.
Cosmology from galaxy phase-space information and a bit of halo-galaxy connection
Speaker
Natali de Santi (Flatiron Institute and University of Sao Paulo)
Event date
Venue
Online (only)
Event type
In this talk, I will give an overview of how to do field-level likelihood-free inference with galaxy catalogs.
More specifically, only using phase-space information, I will show how to convert galaxy catalogs into graphs.
I will explain how to use graph neural networks, associated with moment neural networks, to constrain Omega matter.