Gr@v is a team of researchers, based at the Mathematics and Physics Department of Aveiro University, Portugal, working on strong gravity and high energy physics. The group was established in 2010. In January 2015 Gr@v integrated the FCT funded CIDMA research unit (UIDB/04106/2020 and UIDP/04106/2020), as the Gravitational Geometry and Dynamics research group. The group scientific coordinator is C. Herdeiro.
Our group co-organized and participated in the Amazonian workshop on Black Holes and Analogue models of gravity, held at Universidade Federal do Pará, in Belém do Pará, gateway to the Amazonian region of Brazil from 7-9 August 2012.
Watch a movie made by Luis Carlos Crispino with photos of the meeting and of Belém do Pará.
Gr@v members M. Sampaio, F. Coelho, M. Zilhão and C. Herdeiro visited Observatório Nacional and Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro in early August 2012, to present seminars on Shock wave and Black hole collisions.
Professor Gary W. Gibbons visited the University of Aveiro and participated in the jury of Carlos Herdeiro's Habilitation (Agregação) which took place in 30-31 July 2012.
The first meeting of the NRHEP network closed on July 13th 2012, after an intense and fruitful week of scientific interaction. See the movie! The second meeting has been scheduled to be held at IST-Lisbon, from 11-15 March 2013.
CERN announced on July 4th the finding of a new resonance compatible with the long-sought Higgs boson. Watch a layman's explanation. Read a brief explanation and listen to a radio chronicle by Gr@v researchers.
Gr@v members participated in the 13th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, which took place in Stockholm, presenting talks on n-DBI gravity (Flávio Coelho), Shock Wave Collisions (Carlos Herdeiro and Marco Sampaio), Hawking Radiation (Mengjie Wang) and Numerical Relativity (Miguel Zilhão).
TEDx Aveiro 2012 took place on Saturday May 26th 2012, with the theme "Beyond the Limits", gathering 700 people in Aveiro's Congress Centre. Carlos Herdeiro was one of the invited speakers, presenting the TED talk "Space-time whispers" on gravitational radiation: "beyond the limits of vision...
The radio program Click, of the journalist Catarina Lázaro, broadcasted by the portuguese national radio station, Antena 1, has recently interviewed two Gr@v researchers (Alexandre Correia and Carlos Herdeiro) to learn about some of the research done at the University of Aveiro in the area of gravitational physics. Listen here (AC) and here (CH) to the broadcastings (in portuguese).
The workshop "The power challenges of Mega-Science infrastructures: the example of SKA", co-organized by Domingos Barbosa will take place in Moura, Portugal and Sevilla, Spain on 20th-21st June 2012. This workshop intends to review current R&D trends, industry forecasts for solar energy options and experiences that may respond to the challenges set by Mega Science Infrastructures and in particular by the Square Kilometer Array project.
