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.
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation has awarded one of the 2012 prizes for stimulating research to Gr@v Ph.D. student Flávio Coelho, distinguishing his work on alternative theories of gravity and trans-Planckian scattering physics. Congratulations Flávio!
Gr@v member C. Herdeiro was the guest interviewee of the "Researcher of the Month" initiative, promoted by the Research Support Office (GAI) of the University of Aveiro. Read the interview.
On September 14th 2012 Miguel Zilhão had his Ph.D. exam obtaining his doctoral degree. The leading examiners were Prof. Harvey Reall (Cambridge) and Prof. Luis Lehner (Perimeter Institute). Congratulations Miguel, and keep on the good work!
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).
