Cosmology News & Events
Information for Prospective Ph.D. students
Are you interested in doing research in topics such as black hole physics/mathematics, gravitational waves, numerical relativity, cosmology and high energy particle physics? Do you have (or are you finishing) a M.Sc. degree in Physics or Maths?
If so, and you would like pursue a PhD at Gr@v, there's a few steps you need to follow.
Journal Clubs 2021/22 kick off
Gr@v Journal Clubs for 2021/22 have started. Researchers/students from other groups/institutions wanting to attend (they are online) feel free to contact us.
Rodrigo Vicente's Ph.D. defense
Rodrigo Vicente, a Ph.D. student co-advised in our group, successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on "The Gravity of Classical Fields and its effect on the Dynamics of Gravitational Systems", at IST Lisbon on September 21st 2021. Congratulations Rodrigo!
COST Advanced School in Lund
The COST Advanced School on the "Physics of Dark Matter and Hidden Sectors" will take place in Lund, Sweeden, from October 18-21st 2021. Gr@v members C. Herdeiro, A. Morais and F. Freitas are amongst the invited lecturers.
500
The Gr@v paper "Kerr black holes with scalar hair" reached the landmark of 500 citations in the INSPIRE database.
EREP 2021 closed
The Spanish-Portuguese Relativity Meeting 2021 took place online from 13-16 September 2021, organized by our group. With over 200 registered participants and 95 talks (invited, contributed and one public lecture), the meeting exhibited the interdisciplinarity of this thriving field. Talk slides can be found in the program webpage. We hope to have a face to face EREP 2022!
Gr@v members António Morais and João Gonçalves visit the Corfu Summer Institute
Gr@v members António Morais and João Gonçalves participated, in-person, in the Workshop on the Standard Model and Beyond that was held at the Corfu Summer Institute, Greece, between the 29th of August and the 8th of September.
CQG focus issue on the Impact of EHT Observations for GR
E. Barausse (SISSA, Italy) and C. Herdeiro (Gr@v) are the guest editors for a Classical and Quantum Gravity Focus issue on the Impact of EHT Observations for General Relativity. For more information see the focus issue webpage.
New group members
Lorenzo Annulli (Ph.D. IST-Lisbon, 2021) and Etevaldo Costa Filho (M.Sc. U. São Paulo, 2020), joined our group as a new post-doctoral researcher and Ph.D. student, respectively, from the fall 2021. Welcome!