Focus on black holes
The December 2020 issue of the Aveiro University magazine "Linhas UA" includes a feature article covering work at Gr@v and the mysteries of black holes. Check this issue here.
Cosmology News & Events
2020 SR&TD FCT Projects
The 2020 FCT call for Scientific Research & Technological Development projects had 5847 applications, of which 3317 were considered eligible and 312 recommended for funding. In the Physical Sciences panel there were 139 applications; Gr@v's project, led by C.Herdeiro, a synergy between the different expertise of the group (strong gravity, astrophysics and high energy physics) was ranked first.
Pedro Cunha selected for an FCT 6 years junior research grant
Pedro Cunha was one of the 7 selected researchers for a junior grant, nationwide, within 76 applicants in the Physical Sciences panel, in the third individual call for scientific employment stimulus, promoted by FCT. Pedro (re)joined our group as a post-doc in October 2020, after being a post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck institute for gravitational physics in Golm, Germany. Congratulations Pedro!
New Gr@v research students
Four new research students have joined Gr@v this fall: Jenzhi Yang, Ivo Sengo, Vasileios Vatellis and João Pino. Welcome!
Nico Sanchis-Gual joins Gr@v
Nicolas Sanchis-Gual, the only member of the LIGO-Virgo-Kagra collaboration working in Portugal, officially joined Gr@v and our research unit CIDMA. After his Ph.D. from the University of Valencia, Nico worked as a postdoctoral researcher at CENTRA-IST. He is an expert on Numerical Relativity and Gravitational Waves from dynamical binaries. Welcome Nico!
Research position in Particle Physics
A call for an Initial Level Doctorate Researcher in Particle Physics at our group is opened. Deadline: 12th of November 2020.
XIII black holes workshop
The XIII Black Holes workshop will take place in Lisbon, on the 21-22 December 2020.
Discussion of the paper "An Example of a New Type of Cosmological Solutions of Einstein's Field Equations of Gravitation" by K. Gödel
Speaker
Eugen Radu (UA)
Event date
Venue
online (only)
Ends on
Event type
An Example of a New Type of Cosmological Solutions of Einstein's Field Equations of Gravitation
K. Gödel
Rev. Mod. Phys. 21(3) (1949) 447-450
Landmark papers
This page contains a preliminary list of landmark papers suggested by group members to be discussed in Journal Club sessions. Papers are organized by chronological order.
The asterisk (*) indicates that the paper has been selected for discussion.
Why can't time run backwards?
Speaker
Prof. Anthony James Leggett (Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois, USA)
Event date
Venue
room 11.1.2 and online
Event type
We can all tell when a movie of some everyday event, such as a kettle boiling or a glass shattering, is run backwards. Similarly, we all feel that we can remember the past and affect the future, not vice versa.