2015 marks the centennial of the General Theory of Relativity (GR), presented by Albert Einstein in 1915. Motivated by this celebration, understanding that GR is an important part of the scientific world heritage and recognizing the growing international influence of Portuguese researchers working in this area, the "Portuguese Society of Relativity and Gravitation" (SPRG) was formally established in 2015.
C. Herdeiro was the guest interviewee of Porto Canal's "Mentes que Brilham". Watch and listen to the conversation with interviewer Cláudia Fonseca about black holes and some of the research work made at Gr@v in this area.
Full Name: António de Aguiar e Pestana de Morais
The IX Iberian Cosmology Meeting took place in Aveiro, Portugal, at the Physics Department of the University of Aveiro, from the 28th to the 30th of April 2014. This series of meetings is aimed at encouraging the interaction and collaboration between researchers working in Cosmology and related areas (Gravitation, Particle Physics and Astronomy) in Portugal and Spain. Researchers working in other countries will also be most welcome.
Abstract: Recent observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) show very good consistency with an inflationary model with non-minimal coupling between the scalar and the inflaton field. Such a model is well motivated in the context of the unified theory, which also predicts the existence of many other scalar fields in addition to the inflaton.
Flávio Coelho is currently visiting Wits University in South Africa, to continue his work on n-DBI gravity in collaboration with Shinji Hirano, who joined the academic staff of Wits in 2013.