NewFunFiCO mid term meeting
The NewFunFiCO mid term meeting took place online on March 20 bringing together many consortium members, to share their experiences with the REA.
Astrophysics News & Events
Gravitational Lensing in the Kerr Spacetime: An Analytic Approach for Light and High-Frequency Gravitational Waves
Speaker
Torben Frost (Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University)
Event date
Venue
Online (Zoom)
Event type
Black holes are the most massive objects in the Universe and provide an ideal testing ground for gravity in the strong field regime.
An Overview of the magnetized advective flows around black holes
Speaker
Samik Mitra (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)
Event date
Venue
Online only
Event type
One of the most efficient energy sources in the universe is the matter accretion onto compact objects, such as black holes (BHs) and neutron stars (NSs). Since magnetic fields are ubiquitous everywhere, the accretion flow is expected to be magnetized in nature, where the large-scale magnetic fields inside the disks are commonly rooted either from the companion star or the interstellar medium.
NewFunFiCO meeting on Compact Objects, Shadows, and Gravitational Waves 2025
A meeting of the NewFunFiCO network will take place in Valencia, from 20-22 May 2025. More information can be found here.
Visits of Luis Crispino and Kunihito Uzawa
In the last week of January 2025 we received the visits of Profs. Luis Carlos Crispino and Kunihito Uzawa. Great to have you here!
CIDMA meeting 2025
The CIDMA meetin 2025 took place on January 20th 2025. Our group contributed with two presentations by C. Herdeiro and R. Luna. The meeting webpage can be found here.
Nuno Santos Ph.D. exam
Nuno M. Santos successfullly defended his Ph.D. thesis on January 10 2025. The defense was online and the degree awarded with distinction from IST-Lisbon. Well done Nuno and all the best for what comes next!
XVII Black Holes Workshop
The XVII black holes workshop took place at the University of Aveiro, from 19-20 December 2024. Over 70 participants got involved into two intense days of seminars and discussions on this growing and fascinating research topic. See you all in Lisbon in 2025! UA coverage here.
Interdisciplinary research from Gr@v
Gr@v co-authored the article in the journal Computers in Biology and Medicine, with title “Next-generation chemotherapy treatments based on black hole algorithms: From cancer remission to chronic disease management”. This is an interdisciplinary research applying ideas from black hole physics to create a new methodology in chemotherapy treatments. See here the UA coverage.
Workshop at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute
Gr@v members C. Herdeiro, H. Olivares, and J. Novo delivered talks in the workshop "Lensing and Wave Optics in Strong Gravity", held at the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics (ESI) in Vienna, Austria, from December 9-14th. The workshop also featured contributions from Gr@v members I. Sengo and P. Cunha, with P. Cunha additionally serving as a co-organizer.