Astrophysics News & Events

Following an invitation from the Portuguese Physics Society, Gr@v members P. Cunha and C. Herdeiro gave a 12 hours lecture course on black holes for non-experts. The lectures can be watched in Youtube: Lecture 1, Lecture 2 (part1, part2), Lecture 3 and Lecture 4.

C. Herdeiro was the invited speaker of the Tübingen Einstein seminar on April 16 2021.

A call for a 1 year postdoctoral grant in High Energy Physics, within the research grant “From Higgs phenomenology to the unification of fundamental interactions", PTDC / FIS-PAR / 31000/2017, is open from the 19^th of April to the 14^th of May 2021. See the eracareers announcement (in Portuguese and English) here.

Celebrating the 2020 Physics Nobel Prize for Black Holes, here is an outreach article published in Gazeta de Física (published by the Portuguese Physics Society) by C. Herdeiro. The article pdf can be found in attachment.

Celebrating the international day of Mathematics, March 14th, which is also Einstein's birthday, C. Herdeiro gave an outreach talk in the Maths Dept. of Aveiro on "Pi and Einstein: from the Universe of Geometry to the Geometry of the Universe". It can be seen here (in Portuguese).

Within the context of the European COST Action GWverse, the community has sumarized the state of the art and propects for the future in a comprehensive roadmap: Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap. The GWverse roadmap, co-authored by our group, has been selected by the Editorial Board of Classical and Quantum Gravity (CQG) as one of the journal's Highlights of 2019-2020. 

The article "Traversable wormholes in Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell theory", recently published in Phys. Rev. Lett. as Editor's suggestion, co-authered by Gr@v member Eugen Radu, was featured in Physics.

A recent Gr@v co-authored article is ranked #130 in all time media coverage of Phys. Rev. Lett. outputs. Watch here (in English) and here (in Portuguese) video explanations of the work.

The machine learning work by Gr@v member Felipe Freitas for detecting gravitational waves was awarded a prize of US $4000 in QHack 2021, being ranked in the top 20 amongst over 300 submitted projects.