Astrophysics News & Events

In July 2025 we had several Group visitors, including Rui Santos (U. Lisbon), António Morais (U. Minho) and Kunihito Uzawa (Keio University and Kwansei Gakuin University).

The Spring Meeting of the Brazilian Physics Society will take place in São Luis do Maranhão (Brazil), from 30 Set - 3 Oct 2025. C. Herdeiro is one of the invited speakers.

The NewFunFiCO network, is co-organizing the XV School of the Division of Gravitation and Mathematical Physics of the Mexican Physics Society, in Cancun, Mexico, 3-7 November 2025. 

Two 4-month post-doctoral grants are open within the project 2024.05617.CERN, "Towards precision tests of ultralight dark matter with imaging and gravitational waves". Applications should be submitted between 20 June 2025 and 10 July 2025. More info in the attached files and the Euraxess site.

C. Herdeiro was one of the invited speakers of the Varna conference on Black Holes, Neutron Stars and Gravitational Waves. 

On June 4th, C. Herdeiro delivered an outreach talk on gravitational waves for nearly one hundred high school teachers in the fabulous space Miguel Torga, near the house where the writer and poet was born, in S. Martinho de Anta, near Vila Real. A fantastic organization by a wonderful group of dedicated teachers!

Our group is co-organizing the VII Amazonian Symposium on Physics, in Belém do Pará, Brazil, 22-26 September 2025, also integrated in the NewFunFiCO network.

Members of the NewFunFiCO network got together in Valencia from 20-22 May 2025 to discuss many aspects related to compact objects and fundamental fields. Truly enjoyable meeting. Thank you to the Valencia group, especially Nico Sanchis-Gual for the great meeting.

In the first half of May 2025, Gr@v hosted many wonderful collegues, including Isabel Cordero (U. Valencia, Spain),

We discuss recent results on using boson stars with a solitonic potential as models of ultracompact objects, which could mimic black holes in such phenomenology as VLBI images and gravitational wave signals.