Visitors in July
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).
Strong Gravity News & Events
Spring Meeting - Brazilian Physics Society
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.
XV School of the Division of Gravitation and Mathematical Physics
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. More information in the attached file.
Ana Bokulić
Name: Ana Bokulić
Two post-doctoral grants
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.
Varna conference
C. Herdeiro was one of the invited speakers of the Varna conference on Black Holes, Neutron Stars and Gravitational Waves.
Gravitational waves for high school teachers
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!
VII Amazonian Symposium on Physics
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.
Quantum fermion superradiance in charged black holes
Speaker
Álvaro Álvarez-Domínguez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid & IPARCOS)
Event date
Venue
Hybrid: room 11.2.23 and Zoom
Event type
In contrast to a classical charged bosonic field, a classical charged fermionic field does not exhibit superradiant scattering when placed in the background of a static charged black hole. However, we show that a quantum version of this effect does occur.
NewFunFiCO workshop in Valencia
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.