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.
Strong Gravity 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.
Two six-months researcher positions
Two positions for a Researcher (with Ph.D.) are open within the project Towards Precision Tests of Ultralight Dark Matter with Gravitational Imaging Waves. Application deadline: March 13, 2025. More info in Euraxess.
Curvature dependence of gravitational-wave tests: from theory to observation
Speaker
Laura Bernard (Laboratoire d’étude de l’Univers et des phénomènes eXtrêmes)
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Venue
Hybrid: room 11.2.21 and Zoom
Event type
Next generation of gravitational wave detectors will have the sensibility to detect potential deviations in gravitational waveforms with respect to general relativity. However, current agnostic tests are plagued by a lack of realistic deviations, making it difficult to interpret such detections with respect to specific theories.
Discussion of the paper "Probing ultralight bosons with binary black holes", by D. Baumann et al.
Speaker
Chen Liang (U. Aveiro)
Event date
Venue
Hybrid: Room Sousa Pinto and Zoom
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Probing Ultralight Bosons with Binary Black Holes
Daniel Baumann, Horng Sheng Chia, Rafael A. Porto
Discussion of the paper "A plausible model of inflation driven by strong gravitational wave turbulence", by S. Galtier et al.
Speaker
Héctor Olivares
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Venue
Hybrid: Room 11.2.21 Pinto and Zoom
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A plausible model of inflation driven by strong gravitational wave turbulence
Sebastien Galtier (LPP), Jason Laurie, Sergey V. Nazarenko (INPHYNI)
Discussion of the paper "Extreme mass-ratio inspirals into black holes surrounded by scalar clouds", by R. Brito and S. Shah
Speaker
Manuel Mariano (U. Aveiro)
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Venue
Hybrid: Room 11.2.21 and Zoom
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Extreme mass-ratio inspirals into black holes surrounded by scalar clouds
Richard Brito and Shreya Shah
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!