New group members
Lorenzo Annulli (Ph.D. IST-Lisbon, 2021) and Etevaldo Costa Filho (M.Sc. U. São Paulo, 2020), joined our group as a new post-doctoral researcher and Ph.D. student, respectively, from the fall 2021. Welcome!
Strong Gravity News & Events
XIV Black Holes Workshop
The XIV Black Holes Workshop will be held at the University of Aveiro, on 20-21 December 2021. Registration was open on September 1st 2021. See the webpage for more information.
Etevaldo Costa Filho
Full Name: Etevaldo dos Santos Costa FilhoPosition: MAP-Fis PhD student
Degrees:
- Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo: B.Sc in Physics, 2018
- Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo: B.Sc in Physics, 2018
10th school on astrophysics and gravitation at IST
C. Herdeiro was one of the invited lecturers of the 10th school on astrophysics and gravitation, held from 2-7 September at IST-Lisbon, delivering a course on "Theoretical and Observational Cosmology".
Challenging the cosmic censorship in Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory with numerically simulated gedankenexperiments
Speaker
Fabrizio Corelli (Sapienza University of Rome)
Event date
Venue
online (only)
Event type
According to the Penrose's cosmic censorship conjecture, curvature singularities in General Relativity are always hidden by an horizon. This implies that the charge-to-mass ratio of a spherically symmetric charged black hole in Einstein-Maxwell theory cannot be larger than one.
Invited talk by J. Delgado at Grav@Zon
Jorge Delgado, a Gr@v Ph.D. student was an invited speaker at the Grav@Zon group meeting. The talk is available in YouTube.
EREP2021 programme online
M.Sc. thesis defense of Zeus Sales Moreira
Zeus Sales Moreira a student from Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil, successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis entitled “Black hole spacetimes: radiation emission and light rings” on July 29th. The thesis was advised by C. Herdeiro and L. Crispino and the examiners were E. Radu and G. Olmo (U. Valencia). Congratulations Zeus!
New members and grants
Guilherme Raposo (left, Ph.D. from Rome, La Sapienza, 2021) joined our group in a partnership with IST-Lisbon from July 2021. Welcome Guilherme! João Novo (middle) and João Pino (right) were awarded individual FCT PhD scholarships in the 2021 call. Congratulations to both!
End of academic year group lunch
We celebrated the end of the 2020/21 academic year with a sunny and delicious group lunch at the seaside. And it was a wonderful year for the group made science!