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.
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!
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!
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!
Yasha Shnir (from Dubna, Russia) and Massimo Vaglio (from Rome, Italy) visited our group in June-July 2021 within the COST action GWVerse, to strengthen the collaboration with different group members, on several aspects of strong gravity. Thank you for your visit!
Gr@v Ph.D. student Jorge Delgado got a best pitch award for his pitch (short talk) in the UA Research Summit 2021, in the session for students of the MAP-Fis Ph.D. programme. Congratulations Jorge!
A call for a 2 years postdoctoral grant in Strong Gravity, within the research grant “Testing the Kerr hypothesis with gravitational waves and lensing", PTDC / FIS-AST / 3041/2020, is open from 1 to 20 August 2021. See attached document for details (in Portuguese) or the Euraxess announcement (in Portuguese and English) here.
Our group coordinated the "Numerical Relativity and High Energy Physics" IRSES network (2012-2015). Here is a list of the global network meetings organized:
