May 12th 2022 will go down in history as the first day when the public saw the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. This historical announcement came together with 10 scientific papers. Paper VI cites work by our group.
Full name: Marco Finetti
Position: Research assistant
Degrees: Master in Physics (theoretical), University of Amsterdam, 2019-2021
The essay "On the classicality of bosonic stars" by C. Herdeiro and E. Radu was awarded an honorable mention in the 2022 Gravity Research Foundation Essay competition. See the list of all prized essay's in the 2022 competition here.
The Workshop "Fundamental Physics with LISA", coorganized by the Solvay Institutes, APC and Perimeter Institute, will take place in Brussels from 26-28 April 2022. C. Herdeiro is one of the invited speakers.
Alexandre Pombo successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Black holes and solitonic objects with bosonic fields" on April 8 2022. The Ph.D. committee included Arnaldo Martins (President, UA), Daniela Doneva (Tubingen), Yves Brihaye (Mons), Carolina Benone (UFPA), Pedro Avelino (IA, UP) and Carlos Herdeiro (UA, advisor). The thesis was co-advised by Eugen Radu. Congratulations Alexandre!
Relating the scalar
Topological solitons play an important role in many areas of Physics. In some cases they constitute the {\em normal modes} of field theories in the strong coupling regime. There is a class of topological solitons that are special. They are solutions of first order differential equations (self-dual eqs.) that also solve the second order Euler-Lagrange equations.
The 12th Iberian Gravitational Waves Meeting will take place at the University of Minho, in Braga, from 6-8 June 2022, co-organized by our group. More information in the event's webpage.
