Spanish-Portuguese Relativity Meeting (EREP2020)
The Spanish-Portuguese Relativity Meeting (EREP2020) will take place at the University of Aveiro, from 14-17 September 2020. Registration will open on February 1st.
High Energy Physics News & Events
Da Huang
Full Name: Da Huang
Position: Level 1 Researcher
FCT funded post-doctoral positions
The Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT) launched the third edition of the "Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus". The call will open from January 30th to February 26th 2020. This call funds post-doctoral positions at various seniority levels. Our group is open to support good candidates in Strong Gravity, Astrophysics and High Energy Physics. For further information contact the group coordinator C. Herdeiro (herdeiro@ua.pt).
XII Black Holes Workshop
The XII Black Holes workshop took place on 19-20 December 2020, at the University of Minho, in the Azurém Campus, Guimarães. As always, a fast paced, intense and stimulating meeting!
Cambridge School on Gravitational Waves
The Kavli-RISE Summer School on Gravitational Waves took place at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, University of Cambridge, on September 23-27, 2019. C. Herdeiro was one of the invited Lecturers.
UV completions of effective models explaining B-physics anomalies
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Werner Porod (Wurzburg U., Germany)
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Room Sousa Pinto (DM)
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In recent years several anomalies have been observed in decays of B-mesons. We give first a brief overview on the experimental situation. It is well know that these anomalies can be explained by adding leptoquarks or extra vector-bosons to the SM particle content.
Pedro Cunha PhD defense
Pedro Cunha defended his PhD thesis with title "Shadows and gravitational lensing of Black Holes interacting with fundamental fields" on September 9th 2019, at IST-Lisbon. The panel, composed by Prof. Volker Perlick, Frederic Vincent, José Natário, Carlos Herdeiro (advisor) and José Lemos (president) unanimously attributed the highest classification of Approved with Distinction and Honour to an outstanding piece of work. Congratulations Pedro!
Gr@v students visit Brazil
Gr@v Ph.D. students Alexandre Pombo, João Oliveira and Jorge Delgado visited Belém, Brazil as members of the FunFiCO Marie Curie RISE project. Their visit coincided with the VII Amazonian Workshop on Gravity and analogue models, where they presented their work, and the Amazonian High Studies School in Theoretical Physics where they attended courses on Numerical Relativity and Gravitational Lensing.
Suppressing GR deviations with rotating black holes in PRL
In a paper published in Physical Review Letters, Gr@v researchers Pedro Cunha and Eugen Radu (in collaboration with Carlos Herdeiro from IST-Lisbon) provide a new insight on how spin could mask non-GR features in astrophysical black holes.
Axion superradiance in rotating neutron stars
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Jamie McDonald (T. U. Munich)
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GAP room
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In this talk I describe a new class of superradiant instabilities in which ultralight scalar fields extract rotational energy from neutron stars. The instability arises from the mixing of scalar and photon modes in the magnetic field of the neutron star which extract energy from the rotating magnetosphere.