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Integrability of five dimensional gravity theories and inverse scattering construction of dipole black rings

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Jorge Rocha (IST-Lisbon)
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GAP room
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Abstract: It is well known that D-dimensional vacuum gravity with D-2 commuting Killing vectors is integrable. For such theories a solution generating technique has been available since it was first presented by Belinski and Zakharov in 1978.

IV Black Holes Workshop

IV Black Holes Workshop's poster
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Physics Amphitheatre
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From astrophysics to high-energy physics, from information theory to quantum gravity, black holes have acquired an ever increasing role in fundamental physics, and are now part of the terminology of many important branches of observational, theoretical and mathematical physics. This workshop aims at bringing together experts about black holes in all their aspects. The fourth edition of the Black Holes Workshop was held at the University of Aveiro in 19-20 December 2011.

Dark Energy and Dark Matter or Gravity

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Orfeu Bertolami, Departamento de Física e Astronomia da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto
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Physics Amphitheatre
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Abstract: The knowledge of the Universe is essentially based on the theory of general relativity (GR). If from one hand, solar system data is in excellent agreement to the theory, available cosmological evidence on the other, is consistent with GR provided one assumes the existence of dark energy and dark matter.

Faster than light neutrinos?!?!

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Pedro Ferreira (ISEL, CFTC)
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GAP room
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The OPERA experiment recently announced surprising results: the speed of a beam of muon neutrinos was found to be higher than the speed of light, a 6-$sigma$ effect not easily discarded. It is not the first time that faster-than-light (FTL) neutrinos haven been considered: they were proposed as an explanation (later ruled out) to observations of the supernova SN1987A, and the MINOS experiment has results similar to OPERA's.

Miguel Zilhão

Position: Long term research fellow - CEEC Assistant researcher (6 years, 2023-29)
(previously) Researcher (hired by research grant PTDC/FIS-AST/3041/2020)

 

Previous positions:
- 2017-2021, Research Scientist Investigator FCT, CENTRA, IST-Lisbon, Portugal
- 2014-2017, Post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences, University of Barcelona, Spain
- 2012-2014, Post-doctoral researcher at the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

 

Carlos Herdeiro - Research

Some of my research interests are:

o Black hole physics

o General relativity, numerical relativity and gravitational radiation

o Supergravity, string theories and the gauge/gravity duality

o Differential geometry

o Casimir effect and quantum field theory

o Cosmology and inflationary models

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Welcome to Gr@v

Gr@v is a team of researchers, based at the Mathematics and Physics Department of Aveiro University, Portugal, working on strong gravity and high energy physics. The group was established in 2010. In January 2015 Gr@v integrated the FCT funded CIDMA research unit (UIDB/04106/2020 and UIDP/04106/2020), as the Gravitational Geometry and Dynamics research group. The group scientific coordinator is C. Herdeiro.