High Energy Physics News & Events

C. Herdeiro gave an invited colloquium at the Institutt for teoretisk astrofysikk of the University of Oslo Norway on September 1st 2023.

A call for a 2-year post-doctoral grant in Strong Gravity, within the research grant Gravitational waves, black holes, and fundamental physics, 2022.04560.PTDC, is open from 1 to 20 August 2023.  See attached document for details or the Euraxess announcement here.

The VIII International Meeting of "Casa das Ciências" took place at the University of Aveiro from 17-19 July 2023, with the participation of hundreds of teachers. C. Herdeiro was one of the invited speakers talking about black holes and gravitational waves, with the moderation of M. Zilhão.

The VIII scalar field dark matter workshop will take place in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, on 29-30 September 2023. C. Herdeiro is one of the invited speakers.

Boson stars are a remarkable type of self-gravitating soliton, which admits multipolar configurations. The simplest non-spherical stars, but still static, are the dipoles, but are they dynamically stable? In the paper "Self-interacting dipolar boson stars and their dynamics", it is shown self-interactions help make these dipoles dynamically robust.

The 11th School on Astrophysics and Gravitation will take place at Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, from 1-6 September 2023. C. Herdeiro and M. Zilhão are two of the lecturers. More info here.

At the end of June 2023 we have enjoyed the visits of Juan Carlos Degollado (UNAM - Mexico), Nico Sanchis Gual (Valencia - Spain) and Mikaela Carrasco (USFQ - Ecuador). Nine nationalities in this group photo taken on June 28 - science brings people together!

A call for a 10 month researcher position within the project Testing the Kerr hypothesis with gravitational waves and lensing, PTDC/FIS-AST/3041/2020, is open until July 3rd 2023. The call in Portuguese and English is attached. The Euraxess link is here.

Within the NewFunFiCO network, coordinated by our group, we are co-organizing a workshop on fundamental fields and compact objects: new opportunities, at ICF - UNAM - Campus de Morelos, Mexico, from October 4-6 2023.