Merry Xmas and happy holidays from Gr@v
Merry Xmas and happy holidays from our team. Photo from the group Xmas lunch on 16 December 2022, with some collaborators and our wonderful secretary Cristina Grosso.
Outreach
Gr@v members contribute frequently to outreach initiatives in order to bring scientific knowledge and developments to the global community. Such initiatives include (see listing of recent activities at the bottom of this page and also our outreach events page):
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Summer Academy, for high school students, organised by the Physics Department of Aveiro University;
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Master Class in Particle Physics, for high school students, an international initiative in which Aveiro University participated for the first time in the 2011 edition;
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Odisseia pela Física; physics colloquia directed to university students (not necessarily of physics), as well as high school teachers and students. The first edition took place in 2010/11;
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Science Popularisation activities developed by the Fábrica Ciência Viva centre in Aveiro;
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Seminars given in local high-schools to increase public awarness of science and in particular physics;
Some suggestions of outreach videos on science and scientists
A great promotional video for the LISA space-based gravitational wave observatory
A TEDx talk by Carlos Herdeiro on gravitational radiation (in Portuguese).
Pale Blue Dot, by Carl Sagan (with Portuguese subtitles) - a scientific poem.
A unique color video footage on Albert Einstein
Rare footage on the 1927 Solvay Physics Conference
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Fun to Imagine (and related videos), by Richard Feynman - a genius at work! In particular this one on Magnetism, is a pearl.
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Take the world from a different point of view, with Richard Feynman: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.
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A TEDx talk with Michelle Feynman (Feynman's daughter) and the producer of the BBC shows on Feynman, with some interesting highlights of these shows.
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Albert Einstein (History Channel) - a personal and scientific biography of Albert Einstein, with a fascinating and detailed description of the various eclipse expeditions to prove his General Theory of Relativity.
Please contact any of us (emails provided in the People subpage) if you would like to suggest us outreach activities with our participation.
Outreach seminar at UFPA (Campus Salinópolis)
On December 5, Gr@v member Lorenzo Annulli gave an outreach seminar at Universidade Federal do Pará, in the beautiful setting of Salinópolis. The seminar (in Portuguese) focused on gravitational waves and their physics. He was hosted by Prof. Carolina Benone, a former Gr@v member and current collaborator, and Prof. Caio Macedo.
Seminar at the University of Vienna
Gr@v member P. Cunha presented an invited seminar in the Physics Department of the University of Vienna.
Outreach seminar at UFPA (Campus Salinópolis)
On November 29, Gr@v member Nuno M. Santos gave an outreach seminar at Universidade Federal do Pará (Campus Salinópolis) on the peculiar nature of black holes and the observational evidence for their existence. He was hosted by Prof. Carolina Benone, a former Gr@v member and current collaborator.
Webinar for Lanzhou University
P. Cunha gave an invited online seminar for the Research Center of Gravitation at Lanzhou University (China), on 17/10/2022.
Humberto Campins talking about asteroids
Prof. Humberto Campins came to the University of Aveiro to talk about asteroids at the outreach centre "Fábrica Centro de Ciência Viva". Gr@v member M. ZIlhão was one of the hosts, opening the session.
Escola de Verão de Astronomia
Our group collaborated with the Escola de Verão de Astronomia, of Instituto Superior Técnico, targeting high school students, with a lecture by C. Herdeiro on Cosmology (9 Set 2022).
Pint of Science Aveiro 2022
Our group joined the Aveiro Pint of Science 2022, to talk about black holes... and have a pint!
Podcast on space
P. Cunha and C. Herdeiro were guest interviewees in a new podcast developed by Pedro Santos at Aveiro University. Episode 1 was on Space. Listen to it here.
Black holes course for high school teachears and undergraduate students
Gr@v, together with the Portuguese Physics Society and the EPS Young Minds Aveiro (association of Physics students) is promoting a (non-technical) black holes course, online, for high school teachears and undergraduate students.