Seminars

Group seminars are on Wednesdays at 11h00 in room Sousa Pinto (Maths Dept.), unless explicitly indicated. For more information please contact Jordan Nicoules (jnicoules@ua.pt) or Carlos Herdeiro (herdeiro@ua.pt).

Teleparallelism Equivalent to General Relativity

Speaker

Sérgio Ulhoa (U. Brasília)

Event date

Wednesday, July 9, 2014 - 14:30

Venue

GAP room

Strong Gravity

Relativistic elasticity of rigid rods and strings

Speaker

José Natário (IST, U. Lisbon)

Event date

Wednesday, July 2, 2014 - 14:30

Venue

GAP room

Strong Gravity

Quantum Black Holes: from the Hoop Conjecture to possible searches for their decay signatures

Speaker

Octavian Micu (ISS Bucharest)

Event date

Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - 14:30

Venue

GAP room

Strong Gravity

High Energy Physics

Goldstone gravity from spontaneous Lorentz violation

Speaker

Robertus Potting (U. Algarve)

Event date

Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 14:30

Venue

GAP room

Strong Gravity

Numerical relativity simulations of binary neutron stars and collapsars

Speaker

José Antonio Font (Valencia U.)

Event date

Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - 14:30

Venue

GAP room

Strong Gravity

Holographic superconductors: effect of backreaction

Speaker

Betti Hartmann (Jacobs U.)

Event date

Tuesday, May 27, 2014 - 14:30

Venue

GAP room

Strong Gravity

High Energy Physics

Extremal and non-extremal black hole scattering in string theory

Speaker

Filipe Moura (Minho U.)

Event date

Wednesday, May 14, 2014 - 14:30

Venue

GAP room

Strong Gravity

Backreaction in warped compactifications of supersymmetric

Speaker

Bert Janssen (Granada U.)

Event date

Wednesday, May 7, 2014 - 14:30

Venue

GAP room

Strong Gravity

Superradiant instability of black holes immersed in a magnetic field

Speaker

Richard Brito (CENTRA - IST)

Event date

Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 14:30

Venue

GAP room

Strong Gravity

The Einstein-Yang-Mills anti-de Sitter menagerie

Speaker

Elizabeth Winstanley (Sheffield U.)

Event date

Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - 14:30

Venue

GAP room

Strong Gravity

TNG transmission spectroscopy measurements of HAT-P-1b

Speaker

Marco Montalto (CAUP)

Event date

Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 14:30

Venue

GAP room

Astrophysics

Planet with radius but no mass: how to deal with them?

Speaker

Alexandre Santerne (CAUP)

Event date

Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - 14:30

Venue

GAP room

Celestial Mechanics

Thickness corrections in topology changing brane - black hole systems

Speaker

Viktor Czinner (Minho U.)

Event date

Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - 13:30

Venue

GAP room

Strong Gravity

Curvature perturbation in multi-field inflation models with non-minimal coupling

Speaker

Masato Minamitsuji (IST, Lisbon)

Event date

Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 13:30

Venue

GAP room

Cosmology

Superradiant instabilities of black holes

Speaker

Sam Dolan (Sheffield U.)

Event date

Wednesday, December 11, 2013 - 13:30

Venue

GAP room

Strong Gravity

Tidal evolution of planets around brown dwarfs

Speaker

Emeline Bolmont (U. Bordeaux 1)

Event date

Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 13:30

Venue

GAP room

Astrophysics

Celestial Mechanics

Global Properties of Supergravity Solutions

Speaker

Jan Gutowski (Surrey U.)

Event date

Thursday, November 28, 2013 - 13:30

Venue

GAP room

Strong Gravity

Stellar parameters of M dwarfs: exploring the star-planet relation

Speaker

Vasco Neves (CAUP)

Event date

Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 13:30

Venue

GAP room

Astrophysics

Post-Newtonian expansion of gravitational waves from a test particle in circular orbits around a Kerr black hole

Speaker

Ryuichi Fujita (IST Lisbon)

Event date

Sunday, November 10, 2013 - 13:30

Venue

GAP room

Strong Gravity

3-form Cosmology

Speaker

Nelson Nunes (CAUL, Lisbon U.)

Event date

Wednesday, November 6, 2013 - 13:30

Venue

GAP room

Cosmology

Next Seminar

Black holes with electroweak hair

Romain Gervalle (Universidade de Aveiro)

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 - 11:00

Venue

Hybrid: Sala Sousa Pinto and Teams

Next Journal Club

TBA

Pedro Cunha (U. Aveiro)

Tuesday, December 2, 2025 - 11:00

Venue

Hybrid: Room Sousa Pinto and Microsoft Teams

Black Hole Workshops

Next workshop:
XVIII Black Holes Workshop, Lisbon, 2025
18-19 December 2025

Numerical data

Kerr black holes with scalar hair

Kerr black holes with Proca hair (excited, n=1)

Quasi-Kerr hairy black holes

Kerr black holes with Proca hair/
spinning Proca stars (fundamental, n=0)

Dipole Boson Stars

NewFunFICO network

Our group coordinates the Marie Sklodowska Curie Staff Exchange NewFunFiCO network (Jan 2023- Dec 2026)

More info here

FunFiCO Network

Our group coordinates the Marie Curie RISE FunFiCO network (Dec 2017- Dec 2023)

More info here

EuCAPT Consortium

We are part of the European Consortium for Astroparticle Theory (EuCAPT).

More info in the consortium webpage.

GWVerse COST

Our group was part of the Gravitational Wave Universe

COST Action CA16104

April 2017 - April 2021

StronGrHEP Network

Our group was part of the RISE StronGrHEP network (2016-2019)

Meetings:

Paris, 12-13 May 2016
Azores, 3-8 July 2017
Osaka, 4-8 September 2017

NRHEP Network Meetings

Our group coordinated the "Numerical Relativity and High Energy Physics" IRSES network (2012-2015). Here is a list of the global network meetings organized:

First Meeting:
9-13 July 2012, Aveiro, Portugal

Second Meeting:
11-14 March 2013, Lisbon, Portugal

Third Meeting:
6-10 January 2014, Mississippi, USA

Fourth Meeting:
7-10 July 2015, Rome, Italy

Fifth Meeting:
28 Sep-2 Oct 2015, Belém, Brazil

COST CA18108

Our group is part of the

Quantum Gravity Phenomenology in the Multimessanger Approach

COST Action CA18108

Mar 2019 - Mar 2023

Kick Off Meeting - 2-4 Oct 2019 Barcelona

Ph.D. and Post-doctoral opportunities

Information for prospective Ph.D. students can be found here.

Past Ph.D. theses from our group can be found here.

Working as a researcher in Portugal - a quick guide.

Good Research Practices for New PhD students - a quick guide.