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. In January 2025 colleagues from the U. Algarve joined CIDMA and the group.
Juan Carlos Degollado Daza, who has been a post-doctoral research at Gr@v since 2012, working on numerical relativity, has accepted a permanent professor position at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. Congratulations Juan Carlos, well done!
The III Amazonian workshop on black holes and analogue models of gravity will take place in UFP, Belém do Pará, Brazil, from 4-7 August 2014. This is a satellite workshop of the IRSES Marie Curie action on "Numerical Relativity and High Energy Physics", of which the U. Aveiro and UFP are both partners.
See the media coverage by the UFPA press here.
The COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) action "Black holes in a violent Universe", in which our group participated, closed with an interdisciplinary conference in Potsdam: "99 years of black holes: from Astronomy to quantum gravity", showing the extraordinary transversality of black holes physics.
The Essay "A new spin on black hole hair", by C. Herdeiro and E. Radu, was selected for an "Honorable Mention" in the Gravity Research Foundation 2014 Awards for Essays on Gravitation. The first prize was awarded to M. Krauss and (Nobel Laureate) F. Wilczek, for the essay "From B-modes to Quantum Gravity and Unification of Forces". See the list of all prized essays here.
"Black holes have no hair" - is a famous `mantra' coined by John Wheeler in 1971, to express that astrophysical black holes should all have very similar physical properties. In a paper to appear in Physical Review Letters, however, Gr@v researchers C. Herdeiro and E. Radu showed that actually astrophysical black holes need not be bald!
Mengjie Wang, Ph.D. student at Gr@v, has received a "Chinese Government Award for outstanding self-financed students abroad", granted by the Ministry of Education of China. Congratulations Mengjie!
The Iberian Cosmology Meeting 2014 took place at Aveiro, from the 28th to the 30th of April 2014. Thank you to all the participants for a stimulating meeting! Next IBERICOS will take place in Madrid, in the Spring of 2015.
An outstanding workshop took place at the University of Cambridge, with participation of Gr@v members M. Sampaio and C. Herdeiro. The latter presented a talk on "Kerr black holes with scalar hair", based on arXiv:1403.2757 in collaboration with E. Radu.
Our group was at Los Cabos, Mexico, the inspiring venue for the 2014 edition of the Cosmology on the Beach conference, co-organized by the Nobel Laureate George Smoot (having a laugh at the centre).
Group visit to the University of Mississippi, within the third meeting of the NRHEP IRSES Marie Curie action. With James Meredith, first afro-american student at Ole Miss.