Journal Clubs

The journal club is held on Fridays at 11H, typically in sala Sousa Pinto and online. It involves a discussion of landmark papers, led by one of the group members.

Check the current list of such papers here.

Discussion of the paper "Mass inflation without Cauchy horizons", by Raúl Carballo-Rubio, et al.

Speaker

João Novo (U.Aveiro)

Event date

Thursday, January 16, 2025 - 11:00

Venue

Hybrid: Room Sousa Pinto and Zoom

Ends on

Thursday, January 16, 2025 - 12:00

Strong Gravity

Discussion of the paper "Energy momentum tensor, stability, and the D-term of Q-balls", by Manuel Mai and Peter Schweitzer

Speaker

Jianzhi Yang (U. Aveiro)

Event date

Thursday, November 28, 2024 - 14:00

Venue

Hybrid: Room Sousa Pinto and Zoom

Ends on

Thursday, November 28, 2024 - 15:00

Strong Gravity

High Energy Physics

Discussion of the paper "Impact of theoretical uncertainties on model parameter reconstruction from GW signals sourced by cosmological phase transitions", by Marek Lewicki, et al.

Speaker

João Pedro Pino (U. Aveiro)

Event date

Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 11:00

Venue

Hybrid: Room Sousa Pinto and Zoom

Ends on

Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 00:00

Strong Gravity

High Energy Physics

Discussion of the paper "Rotating attractors", by Dumitru Astefanesei, et al.

Speaker

Etevaldo Costa Filho (U. Aveiro)

Event date

Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 11:00

Venue

Hybrid: Room Sousa Pinto and Zoom

Ends on

Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 00:00

Strong Gravity

High Energy Physics

Discussion on recent papers about Tides and Tidal response

Speaker

Guilherme Raposo (U. Aveiro)

Event date

Thursday, October 10, 2024 - 13:30

Venue

Hybrid: Room Sousa Pinto and Zoom

Ends on

Thursday, October 10, 2024 - 14:30

Strong Gravity

Discussion of the paper " Detecting single gravitons with quantum sensing", by Germain Tobar, et al.

Speaker

Nuno Santos (U. Aveiro)

Event date

Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 11:00

Venue

Hybrid: Room Sousa Pinto and Zoom

Ends on

Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 00:00

Strong Gravity

High Energy Physics

Discussion of the paper "Effective one-body approach to general relativistic two-body dynamics", by A. Buonanno and T. Damour

Speaker

Giorgio Nicolini (U. Aveiro)

Event date

Thursday, June 27, 2024 - 11:00

Venue

Hybrid: Room Sousa Pinto and Zoom

Ends on

Thursday, June 27, 2024 - 12:00

Strong Gravity

Discussion of the paper "Thick accretion disk configurations in the Born-Infeld teleparallel gravity", by Sebastian Bahamonde, et al.

Speaker

Mercè Guerrero

Event date

Thursday, May 16, 2024 - 11:00

Venue

Hybrid: Room Sousa Pinto and Zoom

Ends on

Thursday, May 16, 2024 - 12:00

Strong Gravity

Discussion of the paper "Detecting fundamental fields with LISA observations of gravitational waves from extreme mass-ratio inspirals", by Andrea Maselli, et al.

Speaker

Manuel Mariano (U. Aveiro)

Event date

Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 11:00

Venue

Hybrid: Room Sousa Pinto and Zoom

Ends on

Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 12:00

Strong Gravity

Discussion of the paper "Primordial black hole capture, gravitational wave beats, and the nuclear equation of state", by Thomas W. Baumgarte, and Stuart L. Shapiro

Speaker

Guilherme Raposo (U. Aveiro)

Event date

Thursday, April 18, 2024 - 11:00

Venue

Hybrid: Room Sousa Pinto and Zoom

Ends on

Thursday, April 18, 2024 - 12:00

Strong Gravity

Hairy black holes induced by nonlinear superadiant instability

Speaker

José Ferreira (U. Aveiro)

Event date

Thursday, April 11, 2024 - 11:00

Venue

Hybrid: Room Sousa Pinto and Zoom

Ends on

Thursday, April 11, 2024 - 12:00

Strong Gravity

Beyond Einstein: An assessment of higher curvature gravity,

Speaker

Sudipta Sarkar (Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India)

Event date

Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 11:00

Venue

Hybrid: Room Sousa Pinto and Zoom

Ends on

Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 12:00

Strong Gravity

Discussion of the paper "Axion Kinetic Misalignment Mechanism", by Raymond T. Co, Lawrence J. Hall, and Keisuke Harigaya

Speaker

Vinícius Oliveira (U. Aveiro)

Event date

Thursday, March 7, 2024 - 11:00

Venue

Hybrid: Room Sousa Pinto and Zoom

Ends on

Thursday, March 7, 2024 - 12:00

High Energy Physics

Discussion of the paper "Cauchy evolution of asymptotically global AdS spacetimes with no symmetries", by Hans Bantilan, Pau Figueras, and Lorenzo Rossi

Speaker

Jordan Nicoules (U. Aveiro)

Event date

Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 11:00

Venue

Hybrid: Room Sousa Pinto and Zoom

Ends on

Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 12:00

Strong Gravity

High Energy Physics

Discussion of the paper "Accretion within the innermost stable circular orbit: analytical thermodynamic solutions in the adiabatic limit", by A. Mummery and S. Balbus

Speaker

Héctor Olivares (U. Aveiro)

Event date

Friday, February 9, 2024 - 11:00

Venue

Hybrid: Room Sousa Pinto and Zoom

Ends on

Friday, February 9, 2024 - 12:00

Strong Gravity

Astrophysics

Discussion of the paper "Extremal Kerr Black Holes as Amplifiers of New Physics", by G. T. Horowitz, et al.

Speaker

Eugen Radu (U. Aveiro)

Event date

Friday, January 26, 2024 - 11:00

Venue

Hybrid: Room Sousa Pinto and Zoom

Ends on

Friday, January 26, 2024 - 12:00

Strong Gravity

High Energy Physics

Discussion of the paper "Breaking black-hole uniqueness at supermassive scales", by A. Eichhorn, et al.

Speaker

Sergio Gimeno-Soler (U. Aveiro)

Event date

Friday, January 12, 2024 - 11:00

Venue

Hybrid: Room Sousa Pinto and Zoom

Ends on

Friday, January 12, 2024 - 00:00

Strong Gravity

Discussion of the paper "Instability and backreaction of spin-2 fields around black holes", by Will East and N. Siemonsen

Speaker

Marco Brito (U. Aveiro)

Event date

Friday, December 15, 2023 - 11:00

Venue

Hybrid: Room Sousa Pinto and Zoom

Ends on

Friday, December 15, 2023 - 12:00

Strong Gravity

Dark Glueballs in Cosmology

Speaker

Roman Pasechnik (U. Lund)

Event date

Friday, November 17, 2023 - 11:00

Venue

Hybrid: Room Sousa Pinto and Zoom

Ends on

Friday, November 17, 2023 - 12:00

High Energy Physics

Discussion of the paper "Pseudospectrum and Black Hole Quasinormal Mode Instability", by Jaramillo J L, et al.

Speaker

Miguel Zilhão (U. Aveiro)

Event date

Friday, November 3, 2023 - 11:00

Venue

Hybrid: Room Sousa Pinto and Zoom

Ends on

Friday, November 3, 2023 - 12:00

Strong Gravity

Next Seminar

Kobra: a Vlasov Code with AMR

Sebastian Konewko (Gent University)

Wednesday, January 15, 2025 - 11:00

Venue

Hybrid: Sala Sousa Pinto and Zoom

Next Journal Club

Discussion of the paper "Mass inflation without Cauchy horizons", by Raúl Carballo-Rubio, et al.

João Novo (U.Aveiro)

Thursday, January 16, 2025 - 11:00

Venue

Hybrid: Room Sousa Pinto and Zoom

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.

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