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 "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

Discussion of the paper "Where and why does Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet theory break down?", by Hegade K R, et al.

Speaker

Pedro Cunha (U. Aveiro)

Event date

Friday, October 20, 2023 - 16:30

Venue

Online only (Zoom)

Ends on

Friday, October 20, 2023 - 17:30

Strong Gravity

High Energy Physics

Discussion of the paper "Static Black Binaries in de Sitter space", by Óscar Dias, et al.

Speaker

João Novo (U.Aveiro)

Event date

Friday, September 22, 2023 - 11:00

Venue

Hybrid: Room Sousa Pinto and Zoom

Ends on

Friday, September 22, 2023 - 12:00

Strong Gravity

Cosmology

High Energy Physics

Discussion of the paper "Universal Interferometric Signatures of a Black Hole's Photon Ring", by Michael D. Johnson, et al.

Speaker

Haroldo Lima (UFPA, Brasil)

Event date

Friday, July 21, 2023 - 10:30

Venue

Sala 11.2.21 and online

Ends on

Friday, July 21, 2023 - 12:10

Strong Gravity

Discussion of the paper "The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Search for Signals from New Physics" by Adeela Afzal et al.

Speaker

Guilherme Raposo (U. Aveiro)

Event date

Friday, July 7, 2023 - 14:30

Venue

Sala 11.2.21 and online

Ends on

Friday, July 7, 2023 - 15:30

Strong Gravity

Discussion of the paper "Relativistic drag forces on black holes from scalar dark matter clouds of all sizes", by Dina Traykova, et al.

Speaker

Miguel Zilhão (U. Aveiro)

Event date

Friday, June 16, 2023 - 11:10

Venue

Sala 11.2.21 and online

Ends on

Friday, June 16, 2023 - 11:10

Strong Gravity

High Energy Physics

Discussion of the paper "Fuzzball Shadows: Emergent Horizons from Microstructure", by Fabio Bacchini, et al.

Speaker

Sérgio Xavier (UFPA, Brasil)

Event date

Friday, May 19, 2023 - 11:10

Venue

Sala 11.2.21 and online

Ends on

Friday, May 19, 2023 - 11:10

Strong Gravity

Overview on "Nonlinear effects in black hole ringdown"

Speaker

Rodrigo Fontana (URGS, Brasil)

Event date

Friday, May 5, 2023 - 11:10

Venue

Sala 11.2.21 and online

Ends on

Friday, May 5, 2023 - 12:10

Strong Gravity

Discussion of the paper "Fuzzball Shadows: Emergent Horizons from Microstructure", by Fabio Bacchini, et al.

Speaker

Luís F. M. A. M. Reis (UFRN, Brasil)

Event date

Friday, April 14, 2023 - 11:10

Venue

Sala 11.2.21 and online

Ends on

Friday, April 14, 2023 - 11:10

Strong Gravity

Discussion of the paper "Black holes in a swirling universe ", by Marco Astorino, et al.

Speaker

Zeus Sales (UFPA, Brazil)

Event date

Friday, March 24, 2023 - 11:10

Venue

Sala 11.2.21 and online

Ends on

Friday, March 24, 2023 - 12:10

Strong Gravity

High Energy Physics

Discussion of the paper "Revising the multipole moments of numerical spacetimes, and its consequences ", by George Pappas and Theocharis A. Apostolatos

Speaker

Etevaldo Costa Filho (U. Aveiro)

Event date

Friday, March 10, 2023 - 11:10

Venue

Sala 11.2.21 and online

Ends on

Friday, March 10, 2023 - 11:10

Strong Gravity

Discussion on "Audible echoes of symmetry restoration -- a status report"

Speaker

Marco Finetti

Event date

Friday, February 24, 2023 - 11:00

Venue

Sala 11.2.21 and online

Ends on

Friday, February 24, 2023 - 12:00

High Energy Physics

Discussion of the paper "Vortex String Formation in Black Hole Superradiance of a Dark Photon with the Higgs Mechanism", by William E. East

Speaker

Nuno Santos (U. Aveiro)

Event date

Friday, February 17, 2023 - 11:00

Venue

Sala 11.2.21 and online

Ends on

Friday, February 17, 2023 - 11:00

Strong Gravity

Overview on the “stability of excited scalar boson stars and possible astrophysical implications”

Speaker

Marco Brito (U. Aveiro)

Event date

Friday, February 3, 2023 - 11:00

Venue

Sala 11.2.21 and online

Ends on

Friday, February 3, 2023 - 12:00

Strong Gravity

Discussion of the paper " Neutrino masses, flavour anomalies and muon g-2 from dark loops ", by R. Cepedello, et al.

Speaker

João Pino (U. Aveiro)

Event date

Friday, December 2, 2022 - 13:30

Venue

Sala Sousa Pinto and online

Ends on

Friday, December 2, 2022 - 14:30

High Energy Physics

Next Seminar

Curvature dependence of gravitational-wave tests: from theory to observation

Laura Bernard (Laboratoire d’étude de l’Univers et des phénomènes eXtrêmes)

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 11:00

Venue

Hybrid: room 11.2.21 and Zoom

Next Journal Club

Discussion of the paper "A plausible model of inflation driven by strong gravitational wave turbulence", by S. Galtier et al.

Héctor Olivares

Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 11:00

Venue

Hybrid: Room 11.2.21 Pinto and Zoom

Next Course

Introduction to Computer Vision with PyTorch

Miguel Zilhão

Monday, March 3, 2025 - 18:00

Venue

11.2.25

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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