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 " The fate of observers in circular motion ", by A. Lehébel and V. Cardoso

Speaker

Jorge Delgado (U. Aveiro and IST)

Event date

Friday, November 18, 2022 - 14:30

Venue

Online (only)

Ends on

Friday, November 18, 2022 - 15:30

Strong Gravity

High Energy Physics

Discussion of the paper "Wada structures in a binary black hole system ", by Álvar Daza, et al.

Speaker

Ivo Sengo (U. Aveiro)

Event date

Friday, October 28, 2022 - 11:00

Venue

Room 11.2.22

Ends on

Friday, October 28, 2022 - 12:00

Strong Gravity

Discussion of the paper "Inspirals from the innermost stable circular orbit of Kerr black holes: Exact solutions and universal radial flow", by A. Mummery and S. Balbus

Speaker

João Novo (U. Aveiro)

Event date

Friday, October 21, 2022 - 14:30

Venue

Sala Sousa Pinto and online

Ends on

Friday, October 21, 2022 - 15:30

Strong Gravity

Discussion of the paper "The fate of the light-ring instability", by Pedro V. P. Cunha, et al.

Speaker

Carlos Herdeiro (U. Aveiro)

Event date

Friday, September 30, 2022 - 11:00

Venue

Sala Sousa Pinto and online

Ends on

Friday, September 30, 2022 - 00:00

Strong Gravity

Discussion of the paper "A scalar field matter model for dark halos of galaxies and gravitational redshift", by F. E. Schunck

Speaker

Jorge Castelo (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

Event date

Friday, July 15, 2022 - 14:30

Venue

Sala Sousa Pinto and online

Ends on

Friday, July 15, 2022 - 15:30

Strong Gravity

Discussion of the paper "Aristotle's Physics: a Physicist's Look", by C. Rovelli.

Speaker

Marco Brito (UA)

Event date

Friday, July 1, 2022 - 14:30

Venue

Sala Sousa Pinto and online

Ends on

Friday, July 1, 2022 - 15:30

Other

Discussion of the paper "Gravitational waves and kicks from the merger of unequal mass, highly compact boson stars", by M. Bezares et al.

Speaker

Pedro Ildefonso (UA)

Event date

Friday, June 17, 2022 - 14:30

Venue

Sala Sousa Pinto and online

Ends on

Friday, June 17, 2022 - 15:30

Strong Gravity

Discussion of the paper "On existence of mini-boson stars", by P. Bizoń and A. Wasserman

Speaker

Etevaldo Costa (UA)

Event date

Friday, June 3, 2022 - 14:30

Venue

Sala Sousa Pinto and online

Ends on

Friday, June 3, 2022 - 15:30

Strong Gravity

Discussion of the paper "A Minimal Explanation of Flavour Anomalies: B-Meson Decays, Muon Magnetic Moment, and the Cabibbo Angle", by D. Marzocca and S. Trifinopoulos

Speaker

António P. Morais (UA)

Event date

Friday, May 20, 2022 - 14:30

Venue

online (only)

Ends on

Friday, May 20, 2022 - 15:30

High Energy Physics

Discussion of the paper "Soliton boson stars, Q-balls and the causal Buchdahl bound", by M. Bošković and E. Barausse

Speaker

Guilherme Raposo (UA)

Event date

Wednesday, May 11, 2022 - 14:30

Venue

online (only)

Ends on

Wednesday, May 11, 2022 - 15:30

Strong Gravity

Discussion of the paper "Relating the scalar flavour-changing neutral couplings to the CKM matrix", by G. C. Branco, W. Grimus, L. Lavoura

Speaker

Vasileios Vatellis (UA)

Event date

Friday, April 22, 2022 - 14:30

Venue

online (only)

Ends on

Friday, April 22, 2022 - 15:30

High Energy Physics

Discussion of the paper "Thermodynamics of AdS Black Holes: Central Charge Criticality", by W. Cong, D. Kubiznak and R. B. Mann

Speaker

Jianzhi Yang (UA)

Event date

Friday, April 1, 2022 - 14:30

Venue

Sala 11.2.25 and online

Ends on

Friday, April 1, 2022 - 15:30

Strong Gravity

Discussion of the paper "Simulating collider physics on quantum computers using effective field theories", by C. W. Bauer, M. Freytsis and B. Nachman

Speaker

João Gonçalves (UA)

Event date

Friday, March 18, 2022 - 14:30

Venue

Sala 11.2.23 and online

Ends on

Friday, March 18, 2022 - 15:30

High Energy Physics

Discussion of the paper "Gravitational field of a global monopole" by M. Barriola and A. Vilenkin

Speaker

Eugen Radu (UA)

Event date

Friday, March 11, 2022 - 14:30

Venue

Sala Sousa Pinto and online

Ends on

Friday, March 11, 2022 - 15:30

Strong Gravity

Introduction to RNS: building a Neutron Star model

Speaker

Davide Guerra (U. València)

Event date

Friday, February 18, 2022 - 14:30

Venue

Online (only)

Ends on

Friday, February 18, 2022 - 15:30

Strong Gravity

Astrophysics

Discussion of the paper "New light rings from multiple critical curves as observational signatures of black hole mimickers" by G. J. Olmo, D. Rubiera-Garcia and D. S. Gómez

Speaker

Haroldo Lima Jr. (Federal University of Pará & UA)

Event date

Friday, February 4, 2022 - 14:30

Venue

Sala Sousa Pinto and online

Ends on

Friday, February 4, 2022 - 15:30

Strong Gravity

Discussion of the paper "Instabilities of scalar fields around oscillating stars" by T. Ikeda, V. Cardoso and M. Zilhão

Speaker

Nicolás Sanchis-Gual (UA)

Event date

Friday, January 21, 2022 - 14:30

Venue

Sala Sousa Pinto and online

Ends on

Friday, January 21, 2022 - 15:30

Strong Gravity

Discussion of the paper "Order-Unity Correction to Hawking Radiation" by E. E. Flanagan

Speaker

João Novo (UA)

Event date

Friday, December 17, 2021 - 14:30

Venue

Sala Sousa Pinto and online

Ends on

Friday, December 17, 2021 - 15:30

Strong Gravity

Discussion of the paper "The relativistic Pythagorean three-body problem" by T. C. N. Boekholt, A. Moerman and S. F. P. Zwart

Speaker

Jorge F. M. Delgado (UA)

Event date

Friday, December 3, 2021 - 14:30

Venue

Sala Sousa Pinto and online

Ends on

Friday, December 3, 2021 - 15:30

Astrophysics

Discussion of the paper "Extremal black holes that are not extremal: maximal warm holes" by O. J. Dias, G. T. Horowitz and J. E. Santos

Speaker

Nuno M. Santos (UA)

Event date

Friday, November 19, 2021 - 14:30

Venue

Sala Sousa Pinto and online

Ends on

Friday, November 19, 2021 - 15:30

Strong Gravity

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.

Working as a researcher in Portugal - a quick guide.