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 "On Continued Gravitational Contraction" by J. R. Oppenheimer and H. Snyder

Speaker

Pedro V. P. Cunha (U. Aveiro)

Event date

Friday, November 6, 2020 - 14:30

Venue

Sala Sousa Pinto and online

Ends on

Friday, November 6, 2020 - 16:00

Discussion of the paper "Gravitational Collapse and Space-Time Singularities" by R. Penrose

Speaker

Nuno Santos (U. Aveiro and IST)

Event date

Friday, October 23, 2020 - 14:30

Venue

Sala Sousa Pinto and online

Ends on

Friday, October 23, 2020 - 16:00

Counterterm method and thermodynamics of Hairy Black Holes in a Vector-Tensor theory with Abelian gauge symmetry breaking

Speaker

Aichen Li

Event date

Friday, April 24, 2020 - 11:30

Venue

online

High Energy Physics

The 4D Einstein Gauss-Bonnet theory: features, concerns and alternative approaches

Speaker

Pedro G. S. Fernandes, School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London

Event date

Friday, April 17, 2020 - 11:30

Venue

online

Spherical electro-vacuum black holes with resonant, scalar Q-hair

Speaker

Eugen Radu

Event date

Friday, April 10, 2020 - 11:30

Venue

online

Linear growth of massive vector superradiant instabilities of Kerr black holes

Speaker

Nuno M. Santos (IST-Lisbon)

Event date

Wednesday, April 1, 2020 - 14:30

Venue

online

Holographic surface counterterms and it’s application in Einstein-Proca theory

Speaker

Aichen Li

Event date

Friday, March 13, 2020 - 11:00

Venue

Maths. Dept. Room Sousa Pinto

High Energy Physics

The intricacies of the Newman-Janis method and its application to the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar model

Speaker

João Oliveira

Event date

Friday, February 28, 2020 - 11:30

Venue

Maths. Dept. Room Sousa Pinto

Black hole thermodynamics - Lecture 4

Speaker

Eugen Radu

Event date

Thursday, February 6, 2020 - 11:00

Venue

Maths. Dept. Room Sousa Pinto

Black hole thermodynamics - Lecture 3

Speaker

Eugen Radu

Event date

Friday, January 31, 2020 - 11:00

Venue

Maths. Dept. Room Sousa Pinto

Black hole thermodynamics - Lecture 2

Speaker

Eugen Radu

Event date

Friday, January 24, 2020 - 11:00

Venue

Venue Maths. Dept. Room Sousa Pinto

Black hole thermodynamics - Lecture 1

Speaker

Eugen Radu

Event date

Thursday, January 16, 2020 - 11:30

Venue

Maths. Dept. Room 27.3.2

Discussion about " Black holes in self-tuning cubic Horndeski cosmology"

Speaker

Masato Minamitsuji (IST-Lisbon)

Event date

Friday, January 10, 2020 - 11:30

Venue

Maths. Dept. Room 11.3.21

Nuclear explosions on the surface of white dwarf stars in the SKA era

Speaker

Valério Ribeiro

Event date

Thursday, June 8, 2017 - 14:30

Venue

GAP room

A periodic Table for Black Hole Orbits

Speaker

Pedro Cunha

Event date

Thursday, June 1, 2017 - 14:30

Venue

GAP room

Superradiant instabilities and the QCD axion

Speaker

João Rosa

Event date

Thursday, May 11, 2017 - 14:30

Venue

GAP room

High Energy Physics

From Witten's model of superconducting strings to Q-ball type solutions

Speaker

Eugen Radu

Event date

Thursday, May 4, 2017 - 14:30

Venue

GAP room

Electroweak baryogenesis and sphalerons

Speaker

Marco Sampaio

Event date

Thursday, April 20, 2017 - 14:30

Venue

GAP room

High Energy Physics

Dynamics of scalar and vector boson stars

Speaker

Carlos Herdeiro and Nico Sanchis-Gual

Event date

Thursday, March 30, 2017 - 14:30

Venue

GAP room

Secular and tidal evolution of circumbinary systems

Speaker

Alexandre Correia

Event date

Thursday, March 16, 2017 - 13:30

Venue

GAP room

Celestial Mechanics

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

Previous workshops in the series:
I Black Holes Workshop, Porto, 2008
II Black Holes Workshop, Lisbon, 2009
III Black Holes Workshop, Minho, 2010
IV Black Holes Workshop, Aveiro, 2011
V Black Holes Workshop, Lisbon, 2012
VI Black Holes Workshop, Minho 2013
VII Black Holes Workshop, Aveiro 2014
VIII Black Holes Workshop, Lisbon 2015
IX Black Holes Workshop, Minho 2016
X Black Holes Workshop, Aveiro 2017
XI Black Holes Workshop, Lisbon, 2018
XII Black Holes Workshop, Minho, 2019
XIII Black Holes Workshop, Lisbon, 2020
XIV Black Holes Workshop, Aveiro, 2021
XV Black Holes Workshop, Lisbon, 2022
XVI Black Holes Workshop, Porto, 2023
XVII Black Holes Workshop, Aveiro, 2024

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

Contact us If you are interested in pursuing graduate studies/research in our group.

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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