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Gr@v member Felipe Freitas will lecture a free course on "Introduction to computer vision with pyTorch". Classes will take place on Fridays (the next class will be April 9th 2021) every two weeks, from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm. More info below (in Portuguese).

C. Herdeiro was nominated a 2021 Outstanding Referee by the American Physical Society (APS). The Outstanding Referee program was instituted in 2008 to recognize scientists who have been exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication in the APS journals. This highly selective program annually recognizes about 150 of the roughly 71,000 currently active referees.

A list of the impact of scientists' careers was revealed in late 2020 in a study coordinated by John Ioannidis, from Stanford University (USA).  It includes 34 scientists from the University of Aveiro (UA), including 2 from Gr@v.  Read the UA coverage here.

C. Herdeiro was one of the invited speakers of the 740ths WEH Seminar "Experimental Tests and Signatures of Modified and Quantum Gravity", held from 1-5 Feb 2021. The talks of the meeting were recorded and are available here. The page is password protected.