Rocha in Highlights of CQG

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Every year, the Editorial Board of the international journal “Classical and Quantum Gravity” selects a handful of papers which they consider to be the best research papers published in the last year, these are the 2010-2011 Highlights

This year, a paper by Jorge Rocha (with Figueras, Jamsin and Virmani), “Integrability of five-dimensional minimal supergravity and charged rotating black holes,” was selected as a Highlight. Congratulations Jorge!

PRACE-DECI 7

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

The team was awarded 4.2 million CPU-hour in the PRACE-DECI 7 application. These are highly competitive, high-performance computing application for european researchers.

Postdoctoral positions in GR & HEP

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

The Centro Multidisciplinar de Astrofísica (CENTRA) invites applications for a postdoctoral position in the area of General Relativity, High Energy physics and black hole physics, including Numerical Relativity. The appointment is for two years, subject to funding renewal and satisfactory performance. Funds for one additional (third) year are possible.

More details can be found here

INFN thesis prize for Pani

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Paolo Pani was just awarded the INFN (Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics) prize for the best thesis. The prize will be awarded by the INFN President on September 14th. Needless to say this is a prestigious occasion, and we are all proud to have Paolo working with us.
Congrats Paolo!

Black hole collisions on SDSC’s new Trestles Cluster

Monday, August 15, 2011

The July 2011 News Release by the San Diego Supercomputing Center features our simulations of high-energy black-hole collisions as one of three major projects with allocations of 1,000,000 core hours.