Richard is now a Master

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Richard Brito successfully defended his Master’s thesis “Dynamics around black holes:
Radiation Emission and Tidal E ffects”. Celebration to follow.

Frans Pretorius is visiting

Sunday, October 28, 2012

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Frans Pretorius is visiting for a week, for Helvi’s PhD defense, a colloquium on “Black Holes: Probes of the Cosmos and Fundamental Physics”…and what we hope will be a nice meeting with our gastronomy.

João Rosa and black hole bombs

João Rosa, from Aveiro, is visiting for a seminar and interaction on superradiance, black holes and axionic physics.

Black Holes V in Lisbon

Saturday, October 13, 2012

The fifth Black Holes Workshop will take place at CENTRA on 17-18 December 2012. The focus of the meeting will be on gravitational physics, with special emphasis on black hole physics.
More details can be found in the official webpage, Black Holes V. We look forward to seeing you in Lisbon!

Cabo da Roca visit

Thursday, October 11, 2012

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This is us in Cabo da Roca, the western-most point of mainland Europe…we barely made it alive…