Richard wins a scholarship for young researchers from Gulbenkian
Friday, November 29, 2013Richard Brito won a scholarship from the Programa de Estímulo à Investigação Científica (Scientific Stimulus Research Program), organized by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Brito’s project, supervised by researchers Vitor Cardoso and Paolo Pani, is titled “Pesando os Mensageiros de Einstein” (”Weighing Einstein’s Messengers”, in English) and identifies gravitons as “Einstein’s messengers”. The project intends to study the consequences that massive gravitons may have for general relativity.
Every year the Scientific Stimulus Research Program rewards young researchers with less than 26 years in the areas of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Earth and Space Sciences. You can find more information (in Portuguese) about the Scientific Stimulus Research Program, and this year winners, here.
Highlights of CQG
Monday, November 25, 2013The article Tidal acceleration of black holes and superradiance by Cardoso and Pani was selected by the Editorial Board of Classical and Quantum Gravity (CQG) to be one of the journal’s Highlights of 2012-2013.
The Highlights will be promoted as a representation of some of the most interesting and high quality work in gravitational physics.