Enrico Barausse visit

Monday, May 7, 2012

Enrico Barausse, postdoc in Guelph/Perimeter is visiting for a week and for two seminars, “The Gravitational Self-Force Correction To The Binding Energy Of Compact Binary Systems” and “The evolution of the spins of massive black holes”.

Invited Talk at the APS Meeting

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Research of our team has been presented at the invited talk High-speed black hole collisions with application to trans-Planckian particle scattering at the April Meeting of the American Physical Society.

Numerical and Analytical Methods for Black Hole Dynamics in Kyoto

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In March 2012 Vitor and Helvi were participants in the
Recent Advances in Numerical and Analytical Methods for Black Hole Dynamics, in the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics. The meeting was held in the wonderful city of Kyoto, you can see the cherry tree planted by Yukawa in the group photo.

Hike in Sintra

Monday, March 19, 2012

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And this is a group photo after a hike in wonderful Sintra.

Projects approved

Friday, February 24, 2012

We have just had two more projects approved. Ulrich Sperhake is PI of the computational time proposal “Black-holes in non-assymptotically flat spacetimes” in MareNostrum. Paolo Pani just saw his CERN project “Strong curvature corrections to General Relativity: consequences for astro- and particle physics” financed.