IN THE PRESS
- RNE Interview: "97 años de teoría de la relatividad"
- El Mundo News: "A la búsqueda del lado más oscuro del Universo"
- Última Hora Column: "Al acecho de la partícula divina"
- Diario de Mallorca News: "Superordenadores al alcance de la UIB"
- ABC Interview: "Somos el único grupo español que participa en el proyecto LIGO"
- IB3 TV Interview: "La UIB millora la recerca dels forats negres"
- ABC News: "La UIB desarrolla un método para la detección de los agujeros negros"
- El Mundo News: "Científicos de Barcelona y Baleares participarán en rediseño del observatorio espacial LISA"
News
Triple Excellence
January 17, 2012
The Physics, Computation and Applications Group, which includes the UIB Relativity Group, has obtained the classification of “excellence” in research given by the Government of the Balearic Islands. This classification is part of an ongoing effort by the local administration to economically support research groups according to their competitiveness. Only 6 out of 71 research groups that applied to this call have attained this excellence award.
Graduate Student Alex Vañó awarded a FPU grant
December 15, 2011
Alex Vañó, one of the group´s graduate students, has been awarded a FPU grant (“Formación del Profesorado Universitario”). This grant, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Education, is one of the most prestigious at the graduate level. It is also highly competitive - there are only 30 grants for Physics students from all over the country.
UIB Scientists will research black holes with the fastest supercomputers in Europe
November 18, 2011
An international research project lead by Sascha Husa has been awarded time at the biggest network of world-class supercomputers in Europe. These computers will be used to simulate the most violent processes in the Universe since the Big Bang: collisions of black holes. The ultimate goal? To look for gravitational waves, ripples in space and time predicted by Einstein almost 100 years ago, but not yet directly detected.
Space-Time Quest, a very spacial game
November 17, 2011
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be the leader of an international science project? One that could change astronomy forever and would get you a Nobel Prize in case of success? Here is your chance! Space-Time Quest is a computer game where the challenge is to design the most sensitive gravitational waves detector in the world.
UIB hosts International Workshop Astro-GR
September 3, 2011
Astro-GR is a yearly international meeting which attend worlwide experts on gravitational waves astronomy. The meeting will be from Monday 5th to Friday September 9th, 2011. More than 80 scientists will attend, including ESAS's representatives. The focus of the meeting will be the impact and scientific potential of the future space intereferometer.
Relativity Group researchers develop new method to facilitate black holes detection
June 21, 2011
The method focuses on the detection of systems of two black holes through the gravitational waves generated by them. It has been devised by Sascha Husa and Denis Pollney along with collaborators from the CalTech, University of Vienna, Cardiff University, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena and the Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik in Potsdam.
Sascha Husa named spokesperson of international project NINJA 2
June 11, 2011
Sascha Husa has been recently appointed one of the two spokespersons for the international collaboration "Ninja II". This project aims to combine the solutions to Einstein's equations with the data collected by gravitational wave detectors to develop the best techniques to search for these faint signals from distant regions of the universe.