Date: May 15th
Hour: 4 p.m.
Venue: Abreu Faro Amphiteatre, Instituto Superior Técnico – Alameda Campus

«The presentation of the book “O eclipse do tempo – Guia para entrar em buracos negros” by Vítor Cardoso will take place on May15th, at 4 p.m.

Synopsis:

This is a book about big questions. What is time? What is light? How has quantum mechanics changed our view of the world? What are black holes and gravitational waves? How might our knowledge of physical laws change in the future? How will the universe itself end? The entire history of humanity is made up of infinite curiosity and the paths we have travelled to satisfy it.

In this book, Vítor Cardoso presents the findings, the stories, and the protagonists of the greatest advances and setbacks in research into these subjects, including himself, who is fascinated by the search for answers to the big questions.

Vítor Cardoso is a Full Professor and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physics at Instituto Superior Técnico and Full Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, where he is Villum Investigator and DNRF Chair. He has a PhD in Physics from Instituto Superior Técnico and did post-doctoral research in Saint Louis, Missouri, and Oxford, Mississippi, United States. His research interests focus on gravitational waves and black holes and the physics of space, and he is a pioneer in black hole spectroscopy and tests of Einstein’s theory. He is the author of a book and more than 250 articles published in international journals.
His research has been honoured three times by the European Research Council. In 2015 he was honoured by the President of the Republic with the Ordem de Santiago D’Espada for his contributions to science. He is a founding member of the Portuguese Society of General Relativity and Gravitation.