Congratulations Cheng-Hsin, Giuseppe and Helvi! The published paper can be found here: https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/715r-4p7g
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Carolina Benone visiting with Fulbright Scholarship
Prof. Carolina Benone from the Federal University of Para – Salinopolis is visiting Hector O. Silva’s group and our department until March with a Fulbright Scholarship. Welcome Carolina!
Aastha Bagree joins our group
Aastha joining the Witek Gravity group as a graduate student. Aastha is the Carver Fellow by the Grainger Graduate College of Engineering and will be working with us on on a project to study the effect of a homogenous scalar cloud in a spinning binary black hole environment, and waveform catalog. Welcome, Aastha!
Freddy H. passes his preliminary PhD exam.
Congratulations Freddy H.!
Domenica passes her preliminary PhD exam.
Congratulations Domenica!
Group social at Riggs’s Brewery Christmas Market
Together with Hector O. Silva’s group. Link: https://hosilva.web.illinois.edu Great work everyone and have a wonderful winter break!
Helvi visits Louisiana State University to give a colloquium, and visitsLIGO Livingston in October 2025.
A big thank you to Ivan Agullo for the invitation, and to Jorge Pullin, Steve Brandt, Peter Diener, Lucas T. Sanches and Max Morrison.
Helvi visits the University of Mississippi in Oxford for a colloquium.
Thank you for the hospitality! It has been wonderful to be back. https://www.instagram.com/p/DQpw96SjoL_/
Postdoctoral Position in Numerical Relativity and Fundamental Physics
We invite applications for a postdoctoral research position to work with us on numerical relativity in and beyond general relativity, including tests of gravity or modeling signatures of dark matter candidates around black holes. The candidate is intended to partially work on the Einstein Toolkit/CarpetX software framework as part of the “E=mc2” project. The application package […]
Healey, Freddy P., and Helvi submit paper to arxiv – Congratulations!
Congratulations Healey, Freddy P., and Helvi! The paper “Spin-up and mass-gain in hyperbolic encounters of spinning black holes” can be found here: arxiv:2511.00307