Join us in Amsterdam this Spring for the 1st conference of the “European AI for fundamental physics” consortium. Abstract submission open until 15 January 👇

Join us for a special @Eucapt Colloquium tomorrow, Jocelyn Bell will speak about "Women is Physics". Abstract: After some 60 yrs as an astrophysicist in the UK, what overall trends do I see in gender balance, where are we now, what lessons might we learn? indico.cern.ch/event/1305343/

Timelapse of total solar #Eclipse2024 at #NiagaraFalls, courtesy of Nadia Dominici

Dark matter can reach extremely high densities around intermediate-mass black holes and induce environmental effects that can be probed with gravitational waves. Here is a realistic description of the formation of such overdensities: arxiv.org/abs/2404.08731 (1/3)

Due to ongoing turmoil at Columbia U., the “Future of Dark Matter” brainstorming workshop that I co-organised with my friends and colleagues elena aprile and Lam Hui, initially planned at Columbia U., was hosted at the Simons Foundation CCA. A brief recap: gianfrancobertone.net/2024/04/30/fut…

.Gianfranco Bertone and Dan Hooper 2018 Rev.Mod.Phys. review "History of dark matter" inspirehep.net/literature/145… reaches 1,000 citations. #topcites @APSPublishing Fermilab

Video of colloquia at Yale and Harvard gianfrancobertone.net/2024/05/19/vid…

I have just returned from a truly stimulating three-month sabbatical in New York City. In this post, I briefly reflect on the overall experience to ask: was it all worth it? gianfrancobertone.net/2024/05/21/sab…

Congrats to the winners of the French Cosmos Prize: Hélène Courtois, Prix Cosmos des Lycéens 2024 + Jordan Ellenberg, Prix Cosmos 2024. Kudos to Pierre Vanhove & team for a successful 1st edition in France. Award ceremony 10/6 @ Institut de France, Paris prixcosmos.github.io/2024.html

Heads up: European Space Agency is releasing a new set of images captured by the ESA's Euclid mission space telescope. Broadcast of the reveal on Thursday 23 May at 12:00 CEST 👇👇

Congrats, ESA's Euclid mission collaboration! Scientific papers available at euclid-ec.org/science/public…

Delighted to contribute to 'The birth of an Idea', wonderful outreach project led by Vitor Cardoso and Ana Sousa Carvalho. More about the project + full text of my contribution 'Sailing in the dark': gianfrancobertone.net/2024/05/30/sai…

Gravitational-wave signals from black hole mergers could reveal the presence of “gravitational atoms”—black holes surrounded by clouds of axions or other light bosons. Letters: go.aps.org/4e46bwV go.aps.org/3B7hzte Viewpoint: go.aps.org/4e7D7Ve

A Viewpoint by C. Macedo in Physics Magazine covers work in PRL and PRD. Hypothetical bosons, like axions, may form clouds around black holes, described as "gravitational atoms", a phenomenon that could show up in gravitational wave signals. #physics physics.aps.org/articles/v17/1…

📣 Calling candidates from underrepresented groups in physics! The Els Koffeman Fellowship is a prestigious personal grant that supports postdocs conducting high-quality research at Institute of Physics, with aim to launch them into faculty position. Apply by Nov 8 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28390