Name: EREP 2026, Spanish & Portuguese Relativity Meeting
Start: 2026-05-25T00:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-05-29T23:59:00+02:00
Location: Murcia, Spain

EREP 2026, Spanish & Portuguese Relativity Meeting

from Monday, 25 May 2026 (00:00) to Friday, 29 May 2026 (23:59)

Monday, 25 May 2026

09:00 Registration

09:00 - 09:20
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced

09:20 Welcome

09:20 - 09:30
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
09:30 Invited talk: Miguel Zumalacárregui
Miguel Zumalacárregui
09:30 - 10:30
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

09:30 Gravitational lensing of waves: a new window into astrophysics, dark matter & gravity - Miguel Zumalacarregui (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics - Albert Einstein Institut)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
11:00 40' Contribution: Diego Rubiera-Garcia
Diego Rubiera-Garcia
11:00 - 11:40
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

11:00 Black hole imaging as a probe for non-Kerr physics - Diego Rubiera-Garcia (Complutense University of Madrid)
11:40 20' Contribution: Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez
Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez
11:40 - 12:00
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

11:40 Compact objects physics in the realm of multi-messenger astronomy - Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez
12:00 20' Contribution: JOAO Santos
JOAO Santos
12:00 - 12:20
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

12:00 Gravitational Lensing of Fast Radio Bursts as a Probe of Primordial Black Holes Abundance: a forecast for radio telescopes - JOAO Santos (UFCG, Leibniz University and University of Heidelberg)
12:20 20' Contribution
12:20 - 12:40
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

12:20 Existence and uniqueness of static and spherically symmetric anisotropic fluid stars in cosmological backgrounds - Eneko Aranguren (University of the Basque Country (EHU))
12:40 20' Contribution: Vojtech Pravda
Vojtech Pravda
12:40 - 13:00
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

12:40 Charged black holes in quadratic gravity - Vojtech Pravda (Institute of Mathematics of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 15:30
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
15:30 Invited talk: Tomislav Andric
Tomislav Andric
15:30 - 16:30
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

15:30 The Einstein Telescope: Scientific Reach and Technological Challenges of a Third-Generation Gravitational-Wave Observatory - Tomislav Andric (Gran Sasso Science Institute)
16:30 Coffee break

16:30 - 17:00
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
17:00 Gong show
17:00 - 18:00
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

17:00 Gongshow: Julen Estonba-Loinaz, Oskar Borgvall González, Matúš Papajčík, Natasha Riahi, Thomas Lovo, Izarne Martínez Donato, Álvaro Martínez, Elena Simón Feliz, Pelayo Del Valle Calzada, Pau López Oliver, Daniel Peñalver, Lucía Castells, Aitor Vicente-Cano
18:15 Welcome Cocktail

18:15 - 19:30
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Tuesday, 26 May 2026
09:30 Invited talk: Robie Hennigar
Robie Hennigar
09:30 - 10:30
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

09:30 How to Build Regular Black Holes - Robie Hennigar
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
11:00 40' Contribution: Adolfo Cisterna
Adolfo Cisterna
11:00 - 11:40
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

11:00 New Dynamical Black Hole Solutions: Extending the Spectrum of Exact Primordial Objects - Adolfo Cisterna (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Charles University)
11:40 20' Contribution: Ángel Murcia
Ángel Murcia
11:40 - 12:00
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

11:40 Regular black holes in four dimensions: construction and formation - Ángel Murcia (Instituto de Física Teórica)
12:00 20' Contribution: Ernesto Contreras
Ernesto Contreras
12:00 - 12:20
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

12:00 When regular black holes grow hair: scalarization beyond singular spacetimes - Ernesto Contreras (Universidad de Alicante)
12:20 20' Contribution: Tomáš Málek
Tomáš Málek
12:20 - 12:40
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

12:20 Quasi-topological gravity beyond spherical symmetry: Taub–NUT, NHEK, and swirling universe - Tomáš Málek
12:40 20' Contribution: Cristóbal Laporte
Cristóbal Laporte
12:40 - 13:00
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

12:40 Macroscopic Microscopic Effects from Quantum Gravity - Cristóbal Laporte (University of Barcelona)
13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 15:30
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
15:30 Invited talk: Hector Olivares
Hector Olivares
15:30 - 16:30
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

15:30 Simulating and Observing Black Hole Mimickers - Hector Olivares (Universidade de Aveiro)
16:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:30 - 17:00
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
17:00 20' Contribution: Filipe Moura
Filipe Moura
17:00 - 17:20
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

17:00 Quasinormal modes, greybody factors and shadow of charged accelerating black holes - Filipe Moura (ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa)
17:20 20' Contribution: Francisco Silva
Francisco Silva
17:20 - 17:40
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

17:20 Accelerating and Superaccelerating Black Holes, Quasinormal Mode Families, and the Stability of the Cauchy Horizon - Francisco Silva (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa)
17:40 20' Contribution: Igor Kanatchikov
Igor Kanatchikov
17:40 - 18:00
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

17:40 Non-Keplerian Galaxy Rotation Curves as a Testing Ground for Precanonical Quantum Gravity - I Kanatchikov (Natl. Quantum Information Center in Gdansk, Poland)
19:00 Public Talk: De Pitágoras a los agujeros negros: 2500 años de música, física y matemáticas
De Pitágoras a los agujeros negros: 2500 años de música, física y matemáticas
19:00 - 20:00
Wednesday, 27 May 2026
09:30 Invited talk: Marina David
Marina David
09:30 - 10:30
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

09:30 Amplification of new physics in the quasinormal mode spectrum of near-extremal black holes - Marina David
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
11:00 40' Contribution: Sumanta Chakraborty
Sumanta Chakraborty
11:00 - 11:40
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

11:00 Dynamical Tides in General Relativity - Sumanta Chakraborty (IACS)
11:40 20' Contribution: David Pereñíguez Rodríguez
David Pereñíguez Rodríguez
11:40 - 12:00
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

11:40 Nonlinear QNMs and Ringdown Isospectrality from Penrose Limits - David Pereñíguez Rodríguez
12:00 20' Contribution: Pratik Wagle
Pratik Wagle
12:00 - 12:20
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

12:00 The sound of broken symmetries - Pratik Wagle (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)
12:20 20' Contribution: Marta Cocco
Marta Cocco
12:20 - 12:40
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

12:20 Tidal perturbations of Kerr black holes and implications for extreme-mass-ratio inspirals - Marta Cocco (University of Perugia and Niels Bohr Institute)
12:40 20' Contribution
12:40 - 13:00
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

12:40 A new approach for semiclassical backreaction in evaporating black holes - Francisco Javier Marañón González (Universidad de Valencia - IFIC)
13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 15:30
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
15:30 Invited talk: Llibert Aresté Saló
Llibert Aresté Saló
15:30 - 16:30
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

15:30 Fully non-linear compact binary mergers beyond General Relativity - Llibert Aresté Saló
16:30 Coffee break

16:30 - 17:00
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
17:00 20' Contribution: Pantelis Pnigouras
Pantelis Pnigouras
17:00 - 17:20
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

17:00 Asteroseismology with binary neutron stars - Pantelis Pnigouras (University of Alicante)
17:20 20' Contribution: Zakaria Belkhadria
Zakaria Belkhadria
17:20 - 17:40
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

17:20 New Aspects of spontaneous scalarization of black holes beyond General relativity - Zakaria Belkhadria (Université de Genève & Università di Cagliari)
17:40 20' Contribution
17:40 - 18:00
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

17:40 Acoustic Black Holes in BECs with an Extended Sonic Region - Daniel Peñalver Mares (Universitat de València - IFIC)
Thursday, 28 May 2026
09:30 Invited talk: Mairi Sakellariadou
Mairi Sakellariadou
09:30 - 10:30
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

09:30 Cosmological and High Energy Physics implications from gravitational-wave background searches in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's O1-O4a runs - Maria Sakellariadou (King's College Londom)
10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 11:00
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
11:00 40' Contribution: José Beltrán Jiménez
José Beltrán Jiménez
11:00 - 11:40
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

11:00 Isotropic universes with a preferred direction - Jose Beltrán Jiménez (University of Salamanca)
11:40 20' Contribution: Lucía Castells
Lucía Castells
11:40 - 12:00
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

11:40 Fluctuation-induced gravitational waves in a non-conformal strongly coupled plasma - Lucía Castells (University of Barcelona)
12:00 20' Contribution: Ruchika Ruchika
Ruchika Ruchika
12:00 - 12:20
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

12:00 2D BAO vs 3D BAO: Hints for new physics? - Ruchika Ruchika (University of Salamanca)
12:20 20' Contribution: Marcello Musso
Marcello Musso
12:20 - 12:40
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

12:20 The Minimum Energy Principle - Linking protohalo shapes to infall anisotropy - Marcello Musso
12:40 20' Contribution: Adrian del Rio
Adrian del Rio
12:40 - 13:00
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

12:40 Electromagnetic duality anomaly in waveguides: a non-inertial analogue of gravitational chiral effects. - Adrian del Rio (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
13:00 20' Contribution
13:00 - 13:20
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

13:00 A new class of rotating charged black holes in the external Bertotti-Robinson (electro)magnetic field - Hryhorii Ovcharenko (Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, V Holesovickach 2, 18000 Prague 8, Czechia)
13:20 Lunch

13:20 - 15:50
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced

17:00 Segre Meeting
Segre Meeting
17:00 - 19:30
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced

20:15 Social Dinner

20:15 - 23:00
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Friday, 29 May 2026
09:30 Invited talk: Maxime Gadioux
Maxime Gadioux
09:30 - 10:30
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

09:30 Constructing numerical counterexamples to the third law of black hole mechanics - Maxime Gadioux (University of Cambridge)
10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 11:00
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
11:00 40' Contribution: Javier Olmedo
Javier Olmedo
11:00 - 11:40
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

11:00 Hawking-Partner Entanglement in Expanding Cavities - Javier Olmedo (Universidad de Granada)
11:40 20' Contribution: Maciej Ossowski
Maciej Ossowski
11:40 - 12:00
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

11:40 Isolated horizons: Extremal and Petrov type D - Maciej Ossowski (Jagiellonian University)
12:00 20' Contribution: Marco de Cesare
Marco de Cesare
12:00 - 12:20
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

12:00 Scalar field scattering from a Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole - Marco de Cesare (Scuola Superiore Meridionale (SSM))
12:20 20' Contribution
12:20 - 12:40
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

12:20 Jacobson's thermodynamic approach to classical gravity applied to non-Riemmanian geometries: remarks on the simplicity of Nature - Jhan Nicolás Martínez Lobo (Universidad Industrial de Santander)
12:40 20' Contribution
12:40 - 13:00
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

12:40 Aristotelian geometry and the conformal approach to coupling matter - Giacomo Giorgi (Universidad de Murcia)
13:00 Lluís Bel award

13:00 - 13:15
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced

13:15 Lunch

13:15 - 15:30
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
15:30 Invited talk: Chiara Toldo (participating online)
Chiara Toldo (participating online)
15:30 - 16:30
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

15:30 Thermodynamics of near-extremal black holes - Chiara Toldo
16:30 Coffee break: Farewell coffee
Farewell coffee
16:30 - 17:00
Room: Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced
Contributions

16:30 Farewell coffee