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Monte Carlo methods in Astrophysics
These lectures were part of the Numerical Astrophysics course at the IAG, University of São Paulo, 2020.
Fine-Tuning Physics Website
This interactive website is part of the Consolidation of Fine-Tuning project, carried on at the University of Oxford. It complements the book “A Field Manual on Fine-Tuning”, to be published […]
Paper in Top100 of Scientific Reports
The paper “The Resilience of Life to Astrophysical Events” made it to the top100 of Scientific Reports. See a short video about the work.
Participation in the Physical Attraction Podcast
Chat with Thomas Hornigold, from the Physical Attraction podcast.
Participation in the Flash Forward podcast
On 5/Sep/2017 I discussed my research on life sterilisation on planets in an episode of the podcast series Flash Forward. You can hear it here.
Participation in the Quirks & Quarks radio show
On July 28th I participated in the canandian Quirks & Quarks program, produced by CBC. Listen to the podcast here.
Press Release – The Last Survivors on Earth
It is a pleasure to announce the new paper published in July/2017 in Scientific Reports titled “The Resilience of Life to Astrophysical Events”, by David Sloan, Rafael Alves Batista, and […]
International Conference on the Physics of Fine-Tuning (ICPFiT 2017)
It’s a pleasure to announce the 1st International Conference on the Physics of Fine-Tuning will take place in Crete, Greece, from the 18th to the 22nd of June. More information […]
Dark matter
Three-part interview-style video discussion with Rocky Kolb about dark matter. Part 1: Dark matter particles What sort of things could dark matter be, and how would we tell which it […]