March 25, 2017
CENTRA Meeting Program:
09h30 - 10h00 Welcome session
10h00 - 11h00 CENTRA/COSTAR Talks
10h00 - 10h05 Amaro Rica da Silva (Professor) Novel approaches in computational analysis for signals and systems
10h05 - 10h10 Ana Brito (PhD Student) Partial ionization and stellar rotation: A seismic connection in solar-type stars
10h10 - 10h15 Ana Mourão (Professor) What can we learn about dust in supernovae observations?
10h15 - 10h20 Dário Passos (Postdoc) Solar and stellar magnetic cycles
10h20 - 10h25 Gonçalo Andrade (MSc Student) Probing the core of subgiant stars
10h25 - 10h30 Grigorios Panotopoulos (Postdoc) Constraints on branon dark matter from white dwarfs
10h30 - 10h35 Ilidio Lopes (Professor) Looking for fundamental physics in stars
10h35 - 10h40 José Lopes (PhD Student) Dark matter effective field theories: Constraints from the sun and stars
10h40 - 10h45 Martim Branca (MSc Student) Constraining magnetic dipole dark matter through asteroseismology
10h45 - 10h50 Santiago Gonzalez (Postdoc) Investigating extinction towards supernovae and their environments
10h50 - 10h55 Vincenzo Vitagliano (Postdoc) Covariantly seeking quantum gravity
10h55 - 11h00 Violetta Sagun (Postdoc) Realistic equation of state for neutron star interiors
11h00 - 11h30 Coffee Break
11h30 - 12h55 CENTRA/SIM Talks
11h30 - 11h35 Alberto Krone-Martins (Post-Doc) Theia astrometric mission: From dark matter to habitable exoplanets
11h35 - 11h40 André Boné (PhD Student) Alignment Challenges for METIS
11h40 - 11h45 André Moitinho (Professor) The unexpected CENTRA's role in the 1st data release of ESA Gaia mission.
11h45 - 11h50 António Amorim (Professor) Developing the CENTRA-SIM infrastructure (human, knowledge, equipment)
11h50 - 11h55 António Dias (PhD Student) The CLOUD experiment and a universal instrument DAQ software
11h55 - 12h00 António Filipe Amorim (MSc Student) Caracterization system for the ESA ATHENA(L2) suspension
12h00 - 12h05 Bruno Couto (PhD Student) Development of a Microchip Laser for Planetary Altimetry
12h05 - 12h10 Diana Pascoal (Research Engineer) Simulation facility for UV space radiation
12h10 - 12h15 Izabella Hemprich (Msc Student) Maximizing effectiveness of CENTRA Space Projects and Proposals
12h15 - 12h20 Koraljka Muzic (FCT Researcher) Young brown dwarfs: testing star and planet formation
12h20 - 12h25 Joana Ascenso (Post-Doc) The IMF in RCW38: implications for the timescales of star formation
12h25 - 12h30 Mercedes Filho (Post-Doc) Local extremely metal-poor dwarf galaxies
12h30 - 12h35 Paulo Garcia (Professor) ESO instrumentation: The science of GRAVITY and the preparation of METIS
12h35 - 12h40 Paulo Gordo (Research Engineer) ESA instrumentation projects
12h40 - 14h30 Lunch
14h30 - 15h45 CENTRA/GRIT Talks
14h30 - 14h35 Andrea Nerozzi (Post-Doc) Gauge fixing in tetrad approaches to general relativity
14h35 - 14h40 António Carvalho (MSc Student) Cosmological black holes
14h40 - 14h45 Carlos Escobar Ruiz (Post-Doc) Lorentz-violating models
14h45 - 14h50 Daniele Vernieri (Post-Doc) Hořava gravity: from cosmology to astrophysics
14h50 - 14h55 David Hilditch (Research Scientist) Wild (space-)times with numerical relativity
14h55 - 15h00 Diogo Bragança (PhD Student) Energy in general relativity
15h00 - 15h05 Emanuele Berti (Research Scientist) Gravitational wave (astro)physics with compact binaries
15h05 - 15h10 Filip Hejda (PhD Student) The hyperbola revisited: particle collisions near extremal black holes
15h10 - 15h15 George Pappas (Post-Doc) Neutron stars and their spacetime geometry
15h15 - 15h20 Gonçalo Quinta (PhD Student) Quantum fields in curved spacetime
15h20 - 15h25 Inês Terrucha (MSc Student) Bouncing universes
15h25 - 15h30 Jacob Noordmans (Post-Doc) Gluonic Lorentz violation and chiral perturbation theory
15h30 - 15h35 João Luís Rosa (PhD Student) Cosmology in the generalized hybrid metric-Palatini gravity
15h35 - 15h40 Jorge Lopes (PhD Student) Chaotic behaviour in the anti-de Sitter spacetime
15h40 - 15h45 José Sande Lemos (Professor) Black hole entropy
15h45 - 15h50 Kyriakos Destounis (PhD Student) Pseudospectrum of black holes
15h50 - 16h15 Coffee Break
16h15 - 17h55 CENTRA/GRIT Talks (continuation)
16h15 - 16h20 Laura Bernard (Post-Doc) Dynamics of compact binary systems using the post-Newtonian formalism
16h20 - 16h25 Lorenzo Annulli (PhD Student) Scalar field effects on compact bounded systems
16h25 - 16h30 Masashi Kimura (Post-Doc) Mass ladder operators
16h30 - 16h35 Masato Minamitsuji (Post-Doc) Compact objects in the generalized Proca theory
16h35 - 16h40 Miguel Correia (MSc Student) Quasinormal modes of open systems
16h40 - 16h45 Miguel Ferreira (PhD Student) Scalar field effects on the motion of stars
16h45 - 16h50 Paolo Pani (Research Scientist) Gravitational-wave signatures at the horizon scale
16h50 - 16h55 Paulo Luz (PhD Student) Spin effects in gravitational collapse and the formation of naked singularities
16h55 - 17h00 Pedro Cunha (PhD Student) Shadows of black holes
17h00 - 17h05 Rita Franco (MSc Student) Gravitational Magnus effect
17h05 - 17h10 Robertus Potting (Professor) Cherenkov emission of weak bosons
17h10 - 17h15 Rodrigo Vicente (PhD Student) Superradiance and the Penrose process
17h15 - 17h20 Rui André (PhD Student) Gravitational entropy
17h20 - 17h25 Ryuichi Fujita (Post-Doc) Spinning particle in a black hole spacetime
17h25 - 17h30 Sante Carloni (Research Scientist) Phenomenological aspects of extensions of general relativity
17h30 - 17h35 Seth Hopper (Post-Doc) Unbound motion on black hole and wormhole spacetimes
17h35 - 17h40 Sofia Freitas (MSc Student) Acoustic black holes and superresonance mechanisms
17h40 - 17h45 Steven Willison (Post-Doc) Gravitational degrees of freedom and isometric embedding
17h45 - 17h50 Viktor G. Czinner (Post-Doc) Nonadditive entropic approaches in gravitational problems
17h50 - 17h55 Vitor Cardoso (Professor) Strong-field gravity
17h55 - 18h00 Manuel Torrinha (System Manager)
18h00 - 18h05 Sérgio Almeida (System Manager)
18h05 - 18h30 Evaluation and final considerations