CENTRA Meeting Program:
09h30 - 10h00 Welcome session
10h00 - 10h50 CENTRA/COSTAR Talks - Chairperson: António Amorim
10h00 - 10h05 Amaro Rica da Silva (Professor) "Hierarchical analysis and computational methods in astrophysics"
10h05 - 10h10 Ana Brito (Postdoc) "Ionization and rotation: Unexpected relation from asteroseismology in F-stars"
10h10 - 10h15 Ana Mourão (Professor) "Towards precision polarimetry of galaxies"
10h15 - 10h20 Diogo Capelo (MSc Student) "Impact of the abundance problem in stellar evolution"
10h20 - 10h25 Grigorios Panotopoulos (Postdoc) "Probing the unknown nature of gravitation and dark matter"
10h25 - 10h30 Ilidio Lopes (Professor) "Dark matter, sterile neutrinos, and the Sun"
10h30 - 10h35 José Lopes (PhD Student) "Dark matter in red clump stars"
10h35 - 10h40 Mário Aires (MSc Student) "Looking for new constraints on ADM using sun-like stars"
10h40 - 10h45 Pedro Gomes (MSc Student) "Asteroseismology: Supression of acoustic-gravity dipole modes in giant stars"
10h45 - 10h50 Santiago Gonzalez (Postdoc) "The effects of varying reddening laws on supernova cosmology"
10h50 - 11h15 Coffee Break
11h15 - 12h40 CENTRA/SIM Talks- Chairperson: José Sande Lemos
11h15 - 11h20 Alberto Krone-Martins (Postdoc) "Discovery of gravitational lenses via entropy and machine learning"
11h20 - 11h25 Ana Carvalho (MSc Student) "Unsupervised machine learning methods to study galaxy clustering"
11h25 - 11h30 André Boné (PhD Student) "METIS-WSS design and analises"
11h30 - 11h35 André Moitinho (Professor) "Gaia Data Release 2"
11h35 - 11h40 António Amorim (Professor) "METIS, the infrared instrument for the ELT"
11h40 - 11h45 Bruno Couto (PhD Student) "Microchip laser prototype"
11h45 - 11h50 Hener Rodrigues (Msc Student) "A estrutura de acesso ao instrumento METIS"
11h50 - 11h55 João Silvestre (MSc Student) "Sparse coding and reconstruction subsystems for astronomical imaging"
11h55 - 12h00 José Figueiredo (Professor) "Photonic circuits for telecommunications, information, and sensing systems"
12h00 - 12h05 Koraljka Muzic (FCT Researcher) "Young brown dwarfs as testbeds for star and planet formation"
12h05 - 12h10 Márcia Barros (PhD Student) "Algorithms in scientific fields using literature: A case study in astronomy"
12h10 - 12h15 Mercedes Filho (Postdoc) "The METIS-WSS assembly and integration challenges"
12h15 - 12h20 Miguel Conceição (MSc Student) "Fast estimation of cosmological density fields using machine learning"
12h20 - 12h25 Paulo Garcia (Professor) "Recent results from the GRAVITY instrument"
12h25 - 12h30 Paulo Gordo (Research Engineer) "Profiling asteroids for planetary defense"
12h30 - 12h35 Pedro Garcia (Junior Scientist) "Reconstruction of open cluster proper motion to study internal kinematics"
12h35 - 12h40 Victor Almendros (PhD Student) "Spectroscopic characterization of low-mass candidates of NGC 2244"
12h40 - 14h30 Lunch
14h30 - 15h50 CENTRA/GRIT Talks - Chairperson: André Moitinho
14h30 - 14h35 Adrian del Rio (Postdoc) "Quantum aspects in gravity: From inflation to black holes"
14h35 - 14h40 Carlos Herdeiro (Professor) "Non-Kerr black holes and their viability"
14h40 - 14h45 David Hilditch (FCT Researcher) "Waves at infinity"
14h45 - 14h50 Diogo Silva (MSc Student) "Gravitational collapse with a cosmological constant"
14h50 - 14h55 Edgar Gasperin (Postdoc) "The weak null condition in tree-evolution in numerical relativity"
14h55 - 15h00 Filip Hejda (PhD Student) "Collisional Penrose process around electrovacuum black holes"
15h00 - 15h05 Isabel Suárez (PhD Student) "Critical phenomena and cosmic censorship: A semilinear wave model"
15h05 - 15h10 João Luís Rosa (PhD Student) "Generalized hybrid metric-Palatini gravity"
15h10 - 15h15 José Sande Lemos (Professor) "From light bending to light trapping: 100 years of eclipse and black holes"
15h15 - 15h20 Justin Feng (Postdoc) "Waves in Einstein-aether theory and electrovortical formalism"
15h20 - 15h25 Kyriakos Destounis (PhD Student) "Dynamical response of black hole spacetimes"
15h25 - 15h30 Lorenzo Annulli (PhD Student) "Testing theories of gravitation"
15h30 - 15h35 Masashi Kimura (Postdoc) "Black holes in an effective field theory extension of general relativity"
15h35 - 15h40 Masato Minamitsuji (Postdoc) "Black holes in higher-derivative scalar-tensor theories"
15h40 - 15h45 Miguel Ferreira (PhD Student) "Scalar fields in the galactic center"
15h45 - 16h15 Coffee Break
16h15 - 17h25 CENTRA/GRIT Talks (continuation) - Chairperson: Ana Mourão
16h15 - 16h20 Miguel Zilhão (FCT Researcher) "Numerical relativity: from binary black holes to holography"
16h20 - 16h25 Nelson Eiró (MSc Student) "Black hole shadows"
16h25 - 16h30 Nicolás Sanchis Gual (Postdoc) "Numerical relativity, compact objects, and bosonic fields"
16h30 - 16h35 Nuno Santos (PhD Student) "ECO-like behavior in black hole analogues"
16h35 - 16h40 Paulo Luz (PhD Student) "The effects of intrinsic spin in astrophysical objects"
16h40 - 16h45 Pedro Cunha (PhD Student) "Light ring stability in ultra-compact objects"
16h45 - 16h50 Pedro Fernandes (MSc Student) "Spontaneous scalarization of black holes"
16h50 - 16h55 Robertus Potting (Professor) "Symmetry breaking in nonlinear electrodynamics"
16h55 - 17h00 Rodrigo Vicente (PhD Student) "Dynamical friction in slab geometries and accretion disks"
17h00 - 17h05 Rui André (PhD Student) "Entropy and thermodynamics of black holes and thin shells"
17h05 - 17h10 Sante Carloni (FCT Researcher) "Covariant compact objects: Further beyond"
17h10 - 17h15 Taishi Ikeda (Postdoc) "Blasts of light from axion clouds"
17h15 - 17h20 Thanasis Giannakopoulos (PhD Student) "Holographic phase transitions"
17h20 - 17h25 Vitor Cardoso (Professor) "Black hole oscillation modes"
17h25 - 17h30 Gustavo Rojas (Postodoc)- "My future work at SIM" (extra talk)
17h30 - 17h35 Sérgio Almeida and João Vasconcelos (System Managers) "Managing CENTRA's systems"
17h35 - 17h45 Evaluation and final considerations
17h45 - 18h00 Farewell free time