Saturday, June 26, 2021
6h CENTRA Meeting
Program
Welcome session 09:45-10:15
CENTRA/COSTAR Talks 10:15-11:10 Chairperson: André Moitinho
10:15-10:20 Ana Maria Mourão (Professor) - News from the sky: Supernova discoveries and implications in cosmology
10:20-10:25 Ana Olímpia Brito (Post-Doc) - The convective envelopes of low-mass stars
10:25-10:30 Beatriz Bordadágua (MSc Student) - Asteroseismology: Angular momentum transport in red giants
10:30-10:35 Beatriz Pereira (Msc Student) - Moonlight polarization at Paranal
10:35-10:40 Clara Severino (MSc Student) - Asteroseismology: constraining axion properties with massive supergiants
10:40-10:45 David Fordham (MSc Student) - Constraining the axion-photon coupling using subgiant stars
10:45-10:50 Grigorios Panotopoulos (Post-Doc) - Relativistic compact stars and non-conventional theories of gravity
10:50-10:55 Ilidio Lopes (Professor) - Axion emission on low mass main-sequence stars
10:55-11:00 Javier Rubio (Research Scientist FCT) - Emergent scale symmetry: The inflaton-dark energy connection
11:00-11:05 Joan Bachs Esteban (PhD Student) - N-body simulations of primordial dark matter halos
11:05-11:10 João Duarte (MSc Student) - First sample of dust attenuation slopes for DES galaxies
Coffee break 11:10-11:45
CENTRA/COSTAR Talks (continued) 11:45-12:05 Chairperson: António Amorim
11:45-11:50 João Silvestre (PhD Student) - Polarimetric studies of galaxies
11:50-10:55 José Maria Vargas Lopes (PhD Student) - Dark matter in red giant branch stars
11:55-12:00 Matteo Piani (PhD Student) - Scale symmetry and the nature of gravity
12:00-12:05 Santiago Gonzalez Gaitan (Post-Doc) - Polarimetry towards the Circinus active galactic nuclei
CENTRA/SIM Talks 12:05-12:40 Chairperson: Vitor Cardoso
12:05-12:10 André Moitinho (Professor) - Astropolitics
12:10-12:15 António Amorim (Professor) - Cast away with screws, chess, and video
12:15-12:20 Bruno Couto (Ph.D Student) - Q-switched microchip lasers: Pump area and pulse energy
12:20-12:25 Marcelino Ngando (PhD Student) - Assembly, integration and testing of the CAS prototype
12:25-12:30 Paulo Garcia (Professor) - From Gravity to Gravity+
12:30-12:35 Paulo Gordo (Invited Researcher) - LIDAR, payloads for NEO missions
12:35-12:40 Pedro Garcia (MSc Student) - Reconstruction of spatially correlated fields: application to galactic properties
Lunch 12:40-14:30
CENTRA/GRIT Talks 14:30-15:40 Chairperson: Ilidio Lopes
14:30-14:35 Alex Vano-Vinuales (Post-Doc) - Conformally conquering the hyperboloidal scri-castle
14:35-14:40 Antoine Lehébel (Post-Doc) - Black hole scalarization with a Ricci scalar coupling
14:40-14:45 Arianna Foschi (PhD Student) - Looking for ultralight dark matter in the galactic center
14:45-14:50 David Hilditch (Research Scientist FCT) - Reaching infinity with numerical relativity
14:50-14:55 David Pereñiguez (Visitant PhD Student) - Black holes and gravitational waves in fundamental physics
14:55-15:00 Diogo Ribeiro (MSc Student) - Analogue black hole binaries and superradiance
15:00-15:05 Francisco Duque (PhD Student) - Late-time tails in gravitational-wave interferometry
15:05-15:10 Jorge V. Rocha (Professor)- Love numbers of black holes in AdS and in modified gravity
15:10-15:15 José Sande Lemos (Professor) - Gravitational collapse, the physics Nobel prize for black holes, and the future
15:15-15:20 Justin C. Feng (Post-Doc) - Portals, minimal exponential measure theory, and relativistic location
15:20-15:25 Lorenzo Annulli (PhD Student) - Generalizing the close limit approximation of binary black holes
15:25-15:30 Masato Minamitsuji (Post-Doc) - Frame invariance in higher-order gravitational theories
15:30-15:35 Mathieu Beauvillain (MSc Student) - Boson stars: from general relativity to Newtonian gravity
15:35-15:40 Miguel Zilhão (Research Scientist FCT) - Numerical relativity and its applications
Coffee break 15:40-16:15
CENTRA/GRIT Talks (continued) 16:15-17:05 Chairperson: Ana Maria Mourão
16:15-16:20 Paulo Luz (Post-Doc) - Unraveling the Einstein-Cartan theory using covariant methods
16:20-16:25 Paul Roux (MSc Student) - Self-interactions in superradiance
16:25-16:30 Pedro Ildefonso (MSc Student) - Binary systems of boson stars
16:30-16:35 Pedro Piçarra (MSc Student) - Accretion disks around black holes
16:35-16:40 Rodrigo Panosso Macedo (Visitant Scientist) - High-accuracy black hole perturbation theory
16:40-16:45 Rodrigo Vicente (PhD Student) - Dynamical friction of black holes in ultralight dark matter
16:45-16:50 Rui André (PhD Student) - Gravitational Euclidean action and statistical physics of hot space
16:50-16:55 Thanasis Giannakopoulos (PhD Student) - Characteristic formulations of general relativity and applications
16:55-17:00 Tiago Fernandes (PhD Student) - Thermodynamics of a charged spherical matter shell in d dimensions
17:00-17:05 Vitor Cardoso (Professor) - Divergences in gravitational-wave physics
CENTRA/Informatics and Webpage Talks 17:05- 17:15 Chairperson: José Sande Lemos
17:05-17:10 João Vasconcelos (System Manager) - New CENTRA's personal webpage
17:10-17:15 Tomás Martins (Assistant System Manager) - CENTRA's infrastructure in informatics
17:15-17:30 Evaluation and final considerations
17:30-18:00 Free conversation and end of CENTRA's 10th Meeting