Scientific Program

The program is organized around four main topics, introduced by a main "pedagogical" talk of 50 minutes, followed by several 20m talks.

Tuesday, September 8th

08:30 Opening
09:00 Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics, Kai Zuber (Technische Univ. Dresden)
10:00 Status of the SNO Full Data Set Solar Neutrino Analysis, José Maneira (LIP)

10:30 Coffee-break

11:00 Solar Eclipses - Miths and Realities, Jaime Vilinga (Universidade Agostinho Neto)
11:20 Origin and evolution of the solar magnetic cycle, Ilídio Lopes (CENTRA & Univ. de Évora)
11:40 Virtual modeling and simulation of the HISCALE instrument, Bruno Morgado (LIP)
12:00 Telescope Simulations with Geant4, Pedro Assis (LIP)

12:30 Lunch

14:30 The GAW Project, Maria Luísa Arruda (LIP)
14:50 The AMIGA Project, Eva Santos (LIP)
15:10 Physics Goals and Status of the SNO+ Experiment, José Maneira (LIP)

15:30 Coffee-break

16:00 Round Table: Future of Astroparticle and Particle Physics, Gaspar Barreira
17:30 End of the Session

 

Wednesday, September 9th

09:00 High Energy Cosmic Rays, Paolo Lipari (Universitá di Roma "la Sapienza")
10:00 Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory, João de Mello (Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

10:30 Coffee-break

11:00 The Froissart limit, Jorge Dias de Deus (CENTRA-IST)
11:20 A model for net-baryon rapidity distributions, Ruben Conceição (LIP)
11:40 Analysis of cosmic-ray shower longitudinal profiles, Sofia Andringa (LIP)
12:00 Exotic Physics in High Energy Cosmic Rays, Bernardo Tomé (LIP)

12:30 Lunch

14:30 Dark Matter in Models with Seesaw Type-II Mechanism for Neutrino Masses, Jorge Romão (CFTP-IST)
14:50 First Results of the ZEPELIN-III dark matter detector, Alexandre Lindote (LIP)
15:10 Performance of the ATLAS detector on first beam and cosmic-ray data, João Carvalho (LIP-Univ. de Coimbra)
15:30 High energy collisions of black holes, Vitor Cardoso (CENTRA-IST)

16:00 Coffee-break

16:30 Round Table: Future of Astrophysics and Cosmology, Ana Mourão
17:30 End of the Session

 

Thursday, September 10th

09:00 Experimental and Theoretical Cosmology, Pedro Gil Ferreira (University of Oxford)
10:00 The evolution of stars within dark matter halos, Ilídio Lopes (CENTRA & Univ. de Évora)

10:30 Coffee-break

11:00 X-shooter: A new generation instrument to observe the GRBs, Hector Flores (Observatoire de Paris, Meudon)
11:30 Galaxy Evolution Scenario, Myriam Arnal Rodrigues (CENTRA & GEP/Observatoire de Paris, Meudon)
11:50 Recent results on Type Ia supernova colors, Vladan Arsenijevic (SIM/IDL-FCUL)
12:10 Deep Radio Survey of the Spitzer FLSV Region, Cláudio Paulo (Univ. Eduardo Mondlane)

12:30 Lunch

14:30-17:30  Special Session, in Portuguese:
                      “O Ano Internacional da Astronomia e as Observações na Ilha do                             Príncipe e no Ceará: acções comuns a desenvolver em português”

 

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