Name: MAP-Fis PhD Research Conference
Start: 2012-01-20T09:00:00+00:00
End: 2012-01-20T22:00:00+00:00
Location: University of Minho, Braga

MAP-Fis PhD Research Conference

Friday, 20 January 2012 - 09:00

Monday, 16 January 2012
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Thursday, 19 January 2012
Friday, 20 January 2012
09:00 Opening Session
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Anfiteatro da Escola de Ciências
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Michael Belsley (Universidade do Minho)

09:15 The MAP-Fis Program - David Schmool (Universidade do Porto)
09:30 Optics and Photonics
09:30 - 10:45
Room: Anfiteatro da Escola de Ciências
Contributions

09:30 Overview - Helder Crespo (Universidade do Porto)

10:00 Signal Pulse Distortion Induced by Stimulated Raman Scattering in High Power Double-Clad Fiber Amplifiers - Miguel Melo (Universidade do Porto)

10:15 Ultrafast graphene carrier dynamics and nonlinear properties - Francisco Silva (Universidade do Porto)

10:30 Simultaneous compression and characterization of ultrashort laser pulses - Miguel Miranda (Universidade do Porto)
10:45 Coffee Break+Poster Session

10:45 - 11:15
Room: Anfiteatro da Escola de Ciências
11:15 Gravitation, Cosmology and Particle Physics
11:15 - 12:15
Room: Anfiteatro da Escola de Ciências
Contributions

11:15 Overview - Miguel Costa (Universidade do Porto)

11:45 n-DBI Gravity - Flávio Sousa Coelho (Universidade de Aveiro)

12:00 Conformal Regge Theory - Vasco Gonçalves (Universidade do Porto)
12:15 Physics of Complex Networks
12:15 - 13:00
Room: Anfiteatro da Escola de Ciências
Contributions

12:15 Overview Talk - Alexander Goltsev (Universidade de Aveiro)

12:45 Tracking the emergence of cooperation in complex networked populations - Flávio Pinheiro (Universidade do Minho)
13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:30
14:30 Meteorology and Oceanography
14:30 - 15:15
Room: Anfiteatro da Escola de Ciências
Contributions

14:30 Overview - Jesus Dubert (Universidade de Aveiro)

15:00 A high-resolution modeling study of the Western Iberian Margin mean and seasonal upper ocean circulation - Dra. Ana Cordeiro Pires (Universidade de Aveiro)
15:15 Advanced Materials Science
15:15 - 16:15
Room: Anfiteatro da Escola de Ciências
Contributions

15:15 Overview - Bernardo Almeida (Universidade do Minho)

15:45 Probing Electrostructural Coupling on Magnetoelectric CdCr2S4 - Gonçalo Oliveira (Universidade do Porto)

16:00 EFFECT OF LA SUBSTITUTION ON TB5SI2GE2 COMPOUND: STRUCTURAL AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES - João Horta Belo (Universidade do Porto)
16:15 Coffee Break+Poster Session

16:15 - 17:00
Room: Anfiteatro da Escola de Ciências
17:00 Advanced Materials Science
17:00 - 18:15
Room: Anfiteatro da Escola de Ciências
Contributions

17:00 Ordered arrays of electrodeposited nanowires and nanotubes: comparing magnetic properties - Dra. Mariana Proença (Universidade do porto)

17:15 Hematite nanowires for solar water splitting: development and structure optimization - João Azevedo (Universidade do Porto)

17:30 Critical behaviour of a three-dimensional hardcore cylinders composite system - Jaime Silva (Universidade do Minho)

17:45 Dynamic Electronic Interactions at Nanoscopic Scale - Marcelo Barbosa (Universidade do Porto)

18:00 Exchange coupled donor dimers in nanocrystal quantum dots - António José Almeida (Universidade de Aveiro)
18:15 Final Remarks and Closure
18:15 - 19:15
Room: Anfiteatro da Escola de Ciências
Contributions

18:15 Invited Talk - Paulo Freitas (INL)

18:45 Final Remarks - David Schmool (Universidade do Porto)
19:30 Workshop Dinner

19:30 - 22:00
Room: Restaurante Panorâmico