3rd Project MEFT Workshop

Contribution List

1. Asteroseismology: Studying angular momentum transport in red giant stars

Beatriz Bordadágua

07/07/2020, 14:05

Computational and analytical models predict several mechanisms of transport of angular momentum (AM) capable of describing the physical phenomena in stars interiors through their evolution. However, recent measurements of core rotation rates of red giants revealed that the mechanisms occurring inside stars, responsible by transfer of AM, are still largely unknown.

This project consists in...

6. Stability of circular orbits in the 3 body problem

João Cruz

07/07/2020, 14:20

The 3 body problem has been studied for the last few centuries. While there are some known particular solutions, like the Euler and Lagrange solutions, and some specific cases, like the restricted 3 body problem, that have been more thoroughly studied, our knowledge about this topic is far from complete.

The N body problem can be reduced to a system of equations whose only parameters are...

7. Self-Organization of Learning Rules

António Fernandes

07/07/2020, 14:35

Evolutionary Game Theory defines a mathematical framework to study the evolving dynamics of communities in biology or social sciences, typically in regimes where the evolution is deterministic. In this framework, the cooperative strategy updating is commonly based on relative payoff comparison and social learning by natural selection. However, in the real world it might be different, as...

8. Smart fingertip tactile sensors for agrorobotics applications

Nuno Lopes

07/07/2020, 14:50

In the agricultural business, as well as in distribution networks and packaging industry, food items suffer changes that need to be controlled. In particular, in fruit/vegetable handling there is crescent effort to introduce automated technologies for manipulation and optical inspection. In this project, a tactile sensor will be implemented that allows for a quick evaluation of the quality of...

10. PALS – Setup optimisation and application to macromolecular materials characterisation

Luísa Baptista

07/07/2020, 15:05

One of the fundamental structural aspects in soft condensed matter is the free volume, which include atomic defects, vacancies, pores and voids, which exists in the interior of matter, due to irregular packing, density fluctuations and topological constrains. The free volume is considered as the volume fraction enabling molecular reorganisation and is of fundamental importance in influencing a...