26 April 2010An informal meeting will take place at the auditorium of the building hosting the Planetário do Porto and the Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto, between CAUP's researchers and Astronomy students.
The event is open to any student with a potential interest in carrying out a PhD in Astronomy in the upcoming 1 or 2 years, including students of the licenciatura and mestrado in related areas such as Physics, Mathematics and other relevant science or engeneering degrees.
Program
| Morning Session: Ongoing PhD projects |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Abertura do Dia do Doutoramento |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | António Portas
THINGS, DWARFS and GIANTS |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Paula Brochado
When galaxies get together |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Isa Brandão
Towards the understanding of the deepest layers of Solar-like pulsators |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | João Silva
Influence of stellar activity in the detection of extrasolar planets using the radial-velocity method |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Xavier Dumusque
How to detect other Earths? |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Vasco Neves
M-dwarfs and exoplanets: perspectives and challenges of an exciting PhD project |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Pedro Almeida
Multiplicity in protostellar ages; Addressing fundamental properties of protostellar systems in the Infrared: a spectroscopic approach |
Afternoon Session: Potential PhD projects at CAUP |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | António da Silva
- Cosmic Microwave Background, secondary anisotropies and their correlations
- Formation and evolution of Large Scale Structure in the Universe
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| 14:15 - 14:25 | Polychronis Papaderos
Integral Field Unit spectroscopy of starburst galaxies |
| 14:25 - 14:40 | Carlos Martins
The VLT Large Programme for Testing Fundamental Physics |
| 14:40 - 14:50 | Pedro Viana
Energia escura: o maior enigma em Cosmologia |
| 14:50 - 15:00 | João Lima
Possible Ph.D. and M.Sc. research topics on MHD, at CAUP |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Mário João Monteiro
Asteroseismology Across the HR Diagram
- Contemporaneous asteroseismology of different types of pulsators in open clusters
- Asteroseismology of solar-type stars - towards the characterization of planet-hosting systems
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| 15:15 - 15:25 | Michaël Bazot
Determining physical characteristics of planet-hosting stars: asteroseismology and stellar modelling |
| 15:25 - 15:35 | Nuno Santos/Sérgio Sousa
Exoplanetas no CAUP |
| 15:35 - 15:45 | Joana Ascenso
Star Formation in Clusters |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Nanda Kumar
- The formation of massive stars: Probing the kinematics on the scales of 100-1000AU
- The formation of protobinaries
- Transition from starless to prestellar cores
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| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
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| 16:30 | Informal meeting between CAUP's researchers and CAUP's PhD students |
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All Astronomy students (undergraduates, MSc, Doctoral program and PhD students) are strongly encouraged to attend.
For more information please contact Joana Ascenso.
