18 July 2013
8:30 – 9:15 Registration
9:15 – 9:20 Welcome
SESSION 1 – Planetary Systems
9:20 – 9:35 Raquel Albuquerque – Analysis of the mineralogy of S-type asteroids from reflectance spectra
9:35 – 9:50 Alexandre Correia – Eccentricity pumping of exoplanets by tidal effect
9:50 – 10:05 Jorge Martins – On the detection of reflected light from exoplanets
10:05 – 10:30 Annelies Mortier – The metallicity – giant planet connection for evolved stars
Coffee Break 10:30 – 11:00
SESSION 2 – Planetary Systems and Stellar Properties
11:00 – 11:15 Mahmoudreza Oshagh – Effect of stellar spots on high-precision transit light-curve
11:15 – 11:30 Ana Rei – Mass and Age determination for low-mass Young Stellar Objects
11:30 – 11:45 Fernando Pinheiro – Estimating the mass of solar type stars
11:45 – 12:00 Sérgio Batista – Optimization methods for deriving FGK stellar population
12:00 – 12:25 Giancarlo Pace – The evolution of chromospheric activity is L-shaped
12:25 – 12:40 João Faria – Acoustic Glitches in 16 Cygni
Lunch 12:40 – 14:10
SESSION 3 – Stellar Evolution and The Interstellar Medium
14:10 – 14:35 José Sande Lemos – Compact objects: From white dwarfs to regular black holes
14:35 – 14:50 Vanessa Agra-Amboage – Optical analysis of the FU Ori star V1515Cyg
14:50 – 15:05 Paulo Garcia – Pre-main-sequence binaries with tidally disrupted discs: the Br γ in HD104237
15:05 – 15:20 Lluis Galbany – Integral Field Unit spectroscopy of supernova host galaxies
15:20 – 15:35 Nuno Carvalho – Development of hybrid software to run in GPUs and CPUs: Implementation of the high-order grid based Piecewise Parabolic Method
15:35 – 16:05 Coffee Break
SESSION 4 – The Galaxy
16:05 – 16:30 André Moitinho – Gaia launch time talk
16:30 – 16:45 Manuel Silva – Runaway stars as tracers of the spiral arms
16:45 – 17:00 Rui Agostinho – The flux from galactic supernovae as a possible drive of climate change in the last 50 Ma and the extinction of Sirenia in Europe
17:00 – 17:15 Vardan Adibekyan – Galactic stellar populations and exoplanet frequencies therein
17:30 – 19:00 SPA meeting
19 July 2013
SESSION 5 – Instrumentation and Astroparticle Physics
9:00 – 9:25 José Afonso, Alexandre Cabral – MOONS – a powerful Multi-Object Optical and Near-infrared Spectrograph for the VLT
9:25 – 9:40 Paulo Garcia – The science case of the GRAVITY instrument
9:40 – 9:55 Alexandre Cabral, Nuno Santos – ESPRESSO: from science to instrumentation
9:55 – 10:10 Patrícia Gonçalves – Towards a Radiation Monitor for the Jovian System
10:10 – 10:25 Lorenzo Cazon – Ultra-high energy cosmic rays with the Pierre Auger Observatory
Coffee Break 10:25 – 10:55
SESSION 6 – Extragalactic Astrophysics
10:55 – 11:20 Jarle Brinchmann – Legacy science with Euclid mission
11:20 – 11:35 Patricio Lagos – Studying the interstellar medium of extremely metal poor HII/BCD galaxies using IFU spectroscopy
11:35 – 11:50 Ciro Pappalardo – The Herschel Virgo Cluster Survey: insight into galaxy evolution from Far Infra-Red wavelength
11:50 – 12:05 Andrew Humphrey – Optical and CO observations of type 2 quasars at intermediate redshifts
12:05 – 12:20 Sonia Antón – AGNs & Gaia
12:20 – 12:35 Ana Afonso – Optical Counterparts of ICRF2: Gaia beacons
Lunch 12:35 – 14:05
SESSION 7 – High Redshift Universe and Cosmology
14:05 – 14:30 José Afonso – Towards the discovery of the first radio galaxies
14:30 – 14:45 Silvio Lorenzoni – Star-Forming Galaxies at z~ 8-9 from HST/WFC3: Implications from Reionization
14:45 – 15:00 Carlos Martins – Fundamental cosmology with the E-ELT
15:00 – 15:15 José Correia – Different views of cosmic defect evolution
15:15 – 15:30 Ugo Bertello – Three-form cosmology
15:30 – 15:45 Nelson Nunes – Coupled 3-form dark energy
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break including Poster Session Award
SESSION 8 – Cosmology
16:15 – 16:40 Francisco Lobo – Extended theories of gravity and the late-time cosmic acceleration
16:40 – 16:55 José Pedro Mimoso – Dividing global expansion from local contraction in spherically symmetric models with anisotropic pressures
16:55 – 17:10 Diogo Capelo – Cosmological implications of spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking in the time direction
SESSION 9 – Outreach
17:10 – 17:25 Rui Agostinho – High precision measurements of the Earth’s radius, by Eratosthenes’ method
17:25 – 17:40 Rosa Doran – Science research invades schools
17:40 – 17:55 Lina Canas – Meet our neighbours! – a tactile experience
18:00 – 19:00 Round table discussion
