I Workshop "Challenges of New Physics in Space"

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Program

25/4 - Saturday 16:00 Registration 19:00 Cocktail 20:00 Reuven Opher: Introduction to Workshop 21:00 Dinner

26/4 - Sunday 08:00 Registration

Session I Chair: Marcelo Rebouças 08:30 Joseph Silk: Dark Matters 10:00 Discussion 10:10 Élcio Abdalla: Dark Matter and Dark Energy as Interacting Fields 10:40 Discussion 10:50 Coffee-break 11:10 Rogério Rosenfeld: Dark Energy Fluctuations and Structure Formation 11:40 Discussion 11:50 Abilio Mateus: Nature Versus Nurture: A Challenge for Galaxy Evolution 12:05 Rafael S. de Souza: Magnetic Fields and the Formation of Galaxies 12:20 Ulisses Machado: Creating Inflation with a Trans-Planckian Dispersion Relation 12:35 Discussion of the Lectures 13:05 Lunch

Session II Chair: Élcio Abdalla 15:00 Luca Amendola: Dark Energy and New Cosmology 16:30 Discussion 16:40 Odylio Aguiar: Gravitational Waves: Challenges and New Physics 17:10 Discussion 17:20 Coffee-break 17:40 Luis Carlos B. Crispino: Absorption Cross Sections of Static Black Holes and Analogues 18:10 Discussion 18:20 Alan Toribio: Cosmological Perturbations and Running Cosmological Constant 18:35 Ana Pelinson: Dark Energy Constraints using Matter Density Fluctuations 18:35 Gustavo Rocha da Silva: Gamma-Ray Bursts and a Transplanckian Dispersion Relation 19:05 Discussion of the Lectures

Special Session 21:00 Lawrence Krauss: Our Miserable Future

27/4 - Monday

Session III Chair: Ioav Waga 08:30 Joseph Silk: Formation of the Galaxies 10:00 Discussion 10:10 André Landulfo: Quantum Information and Relativity Theory 10:25 Everton Abreu: Analytical Considerations about the Cosmological Constant and Dark Energy 10:40 Coffee-break 11:00 Jacques Lépine: One of the Challenges for Millimetric Interferometry: Observations of the Formation of Galactic Bulges at Redshifts Larger than z=6 11:30 Discussion 11:40 José Ademir S. de Lima: Are Galaxy Clusters Suggesting an Accelerating Universe Independent of SNe Type Ia? 12:10 Discussion 12:20 Discussion of the Lectures 12:50 Lunch

Session IV Chair: José Ademir S. Lima 15:00 William Unruh: Dumb Holes - Analogs to Black Holes (Part I) 16:30 Discussion 16:40 Jorge Castiñeiras: Interaction of the Fulling-Davies-Unruh Thermal Bath of the Proca Field with a Uniformly Accelerated Charge in the Rindler Wedge 16:55 Coffee-break 17:15 George Matsas: Search for a Low-Energy Quantum Gravity Effect 17:45 Discussion 17:55 João Braga: Observing Black Holes with the Satellite MIRAX 18:25 Discussion 18:35 Thiago S. Pereira: Anisotropic Correlation Function 18:50 Bruno Lago: Simulating SN Ia Surveys 19:05 Discussion of the Lectures

28/4 - Tuesday

Session V Chair: Rogério Rosenfeld 08:30 Luca Amendola: Observing Dark Energy 10:00 Discussion 10:10 Luiz Felippe S. Rodrigues: Clumps and Cusps: How Small Scale Structure Challenges the Current Dark Matter Paradigm 10:25 Marcos Brum: Scalar-Tensor Theories of Gravity and the Inflationary Universe 10:40 Coffee-break 11:00 Raul Abramo: Looking for the Nature of Dark Energy in Counts of Galaxy Clusters 11:30 Discussion 11:40 Oscar Éboli: Interplay between Particle Physics Experiments and Physics in Space 12:10 Discussion 12:20 Marcos Maia: The Challenges of Gravitation 12:50 Discussion of the Lectures 13:20 Lunch

Afternoon Free! 29/4 - Wednesday Session VI Chair: George Matsas 08:30 William Unruh: Dumb Holes - Analogs to Black Holes (Part II) 10:00 Discussion 10:10 Maurício O. Calvão: Type Ia Supernovae Surveys and Cosmology 10:40 Discussion 10:50 Coffee-break 11:10 Marcelo J. Rebouças: Some Challenges in Cosmic Topology 11:40 Discussion 11:50 Nelson Pinto Neto: Can Primordial Cosmological Models be Tested by Future Observations? 12:20 Discussion 12:30 Discussion of the Lectures 13:00 Lunch Sessão VII Chair: Maurício Calvão 15:00 Athanasios Lahanas: Supersymmetric Dark Matter and Non-Standard Cosmologies 15:30 Discussion 15:40 Ioav Waga: Viable Singularity-Free f(R) Gravity 16:10 Discussion 16:20 Raissa F.P. Mendes: Search for a Low-Energy Quantum Gravity Effect  16:35 Coffee-break 16:55 Laerte Sodré: Investigating Galaxy Evolution with Spectral Synthesis 17:25 Discussion 17:35 Ilya Shapiro: Semiclassical Corrections to GR and their Gravitational Implications 18:05 Discussion 18:15 Rubens Marinho: Searching for Monochromatic Signals in the ALLEGRO Gravitational Wave Detector Data 18:45 Discussion of the Lectures Summary of the Workshop 21:00 Reuven Opher: Highlights of the Workshop 21:30 Discussion of the Workshop 30/4 - Thursday Session VIII Chair: Odylio Aguiar 08:30 Irina Radinschi: Connecting Energy to Geometry: the Case of Regular Black Holes in an Asymptotically de Sitter Universe 09:00 Discussion 09:10 Sergio Jorás: Modified Gravity and its Mapping to Scalar-Tensor Theories 09:40 Discussion 09:50 Bruno Gonçalves: Exact Foldy-Wouthuysen Transformation for Gravitational Waves and Magnetic Field Background 10:05 Coffee-break 10:15 José Carlos N. de Araujo: Gravitational Wave Background from a Neutron Star Phase Transition 10:45 Discussion 10:55 Adriano Contini Torres: Swimming in Cosmological Spacetimes 11:10 Ronaldo Carlotto Batista: Modeling Nonlinear Dark Energy Fluctuations 11:25 Marcelo B. Ribeiro: The Fundamental Importance of the Reciprocity Theorem for Observational Cosmology 11:55 Discussion 12:05 Rodrigo Holanda: Prospects for the Planck Satellite: Limiting the Hubble Parameter Value by SZE/X-ray Distances 12:20 Discussion of the Lectures 12:30 Closing Comments 13:00 Lunch 14:00 Check-out