III Workshop Challenges of New Physics in Space
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III Workshop Challenges of New Physics in Space


Program


Sunday, December 12

16:00Registration
19:00Cocktail
20:00Reuven Opher: Introduction to Workshop
21:00Dinner

Monday, December 13

07:30Registration

Session I

Chair: Marcelo Rebouças
08:00E.W. Kolb: Dark Matter
09:30Discussion
09:40Short discussion of Posters of Session I
09:50Coffee-Break and Posters
10:10E. Waxman: What we know, and don't know, about the Origin of High Energy Cosmic-Rays (UHECRs)
11:40Discussion
11:50Daniele Alves: Measuring the Properties of the Milky Way Halo with Dark Matter Directional Detection
12:00Discussion of Lectures and Posters
12:40Lunch

Session II

Chair: Luís Carlos Bassalo Crispino
15:00M.C. Miller: The Promise of Gravitational Waves
16:30Discussion
16:40Short Discussion of Posters of Session II
16:50Coffee-Break and Posters
17:10Zulema Abraham: The Precessing Jet in the Core of NGC 1275 (3C84)
17:20Miguel Quartin: Effects of Large-Scale Inhomogeneities on Supernova Data Analysis
17:30Martín Makler: Closing the Loop of Gravitational Arcs
17:40Discussion of Lectures and Posters

Tuesday, December 14

Session III

Chair: Julio Cesar Fabris
08:00R.V.E. Lovelace: On the Magnetic Origin of Jets from Accretion Disks
09:30Discussion
09:40Short Discussion of Posters of Session III
09:50Coffee-Break and Posters
10:10Nadja Magalhães: Gravitational Wave Detection: A Summary of the Status of the Research on the Subject by Brazilian Cientists
10:20Luís Carlos Bassalo Crispino: Absorption and Scattering by Acoustic Holes
10:30Rogério Rosenfeld: Spherical Collapse in Chameleon Models
10:40Laerte Sodré: Unveiling Galaxy Evolution with Spectral Synthesis
10:50Claudia Mendes de Oliveira: Os Projetos JPAS e Pau-Brasil Sul
11:00Gastão Lima Neto: Substructures in the Intracluster Gas
11:10Marcos Maia: The Flow of the Universe
11:20Vera Jatenco-Pereira: Tilted Winds of Weak-Lined T Tauri Stars: 3D Simulations
11:30Discussion of the Lectures and Posters
12:10Lunch

Session IV

Chair: Sergio Jorás
15:00T. Theuns: Formation of Galaxies at High Redshifts using Cosmological Simulations
16:30Discussion
16:40Short Discussion of Posters of Session IV
16:50Coffee-Break and Posters
17:10Julio Fabris: Supernovas, Formação de Estrutura e Efeito Sachs-Wolfe Integrado em Modelos Unificados de Energia e Matéria Escuras
17:20Discussion of Lectures and Posters

Wednesday, December 15

Session V

Chair: Rogério Rosenfeld
08:00E.W. Kolb: Dark Energy
09:30Discussion
09:40Short Discussion of Posters of

Session V

09:50Coffee-Break and Posters
10:10Marcelo Rebouças: Violation of Causality of Gödel-Type in Palatini f(R) Gravity Theories
10:20Sergio Jorás: f(R) Theories-Stability of Stars
10:30Christiane Frigerio Martins: The Dark Matter Density at the Sun' s Location
10:40Ilya Shapiro: Effective QFT and what it can tell us about Galaxies Rotation Curves
10:50Carlos Alexandre Wuensche: Using Sunyaev-Zeldovich Clusters to Probe the Large Scale Mass Distribution in the Lambda-CDM Universe
11:00Saulo Carneiro: A Cosmological Concordance Model with Dynamical Vacuum Term
11:10José Ademir Lima: Testing the Distance-Duality Relation with Galaxy Clusters and Supernovae Ia
11:20Discussion of Lectures and Posters
12:00 Lunch
Free afternoon!

Thursday, December 16

Session VI

Chair: Saulo Carneiro
08:00M.C. Miller: Neutron Stars and the Extremes of Matter
09:30Discussion
09:40Short Discussion of Posters of Session VI
09:50Coffee-Break and Posters
10:10R.V.E. Lovelace: Instabilities of Accretion Disks around Rotating Stars and Black Holes
11:40Discussion
11:50Jailson Alcaniz: Probing the Time Dependence of Dark Energy
12:00Discussion of Lectures and Posters
12:40Lunch

Session VII

Chair: José Ademir Lima
15:00E. Waxman: Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs): Some Open Questions
16:30Discussion
16:40Short Discussion of Posters of Session VII
16:50Coffee-Break and Posters
17:10Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino: Particle Acceleration by Magnetic Reconnection in Accretion Disk/Jet Systems
17:20Valdir Bezerra: Casimir-Polder Potential between an Atom and a Cylinder in the Presence of a Cosmic String
17:30Discussion of Lectures and Posters

Summary of the Workshop

21:00Reuven Opher: Highlights of the Workshop
21:30Discussion of the Workshop

Friday, December 17

Session VIII

Chair: Ilya Shapiro
08:00T. Theuns: Structure of Galaxies at Low Redshifts Using Csomological Simulations
09:30Discussion
09:40Short Discussion of Posters of Session VIII
09:50Coffee-Break and Posters
10:10Thiago Pereira: Effects of a Cut, Lorentz-Boosted Sky on the Angular Power Spectrum
10:20Ribamar Reis: A Galaxy Photometric Redshift Catalog for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Coadd
10:30Marcelo Byrro Ribeiro: High Redshift Cosmological Densities from Luminosity Function Data
10:40Mauricio Calvão: A Statistically Self-Consistent Type Ia Supernova Data Analysis
10:50Discussion of Lectures and Posters
11:30Closing Comments
12:00Lunch

 

Posters

 

NumberSessionAuthorTitle
1IRafael Alves BatistaConstraints on Astrophysical Variables of the SGR 1806-20
2IDaniel BorieroCombined Bounds in MaVaNs Models
3IJoel C. CarvalhoHow well can we Measure the Deceleration Parameter from H(z) Data
4IMariana ChinagliaCalibration of the Synchrotron Emission Map of the Radio Telescope Gem using the Absolute Temperature Data of the ARCADE 2 Experiment
5IIGustavo Rocha da SilvaOrigin of the Magnetic Fields in the GRB Afterglow Region
6IIHabib Dumet-MontoyaGravitational Arcs in the Perturbative Approach: Application to the Pseudo-Elliptical Navarro-Frenk-White Model and Limits of Validity
7IIPedro da Cunha FerreiraCorrelations among the Axial Ratio of Gravitational Arcs and the Source Properties through Simulations
8IICarlos FrajucaStudying Sphere Seismic Noise Isolation in Schenberg Detector
9IIILuiz Garcia de AndradeDínamos Magnéticos e Campos Magnéticos Primordiais em Fontes Extragalácticas e no Universo
10IIIAmanda Reis LopesThe Power Spectrum of Radial Densities in the Einstein-De Sitter Cosmological Model
11IIIGermán LugonesGravitational Waves from the Cosmological Quark-Hadron Phase Transition
12IIILuiz Felippe S. Rodrigues/Reuven OpherA Large Change in the Predicted Number of Small Halos due to a Small Amplitude Oscillating Inflaton Potential
13IIIRubens E.G. MachadoBarred Galaxies and the Circularisation of Dark Matter Haloes
14IVUlisses D.A.S. MachadoGeneralized Non-Commutative Inflation
15IVGeorge MatsasEfeitos Quânticos na Gravitação
16IVSebastião Mauro FilhoDetermination of Correction Parameters Quantum General Relativity with Variable Gravitational Constant
17IVCamile MendesApplication of Statistical Tests to Study the Distribution of Arrival Directions of Cosmic Rays Detected by the Pierre Auger Observatory
18IVDaniel MullerQuadratic Gravity and Homogenous Solutions 
19VCamila NovaesIdentification of Galaxy Clusters in the CMB Maps using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect
20VEdnilton OliveiraAbsorption by (2+1)-Dimensional Rotating Acoustic Holes
21VClovis B. PeresTermodinamica Generalizada e Aglomerados de Galáxias
22VCássio PigozzoSupernova Constraints on a λ(t) Model with Curvature
23VICarlos PinheiroCritics, Questions, Puzzles, Speculations on Nonextensive Thermodynamics, Nonextensive Entropy. One Sea of Doubts
24VIBaltazar J. RibeiroEffective Potential Via Riemann Normal Coordinates
25VILuiz Felippe S. Rodrigues/Reuven OpherImpact of Primordial Magnetic Fields on the Gas Content of Dark Matter Halos
26VIManuela Gibim RodriguesAccretion of Dark Energy into Black Holes
27VIIFilipe SallesAuxiliary Fields Representation for Modified Gravity Models
28VIIAlberto SanojaEvolution of Spherical Non-Uniform Perturbations in the Universe
29VIIRose C. SantosDeriving H0 from Ages of Old High Redshift Objects, H(z) and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations: the Case for the Chaplygin Gas
30VIIGabriela Conde SaavedraA Fractal Distribution of Galaxies at 0.05 ≤ z ≤ 5.0
31VIIIFlávia SobreiraAngular Correlation Function for Photometric Galaxy Survey
32VIIIFernando Rossi TorresPropagation of Neutrinos through Dark Matter
33VIIIWinfried ZimdahlUnified and Interacting Models of the Cosmological Dark Sector