Essay 2014-15

Important dates

Deadline for submission: September 10.
You need to register and submit your essay
and an abstract using this registration form

Essay presentations: September 25th in 

Departamento de Física

Escola de Ciências da Universidade do Minho

Campus de Gualtar

4710 - 057 Braga

Essay Guidelines.

The Scientific Council of MAP-fis has issued this  document clarifying the objectives of the essay and the form of your written report.

List of Proposed Essay Topics for 2014-2015

1. Enhancing photovoltaic cells performance through anti-reflective and emitting layers, Maria Rute A.S. Ferreira André.

2. Search for vector-like quarks using data collected at the run-2 of the LHC, Nuno Castro

3. Energy efficient Solid State Magnetic Refrigerators Towards a better environment, João Ventura e André Pereira

4. Interacting elementary excitations and electromagnon driven optical properties in magnetoelectric La-doped BiFeO3, Joaquim Agostinho Moreira e Teresa Tranchete

5. Interaction of dark energy and dark matter to Standard Model States, Orfeu Bertolami

6. The Boltzmann equation in alternative theories of gravity: f(R), Orfeu Bertolami

7. Femtomagnetism: manipulation of magnetisation on the femtosecond timescale, David Schmool/Helder Crespo.

8. Functional Nanomaterials: Multilayer Protective Coatings based on Metal Nitrides, João Pedro Araújo

9. Entanglement as a Condensed Matter Tool, João Lopes dos Santos,

10. Nanostructures with giant magnetocaloric and magnetostrictive effects: production, optimization and applications on multifunctional devices, João Pedro Araújo

11. Photonics and plasmonics in mesoscale systems: towards a non-equilibrium description, Ariel Guerreiro