Essay 2020-21
Important dates
Deadline for submission: March 19.Page for submission: to be announced
Essay presentations: March 26 in
Departamento de Física
Universidade do Minho
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.
More detailed descriptions of these essay topics are in this pdf document
Assigned Topics
1.Optimizing models of hybrid quantum/classical computation
Student : Filipa Cavaco Reis Peres (filipa.cavaco.peres@gmail.com)
Supervisor: Ernesto Fagundes Galvão (Ernesto.Galvao@inl.int)
2.Black hole shadows, the Kerr hypothesis and fundamental physics
Student : Ivo Arcanjo Jorge Bene Sengo (ivoabs@gmail.com)
Supervisor: Carlos Herdeiro (herdeiro@ua.pt)
3. Astrophysical and Local Tests of the Einstein Equivalence Principle
Student : João Freitas Dias (joaofreitasdias2@gmail.com ; up210506549@fc.up.pt)
Supervisor: Carlos Martins (e-mail: carlos.martins@astro.up.pt)
4. Collider, neutrino and dark relics of Grand Unification with Deep Learning
Student: João Pedro Pino Gonçalves (jpedropino@ua.pt)
Supervisors: António P. Morais (aapmorais@ua.pt);
5. Causality in Lorentzian CFTs
Student: João Miguel Araújo Vilas Boas(joaovb@fc.up.pt) Supervisors: Miguel Sousa Costa (miguelc@fc.up.pt );
6. Investigation of quantum effects in the energy and charge transport in photosynthesis systems by means of quantum simulations
Student: José Diogo da Costa Guimarães (id9367@alunos.uminho.pt)
Supervisor: Mikhail Igorevich Vasilevskiy (mikhail@fisica.uminho.pt);
7. Controlling hidden quantum phases towards dynamical multiferroicity through nonlinear phononics
Student: Mariana Melo Nogueira Rosa Gomes (up201402744@fc.up.pt)
Supervisor: Joaquim Agostinho Moreira (jamoreir@fc.up.pt);
8.Searching for dark matter with the ATLAS detector using unconventional signatures
Student: Maura Gabriela Barros Teixeira (maura.barros@cern.ch)
Supervisor: Nuno Filipe da Silva Fernandes de Castro (nuno.castro@fisica.uminho.pt);
9. Design of Ruddlesden Popper layered structures for efficient energy materials
Student: Ricardo Manuel Alves Pacheco Moreira (ricardopachecomoreira@gmail.com)
Supervisor: João Pedro Esteves de Araújo (jearaujo@fc.up.pt);
10. Multifunctional magnetic nanostructures for cancer theragnosis
Student: Sofia Caspani (sofixsofi@gmail.com)
Supervisor: Célia Tavares de Sousa (celiasousa@fc.up.pt)
11. Towards ultrafast and ultra-compact lasers: uncovering ultrashort pulse generation mechanisms in semiconductor lasers with novel characterization approaches.
Student: Tiago dos Santos Gomes (gomes98tiago@gmail.com)
Supervisor: Helder Manuel Paiva de Rebelo Cerejo Crespo (hcrespo@fc.up.pt);