Essay Topics 2013-2014

List of Proposed Essay Topics for 2013-2014

Theory

Stellar and Orbital evolution during the Red-giant phase

Alexandre C.M. Correia, correia@ua.pt

Spin and orbital evolution of “Hot-Jupiters”.

Alexandre C.M. Correia, correia@ua.pt

Origin and evolution of the natural satellites and their impact to planetary climates and habitability.

Alexandre C.M. Correia, correia@ua.pt

Nonlinear dynamics of neuronal networks, mechanisms of memory and learning in the brain,

Alexander Goltsev, Jose Fernando Mendes, goltsev@ua.pt, jfmendes@ua.pt

Analytical and numerical methods for studying strong gravitational dynamics

Carlos A. R. Herdeiro, herdeiro@ua.pt

Time dependent interactions in copying processes

Gareth Baxter, gjbaxter@ua.pt

Cosmic Paleontology: Searching for Superstrings

Carlos Martins, Carlos.Martins@astro.up.pt

Polarized AdS Black Holes

Miguel Costa & João Penedones, miguelc@fc.up.pt

Pomeron in gauge/gravity duality

Miguel Costa & João Penedones, miguelc@fc.up.pt

Developing 1D Formulations of Convection for Energy Transport in Stellar Physics

Mário João P. F. G. Monteiro & Michael Bazot, mario.monteiro@fc.up.pt

Josephson junctions arrays with frustrated multiband superconducting elements,

Ricardo Assis Guimarães Dias, rdias@ua.pt

Inflation and the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

Orfeu Bertolami, orfeu.bertolami@fc.up.pt

The Cosmological Standard Model: virtues and deficiencies
Orfeu Bertolami, orfeu.bertolami@fc.up.pt

Alternative Metric Theories of Gravity

Orfeu Bertolami, orfeu.bertolami@fc.up.pt

Alternative Palatine Type Theories of Gravity

Orfeu Bertolami, orfeu.bertolami@fc.up.pt

Materials

Memristor Based Adaptive Neural Networks.

João Oliveira Ventura, joventur@fc.up.pt

Physical characterization of InAlGaAs nanowires for application in solar cells

Joaquim Leitão, Joaquim.leitao@ua.pt

Organic Light Emitting Devices for specific lighting application

Luis Rino, lrino@ua.pt

Experimental methods to study energy transfer between quantum nanodots

Michael Belsley, belsley@fisica.uminho.pt

Core-shell and core-host interaction effects on the optoelectronic properties of functional silicon-nanoparticles,

Rui N. Pereira/Maria Rute Ferreira André, rnpereira@ua.pt

Electronic doping and magnetic anisotropy in nanocrystal quantum dot systems

Rui N. Pereira, rnpereira@ua.pt

Multiscale studies of magnetic and electric effects in confined multiferroic materials

Vitor Amaral, vamaral@ua.pt

Photochemical upconversion as an advanced tool to enhance solar cells efficiency

Luis Carlos, lcarlos@ua.pt

Optics

2 dimensional photon echo spectroscopy,

Michael Belsley, belsley@fisica.uminho.pt

Nonlinear optical phenomena in hollow-core microstructured optical fibres

Mário Fernando dos Santos Ferreira, mfernando@ua.pt

Instrumentation

Radiation Induced Absorption processes applied ionizing radiation sensing with optical fibers

Carla Carmelo Rosa, ccrosa@fc.up.pt

Participation in the DRIM-PET project,

João Filipe Veloso, joao.veloso@ua.pt

Portable MPGD based x-ray detector,
João Filipe Veloso, joao.veloso@ua.pt

Meteorology

Improvement of short range weather forecasts by using numerical models

Alfredo Moreira Caseiro Rocha, alfredo.rocha@ua.pt