| Sunday, 23rd September |
| 16:30 - 19:30 |
Registration |
| 16:30 - 17:15 |
O Sol tranquilo?
Alexandre Aibéo |
| 17:30 - 18:15 |
Observation of the Sun / Planetarium Demonstration |
| 18:30 - 19:15 |
Caçadores de Luz e Trevas: Em busca das primeiras galáxias do Universo
José Afonso |
| 19:30 |
End of public session |
| Monday, 24th September |
| 8:30 - 9:00 |
Registration |
| 9:00 - 9:05 |
Welcome |
| The Sun and the Solar System |
| 9:05 - 9:25 |
Solar Dynamo Models New Insights from 3D MHD Simulations of the Convection Zone
Dário Passos |
| 9:25 - 9:40 |
Variation rate of sunspot area
Ricardo Gafeira |
| Stellar Formation |
| 9:40 - 10:00 |
Study of outflows signatures in FUor objects
Vanessa Agra-Amboage |
| Extra-Solar Planets |
| 10:00 - 10:20 |
Chemical abundances of 1111 FGK dwarfs from the HARPS GTO planet search program
Vardan Adibekyan |
| 10:20 - 10:40 |
Li depletion in solar analogues with exoplanets
Elisa Delgado Mena |
| 10:40 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break and Poster Viewing |
| 11:00 - 11:15 |
Homogeneous planet population statistics
Annelies Mortier |
| 11:15 - 11:30 |
A new visual spectroscopic metallicity scale for M dwarfs the 'Super-Index' approach
Vasco Neves |
| 11:30 - 11:45 |
Deriving stellar parameters for cool stars Optimizing the line lists
Maria Tsantaki |
| 11:45 - 12:00 |
The impact of stellar companions on precise radial velocities
Diana Cunha |
| 12:00 - 12:15 |
Long-term stellar activity and radial velocity of cool stars from the HARPS sample
João Gomes da Silva |
| 12:15 - 12:30 |
On the detection and characterization of transiting exoplanets beating stellar noise
Mahmoudreza Oshagh |
| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch Break and Poster Viewing |
| 14:00 - 14:20 |
Jupiter-analogs around Sun-like stars. New planets from SOPHIE and ELODIE.
Isabelle Boisse |
| 14:20 - 14:40 |
PlanetVision
Nuno Santos |
| 14:40 - 15:00 |
The Rossiter-McLaughlin revisited
Gwenaël Boué |
| 15:00 - 15:20 |
Comparing HARPS and Kepler surveys On the alignment of multiple-planet systems
Pedro Figueira |
| Asteroseismology and Stellar Evolution |
| 15:20 - 15:40 |
Global parameters for solar type stars: new insights from models
João Fernandes |
| 15:40 - 16:00 |
Asteroseismic inference on stellar cores of solar-like pulsators
Isa Brandão |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Coffee Break and Poster Viewing |
| 16:30 - 16:50 |
Testing pulsation driving with interferometry
Margarida Cunha |
| 16:50 - 17:10 |
Quasiperiodic patterns, the new observable for delta Scuti stars
Antonio García Hernández |
| 17:10 - 17:30 |
The (non-)universality of the mixing length parameter
Fernando Pinheiro |
| 17:30 |
SPA meeting |
| 20:30 |
Dinner |
| Tuesday, 25th September |
| Next-generation observing facilities and Instrumentation |
| 9:00 - 9:30 |
The E-ELT: Preparing a revolution
Carlos Martins |
| 9:30 - 10:00 |
ESPRESSO, A rocky exoplanets hunter for the VLT - Instrument design and the Portuguese contribution
Alexandre Cabral |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Portugal Participation in the Euclid Space Mission
António da Silva / Ismael Tereno |
| 10:30 - 10:55 |
Coffee Break and Poster Viewing |
| 10:55 - 11:10 |
Dependence of the quality of an image with the nature of the interferometric phase and the number of telescopes
Nuno Gomes |
| 11:10 - 11:30 |
MOONS a new multi-object spectrograph for the VLT Conceptual design and Portuguese participation
Alexandre Cabral |
| Cosmology |
| 11:30 - 11:50 |
A classification of scalar tensor cosmologies and their dualities
José Pedro Mimoso |
| 11:50 - 12:10 |
Latest results from the XCS
Pedro Viana |
| 12:10 - 12:25 |
CMB Induced Polarization by Clusters of Galaxies and Filaments
Elsa Patrícia Ramos |
| 12:25 - 12:40 |
Probing dark energy beyond z=2 with CODEX
Pauline Vielzeuf |
| 12:40 - 14:00 |
Lunch Break and Poster Viewing |
| 14:00 - 14:15 |
Impact of z-Information upon Cosmology with Next-Generation Radio Surveys
Stefano Camera |
| 14:15 - 14:30 |
Intensity Mapping of Lyman-alpha Emission During the Epoch of Reionization
Marta Silva |
| Galactic and Extragalactic Astrophysics |
| 14:30 - 14:50 |
UPMASK Unsupervised Photometric Membership Assignment in Stellar Clusters
André Moitinho de Almeida |
| 14:50 - 15:10 |
The environments of faint Ultra Steep Spectrum radio sources
José Afonso |
| 15:10 - 15:25 |
The HEG/LG dichotomy in the most powerful radio galaxies
Cristina Fernandes |
| 15:25 - 15:40 |
The early effect of the cluster environment on star-formation the case of XMMU J2235.3-2557
Ruth Grützbauch |
| 15:40 - 16:00 |
Dust and gas properties of star-forming dwarf galaxies in the Virgo Cluster
Marco Grossi |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Coffee Break and Poster Viewing |
| 16:30 - 16:45 |
Extremely metal poor blue compact dwarf galaxies as seen by IFU spectroscopy
Patricio Lagos |
| 16:45 - 17:00 |
The warm interstellar medium in early-type galaxies from the CALIFA Survey
Jean Michel Gomes |
| 17:00 - 17:15 |
The Core of Merging Galaxies
Paula Brochado |
| 17:15 - 17:30 |
The Gran Telescopio Canarias view of a gaseous super-bubble around a z=2.5 quasar and its Lyman-alpha blob
Andrew Humphrey |
| 17:30 - 18:30 |
Round table discussion: "Opportunities and challenges of the Portuguese astronomical community in the next decade"
Coordinator: André Moitinho de Almeida |
23-25 September 2012, Porto, Portugal
