Schedule
The Registered Participants can access the presentation room through the ISP Interactive Schedule at Even3, whose weblink is
The Lectures and Talks are going to be presented also at PPGF UFCG YouTube Channel, whose weblink is
Session 1 - Particles, Cosmology, and Gravity
Convener: Dr. João Rafael Lucio dos Santos
Time (GMT - 11:30 am, Brasilia Time GMT-3 - 08:30 am) - 15/12/2020
Session 1.1 - Chair - João Rafael (GMT-3, Brasilia Time Zone)
08:30 am - 09:00 am - Opening
09:00 am - 10:00 am - Michelle Lochner (University of Western Cape, South Africa),
"Anomaly Detection in Astronomical Data using Machine Learning"
10:00 am - 10:30 am - Pradyumn Kumar Sahoo (Bits Pilani University, India),
"Wormholes in f(R,T) gravity and general relativity"
10:30 am -11:00 am - BREAK
Session 1.2 - Chair - Marcelo Vargas (GMT-3, Brasilia Time Zone)
11:00 am - 12:00 pm - Phillip Bull (Queen Mary University of London, UK) ,
"21cm intensity mapping "
12:00 am - 12:30 pm - Richard Battye (University of Manchester, UK) ,
"Axion detection in the radio/mm waveband"
12:30 am - 02:00 pm - LUNCH
Session 1.3 - Chair - Carlos Bessa (GMT-3, Brasilia Time Zone)
02:00 pm - 03:00 pm - Larry Ford (Tufts University, USA),
"Quantum Stress Tensor Fluctuations"
03:00 pm - 03:30 pm - Dionisio Bazeia (UFPB, Brazil),
"New results on magnetic monopoles"
03:30 pm - 04:00 pm - BREAK
Session 1.4 - Chair - Joao Rafael (GMT-3, Brasilia Time Zone)
04:00 pm - 04:30 pm - Caio Licciardi (Laurentian University, Canada),
"Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with EXO-200 and nEXO"
04:30 pm - 05:00 pm - Rodrigo Holanda (UFRN, Brazil),
"Galaxy clusters and cosmology"
05:00 pm - 06:00 pm - Lia Medeiros (IAS Princeton University, USA), Public Talk,
"Testing Einstein’s theory of gravity using the first image of a black hole"
Session 2 - Condensed Matter
Convener: Dr. Rodrigo Lima
Time (GMT - 11:30 am, Brasilia Time GMT-3 - 08:30 am) - 16/12/2020
Session 2.1 - Chair - Fani Beron (GMT-3, Brasilia Time Zone)
08:30 am- 09:30 am - Heloísa Bordallo (University of Copenhagen/European Spallation Source),
"Does Superman really have X-ray Vision?"
09:30 am - 10:30 am - Túlio Rocha (LNLS, Brazil),
"Unraveling the structure of matter with synchrotron light"
10:30 am - 11:00 am - BREAK
Session 2.2 - Chair - João Elias Rodrigues (GMT-3, Brasilia Time Zone)
11:00 am - 12:00 pm - Roberto Dovesi (University of Torino, Italy),
"The simulation of the vibrational spectra of crystalline compounds, and the comparison with experiment"
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm - Márcio Soares (UFPB, Brazil) - Withdrawn,
"Probing magnetic materials with synchrotron light"
12:30 pm - 02:00 pm - LUNCH
Session 2.3 - Chair - Flávio Garcia (GMT-3, Brasilia Time Zone)
02:00 pm - 03:00 pm - Elin Winkler (Centro Atómico Bariloche, Argentina) ,
"Tailoring the physico-chemical properties of magnetic nanoparticles by core/shell architecture"
03:00 pm - 03:30 pm - Eduardo Granado (UNICAMP, Brazil) ,
"Quantum Criticality in a Layered Iridate"
03:30 pm - 04:00 pm - BREAK
Session 2.4 - Chair - Thiago Toledo (GMT-3, Brasilia Time Zone)
04:00 pm -05:00 pm - Alex Brown (University of Alberta, Canada),
"Computational explorations of excited electronic states"
05:00 pm -05:30 pm - Mauro Baesso (UEM, Brazil) ,
"Biophototherm: state of the art and challenges for use in clinical and imaging diagnostics"
05:30 pm - 06:00 pm - Alejandro Ayala (UFC, Brazil),
"Structural and spectroscopic investigations of low dimensional halide perovskites"
Session 3 - Upper atmosphere and ionosphere
Convener: Dr. Igo Paulino
Time (GMT - 11:30 am, Brasilia Time GMT-3 - 08:30 am) - 17/12/2020
Session 3.1 - Chair - Fábio do Egito Gomes (GMT-3:00 - Brasilia Standart Time)
08:30 am - 09:15 am - Yasunobu Miyoshi (Kyushu University, Japan)
"Variability of the thermosphere-ionosphere system"
09:15 am - 09:45 am - Amitava Guharay (PRL, India)
"Intraseasonal oscillations in the middle atmosphere at an equatorial station"
09:45 am - 10:00 am - Babatunde Rabiu (CARNASRDA. Nigeria)
"STATUS OF SPACE WEATHER SCIENCE IN AFRICA: NETWORK OF GROUND OBSERVATIONS, SOME SCIENTIFIC RESULTS, AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION"
10:00 am - 10:15 am - Mani Sivakandan (IAP, Germany)
"Comparison of seasonal and longitudinal variation of daytime MSTID activity using GPS observation and GAIA simulations"
10:15 am - 10:30 am - Manilo Marques (UFRN, Brazil)
"Open Source Development of TEC-MAP using Kriging interpolation technique to study Ionospheric perturbation over Brazilian sector"
10:30 am -11:00 am - BREAK
Session 3.2 - Chair - Fernando Bertoni (GMT-3:00 - Brasilia Standart Time)
11:00 am - 11:30 am - Yosuke Yamazaki (GFZ, Germany)
"Planetary wave effects on the ionosphere"
11:30 am - 11:45 pm - Fábio Egito (UFCG, Brazil)
"Nonlinear interaction between the diurnal tide and an ultrafast Kelvin and its effects on the equatorial mesosphere-thermosphere-ionosphere system."
11:45 pm- 12:30 pm - Hisao Takahashi (INPE, Brazil)
"Equatorial Plasma bubble Observations: Past and Present"
12:30 pm - 02:00 pm - LUNCH
Session 3.3 - Chair - Lourivaldo Mota Lima (GMT-3:00 - Brasilia Standart Time)
02:00 pm - 02:45 pm - Friederike Lilienthal (Leipzig university, Germany)
"Modeling the Middle Atmosphere: High-order (8h and 6h) Solar Tides and their Forcing Mechanisms"
02:45 pm - 03:00 pm - Emanuel B. Carvalho (UFCG, Brazil) - Confirmed
"Statistical occurrence of mesospheric front observed in the Brazilian equatorial region"
03:00 pm - 03:30 pm - Paulo Roberto Fagundes (UNIVAP, Brazil)
"Ionospheric disturbances in a large area of the terrestrial globe by two strong solar flares of September 6, 2017, the strongest space weather events in the last decade."
03:30 pm - 04:00 pm - BREAK
Session 3.4 - Chair - Ricardo Arlen Buriti (GMT-3:00 - Brasilia Standart Time)
04:00 pm - 04:45 pm - Sharon L. Vadas (NWRA, USA)
"Atmospheric Gravity Waves in the Earth's Atmosphere"
04:45 pm -05:00 pm - Fernando Bertoni (UEPB, Brazil)
"VARIABILITY OF IONOSPHERIC PARAMETERS OF THE E-REGION ASSOCIATED WITH PHENOMENA OF ATMOSPHERIC ORIGIN IN LOW MAGNETIC LATITUDE"
05:00 pm - 05:15 pm - Fabiano Rodrigues (UT Dallas, USA)
"Experimental ionospheric studies using low-cost sensors: Initial results and potential for new scientific collaborations and educational opportunities."
05:15 pm - 05:30 pm - Marco Milla (JRO, Peru)
"Status report on upgrading the Jicamarca incoherent scatter radar"
05:30 pm - 05:45 pm - Inez S. Batista (INPE, Brazil)
"Low latitude ionosphere response to severe space weather events"
Session 4 - Applied Physics, miscellaneous works, and Poster Session
Conveners: Dr. Igo Paulino, Dr. Rodrigo José da Silva Lima and Dr. João Rafael Lucio dos Santos
Time (GMT - 11:30 am, Brasilia Time GMT-3 - 08:30 am) - 18/12/2020
Session 4.1 - Chair - Rodrigo Lima (GMT-3, Brasilia Time Zone)
08:30 am - 09:00 am - Raoni Sávio - (UFPE, Brazil),
"Nonvolatile atomic memory in the spontaneous scattering of light from cold two-level atoms"
09:00 am - 09:30 am - Pablo Trajano (UFPE, Brazil),
"Studies of spintronic effects at low temperatures and under high magnetic fields"
09:30 am - 09:45 am - Osvaldo Trigueiro (NTNU, Norway) ,
"Delamination of clay nanolayers for wrapping of droplets and nanoparticles"
09:45 am - 10:00 am - Vitor Lima (UFCG, Brazil),
"Magnetic dead layers in La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 ultrathin films"
10:00 am - 10:15 am - Elijah Abbey (UFSCAR, Brazil) ,
"Microstructure and Magnetic Properties of Pb-Sn Superconducting Thin Film Prepared by Conventional Thermal Evaporation"
10:15 am - 10:30 am - Igor Oliveira (UFPB, Brazil) ,
"Size effects in graphene-BxNz hybrid monolayers: a combined Density Functional Theory-Molecular Dynamics study"
10:30 am -11:00 am - BREAK
Session 4.2 - Chair - Cosme Figueiredo (GMT-3, Brasilia Time Zone)
11:00 am - 11:30 am - Rafael Mesquita (Clemson University, USA)
"The role of advection on the winds in the E-region thermosphere"
11:30 am - 11:45 am - Rennan Gonçalves da Rocha (INPE, Brazil)
"Determination of the horizontal wind from atmospheric gravity parameters"
11:45 am - 12:00 pm - Luíz Fillip Rodrigues Vital (INPE, Brazil)
"DETERMINATION OF GRAVITY WAVES PARAMETERS USING THERMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE MEASURES"
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm - Wellington Benevenuto de Lima (UFCG, Brazil)
"Semidiurnal lunar tide in the meteor peak concentration over Brazil"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm - Émerson Barbosa (UFCG, Brazil) ,
"Quasi 10-day planetary waves in the mesospheric winds at 22.7°S, 7.4°S and 51°N"
12:30 pm - 02:00 pm - LUNCH
Session 4.3 - Chair - João Rafael Lucio dos Santos (GMT-3, Brasilia Time Zone)
02:00 pm - 02:30 pm - Simony Costa (Observatório Nacional, Brazil),
"Observational constraints on Brane inflation"
02:30 pm - 02:45 pm - Téssio Melo (UFPB & IIP, Brazil),
"A New Fundamental Force in a Dark Matter Experiment?"
02:45 pm - 03:00 pm - Klécio Lima (UFPB, Brazil) ,
"Quantum vacuum fluctuation effects in a quasi-periodically identified conical spacetime"
03:00 pm - 03:15 pm - Ozório Holanda (UFABC, Brazil),
"Renormalizability of N=1 super Yang-Mills theory in Landau gauge with a Stueckelberg-like field"
03:15 pm - 03:30 pm - Eugenio Maciel (UFCG, Brazil),
"Inflationary Dynamics in the Rainbow Universe."
03:30 pm - 04:00 pm - BREAK
Session 4.4 - Chair - João Rafael Lucio dos Santos (GMT-3, Brasilia Time Zone)
04:00 pm - 04:30 pm - Wagner Oliveira (UFPB, Brazil & Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy) ,
"Induced fermionic currents in AdS bulk with a cosmic string and a compact dimension"
04:30 pm - 05:00 pm - Clarissa Siqueira (USP São Carlos, Brazil),
"Particle Dark Matter: how can we detect it?"
Session 4.5 - Video Poster Session - Chair - João Rafael Lucio dos Santos (GMT-3, Brasilia Time Zone)
05:00 pm -06:00 pm - Posters