Name: MAP-Fis Research Conference
Start: 2026-10-02T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-10-02T18:50:00+01:00
Location: School of Sciences, University of Minho

MAP-Fis Research Conference

Friday, 2 October 2026 - 08:00

Monday, 28 September 2026
Tuesday, 29 September 2026
Wednesday, 30 September 2026
Thursday, 1 October 2026
Friday, 2 October 2026

09:00 Welcome: UMinho Anfiteatro de Física
UMinho Anfiteatro de Física
09:00 - 09:10
Room: Anfiteatro de Física, Ed. 6 - 1.02
09:10 High Energy Physics and Cosmology I (Chair: Ricardo Z. Ferreira, UM)
09:10 - 11:00
Room: Anfiteatro de Física, Ed. 6 - 1.02
Contributions

09:10 A Parameter Scan of Current-Carrying Cosmic Strings - Ricarda Heilemann (Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto)

09:30 Parameter estimation of rotational core-collapse supernovae gravitational waves with deep learning - Solange Nunes

09:50 Non-Minimally Coupled Chain Inflation at High Scales - Miguel Barroso Varela (Centro de Física do Porto - University of Porto)

10:10 Dark transitions with a weak coupling - Marco Finetti (Aveiro University)

10:30 Symmetry Aware Ansatz for Matrix Quantum Mechanics - Júlio Oliveira (University of Porto)
09:15 Condensed Matter Physics and Nanomaterials I (Chairs: Bernardo Almeida and Clarisse Ribeiro, UM)
09:15 - 11:00
Room: Anfiteatro de Química, Eq. 6 - 2.46
Contributions

09:20 COMPOSITE SCINTILLATING NANOFIBERS BY ELECTROSPINNING FOR RADIACTION DETECTION - Áureo Ucuanjongo (Center of Physics of the Universities of Minho and Porto (CF-UM-UP), Laboratory for Materials and Emergent Technologies (LAPMET), Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal)

09:40 Cyclodipeptides based composite electrospun nanofibers for Energy Harvesting Applications - Daniela Santos (University of Minho - CFUM and INL)

10:00 Local magnetic fields in NdFeO₃ from μSR and first-principles non-collinear calculations - Muhammad Aasim (PhD Physics Student at IFIMUP - Faculty of Science of the University of Porto)

10:20 Spatially and temporally modulated active patches for skin cancer treatment - Diana Bogas (Centro de Física das Universidades do Minho e do Porto)

10:40 Development of a Digital Fast-Timing $\gamma$ Spectrometer - Antonio Duarte Neves Cesario (Universidade do Porto (PT))
11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:25
Room: Anfiteatro de Física, Ed. 6 - 1.02
11:25 Climate and Environment (Chair: Alfredo Rocha, UA)
11:25 - 12:50
Contributions

11:45 Tropical Cyclones in the Mozambique Channel: Present Variability, Climate Drivers and Implications for Early Warning Systems - Isildo Gomes (Department of Physics & CESAM, University of Aveiro, Portugal)

12:05 Atmosphere-fire coupled wildfire modelling under climate change scenarios, using WRF-SFIRE. - Ricardo Vaz

12:25 Analysis of the aerosol atmospheric rivers affecting the Iberian Peninsula - Diogo Luís (University of Aveiro)
Optics & Photonics (Chair: Michael Belsley, UM)
11:25 - 12:50
Room: Anfiteatro de Física, Ed. 6 - 1.02
Contributions

11:30 III-V-on-Si Photosensitive NanoLED Arrays for an Insect Vision Inspired Neuromorphic On-Chip Platform - João Azevedo (INL - International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory)

11:50 Harnessing photons for quantum information processing - from Interaction-free Quantum Imaging to Photonic Quantum Computing - Sara Franco (Universidade do Minho/INL)

12:10 Post-processing micro/nanotechnologies of fiber tip sensors - João Santos (Universidade de Aveiro)

12:30 Mapping the Funnel of Life: Luminescent Nanoprobes as Reporters of Hydration-Water Structural Heterogeneity - Ramon Raposo Filho (University of Aveiro)
12:55 Lunch

12:55 - 14:15
14:15 Condensed Matter Physics and Nanomaterials II (Chairs: André Chaves, UM and João Viana Lopes, UP)
14:15 - 16:00
Room: Anfiteatro de Química, Ed. 6 - 2.46
Contributions

14:15 Linear-Scaling Estimation of Local Observable Maps - Henrique Veiga (Centro de Física das Universidades do Porto e Minho; University of York)

14:35 Optical Signature of Bulk Vacancies in Nodal Line Semimetals - João Santos Silva (CF-UM-UP, Centro de Física do Porto, FCUP)

14:55 Real-Space Theory of Nonequilibrium Orbital Magnetization in Non-crystalline Systems - João Pinho (Centro de Física do Porto)

15:15 Tensor network approach to real-space superconductivity in quasicrystals - Ricardo Oliveira (Centro de Física das Universidades do Minho e Porto, LaPMET)

15:35 Quantics Purification Mean-Field Approach to 2D Moiré Materials - Nicolau Sobrosa
High Energy Physics & Cosmology II (Chair: Eugen Radu, UA)
14:15 - 16:00
Room: Anfiteatro de Física, Ed. 6 - 1.02
Contributions

14:15 Electromagnetic Duality in Black Hole Mergers - José Ferreira (University of Aveiro)

14:35 EEEC from CFT correlation functions - Ricardo Almeida Rodrigues (University of Porto)

14:55 EMRI dynamics around rotating boson stars - Manuel Mariano (Universidade de Aveiro)

15:15 Effective Field Theory for Compact Objects in Holography - Filipe Miguel Martins Macedo Serrano Coelho

15:35 A Freeze-In Interpretation of the LZ 248 keV Nuclear Recoil Event - Vinícius Oliveira (Universidade de Aveiro)
16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:25
Room: Anfiteatro de Física, Ed. 6 - 1.02
16:25 Condensed Matter Physics and Nanomaterials III (Chairs: José Pedro Basto, UM and João Ventura, UP)
16:25 - 18:10
Room: Anfiteatro de Química, Ed. 6 - 2.46
Contributions

16:25 Charge transport and optical surface state signatures of disordered topological insulator systems - Mafalda Moreira (IFIMUP - Institute of Physics for Advanced Materials, Nanotechnology and Photonics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto)

16:45 Phase Transitions and Uniaxial Negative thermal Expansion in CsNdNb2O7: Combined Local Probe and Diffraction Study - Pedro Alexandre Silva De Sousa (Universidade do Porto (PT))

17:05 Electrospun Nanofibers for Advanced Solar Cells - sameh ifa

17:25 Signatures of Incommensurability in moiré Quasi- crystals - Raul Liquito (Faculdade de Ciências Universidade do Porto)

17:45 Lead-free multiferroic heterostructures for enhanced magnetic field sensing - Tiago Rodrigues (University of Minho)
16:30 High Energy Physics & Cosmology III (Chair: Raul Sarmento, UM)
16:30 - 17:40
Room: Anfiteatro de Física, Ed. 6 - 1.02
Contributions

16:30 VIGILant: an automatic classification pipeline for glitches in the Virgo detector - Tiago Fernandes

16:50 Machine Learning Anomaly Detection techniques for the search of new physics at LHC with ATLAS experiment - Annalisa Berti (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (PT))
18:10 Final Remarks (Mikhail Vasilevskiy, MAP-Fis Director)

18:10 - 18:35
Room: Anfiteatro de Física, Ed. 6 - 1.02