MONDAY, APRIL 29
8:30 - 9:15Registration
9:15 - 9:30Opening Session
SESSION IChair: Marcelo Rebouças
9:30 - 10:40Jean-Philippe Uzan: Fundamental constants, Gravitation and cosmology
(Part I)
10:40 - 11:30Coffee-Break
11:30 - 11:55Armando Bernui: The mask effect in non-Gaussian analyses in CMB data
11:55 - 12:20José Ademir S. Lima: Expansion History with Decaying Vacuum: a Complete Cosmological Scenario
12:20 - 12:45Ioav Waga: Generalized Exponential f( R) Gravity: Steepness Control
12:45Lunch
SESSION IIChair: Jailson Alcaniz
15:00 - 16:10Giancarlo Ghirlanda: Gamma ray bursts: the observational pillars after two
decades of observations
16:10 - 16:35Renato Dupke: O Status Atual e Perspectivas do Javalambre Physics of the Accelerating Universe Astrophysical Survey (J-PAS)
16:35 - 17:05Coffe-Break
17:05 - 17:30Ribamar R. R. Reis: Challenges of low and intermediate redshift supernova
surveys
17:30 - 18:40Chris Clarkson: Establishing homogeneity of the universe
TUESDAY, APRIL 30
SESSION IIIChair: Sergio Jorás
9:30 - 10:40Thomas P. Sotiriou: An all-scale exploration of alternative theories of
gravity. Beyond GR: motivation and pitfalls (Part I)
10:40 - 11:30Coffee-Break, Discussions and Posters
11:30 - 11:55Marcos D. Maia: Bouncing FLRW universe
11:55 - 12:20Joel B. Fonseca Neto & Marcelo Rebouças: Godel-type universes and
chronology protection in Horava-Lifshitz gravity
12:20 - 12:45Alberto Saa: Gravitational recoil in nonsymmetric Robinson-Trautman
spacetimes
12:45Lunch
SESSION IVChair: Maurío Calvão
15:00 - 16:10Chris Clarkson: Relativistic corrections to the concordance model
16:10 - 16:35Miguel Quartin: Cosmological information from weak lensing of supernovae
16:35 - 17:05Coffee-Break, Discussions and Posters
17:05 - 17:30Raul Abramo: How and why multi-tracer galaxy surveys can beat
cosmic variance
17:30 - 18:40Jean-Philippe Uzan: Fundamental constants, Gravitation and cosmology
(Part II)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 01 - FREE
THURSDAY, MAY 02
SESSION VChair: Reuven Opher
9:30 - 10:40Giancarlo Ghirlanda: The theoretical picture: the standard model from its
foundation to the latest debates
10:40 - 11:30Coffee-Break, Discussions and Posters
11:30 - 11:55Bruno Mota & Marcelo Rebouças: The search for a cosmic topology: Where
to look for it, and how to interpret results
11:55 - 12:20Jailson Alcaniz: A test for cosmic distance duality
12:20 - 12:45Henrique P. Oliveira: A Kolmogorov-Zakharov Spectrum in AdS Gravitational Collapse
12:55Lunch
SESSION VIChair: Luís Carlos Bassalo Crispino
15:00 - 16:10Jean-Philippe Uzan: Test of the Copernican principle
16:10 - 16:35Thiago Pereira: Inflationary Super-Hubble Waves and the Size of the
Universe
16:35 - 17:05Coffee-Break, Discussions and Posters
17:05 - 17:30Maurício Calvão: Transformation laws of redshift, flux, and luminosity in
generic spacetimes
17:30 - 18:40Thomas Sotiriou: An all-scale exploration of alternative theories of gravity. Alternative theories of gravity: theory and phenomenology (Part II)
18:40 - 19:05Ilya Shapiro: Anomaly-induced effective action of gravity and stability of
classical solutions
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 03
SESSION VIIChair: Ioav Waga
9:30 - 10:40Chris Clarkson: Does the growth of structure affect dynamical models of the
Universe? The averaging, backreaction, and fitting problems in cosmology
10:40 - 11:30Coffee-Break
11:30 - 11:55Reuven Opher: Some Interesting Challenges of New Physics in Space
11:55 - 12:20Rogério Rosenfeld: Large-scale analysis of the SDSS-III DR8 photometric
luminous galaxies angular correlation function
12:20 - 12:45Marcelo B. Ribeiro: Cosmological Models and the Galactic Luminosity
Function
12:45Lunch
SESSION VIIIChair: Armando Bernui
15:00 - 16:10Thomas Sotiriou: An all-scale exploration of alternative theories of gravity.
Testing gravity theories with compact objects (Part III)
16:10 - 16:35William C.C. Lima: Awaking the vacuum in relativistic stars (and putting it to
spleep)
16:35 - 17:05Coffe-Break
17:05 - 17:30Luís C. B. Crispino: Absorption by black holes and acoustic holes
17:30 - 18:40Giancarlo Ghirlanda: Gamma ray bursts in the cosmological context: present
status, issues and perspectives
18:40 - 19:10Discussions about the Challenges Workshops and Closing