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Augusto Penedones Fernandes João Miguel
Travessa da Ponte 161 R/C
4435­403 Rio Tinto
Portugal
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Portuguese
2nd of August 1980
Education
1998 ­ 2002
Licenciatura (4 years degree) in Physics
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto
Classification: 19 (out of 20)
2002 ­ 2003
Certificate of Advanced Studies in Mathematics
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University
Classification: Distinction
2003 ­ 2007(expected)
PhD in String Theory
Departamento de Física da Faculade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto
Supervisor: Miguel Sousa Costa
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Co­advisor: Costas Bachas
Communications "From Fundamental Strings to Small Black Holes"
Seminar at Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark, 5th of October 2006
"String/Black Hole Transition" (to appear in proceedings)
Cow Bell Show of Cargèse Summer School, "Strings and Branes: The present paradigm for gauge
interactions and cosmology", Cargèse, France, 22nd of May to 3rd of June 2006
"Universality of the Absorption Cross Section of Stringy Black Holes"
CFP Journal Club Meeting, FCUP, Oporto, 9th of March 2006
"Hagedorn Transition and Chronology Protection in String Theory"
Seminar at XXXV Institut d\'Été, "Théories des Cordes et Théories de Jauge Supersymétriques",
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l\'École Normale Supérieure, Paris, 8th to 19th of August 2005
"Coleman meets Schwinger ­ brane nucleation as decay of the tachyon false vacuum"
Seminar at 3rd Iberic Northwest Strings Meeting, FCUP, Oporto, 3rd to 4th of February 2005
CFP Journal Club Meeting, FCUP, Oporto, 9th of December 2004
"Zero Temperature Phase Transition of the Ferro­Antiferromagnetic bilayer"
Seminar at FCUP, Oporto, 20th of December 2002
Prizes Prize Eng. António de Almeida, awarded by Fundação Eng. António de Almeida in 2003;
Prize Prof. Dr. Moreira de Araújo, awarded by Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto in
2003;
Schools and Conferences "XVth Oporto Meeting on Geometry, Topology and Physics", Universidade do Porto, Oporto, Portugal,
20th to 23th of July 2006;
"Strings and Branes: The present paradigm for gauge interactions and cosmology", Institut D'études
Scientifiques de Cargese, France, 22nd of May to 3rd of June 2006;
"Constituents, Fundamental Forces and Symmetries of the Universe", Corfu, Greece, 20th to 26th of
September 2005;
"XIVth Oporto Meeting on Geometry, Topology and Physics", Universidade do Porto, Oporto, Portugal,
21st to 24th of July 2005;
"The Tenth Claude Itzykson Meeting", CEA/SPhT, Saclay, Paris, France, 15th to 17th of June 2005; "Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics", International Centre for Theoretical
Physics, Trieste, Italy, 14th to 22nd of March 2005; "Summer School on Strings, Gravity & Cosmology", University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
Canada, 3rd to 13th of August 2004;
"Modern Trends in String Theory II", Oporto, Portugal, 21st to 26th of June 2004;
"33rd British Universities Summer School in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics", Queen Mary,
University of London, United Kingdom, 26th of August to 5th of September 2003.
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