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Invited Talks Palestras Convidadas

• Self-folding kirigami at the microscale, August 22, 2023, SPIE Optics + Photonics, San Diego, CA, USA.
• Self-folding kirigami at the microscale, September 16, 2023, Non-equilibrium dynamics of complex systems symposium, Blacksburg, VA, USA.
• Dynamics of charged and polarized grains, January 20, 2022, 759. WE-Heraeus-Seminar on "Mesoscopic Triboelectricity - from Patches to Particles to Planets", online.
• Hierarchical structure of the energy landscape in the Voronoi model of dense tissue, December 6, 2022, Active Days EUTOPIA – Challenges in Active Matter, Paris, France.
• Impact of one-way streets on urban mobility, July 1, 2022, Workshop on Complex Systems in Honor of Professor Jose Soares Andrade, Fortaleza, Brazil.
• Kinetics of self-folding at the microscale, May 12, 2022, Statistical Physics and Low Dimensional Systems, Pont-à-Mousson, France.
• Optimal nets for self-folding kirigami, NetSci 2022 Satellite on Higher-Order Topology & Dynamics in Complex Networks, July 13th, 2022, online.
• Shape transition of confined deformable capsules at low Re, June 29, 2022, Workshop on Non-Newtonian Flow in Porous Media, Fortaleza, Brazil.
• Self-folding Kirigami at the microscale, September 3, 2020, Semi-plenary talk at CMD2020GEFES, the joint conference of the Condensed Matter Divisions of the European Physical Society and the Spanish Royal Physics Society, online.
• Designing colloidal structures with functionalized particles, July 18, 2019, 8th Iberian Meeting on Colloids and Interfaces, Aveiro, Portugal.
• Insights into the world connectivity from aviation and tourism data, March 4th, 2019, APS March Meeting 2019, Boston, MA, United States.
• Non-equilibrium collective dynamics of colloidal particles, May 9th, 2019, 2nd Condensed Matter Physics National Conference, Porto, Portugal.
• Robust aging dynamics of a network fluid, StatPhys-27 2019 Satellite on Yielding phenomena in disordered systems, July 4th, 2019, Bariloche, Argentina.
• Self-folding Kirigami at the microscale, September 10, 2019, Molecular and materials simulations at the turn of the decade: Celebrating 50 years of CECAM, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• Dynamics of charged and polarized grains, April 7th, 2018, 7th Workshop INCT-SC (Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia de Sistemas Complexos), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Nonequilibrium dynamics of colloidal particles at interfaces, March 1st 2017, Dynamics of Interfaces in Complex Fluids and Complex Flows, Erlangen, Germany.
• Field driven dynamics of binary colloidal mixtures, 27-28 June 2016, Workshop "MTG Fest: Celebrating Margarida Telo da Gama's Birthday", Lisbon, Portugal.
• Field-driven dynamics of binary colloidal mixtures, April 14th, 2016, COST Workshop: Experimental Flowing Matter, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Kinetic roughening: how directionality changes the game, March 17th, 2016, APS March Meeting 2016, Baltimore, MD, United States.
• Aggregation of patchy colloids on substrates - a stochastic approach, February 18th, 2015, COST workshop on Modelling of Flowing Matter, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• Nonequilibrium dynamics of functionalized colloids on substrates, September 30th, 2015, XIV Brazil MRS Meeting, Symposium: Statistical Mechanics of Materials Design, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Percolation theory in complex networks, October 1st, 2015, School on Complex Networks and Applications to Neuroscience (ICTP), S. Paulo, Brazil.
• Structure and robustness of network infrastructures, October 1st, 2015, School on Complex Networks and Applications to Neuroscience (ICTP), S. Paulo, Brazil.
• Synchronization transitions in the Kuramoto model, October 2nd, 2015, School on Complex Networks and Applications to Neuroscience (ICTP), S. Paulo, Brazil.
• Designing robust network infrastructures, July 18th, 2014, The 5th RMUTP International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development: the road towards a green future, Bangkok, Thailand.
• Irreversible adsorption of functionalized colloids on substrates, September 22nd-26th, 2014, 2nd Workshop on Statistical Physics, Bogotá, Colômbia.
• Percolation and Criticality (three lectures), September 22nd-26th, 2014, 2nd Workshop on Statistical Physics, Bogotá, Colômbia.
• Controlling synchronization in complex networks, September 11th, 2013, International Workshop on Phase Transitions, Critical Phenomena and Related Topics in Complex Networks, Sapporo, Japan.
• Explosive epidemics, July 21st, 2013, Computational Methods in Bio and Complex Systems, Satellite Meeting -- Statphys 25, Seoul, South Korea.
• The good, the bad, and the ugly of synchronization: heartbeats, epilepsy, and cacophony, July 8th, 2013, International Course on Biological Complex Networks, Natal, Brazil.
• Avalanches and self-organized criticality, December 5th, 2012. Winter School on Numerical and Experimental Assessment of Landslides and Debris Flow, MUMOLADE, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
• Explosive percolation, June 4th, 2012. Frontiers in statistical physics and complex systems - in honor of Antonio Coniglio 70th birthday, Catania, Italy.
• How dense can one pack spheres of arbitrary size distribution?, February 2nd, 2012. 2nd Workshop on Complex Physical Phenomena in Materials, Porto de Galinhas, Recife, Brazil.
• Percolation and criticality, February 6th-8th, 2012. Summer School, Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
• Preventing percolation: from fractured surfaces to discontinuous transitions, May 9th-12th, 2012. Advances in Percolation and Related Subjects, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.
• Theory of complex networks, September 21st, 2012. CAS ETH in Risk and Safety of Technical Systems (A part-time executive program), ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
• Percolation: Theory and applications, July 21st, 2011. Summer School: From Soft Matter to Stochastic Processes, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Tactical voting in plurality elections, March 16th, 2010, Modeling Complex Socio-Economic Systems and Crises, Competence Center Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems, Zurich, Switzerland.

Talks Palestras

• Hierarchical structure of the energy landscape in the Voronoi model of dense tissue, August 11th, Statphys 28, Tokyo, Japan.
• Kinetics of self-folding at the microscale, March 15th, APS - March Meeting 2022, Chicago, United States.
• Finding the optimal nets for self-folding Kirigami, July 10th, IUPAP: Statphys 27, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Self-charging of identical grains in the absence of an external field, March 8th, APS - March Meeting 2018, Los Angeles, United States.
• Aggregation dynamics of colloidal particles at interfaces, July 11th, 2017, Nanax 8, Braga, Portugal.
• Cell-mediated self-assembled 3D scaffolds, May 4th, 2017, CECAM Workshop: Cell and tissue motility, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• How does shape anisotropy affect the aggregation of colloidal particles at the edge of an evaporating drop, July 17th, Liquids 2017 -- 10th Liquid Matter Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• Field driven dynamics of a binary colloidal mixture, July 22nd, 2016, Statphys 26, Lyon, France.
• Field-driven self-organization of colloidal mixtures, September 8th, 2016, Física 2016, Braga, Portugal.
• The core-periphery structure of the world airline network, June 22nd, 2016, 2016 Summer Solstice: 8th International Conference on Discrete Models of Complex Systems, Aveiro, Portugal.
• Building structures with colloids, July 2nd, 2015, Soft.Matter@PT, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Collective dynamics in the presence of external fields, June 25th, 2015, Computational Approaches to Materials Design, Aveiro, Portugal.
• Interfacial properties of functionalized colloids on substrates, July 9th, 2015, 6th Iberian Meeting on Colloids and Interfaces, Guimarães, Portugal.
• Nonequilibrium self-organization of functionalized colloids, April 28th, 2015, Flowing Matter: Applications, dissemination and outreach, Sofia, Bulgaria.
• Irreversible adsorption of patchy colloids on substrates, June 2014, 88th ACS 2014 Colloid & Surface Science Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
• Kinetic roughening of aggregates of patchy particles, July 2014, Liquids 2014: 9th Liquid Matter Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Adsorption of functionalized colloids on substrates, June of 2013, Swiss Soft Days 11, Fribourg, Switzerland.
• Fracturing ranked surfaces, July of 2013, IUPAP: Statphys 25, Seoul, South Korea.
• Activating explosive percolation, January of 2010, Journees de Physique Statistique 2010, Paris, France.
• Explosive percolation via control of the largest cluster, July of 2010, CLXXVI International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi": Complex Materials in Physics and Biology, 2010, Varenna, Italy.
• Random sequential adsorption on patterned substrates: jammed state structure and kinetic properties, March of 2009, March Meeting of American Physical Society, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
• Kinetics of random sequential adsorption on patterned substrates, December of 2008, 100th Statistical Mechanics Conference, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA.
• Non-trivial Statistics Crossover in Random Sequential Adsorption Due to the Presence of a Pattern, March of 2008, March Meeting of American Physical Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
• Transition from Power-law to Exponential Induced by the Pattern in Random Sequential Adsorption, September of 2008, 10th Granada Seminar, Granada, Spain.
• Nucleation and Growth of Islands During Submonolayer Deposition on Ag/Ag(100), March of 2007, March Meeting of American Physical Society, Denver, Colorado, USA.
• Early Stage of Island Nucleation and Growth on Ag/Ag(100), September of 2006, European Materials Research Society Fall Meeting 2006, Warsaw, Poland.
• Kinetic Monte Carlo Study of Island Nucleation and Growth on Ag(100) and Ag(111) Substrates, October of 2005, Jornadas do Centro de Física da Universidade do Minho, Guimarães, Portugal.
• Monte Carlo Study of Deposition of Colloidal Particles in Pre-treated Surfaces, September of 2005, 5th Iberian Vacuum Meeting, Guimarães, Portugal.
• Deposição de partículas coloidais em Superfícies Pré-tratadas, December of 2004, 5as Jornadas do Grupo de Revestimentos Funcionais, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães, Portugal.
• Monte Carlo Study of Patterns Arising in Pre-treated Surfaces, September of 2004, 8th International Conference on Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics, Marrakech, Marocco.
• Monte Carlo Simulations of the Random Sequential Deposition Model of a Binary Mixture on a Line, March of 2003, March Meeting of American Physical Society, Austin, Texas, USA.
• Deposição Sequencial de Misturas Binárias Numa Linha, September of 2002, 13a Conferência Nacional de Física, Évora, Portugal.

Posters Cartazes

• Field driven dynamic demixing of binary mixtures, September 2016, International Soft Matter Conference 2016, Grenoble, France.
• Adsorption of patchy colloids on a substrate yielding two absorbing phase transitions and a tricritical point, July 2014, Liquids 2014: 9th Liquid Matter Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Irreversible adsorption of patchy colloids on substrates, July 2014, Liquids 2014: 9th Liquid Matter Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Aggregation of functionalized colloids at the edge of a drop, September of 2013, International Soft Matter Conference 2013, Rome, Italy.
• Irreversible adsorption of patchy colloids on substrates, September of 2013, International Soft Matter Conference 2013, Rome, Italy.
• Networks of patchy colloids on substrates, October of 2013, Swiss Soft Days 12, Bern, Switzerland.
• Non-equilibrium wetting by empty liquids, October of 2012, 2nd Workshop on Interfacial Phenomena in Complex Fluids at Structured Surfaces: Theory meets Experiment, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Explosive percolation in three dimensions, February of 2011, Swiss Soft Days 4, Nestlé Research Center, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• High Performance Algorithm for Colloids Adsorption on Clean and Pre-patterned Substrates, September of 2008, 22nd Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society, Krakow, Poland.
• Jammed State of Competitive Sequential Adsorption on a Line, September of 2008, 10th Granada Seminar, Granada, Spain.
• Thin-film Growth Dependence on Adatom-Substrate Interaction Energy, September of 2008, 10th Granada Seminar, Granada, Spain.
• Thin-film Morphology Dependency on Adatom-substrate Interaction Energy, March of 2008, March Meeting of American Physical Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, EUA.
• Adsorption of Colloids With Gaussian Size Distribution, July of 2007, IUPAP: Statphys 23, Genoa, Italy.
• Can a Patterned Substrate Influence the Irreversible Deposition of Colloidal Particles, July of 2007, IUPAP: Statphys 23, Genoa, Italy.
• Competitive Deposition of Two Size Segments on a Line, July of 2007, IUPAP: Statphys 23, Genoa, Italy.
• Irreversible Adsorption of Nanoparticles with Size Dispersion, March of 2007, March Meeting of American Physical Society, Denver, Colorado, EUA.
• Irreversible Adsorption of Nanoparticles with Size Dispersion, April of 2007, Fourth San Luis Symposium on Surfaces, Interfaces and Catalysis, Cuernavaca, Mexico.
• Adsorption of Nanoparticles on Pre-treated Surfaces, November of 2006, Jornadas do Centro de F´ısica da Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal.
• Deposição de Nanopartículas em Superfícies Pré-tratadas, October of 2006, XXIV Encontro de Físicos do Norte e Nordeste, Paraíba, Brazil.
• Colloid-colloid and Colloid-surface Mass Transport Relaxation Kinetics, June of 2005, 79th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, Potsdam, New York, EUA.
• Understanding Macroscopic Material Properties Through Simulation of Microscopic Models, December of 2005, Física 2005, Oporto, Portugal.
• Monte Carlo Simulations of Jamming Coverage of Pre-treated Patterned Surfaces, June of 2003, European Materials Research Society 2003, Strasbourg, France.

Seminars Seminários

• Self-folding Kirigami at the microscale, February 21, 2024, Biocomplexity Seminars, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Self-folding Kirigami at the microscale, April 11, 2024, CEFEMA, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
• Kinetics of self-folding at the microscale, February 16, 2022, Colóquio Interinstitucional: Modelos Estocásticos e Aplicações, Brazil, online.
• Kinetics of self-folding at the microscale, March 25, 2022, Seminário do Departamento de Física, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
• Kirigami à microescala, Seminário da Pós-graduação em Física da Universidade Federal do Ceará, September 2nd, 2022, online.
• Mechanical stability of soft materials: from colloidal gels to confluent tissues, July 7, 2022, Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University College London, London, UK.
• Kinetics of self-folding at the microscale, November 5th, 2021, Theorie-Kolloquiums, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
• Self-folding Kirigami at the microscale, November 11th, 2021, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• Dynamics of colloidal particles on surfaces and interfaces, February 26th, 2019, Center of Soft Matter and Biological Physics Seminar, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States.
• Finding the optimal nets for self-folding kirigami, February 6th, 2019, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
• Dinâmica de sistemas coloidais confinados, May 21st, 2018, Seminar at Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Dynamics of self-organization of colloidal particles under confinement, January 4, 2018, Groupe de Physique Statistique, Université Lorraine, Nancy, France.
• Dynamics of self-organization of colloidal particles under confinement, May 29, 2018, Group Theory of Polymers and Soft Matter, Technical University of Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
• Dynamics of self-organization of colloidal particles under confinement, September 12th, 2018, Seminar at Group of Giorgio Volpe, University College London, United Kingdom.
• Dynamics of self-organization of colloidal particles under confinement, October 2, 2018, Group of Computational Physics for Engineering Materials, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
• Structure and dynamics of infrastructural networks, April 6th, 2018, UNIFOR, Fortaleza, Brazil.
• Dynamics of self-organization of colloidal particles at interfaces, October 3rd, 2016, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Braga, Portugal.
• Self-organization of colloids under non-equilibrium conditions, March 21st, 2016, Center of Soft Matter and Biological Physics Seminar, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States.
• Aggregation and relaxation dynamics of patchy colloids on substrates, April 15th, 2015, Informal seminar, Group Meeting of Daan Frenkel's group, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK.
• Synchronization: the good, the bad, and the ugly, December 3rd, 2015, Seminar of the group of Complex Systems and Random Networks, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.
• Irreversible adsorption of patchy colloids on substrates, June 20th, 2014, Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology, Georgetown University, Georgetown, DC, United States.
• Planeamento de infrastruturas de redes robustas -- a perspectiva de um físico, October 13th, 2014, Seminar at Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Ranked surfaces and volumes, November 17, 2014, seminar of the group of Complex Systems & Random Networks, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.
• Fracturing ranked surfaces and volumes, February 4th, 2013, Seminar of the Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Ranked surfaces and volumes, June 27th, 2013, Seminário de Probabilidade e Combinatória, Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Simulations of soft matter: from sandstorms to novel materials, November 27th, 2013, Seminar of the Physics Department, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Simulations of soft matter: from sandstorms to novel materials, November 27th, 2013, Seminar of the Physics Department, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Adsorption and reactions on surfaces, May 14th, 2012. The Glotzer Group - Center for Assembly Science & Engineering, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.
• Explosive percolation, January 27th, 2011, Seminar of the Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Explosive percolation, May 3rd, 2011, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
• Percolação explosiva, February 4th, 2011, Seminário do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Física, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil.
• Percolação explosiva, February 17th, 2011, Departamento de Física Teórica e Experimental, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil.
• Explosive percolation, October 29th, 2010, Séminaire de Physique Théorique, Institut de Théorie des Phénomènes Physiques, Faculté des Sciences de Base, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• Influence of a pattern on the irreversible adsorption of colloidal particles, January 14th, 2009, Seminars of Computational Physics, Institute for Building Materials, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland.
• Polls impact in the electoral process, November 25th, 2009, Seminar of the "Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.