Tiago Ribeiro de Souza
Contact
Information
Curso de Pos-Graduacao em Fisica
Centro de Ciencias Fisicas e Matematicas / CFM
Campus Universitario - Trindade - Cx. Postal 476
CEP 88040-900 - Florianopolis - SC - Brasil
Research
Interests
stellar magnetic fields, stellar activity, stellar structure and evolution, indirect imaging thechniques,
accretion disks, dwarf novae outbursts
Education
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Santa Catarina - Brasil
Voice: +55 48 3721 - 6399 (3258)
Fax: +55 48 3721 - 9068
E-mail: [email protected]
WWW: www.astro.ufsc.br/~tiago
Ph.D. Candidate, Astrophysics, March 2007 (expected graduation date: April 2011)
• Dissertation Topic: “Chromospheric activity in hight rotational low mass stars”
• Advisor: Dr. Raymundo Baptista
M.S., Astrophysics, February 2007
B.A., Physics, July 2005
Academic
Experience
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Santa Catarina - Brasil
Graduate Student
July, 2005 - present
Includes current Ph.D. research, Ph.D. and Masters level coursework and research/consulting projects.
Instructor
July - December, 2007
Internship teaching. Duties includes lectures preparation, exams, homeworks assistant, and grades.
• FSC 5804 - Astrophysics II.
Monitor
Duties include homeworks and exams assistant.
July - December, 2004
• FSC5193/FSC5194 - General Physics III/IV.
Scientific
Experience
Southern Observatory for Astrophysical Research, La Serena - Chile
Visiting Student
August - December, 2006
Includes observations assistant, engineering data reduction and analysis, and astronomer support.
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Sao Jose dos Campos - Brasil Short course 2007
II INPE Advanced Course on Astrophysics. Advanced lectures on the physics of compact objects.
Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo - Brasil Short course
2008
XIV Advanced School on Astrophysics. Advanced lectures on the physics of the various types of
accretion disks.
Publications
Ribeiro, T., Baptista, R., Harlaftis, E. T., Dhillon, V. S. and Rutten, R.; A multicolor near-infrared
study of the dwarf nova IP Peg. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 474, p.213 - 220, 2007
Kafka, S., Ribeiro, T., Baptista, R., Honeycutt, R. K. and Robertson, J. W.; New Complexities
in the Low-State Line Profiles of AM Herculis. Astrophysical Journal, Accepted
Papers in
preparation
Ribeiro, T. and Baptista, R.; SOAR near-infrared photometry of pre-Cataclysmic Binaries.
Conference
Presentations
XXXIII Anual meeting of the brazilian astronomical society.Infrared SOAR Observation of PreCataclismic Binaries. 2007.
XXXII Anual meeting of the brazilian astronomical society. FOTOMETRIA INFRA-VERMELHA
DA NOVOIDE UU AQUARII. 2006.
XXXI Anual meeting of the brazilian astronomical society.JHK study of the eclipsing dwarf novae
IP Peg. 2005.
The Astrophysics of Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects.JHK study of the eclipsing dwarf
novae IP Peg. 2004.
XXIX Anual meeting of the brazilian astronomical society.Codigo Para Imageamento Indireto de
estrelas em sistemas binarios: simulação das variacoes elipsoidais e do perfil das linhas. 2003.
Astronomical Instrumentation for Modern Telescopes - Brazilian Workshop.IR studies of masstransfer compact binaries with SOAR Optical and Infrared. 2003.
Computer Skills
• Languages: Extensive use of C, C++, Python and IRAF-CL scripts. Some use of IDL (mainly
translation to Python and some basic script writing). MP shared memory parallel processing
library, for multicore processing. Basic use of Unix shell/bash scripts. Basic use of html and php
scripts for web based GUI interfaces.
• Algorithms: Experience implementing GNU Scientific Library and Python/Numpy for N-dimensional
minimization, numerical integration and differentiation, and non-linear programming algorithms.
Experience programming Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations and filtered back projection tomographic code.
• Operating Systems: Unix/Linux (preferred distribution: Ubuntu), MacOSX, Windows.