Full name: Rodrigo Picanco Negreiros

Date and place of birth : January the 29th of 1982, Niteroi - RJ, Brasil.

Present Institution: San Diego State University

E-mail address: negreiro AT sciences.sdsu.edu







2005 – today : Ph.D. student at San Diego State University under the auspices of Dr. Fridolin Weber.

2004-2005 : Msc. obtained at Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi - RJ, Brasil. Under the auspices of Dr. Manuel Malheiro. Dissertation title: " Charged polytropic and anysotropic stars"

2000-2004 : Bsc. at Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi - RJ, Brasil.





  • Compact stars: Neutron Stars, Strange Stars, White dwarfs and black holes. Investigation of the structure, the cooling and composition of such objects.

  • Nuclear physics, mean field theory for neutron star and nuclear matter, neutron rich matter on the crust of neutron stars, crust of neutron star below neutron drip density, pycnonuclear reactions.

  • General Relativity: Tolman – Oppenheimer – Volkoff equation for relativistic stars, Gravitational Waves, theory of electromagnetism on the framework of general relativity.

  • Numerical Methods for computational physics, nonlinear system of PDE's, solution of large non-linear algebraic system, solution of nonlinear systems of ODE's.

  • Numerical languages experience: Fortran (significant experience), C, perl, LaTex, MPI, OpenMP, Matlab.





2008

  • Award of First Place at the 22nd California State University Student Research Competition, California State Univerity and Lockheed Martin.

  • President's Award in Research and Scholarship, San Diego State University - SRS (Student Research Symposium).

2006

  • Charles Kittel Award (second place), The American Physical Society - California Section.

2004

  • Vasconcelos Torres Award of first place at the Undegraduate Research Competition at Universidade Federal Fluminense.





  • Weber, Fridolin ; Ho, Alexander ; Negreiros, Rodrigo ; Rosenfield, P . Strangeness in Neutron Stars. International Journal of Modern Physics D, v. 16, p. 231-245, 2007.

  • Weber, Fridolin ; Negreiros, Rodrigo ; Rosenfield, P ; A. Torres i Cuadrat . The Equation of State of Ultra-dense Stellar Matter. AIP Conference Proceedings, v. 892, p. 515, 2007.

  • Weber, Fridolin ; Meixner, M. ; Negreiros, Rodrigo ; MALHEIRO, Manuel . Ultra-dense Neutron Star Matter, Strange Quark Matter, and the Nuclear Equation of State. International Journal of Modern Physics E, v. --, p. --, 2007.

  • Weber, Fridolin ; Negreiros, Rodrigo ; Rosenfield, P ; M Stejner . Pulsars as Astrophysical Laboratories for Nuclear and Particle Physics. Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, v. 59, p. 94-113, 2006.

  • MALHEIRO, Manuel ; Negreiros, Rodrigo ; RAY, Subharthi ; LEMOS, J P S ; ZANCHIN, V T . Of charged stars and charged black holes. International Journal Of Modern Physics D, v. 13, p. 1375-1379, 2004.

  • Negreiros, Rodrigo ; MALHEIRO, Manuel ; RAY, Subharthi . Charged polytropic stars and generalization of Lane-Emden equation. International Journal Of Modern Physics D, Estados Unidos, v. 13, p. 1441-1445, 2004.

  • Negreiros, Rodrigo ; MALHEIRO, Manuel ; RAY, Subharti . Charged Polytropic Stars . In: Hadron Physics and HANP, 2004, Angra dos Reis, 2004.

  • Negreiros, Rodrigo ; MALHEIRO, Manuel ; RAY, Subharthi . Charged polytropic stars and generalization of Lane-Emden equation. In: XXVI Encontro Nacional de Particulas e Campos, 2004, Caxambu, 2004.

  • Negreiros, Rodrigo ; MALHEIRO, Manuel ; RAY, Subharthi . Charged Polytropic Stars and Generalization of Lane-Emden equation. In: XXVII Reunião de trabalho sobre física nuclear no Brasil, 2004, Santos, 2004.







2008

  • Student Research Symposium - SDSU.Structure and Thermal Evolution of Neutron Stars. (Oral presentation), San Diego, CA.

  • California State University Student Research Competition.Structure and Thermal Evolution of Neutron Stars (Oral presentation), Union City, CA.

2007

  • 50 years of Nuclear Astrophysics - Charged Strange Stars (poster). Pasadena, CA

  • Nuclear Mass Model School – Participant, Argonel Natl. Lab, Chicago – IL.

2006

  • American Physical Society - Fall Meeting California Section - Charged Strange Stars (Oral Presentation).

2004

  • Hadron Physics and RANP.(Poster) 2004. Angra dos Reis, RJ – Brazil

  • XXV Encontro Nacional de Particulas e Campos - (Poster) – Caxambu, MG – Brazil.

  • XXVII Reunião de Trabalho sobre Física Nuclear no Brasil.XXVII Reunião de Trabalho sobre Física Nuclear no Brasil.- (Poster) – Santos, SP – Brazil.

  • First School of Cosmic Rays and Astrophysics – Participant. La Paz - Bolivy.

2003

  • International Workshop on Astronomy and Relativistic Astrophysics, (Poster) – Olinda, PE – Brazil.

  • Simposio Nacional de Ensino de Física – Participant. Curitiba, PR – Brazil.
























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