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Instituto de Física

Universidade de São Paulo



Created in 1969 with members from:

• Department of Physics, Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences, and Languages;

• Department of Physics, Polytechnic School (engineering);

both of which were extinguished by the same decree.

Mission

Education Research Outreach



IFUSP Data131 Faculty members

279 non-faculty staff (administrative and technical)

38 senior faculty

78 post-docs

~ 1000 undergraduate and 500 graduate students

Department Faculty

Applied Physics (FAP) 20

Experimental Physics (FEP) 26

General Physics (FGE) 19

Materials Physics (FMT) 22

Mathematical Physics (FMA) 17

Nuclear Physics (FNC) 27



Education

Undergraduate Studies

per year, ⟨2014-16⟩ Physics (D, N) Physics Education (D, N)

Enrollment / year 60; 100 50; 60

Acceptance (%) 4.2; 7.8 6.4; 7.5

Degrees 34; 31 14; 38

We also teach basic physics to ~ 3700 students of other

institutes: (engineering, geosciences, pharmacy, chemistry,

biology, astronomy, mathematics, …)



Education

Graduate Studies – Physics

MSc PhD

2014 2015 2016 2014 2015 2016

Enrollment 169 143 134 211 210 201

Degrees 41 46 35 30 32 27

% from abroad 16 20 20 20 25 26



Education

Graduate Studies – Science Education

Physics (Total = Phys. + Chem. + Biology + Education)

MSc PhD

2014 2015 2016 2014 2015 2016

Enrollment 43(105) 35(91) 36(84) 37(70) 32(64) 25(51)

Degrees 11(26) 18(35) 6(23) 11(13) 12(21) 10(19)



Outreach

• Summer School (1 week in february);

• Colloquia and Invitation to Physics weekly lectures

series;

• Physics Show (physics and fun for school children;

~25.000/year)

• USP-School Meetings (january and july): lectures and

workshops for high-school teachers (~300/season)

• Physicantus – IFUSP community choir


Universidade de São PauloResearch

Atmospheric physics

Atomic and molecular physics (T, E & A)

Biophysics, complex fluids (T, E & A)

Complex systems

Condensed matter (T, E & A)

Cosmology (T & O)

Mathematical physics

Nuclear physics, low and high energy (T, E & A)

Particle physics (T & E)

Plasma physics (T & E)

Physics education

Quantum optics and information (T & E)



Atmospheric physics



Complex systems


Cosmology (T & O)





Physics education


Atmospheric Physics Lab - LFAStudies about how aerosol particulate influence on:

• climate properties;

• atmospheric radiative balance; and

• microphysical properties of clouds.

Studies of the Amazon Basin ecosystem

Atmospheric Physics Lab - LFA

Integrated experimental approach

Atto Tower: 325 m high

Local measurements

Remote sensing



Atmospheric physics



Complex systems


Cosmology (T & O)





Physics education


Crystallography Lab LCr -

Molecular Biophysics Research

Small Angle X-Ray Scattering (SAXS)

at LCrat LNLS

Peptide Nanotube Formation

o Protein Aggregation and Configuration

o Protein – Protein Interaction

o Neurodegenerative diseases

o Protein – Membrane Interaction

Complex FluidsStructure, local ordering, linear and nonlinear optical properties

of complex fluids

Liquid crystals

Magnetic colloids (ferrofluids)

Fluids of biological interest (LDL-cholesterol)

SAXS, WAXS, XRD

Z-Scan in time scales 10-15 s to 1 s

ITC, DSC, Birefringence, POM…



Atmospheric physics



Complex systems


Cosmology (T & O)





Physics education


AFMMolecular Beam Epitaxy

Clean room for photolithography

Photodetectors

mounted on a chip

carrier

New Semiconductor Materials Lab



Atmospheric physics



Complex systems


Cosmology (T & O)





Physics education


BINGO projectBaryon Acoustic Oscillations from Integrated Neutral Gas Observations (21-cm Hidrogen line)

Brazil, UK, Switzerland, Uruguay

Ultra-deep large-area spectral survey in the 960-to 1260-MHz range, by means of a static

telescope with two ~40-m diameter dishes and no moving parts

Castillon Quarry

Uruguay



Atmospheric physics



Complex systems


Cosmology (T & O)





Physics education


High Energy Physics and

Instrumentation Center @ USP

• 3 Faculty; 3 Postdocs; and 7 PhD students

• Participation in STAR (RHIC/BNL), and ALICE

(LHC/CERN) Collaborations

• Major participation in LHC data processing in LA,

for ALICE; LHCb; and ATLAS.

Nov/2014-Oct/2015

SAMPA Chip• The group is

responsible for the development, test and production of the new front-end ASIC that will instrument the ALICE TPC and MuonChamber detectors for the Run 3 LHC upgrade

• The second prototype was produced and tested during 2016



Atmospheric physics



Complex systems


Cosmology (T & O)





Physics education


3000 km2 surface array (1660 detectors)

27 fluorescence telescopes

1.5 km triangular grid

Malargüe

The Pierre Auger Observatory

2

3

Study of the

properties of

subatomic particles

with energies from

1017 eV to ~1020 eV.

Combination of a

surface array of

water Cherenkov

detectors and

fluorescence

telescopes to detect

and characterize

extensive air

showers



Atmospheric physics



Complex systems


Cosmology (T & O)





Physics education


Optical parametric

oscillators (OPO)

Cold atoms in a

magneto optical trap

Use of theory and

experiments

in the same group!

Entanglement

sudden death

Multicolor

entanglement of

intense light fields

10 µm

Quantum optics

on chip

Quantum optics and

quantum information

Coherent Manipulation of Atoms and Light Lab

LMCAL



Atmospheric physics



Complex systems


Cosmology (T & O)





Physics education


Applied Physics: Acoustic levitation

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IFUSP Contacts

Dean Office: [email protected]

+55(11)30916900

International Office: [email protected]

+55(11)30916743

Graduate Program: [email protected]

(Physics) +55(11)30916901

Graduate Program: [email protected]

(Science Education) +55(11)30916679

Thank you

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