Uesc - Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz

Physics graduate program at UESC

Researches

Astrophysics
Theoretical and Applied Nuclear Physics
FTQO
Graduate Committee
Post-docs

Young stellar objects, stellar clusters, galaxy structure and evolution, compact group of galaxies, the cosmic microwave background, cosmology and theoretical astrophysics are among the fields that are investigated by our researchers. We use both the available observational facilities, like the Brazilian Observatório do Pico dos Dias and the telescopes abroad (mainly, SOAR and Gemini), as well as the computational approach in order to carry out these studies. Our staff is composed by these members:

Adriano Hoth Cerqueira - Interestellar medium - Stellar formation

My research is mainly focused on Herbig-Haro jets and associated phenomena (shocks and instabilities), using both observational and numerical approaches. I am a full professor here at UESC, where we have two dedicated groups.

e-mail: hoth@uesc.br
CV: Lattes
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3708-1564
Scopus Author: 7003851918
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André Luis Batista Ribeiro - Extragalactic Astronomy

e-mail: albr@uesc.br
CV: Lattes
Professor at Exact and Technological Sciences Department (UESC)
Member of Astrophysical Group at UESC

Eduadro Brescansin de Amôres - Stellar Astrophysics

e-mail: ebamores@uefs.br

Henri Michel Pierre Plana - Extragalactic Astronomy

e-mail:plana@uesc.br
CV: Lattes
Professor at Exact and Technological Sciences Department (UESC)
Member of Astrophysical Group at UESC

Leandro de Oliveira Kerber - Stellar Astrophysics

He is interested in stellar clusters and stellar population in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies, like the Small (SMC) and Large Magellanic (LMC) Clouds. In order to determine some physical properties of these systems he use estatistical thecniques to analyse color-magnitude diagrams (observational HR diagrams). He has experience with optical and near-infrared photometry, using the Hubble Space Telescope, VISTA and SOAR. He is a professor at Exact and Technological Sciences Department (UESC) and a member of the UESC Astrophysical group. Elmer Fidel Luque Canaza and Cleiton Carillo de Souza have been his MSc students at UESC. Nowadays he is at IAG/USP for a post-doctoral stage (with a CNPq fellowship).

Maria Jaqueline Vasconcelos - Interestellar medium - Stellar formation

She works with stellar formation and has interests in stellar rotation and young stellar objects in HII regions, as well as accretion disks and astrophysical jets. She uses Monte Carlo and hydrodynamical simulations in order to address such problems. She is also interested in integral field unit spectroscopy. She is a professor at Exact and Technological Sciences Department (UESC) and a member of the Astrophysical group.

e-mail: mjvasc@uesc.br
CV: Lattes
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1672-4866
Research ID: D-2802-2011
Scopus Authour: 7006465072

Orlando J. K. Santrich - Stellar Astrophysics

CV: Lattes

Rogério Monteiro de Oliveira - Extragalactic Astrophysics

e-mail: rogerionline@gmail.com
CV: Lattes

The main focus of the Nuclear Physics group is the study of high to intermediary energy nuclear reactions, notably the spallation process. We use Monte Carlo simulations to investigate the nuclear reaction, the fast stage of the intranuclear cascade, and in the second stage of the fission-evaporation process. In the Applied context of the Nuclear Physics, we are interested in: Monte Carlo modeling of the radiation transport applied to medical (numerical) dosimetry, deterministic methods in neutron transport and analytic nuclear methods to study problems like environmental contamination or problems of health interest. This part of our research aims to develop applied methods and technological products that can perhaps have some industrial application. Our team are composed by the following researches:

Airton Deppman (Invited Research) - Nuclear Physics

Work with nuclear reactions in high and intermediate energy ranges. Develops the CRISP model (acronym for Collaboration Ilhéus-Rio-São Paulo) for nuclear reactions induced by photons, electrons, protons or neutrons. He is a team member in the ALICE experiment, at Large Hadron Collider (LHC-CERN). He is involved in the development of the Non-extensive Self-consistent thermodynamic theory. He coordinates the GRENAC group at Physics Institute at University of São Paulo (USP), and also a CPNq (1D) researcher.

e-mail: adeppman@gmail.com
CV: Lattes
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9179-6363
External link: http://axpfep1.if.usp.br/~deppman

Arturo Rodolfo Samana - Nuclear Physics

e-mail: arturosamana@gmail.com
CV: Lattes

Claudio de Conti - Nuclear Physics

Felix Mas Milian - Área de Titulação: Física Nuclear

e-mail: felix_mas_milian@yahoo.com
CV: Lattes
Professor at Exact and Technological Sciences Department (UESC)

Fermin de La Caridad Garcia Velasco - Nuclear Physics

e-mail: fermingv@gmail.com
CV: Lattes
Professor at Exact and Technological Sciences Department (UESC)

Field Theory and Quantum Optics

We are interested in several aspects of theoretical physics, like quantum theory of curved spaces, hadron physics in the light-front, cosmological magnetic fields, turbulent dynamos, quantum and classical aspects of black holes, gauge theory and gravitation, entanglement dynamics in multipartite quantum systems and the field-atom interaction in superconducting microwave cavities. The researches involved in these lines are:

Alejandra Kandus - Cosmology

e-mail: kandus@uesc.br
CV: Lattes
Professor at Exact and Technological Sciences Department (UESC)

Alex dos Santos Miranda - Fields and Gravitation

e-mail: astmiranda@gmail.com
CV: Lattes
Professor at Exact and Technological Sciences Department (UESC)

Ana Cristina Sprotte Costa - Quantum Information

e-mail: ana.sprotte@gmail.com

José Geraldo Gonçalves de Oliveira Júnior - Quantum optics and quantum information

I am interested in the foundations of Quantum Mechanics. For this reason I study some quantum optics and quantum information systems. We theoretically model in quantum optics experimental setups in superconductive cavities (CQED - Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics), where some experiments that tries to test the foundations of quantum mechanics (as for instance the wave-particle duality, non-locality, entanglement and quantum discord) are done. In the quantum information branch, we study many bodies coupled physical systems in order to describe the dynamic and the quantum correlation properties for one and several particles. Presently we are interested in the relativistic entanglement and the non-inertial effects - through the Unruh radiation - in entangled quantum systems.

Luis Alex Huahuachampi - Fields and Gravitation

Ronaldo Thibes - Field Theories

Academic and scientific interests:
quantization of gauge invariant theories, string theory, massive gravity, symmetries and dualities in field theories, BRST symmetry, quantization methods and formalisms (such as BFFT, BFV, BV, FJBW and others), algebras and groups representation theory in physics, algebraic structures in mathematical physics, constrained hamiltonian systems, Lie algebras and superalgebras in physics, supersymmetry, higher-derivative models, Gribov ambiguities.

e-mail: thibes@uesb.edu.br
CV: Lattes

Graduate Committee - since August 17, 2015 (see the University's President official assignement, in portuguese only, here: Portaria UESC nº 863).

Adriano Hoth Cerqueira - Head
Alex dos Santos Miranda - Vice-Head
André Luis Batista Ribeiro
José Geraldo Gonçalves de Oliveira Júnior
Arturo Rodolfo Samana
Fermim de la Caridad Garcia Velasco
Scheldom Cardoso da Rocha - Student member

The Physics Graduate program at UESC has one post-doctoral fellowship sponsored by the CAPES' National Post-doctoral Program (PNPD). We were pleased to receive (by now) the visit of the following researches:

Eduardo Lopez Sandoval (03/2014 - 02/2017)
Saulo de Mesquida Diles (03/2017 - )