Research Groups in 2012-2013
Highlights of publications, events, and other activities of the Research Groups.
Unconventional Nuclear Astrophysics
The Unconventional Nuclear Astrophysics Research Group, led by astrophysicist Mahir Saleh Hussein, have resumed the project "Dynamics of Multibody Systems" (Fapesp). The third phase of the project will continue until January 31, 2016. Hussein explains that, among other purposes, the project aims to study nuclear astrophysics with exotic nuclei, quantum chaos, and both hybrid and single species of Bose-Einstein condensates in multiple traps, in particular the inter-relationship between mean-field effect and correlations of multiple bodies.
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Reflections on the Discovery of the Higgs Particle (Boson). Lecturers: Gustavo Burdman (IF/Physics Institute) and Sérgio Ferraz Novaes (São Paulo State University/UNESP); debaters: Laerte Sodré Jr. (Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences/IAG) and Dionísio Baseia (IF). August 15, at the IEA.
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Environmental Sciences
The United Nations Conference on Sustainability (Rio+20) held in June inspired several studies by the Environmental Sciences Research Group. The Group also helped to organize several of the conference’s parallel activities.
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Governance and Social Inclusion: Key Challenges of Rio +20. Lecturers: Celio Bermann (IEA, Institute of Electrotechnology and Energy/IEE, Graduate Program in Environmental Science/PROCAM), Silvia Zanirato (IEA, Scholl of Arts, Sciences and Humanities/EACH, PROCAM), Pedro Jacobi (IEA, School of Education/FE, PROCAM) and Helena Ribeiro (IEA, School of Public Health/FSP, PROCAM); Coordinator: Herton Escobar (O Estado de São Paulo newspaper). April 25, at the IAG.
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Sustainability of the Brazilian Amazonia. Lecturer: Toby Gardner (University of Cambridge and University of Lancaster, UK); debater: Roberto Araújo de Oliveira Santos Jr. (National Space Research Institute/INPE); coordinator: Ricardo Abramovay (School of Economics and Management/FEA). November 21, at the IEA.
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Culture and Literature
The group held internal meetings from August to November on issues related to aesthetics and literary criticism. Two professors from the Philosophy Department of USP's School of Philosophy, Literature and Human Sciences/FFLCH were invited to give lectures: Franklin Leopoldo e Silva, who spoke about Rousseau's confessional work, and Márcio Suzuki, who addressed Schiller's On Naive and Sentimental Poetry. Members of the group also gave lectures: professor Marta Kawano discussed the poetry of Gerard de Nerval, and professor Alípio Correia de Franca Neto talked about his translation of poems by Coleridge.
Intercultural Dialogues
In October, the Intercultural Dialogues Research Group released the e-book Diálogos Interculturais: Reflexões Interdisciplinares e Intervenções Psicossociais. Organized by Sylvia Duarte Dantas, the group's leader, this work is a collection of 17 texts, 15 of which resulted from the seminars Intercultural Dialogues: What Are We and What We Reveal, held in November 2010, and Intercultural Orientation: New Reflections and Fields of Intervention. The two other essays depict interculturality through the reports of immigrants in Brazil.
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Philosophy, History and Sociology of Science and Technology
Created in 2009, the Research Group on Philosophy, History and Sociology of Science and Culture revised its project in 2012, when it also organized the FAPESP theme project "Genesis and Meaning of Technoscience: On the Relationship between Science, Technology and Society." Visiting fellow Nicolas Lechopier, from Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France, worked with the group from October to December, holding two seminars and a roundtable.
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Four Tensions in Public Health. Lecturer: Nicolas Lechopier. October 31.
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Participation and Public Health. Lecturer: Nicolas Lechopier. November 21.
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Public Health Guidelines: What are the Critical Approaches?. Debaters: Maria da Penha Costa Vasconcellos (FSP), Denise Gastaldo (University of Toronto, Canada), Emília Sanabria (École Normale Superieure de Lyon, France), and Helena Leal David (Rio de Janeiro State University/UERJ); coordinator: Nicolas Lechopier.
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Nutrition and Poverty
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Education: Confronting Poverty and Social Inequality – France, Brazil and England. Debaters: Camila Giorgetti (Centre Maurice Halbwachs, France), Lisete Arelaro (FE dean), Ana Lydia Sawaya (São Paulo Federal University/UNIFESP, IEA); coordinator: Sandra Maria Sawaya (FE). September 27, at the School of Education, University of São Paulo, the group's partner in this initiative. The first part of the meeting included a mini-course on Food and Nutrition as Side Issues in the School Curriculum.
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Observatory of Innovation and Competitiveness
The Observatory of Innovation and Competitiveness, which became USP’s Research Support Hub (NAP) in mid-2011, continued to develop EngenhariaData, a system of indicators that provides, in a single Web site, important historical information on engineering, including data on education, labor market and scientific production. Housed at the IEA, the Hub is connected to the Dean's Office for Research of the University of São Paulo.
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From March to October, the Hub organized 24 seminars with researchers from USP and other institutions, and representatives from government agencies, and public and private companies.
Public Policies, Territoriality and Society
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2nd International Seminar on Public Policies, Climate Change and Impacts on Fragile Areas. Lecturers: Wagner Ribeiro (IEA, FFLCH, PROCAM), Luiz Gylvan Meira Filho (IEA), Paulo Antonio de Almeida Sinisgalli (EACH), Jane Zilda Ramires (Department of Green and Environment of São Paulo), Carolina Gamba (FFLCH’s Graduate Program in Human Geography), Cleide Rodrigues (FFLCH), Vincent Dubreuil, Johan Oswald, Vincent Nédélec (the latter three from Université de Rennes 2, France); coordinators: Neli Aparecida de Mello-Théry (IEA, EACH) and Alfredo Pereira de Queiroz Filho (FFLCH). May 31, at the IEA.
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Environmental Policy
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Challenges for an Environmental Policy in Brazil in the 21st Century. Lecturers: Eda Tassara (Institute of Psychology/IP), José Oswaldo Soares de Oliveira (UNITAU, UNIVAP), and Rosana Ravanelli (UNIVAP). December 13, at the IEA.
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Ecosystem Services
The book Polinizadores do Brasil: contribuições e perspectivas para a biodiversidade, uso sustentável, conservação e serviços ambientais(Edusp, 488 p.) was published in July by the Ecosystem Services Research Group. Organized by Vera Lucia Imperatriz-Fonseca (group coordinator), Dora Ann Lange Canhos, Denise de Araújo Alves, and Antonio Mauro Saraiva, the work contains 23 articles written by 85 researchers from 36 Brazilian scientific institutions. The volume discusses conservation of biomes, pollination syndromes, vertebrate pollinators, and bees, the most commonly used pollinators in agriculture.
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