Instituto de Física
Universidade de São Paulo
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
Instituto de Física
Universidade de São Paulo
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
Instituto de Física
Universidade de São Paulo
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, …)
Instituto de Física
Universidade de São Paulo
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
Instituto de Física
Universidade de São Paulo
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)
Instituto de Física
Universidade de São Paulo
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
Instituto de Física
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)
Instituto de Física
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 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
Instituto de Física
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)
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…
Instituto de Física
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)
AFMMolecular Beam Epitaxy
Clean room for photolithography
Photodetectors
mounted on a chip
carrier
New Semiconductor Materials Lab
Instituto de Física
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)
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
Instituto de Física
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)
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
Instituto de Física
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)
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
Instituto de Física
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)
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
Instituto de Física
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)
Applied Physics: Acoustic levitation
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Instituto de Física
Universidade de São Paulo
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
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