In order to meet the criteria of item 5.1.2 of Notice 003/2025/PPGSFC, the candidate may attach a document to the work plan (model Annex I of the notice) containing additional information on items that do not have a field to be filled in on the work plan model.

Attention! Read the notice and any subsequent amendments carefully.
5.1.2 The Work Plan will be scored between zero (0) and ten (10), with seven (7) being the minimum score for approval, and will be assessed by the following criteria:

● Adherence to the thematic items in item 1.3;
Adherence to the line(s) of research developed at the PPGFSC/UFSC, in particular the correspondence with the activities of the supervising professor;
Clear definition of the research object and problem to be developed, the theoretical framework to be used and the problems to be addressed;
● The bibliographical references used are up-to-date;
● Justification of the relevance and potential scientific contribution of the project, including the expectation of bibliographic production;
Explanation of the correspondence between the Work Plan and the applicant’s previous research activities and academic activities.
Consistency of the work plan with the research project and the duration of the grant.

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The Graduate Program in Physics of the Federal University of Santa Catarina – UFSC – announces the list of the approved applications to the Admission Process entrance at the semester 2025/2.

Click here and have access to the registered candidates’ list and their respective situations in the admission process.

Appeals regarding registrations must be submitted from from June 05, 2025 to June 09, 2025 at 5 pm.

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Retificações no Edital de Chamada Pública FAPESC nº 25/2025

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Considering FAPESC Public Call No. 25/2025 for the selection of POST-DOCTORATE SCHOLARSHIPS, the Postgraduate Program in Physics of the Federal University of Santa Catarina – PPGFSC-UFSC hereby publishes Notice 03/2025/PPGFSC for the internal selection of application projects for Post-Doctorate/FAPESC scholarships, starting in 2025.

Applications will be accepted from 5pm on May 28, 2025 until 5pm on June 06, 2025.

Click here to access the PPGFSC/UFSC selection process website.

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Na terça-feira (13/05), a Dra. Carline Biesdorf , egressa do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Física (PPGFSC) da UFSC, recebeu o Prêmio SBF de Teses de Doutorado na área de Física Nuclear e Aplicações. O trabalho, intitulado “Quark matter models: consequences on astrophysical properties and the QCD phase diagram” foi orientado pelo Profª. Drª. Debora Peres Menezes e coorientado pelo Dr. Luiz Laércio Lopes.

Os “Prêmios SBF de Tese de Doutorado” foram criados com o objetivo de estimular e valorizar os trabalhos de excelência e padrão internacional nas diferentes áreas da Física, sendo que a tese da Carline Biesdorf, junto com as os demais trabalhos, também concorrerá ao Prêmio José Leite Lopes de Melhor Tese de Doutoramento de 2025.

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The Graduate Program in Physics at UFSC makes public the notices of the selection process for the master’s and doctoral courses for admission in the second semester of 2025.

Enrollment will take place from May 12 to June 02, 2025, until 5 pm BRT. The PPGFSC uses the score of the Unified Examination of Graduate Studies in Physics – EUF for admission to the master’s doctorate courses.

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O professor Alejandro Mendoza, docente permanente do programa de Pós-Graduação em Física da UFSC, participou de um estudo que estabeleceu métodos para analisar excitações em quasicristais. O artigo intitulado Low energy excitations in bosonic quantum quasicrystals (Excitações de baixa energia em quasicristais quânticos bosônicos, na tradução para o português), foi publicado na Physical Review Letters.

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Reportagem da Sociedade Brasileira de Física

Revista Physical Review Letters

For reference: slides from the seminar “Figurative and Literal Pipelines” by Dr. Ariel Werle on 21/03/2025.

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Uma pesquisa desenvolvida pelo Prof. Dr. Maurício Girardi Schappo, docente permanente do programa de Pós-Graduação em Física da UFSC, em colaboração com pesquisadores Leonard Maler, André Longtin e Jean-Claude Béïque, e com a aluna de doutorado Jiayun Xu, do Center for Neural Dynamics and Artificial Intelligence da Universidade de Ottawa, no Canadá,  revelou, por meio de testes experimentais, que  camundongos são capazes de criar mapas mentais, como humanos.

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Mice tested in the study were able to create mental maps without using visual references. Photo: Reproduction/Getty Images

Have you ever tried walking in the dark and, even without seeing, managed to find your way? This happens because the human brain is capable of calculating where we are based on our own movements, without relying on visual reference points like signs or buildings.

A study led by Professor Maurício Girardi-Schappo from the Neurophysics Lab, from the Department of Physics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), revealed through experimental tests that, like humans, mice are capable of creating mental maps without using visual references.

According to the international biology journal eLife, where the research was published in November 2024, the documentation of animals’ ability to build cognitive maps is “something rarely, if ever, reported outside the literature on human beings.” The journal also classified the work as “fundamental” for the advancement of fields such as biology, neuroscience, and cognitive psychology.

The study was developed in collaboration with researchers Leonard Maler, André Longtin, and Jean-Claude Béïque, and with doctoral student Jiayun Xu from the Center for Neural Dynamics and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Ottawa, in Canada.

According to Professor Schappo, the discovery contributes to breaking the premise that humans occupy a “privileged position” both within the universe and among different animal species. “For centuries, science has been deconstructing this idea, but in recent decades we’ve begun to have better tools to dismantle it,” he says.

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