Bachelors in Physics from Harvard University (1983), masters in Physics from Harvard University (1983) and doctorate in Physics from University of California (1988). Currently is full professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the Sao Paulo State University, and is Director of the ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research. Has experience in the area of Physics, with emphasis in Superstring Theory, focusing on the following subjects: superstrings, supergravity, supersymmetry. Won the TWAS Physics Prize of 2009 and the APS John Wheatley Award of 2021. Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and full member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and the Sao Paulo State Academy of Sciences. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Living organisms are information processing machines. This processing occurs bothat the level of individual cells and of coordinated sets of them. It involves the"reading" and "interpretation" of external and internal signals and the subsequentgeneration of "responses". In non-excitable cells this processing is mediated bycomplicated interaction networks of proteins and nucleic acids. Sim…
Each year, ICTP-SAIFR organizes more than 40 hybrid activities at IFT for more than 1500 students and visiting researchers. In addition to these activities, the IFT staff includes graduate students, postdocs and professors who need high-performance computers for their research. For these reasons, the plan for applying these resources involves investments in IT and videoconferencing system…
Throughout the world, institutes for theoretical physics are an important tool for developing high-quality fundamental research. The International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), in collaboration with the State University of Sao Paulo (UNESP), created in 2011 the ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research located in the IFT-UNESP building in the city of Sao Paulo. The n…
We will investigate how ideas coming from the energy landscape for protein folding can now be used to understand genome folding and function.These applications of theoretical physics in biology will contribute to fortify this new interdisciplinary at ICTP-SAIFR. aplicações de física teórica na biologia vão contribuir para a ampliação desta área interedisciplinar no ICTP-SAIFR. (AU)
Recently, various ideas have resulted in enormous advances in the understanding of strongly coupled field theories and in particular of conformal field theories. From string theory, the AdS/CFT correspondence has allowed field theory computation previously impossible to perform including exact large-N results for 4 dimensional N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. From field theory, the conformal …
Throughout the world, institutes for theoretical physics are an important tool for developing high-quality fundamental research. The International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), in collaboration with the State University of São Paulo (UNESP), created in 2011 the ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research located in the IFT-UNESP building in the city of São Paulo. The n…
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Understanding how organism behavior drives population dynamics and originates ecological patterns at larger scales is a fundamental challenge in theoretical ecology and complex systems. In particular, existing approaches rarely incorporate realistic movement of organisms. Recent developments by Martinez-Garcia et al. (2020) show a promising avenue for bridging this gap by investigating en…
Influenced by a pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic approach based on physiology [1-3], this project will address a mathematical model whose structure starts from a micro electrodynamic system model and the laws of physics to model a mechanized hormonal secretion that can be used as a substitute in the regulation of a faulty hormonal system or in the administration of maintenance Anti-Retrovi…
This project aims to promote the scientific dissemination of research conducted by Institute of Theoretical Physics of São Paulo State University Júlio de Mesquita Filho (IFT-UNESP) and International Centre for Theoretical Physics - South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR), in order to contribute to enhance the public knowledge about Theoretical Physics and encourage…
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Quantum field theories in lower dimensions usually have more elegant structures and are highly related to other branches of physics, like statistic physics, condensed matter systems, and even AMO physics. This research project explores various interesting aspects of quantum field theories in two dimensions and mainly focuses on two examples: 2d Ising field theory (IFT) and 2d Chiral Potts…
Upcoming galaxy and CMB surveys, including LSST and CMB-S4, are an unprecedented opportunity to explore the dark sector of the Universe. By mapping the distribution and shape of billions of galaxies, and by reconstructing the CMB gravitational lensing induced by large scale structures, these experiments offer complementary observables that shed light on the matter distribution and the gro…
This project aims to promote the scientific dissemination of researches carried out by the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (IFT-UNESP) and the International Center for Theoretical Physics - South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR), in order to contribute to broaden the public's knowledge about Theoretical…
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Non-abelian Yang-Mills gauge theories describing the electroweak and strong interaction, cornerstones of the Standard Model, are far from completely understood. Perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics describes the high-energy region of the strong interaction successfully, but until today no coherent analytical description of the low-energy region exists. (Gauge-fixed) lattice results indicat…
Proposed by Maldacena in 1999, the AdS/CFT correspondence relates string theoryin (AdS)d+1 to a conformal field theory in d dimensions. The duality is of strong-weak type,making it hard to test since one needs to understand strong-coupling physics either in AdSor the Conformal Field Theory (CFT). In this context, one of the most interesting objectsto study are correlation functions of loc…
The recently proposed B-RNS-GSS formalism for the superstring combines features of the Pure Spinor (B), Ramond-Neveu-Schwarz (RNS) and Green-Schwarz-Siegel (GSS) formalisms. The goal of the research project is to develop the program of using this new formalism as a ``bridge'' between the more widely known formulations, hopefully providing a deeper understanding of the underlying principle…
The student will construct a complete classical action for the heterotic string field, using the hybrid formalism for the superstring. (AU)
One important step for understanding the dualities relating the superstring in d + 1-dimensional Anti-de Sitter spacetimes and d-dimensional conformal field theories is theconstruction of calculable worldsheet theories in backgrounds with the presence of RamondRamond fields. In the particular case of pure NS-NS flux, a detailed understanding of theduality relating the tensionless limit of…
Supersymmetric localization was used to perform an exact computation of the expectation value of circular supersymmetric Wilson loops in N = 4 d = 4 Super Yang Mills. This expectation value was conjectured to be related to the superstring partition function on AdS_5xSÆ5. The pure spinor formalism gives a quantizable action on AdS_5xSÆ5 and the project proposal is to use supersymmetric loc…
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