ACTUAL

[Ph.D]

1. Lucas Soares de Oliveira Paixao :::

Project Title: "Efeito magnetocalorico de ligas intermetalicas"

Keywords: intermetalicos, Efeito magnetocalórico

Period: Aug.11

Grant: CNPq

2. Cleidson Castro :::

Project Title: "Magnetos moleculares para informacao quantica"

Keywords: quantum information, molecular magnetism

Period: Mar.11

Grant: CNPq

[M.Sc.]

3. Richard Caraballo :::

Project Title: "Efeito magnetocalorico de ligas intermetalicas"

Keywords: intermetalicos, Efeito magnetocalórico

Period: Mar.11

Grant: CAPES

4. Joao Paulo Eiras :::

Project Title: "Magnetos moleculares para informacao quantica"

Keywords: quantum information, molecular magnetism

Period: Dec.10

Grant: CNPq

[Under-graduation (research trainee)]

5. Claudio Souza Reis :::

Project Title: "Fundamentos do magnetismo molecular"

Keywords: molecular magnetism

Period: May.10

Grant: -

PAST

[Post-doc]

6. Soma Das :::

Project Title: "Investigation on strongly correlated magnetic system as efficient materials for room temperature magnetic refrigeration application"

Keywords: magnetocaloric effect, magnetostructural coupling, scientific instrumentation.

Period: Mar.08 until Mar.11

Grant: FCT

Remark: Vitor Amaral as supervisor and Mario Reis as co-supervisor

7. Daniel Leandro Rocco :::

Project Title: "Magnetocaloric effect of strong correlated systems"

Keywords: magnetocaloric effect, La-Fe-Si, Ni2MnGa, intermetallics, pressure cell, magnetostructural coupling.

Period: May.07 until May.08

Grant: CICECO-UA Remark: Mario Reis as supervisor and Vitor Amaral as co-supervisor

[Ph.D.]

8. Diogo de Oliveira Soares Pinto :::

Thesis Title: "Fundamentals of complexity in magnetic systems"

Keywords: Tsallis nonextensive statistics, complexity, inhomogeneity, long-range interactions, fractal features, magnetism, manganites, phase transitions, Griffiths phase, spin-waves.

Period: Ago.06 until Jul.09 (total).

Grant: CNPq and CAPES

Remark 1: Doctoral trainee in Portugal (CICECO-UA) from Feb.07 until Feb.08.

Remark 2: Mario Reis as supervisor in Portugal (CICECO-UA) and Ivan Oliveira as supervisor in Brazil (CBPF).

[M.Sc.]

9. Jose Carlos Vieira Leitao :::

Report title: "Magnetocaloric materials for magnetic refrigeration. "

Keywords: magnetocaloric effect, materials synthesis, x-ray, Rietveld method, memory shape alloys, SEM, fundamentals of the magnetism, martensitic and structural transitions.

Period: Sep.07 until Jul.08

Grant: ---

Remark: Vitor Amaral as supervisor and Mario Reis as co-supervisor

10. Nuno Dias Fernandes :::

Thesis title: "Applications of the magnetocaloric effect: automatization and design of devices. " ::: PDF

Keywords: Design of devices, hard magnets, magnetocaloric effect, automatization, LabView, magnetoresistence, dynamic magnetocaloric effect.

Period: Dec.06 until Dec. 07

Grant: FCT under the project POCI/CTM/61284/2004

Remark: Mario Reis as supervisor and Vitor Amaral as co-supervisor

11. Rodrigo Pacher Fernandes :::

Project work title: "Magnetocaloric effect of Pr(Ni,Co)5 hard magnets and Ni2MnGa shape memory alloys. " ::: PDF

Keywords: magnetocaloric effect, intermetallics, memory shape alloys, hard magnets, SEM, x-ray, Rietveld method, material synthesis.

Period: Oct.06 until Feb.07

Grant: EMMS - European Master in Materials Science

Remark 1: Trainee in Portugal (UA) with the Magnetocaloric Group.

Remark 2: Vitor Amaral as supervisor and Mario Reis as co-supervisor

[Final course report - undergraduation]

12. Jose Carlos Vieira Leitao :::

Report title: "Magnetocaloric effect of Ni2Mn(Ga,Bi) memory shape alloys. " ::: PDF

Keywords: magnetocaloric effect, materials synthesis, x-ray, Rietveld method, memory shape alloys, SEM, fundamentals of the magnetism, martensitic and structural transitions.

Period: Oct.06 until Jul.07

Grant: ---

Remark: Vitor Amaral as supervisor and Mario Reis as co-supervisor

13. Samuel Coutinho dos Santos :::

Report title: "Medida directa do efeito magnetocalorico com sensores de infra-vermelho. " :::

Period: 2008

Grant: ---

[Under-graduation (research trainee)]

14. Brenda Raquel Rodrigues :::

Project Title: "Dinâmica do Efeito Magnetocalórico"

Keywords: Efeito magnetocalórico, campo pulsado, instrumentação científica

Period: May.10 - Oct.10

Grant: -

15. Barbara Romano :::

Project Title: "Series temporais de mercado financeiro"

Keywords: moving average, financial market

Period: Sep.10

Grant: -

[Science outreach]

16. Ana Carolina Feliciano :::

Project Title: "Laboratorio Itinerante de Divulgacao Cientifica em Fisica"

Keywords: outreach, moving laboratory.

Period: May.10

Grant: -