Venue
Auditorium Abrahão de Morais, Physics Institute
The SPSAS on Atmospheric Aerosols will be held at the Institute of Physics of the University of Sao Paulo (IFUSP), Brazil. We will use the Abrahão de Moraes Auditorium (see map below), which is at walking distance from nearby bus stations. The poster sections will be held near to the course site.
About the Physics Institute
The Institute of Physics of USP (www.if.usp.br) is the oldest and largest institution of research and teaching of Physics in Brazil. It has more than 225 researchers, including 159 professors, in addition to 400 graduate students and 1,200 undergraduates. It has 304 employees as administrative or technical staff, some with doctorate or master's degree.
The six departments that compose the institute carry out research activities in a variety of fields, with a high standard of academic excellence, covering the main topics of contemporary physics, from elementary particles to galaxies, from atoms and molecules to condensed matter, from biophysics to atmospheric physics, to name a few.
The Institute's professors are responsible for teaching theoretical or laboratory classes for about three thousand USP students in the areas of engineering, exact sciences, and biology. Each year about 120 physicists graduate, and about 35 masters and 33 doctors conclude their research.
Research at the Physics Institute: http://portal.if.usp.br/pesquisa/en/node/903
The graduate school: http://portal.if.usp.br/pg/en
About the University of Sao Paulo
Universidade de São Paulo (www.usp.br) is one of the largest and most important institutions of higher education and research in Brazil and Latin America. Founded in 1934, USP is a public state institution (it does not charge tuition fees) and has campi placed in eight cities spread throughout the state of São Paulo.
With education and research activities in all academic fields, USP offers 312 undergraduate programs, 222 graduate programs (both Master's and Doctoral (PhD) degrees) and 984 extracurricular programs. In total, there are about 94 thousand students enrolled in 48 Schools (faculties and institutes) which make up USP.
Furthermore, the university houses four important museums which receive over 1million visitors per year. In addition, USP runs health centers and two major hospitals. It also works in partnership with Hospital das Clínicas of Ribeirão Preto and Hospital das Clínicas of São Paulo, the later considered one of the leading hospitals in Latin America.
You can find more information about USP at the International Cooperation Office:
http://www.usp.br/internationaloffice/en/
There are special programs offered to graduate and undergraduate foreign students, and you find more about them at the International Student and Researcher’s Guide.
