PPGCosmo

It is a new and special PhD program based at the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Brazil, and it is associated to other nine institutions worldwide. The Program started on 2016.

The research topics range from theoretical to observational aspects of Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravitation, including participation in large collaborations such as Euclid, J-PAS, DES and LIGO-Virgo.

The students are from the beginning of their courses  associated to an advisor at Brazil and a co-advisor outside Brazil.

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Associate institutions: Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (CBPF, Brazil), Federal University of Bahia (UFBA, Brazil), Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF, Brazil), Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP, Brazil), International Institute of Physics (IIP, Brazil), Côte d'Azur Observatory (OCA, France), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU, USA), University of Portsmouth (England), University of Heidelberg (Germany), University of Science and Technology of China (China), Université de Genève (Switzerland), Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics (Russia), Centro de Estudios Científicos (CECS, Chile).

​​Positions and scholarships​

Positions, when available, are detailed at APPLICATIONS. Scholarships are possible from different funding agencies. At most only eight high level  students per year are approved to enroll in PPGCosmo. The selection is based on an online interview together with the candidate's CV and reference letters.

Activities

PPGCosmo promotes diverse activities not only for its students.

Together in particular with the Center for Astrophysics and Cosmology of UFES (Cosmo-ufes), seminars, mini-courses, international meetings and outreach activities are periodically and intensely organized. 

For details, visit the Cosmo-ufes​ website. 

Events

Mini-courses

Outreach

Photo taken during an outreach presentation.

Journal: Cadernos de Astronomia
(in portuguese)

PPGCOSMO is organizing a new journal dedicated to research outreach

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Visit: https://periodicos.ufes.br/astronomia

Faculty in Brazil

Humberto Belich  (UFES)
Saulo Carneiro  (UFBA)
Marc Casals  (CBPF)
Júlio Fabris  (UFES)
Martin Makler  (CBPF)
Wiliam Hipólito-Ricaldi  (UFES)
Valerio Marra  (UFES)
Oliver Piattella  (UFES)
Nelson Pinto-Neto  (CBPF)
Davi Rodrigues  (UFES)
Ilya Shapiro  (UFJF)
Riccardo Sturani  (IIP)
Felipe Tovar  (CBPF)
Hermano Velten  (UFOP)

Faculty outside Brazil

Luca Amendola  (Heidelberg U., Germany)
Yi-Fu Cai  (University of Science and Technology of China)
Scott Dodelson  (CMU, USA)
Ruth Durrer  (Université de Genève, Switzerland)
José de Freitas Pacheco  (OCA, France)
Alexey Starobinsky  (L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russia)
David Wands​  (Portsmouth U., UK)
Jorge Zanelli  (Valdivia-CECs, Chile)

Organization

Coordinator: Júlio C. Fabris
Vice-coordinator: Hermano Velten
Secretary: Marcos R. Lucrecio

Contact: ppgcosmo@cosmo-ufes.org 

Correspondence: PPGCosmo, CCE, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo. Av. Fernando Ferrari, 514. 29075-910. Vitória, ES, Brazil.

Long term visiting professors

Martin Richarte

Winfried Zimdahl

See also previous postdocs.

PhD Students

Pedro Bessa

Guilherme Brando

David Camarena

Raquel Fazolo

Alex Ferreira

Tassia Ferreira

Alejandro Hernández- Arboleda

Rahima Mokeddem

Renan Oliveira

Tulio Ottoni

Eunice Omwoyo

Edison Santos

Paola Seidel

See also previous students.

Coursework

Here is a list of the available courses given by PPGCosmo. For a student be able to defend her/his thesis it is necessary to be approved at all the Basic and Specific courses as listed below (courses completed elsewhere with similar content can be considered). A number of Elective courses need to be completed before the thesis defense.

For the first postgraduate courses, the student will be mainly based in Vitória-ES. The students are expected to have the opportunity to visit other Brazilian participating institutions and, in particular, to spend up to one year at the co-advisor's foreign institution.

Basic	Specific	Elective
Quantum Mechanics Electromagnetism Statistical Mechanics	General Relativity I Cosmology I Astrophysics I Quantum Field Theory​	General Relativity II Cosmology II Astrophysics II Advanced topics without a fixed program.

Mailing lists

Seminars (open)

For anyone interested on news on our activities, including seminars, meetings, outreach and other news.

PPGCosmo Students

For the PPGCosmo students.

Cosmo-ufes

For the Cosmo-ufes members.

​Vitória, ES, Brazil

Vitória is the capital of the Espírito Santo state​. It is a human size city on the south east coast of Brazil, it is well connected and pleasant. 

The PhD students usually live at walking distance from both the UFES campus and the beach. The airport is also very close to the campus, just ten minutes by car.

Photo used under Creative Commons from Yuri Barichivich.