Laboratories

A 300-square-meter wing in our department is of exclusive use for PPGF students. This area is equipped with offices, a large seminar/lecture room, and additional two classrooms for meetings. All graduate students are provided with office space suitable for the development of their research activities.    

Experimental physics laboratories

Physics research groups that compose PPGF have consistently received resources from funding agencies (both state-owned and federal institutions) that have been allowing the successful execution of projects. Naturally, those groups with emphasis on experiments are typically provided with larger sums, due to the elevated costs required by the acquisition of specialized equipment and their conservation. These resources have enabled our groups to maintain highly productive, cutting-edge scientific investigations and contributed to the qualification of both faculty and graduate students. Practically all projects are developed with the direct participation of Graduate and Scientific Initiation students. In parallel, our department physical space was expanded by about 70% with resources from a FINEP project, Program CT-Infra3/2020, which was completed in 2008. This ongoing growth in usable space has fulfilled past demands from theory groups while allowing throughout the last years the expansion of laboratories for the experimental groups. Recently, a new project CT-Infra from FINEP was approved, providing resources for an additional 1000-square-meter expansion. However, due to FINEP’s lack of resources, the expansion, completely designated to research labs, has been delayed. Even though the project has been opened for bids in 2014, the construction has had its beginning adjourned by successive years. The final bid was concluded in 2016. The new building area will be designated for research labs led by new professors, who were recently hired by the Physics Department and have experimental projects already financed by funding agencies.

Theoretical physics research
Researchers who work with Theoretical Physics occupy a building of about 800-square-meter of built area. The infrastructure provides offices for professors, postdocs, and visitors, a seminar room, and a Computational Physics Laboratory. The recent hiring of faculty in theoretical physics (although fewer compared to new experimental faculty) will also require a new expansion in facilities to better accommodate the newcomers, and supply them with adequate space to carry out their work.