Graduate Students and Post-Docs

Prof. Dr. Michael Forger

August 2015



Former Post-Docs

  1. Robert Sebastian Sachse - IME-USP, 03/1996 - 08/1997.
  2. Axel Peter Winterhalder - IME-USP, 05/1998 - 04/1999 and 09/1999 - 10/2002.
  3. Fernando Martins Antoneli Júnior - IME-USP, 06/2003 - 08/2003 and 09/2004 - 08/2006.


Former PhD Students

  1. Michel Jacques - PhD in Physics, Titles of theses:
    Théories de Jauge Supersymmétriques et Integrabilité Classique (Supersymmetric Gauge Theories and Classical Integrability) (main thesis),
    L'Algèbre de Symmétrie des Modèles Sigma à Valeurs dans un Espace Riemannien Symmétrique peut être obtenue par le Procédé de Réduction de Mikhailov (The Symmetry Algebra of the Sigma Models with Values in a Riemannian Symmetric Space can be obtained by the Reduction Method of Mikhailov) (supplementary thesis),
    Institute for Theoretical Physics, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, Date of final exam: 27.01.1987.
  2. Jürgen Laartz - PhD in Physics, Title of thesis:
    Zur Kanonischen und Integrablen Struktur Klassischer Nicht-Linearer Sigma-Modelle
    (On the Canonical and Integrable Structure of Classical Non-Linear Sigma Models),
    Faculty of Physics, Universität Freiburg, Date of final exam: 14.06.1993.
  3. Sandro Vieira Romero - PhD in Applied Mathematics, Title of thesis:
    Colchete de Poisson Covariante na Teoria Geométrica dos Campos (Covariant Poisson Bracket in Geometric Field Theory),
    Institute for Mathematics and Statistics, Universidade de São Paulo, Date of public defense: 29.06.2001.
  4. Fernando Martins Antoneli Júnior - PhD in Applied Mathematics, Title of thesis:
    Grupos Finitos e Quebra de Simetria no Código Genético (Finite Groups and Symmetry Breaking in the Genetic Code),
    Institute for Mathematics and Statistics, Universidade de São Paulo, Date of public defense: 24.01.2003.
  5. Mário Otávio Salles - PhD in Applied Mathematics, Title of thesis:
    Campos Hamiltonianos e Colchete de Poisson na Teoria Geométrica dos Campos
    (Hamiltonian Vector Fields and Poisson Bracket in Geometric Field Theory),
    Institute for Mathematics and Statistics, Universidade de São Paulo, Date of public defense: 22.10.2004.
  6. Leandro Gustavo Gomes - PhD in Applied Mathematics, Title of thesis:
    Estruturas Polissimpléticas e Multissimpléticas em Variedades e Fibrados
    (Polysymplectic and Multisymplectic Structures on Manifolds and Fiber Bundles),
    Institute for Mathematics and Statistics, Universidade de São Paulo, Date of public defense: 28.02.2007.
  7. Bruno Learth Soares - PhD in Applied Mathematics, Title of thesis:
    Simetrias Globais e Locais em Teorias de Calibre (Global and Local Symmetries in Gauge Theories),
    Institute for Mathematics and Statistics, Universidade de São Paulo, Date of public defense: 08.03.2007.
  8. Sandra Maria Zapata Yepes - PhD in Applied Mathematics, Title of thesis:
    Distribuições Lagrangianas e Conexões em Geometria Simplética Generalizada
    (Lagrangian Distributions and Connections in Generalized Symplectic Geometry),
    Institute for Mathematics and Statistics, Universidade de São Paulo, Date of public defense: 29.04.2011.
  9. Paola Andrea Gaviria Kassama - PhD in Applied Mathematics, Title of thesis:
    Subgrupos Maximais de Grupos de Lie Compactos e Quebra de Simetria no Código Genético
    (Maximal Subgroups of Compact Lie Groups and Symmetry Breaking in the Genetic Code),
    Institute for Mathematics and Statistics, Universidade de São Paulo, Date of public defense: 23.03.2012.
  10. Sebastian Javier Vidal - PhD in Applied Mathematics, Title of thesis:
    Operadores Diferenciais Globalmente Hiperbólicos (Globally Hyperbolic Differential Operators),
    Institute for Mathematics and Statistics, Universidade de São Paulo, Date of public defense: 03.10.2013.
  11. Luiz Henrique Pereira Pêgas - PhD in Applied Mathematics, Title of thesis:
    Grupoides de Lie e o Teorema de Noether na Formulação Lagrangiana da Teoria Clássica de Campos
    (Lie Groupoids and Noether’s Theorem in the Lagrangian Formulation of Classical Field Theory),
    Institute for Mathematics and Statistics, Universidade de São Paulo, Date of public defense: 12.09.2014.
  12. Bruno Tadeu Costa - PhD in Applied Mathematics, Title of thesis:
    Grupoides de Lie e o Teorema de Noether em Teoria de Campos no Âmbito Hamiltoniano
    (Lie Groupoids and Noether’s Theorem in Field Theory in the Hamiltonian Setting),
    Institute for Mathematics and Statistics, Universidade de São Paulo, Date of public defense: 24.04.2015.


Former MSc Students

  1. Johannes Kellendonk - Diploma in Physics, Title of dissertation:
    BRST-Kohomologie in der Klassischen Mechanik (BRST Cohomology in Classical Mechanics),
    Faculty of Physics, Universität Freiburg, Date of final exam: 09.03.1990.
  2. Bernd Rudolph - Diploma in Physics, Title of dissertation:
    Supermannigfaltigkeiten (Supermanifolds),
    Faculty of Physics, Universität Freiburg, Date of final exam: 30.10.1990.
  3. André Heidegger - Diploma in Physics, Title of dissertation:
    Nicht-lineare Sigma-Modelle mit Wess-Zumino-Term und Eichinvarianz
    (Non-Linear Sigma Models with Wess-Zumino Term and Gauge Invariance),
    Faculty of Physics, Universität Freiburg, Date of final exam: 27.11.1990.
  4. Fernando Martins Antoneli Júnior - Master in Applied Mathematics, Title of dissertation:
    Subalgebras Maximais das Álgebras de Lie Semisimples, Quebra de Simetria e o Código Genético
    (Maximal Subalgebras of Semisimple Lie Algebras, Symmetry Breaking and the Genetic Code),
    Institute for Mathematics and Statistics, Universidade de São Paulo, Date of public defense: 12.08.1998.
  5. Mário Otávio Salles - Master in Applied Mathematics, Title of dissertation:
    Integrabilidade do Fluxo Geodésico na Solução de Kerr (Integrability of the Geodesic Flow in the Kerr Solution),
    Institute for Mathematics and Statistics, Universidade de São Paulo, Date of public defense: 25.02.1999.
  6. Paola Andrea Gaviria - Master in Applied Mathematics, Title of dissertation:
    Subgrupos Maximais de Grupos de Lie Compactos (Maximal Subgroups of Compact Lie Groups),
    Institute for Mathematics and Statistics, Universidade de São Paulo, Date of public defense: 23.06.2006.
  7. Eder Santana Annibale - Master in Applied Mathematics, Title of dissertation:
    Espaços-Tempos Assintoticamente Planos (Asymptotically Flat Space-Times),
    Institute for Mathematics and Statistics, Universidade de São Paulo, Date of public defense: 02.03.2007.


Present Post-Docs

  1. Guilherme da Costa Pereira Innocentini - IME-USP, since 07/2012.


Present PhD Students

  1. Daniel Vasques Paulino – Applied Mathematics, since 01/2011.
  2. Rodrigo Augusto Higo Mafra Cabral - Applied Mathematics, since 03/2015.


Present MSc Students

  1. Raúl Quicaño Bellido - Applied Mathematics, since 03/2013.