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Prof. Alvaro Vannucci
I hold a professor and
researcher position at the Physics Institute
of the University of
São Paulo - Brazil, and I work full time at the Department of Applied
Physics. My published scientific papers can be found here.
Research Field:
After many years working in experimental Plasma
Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion, even developing and using Artificial Neural Networks to forecast the incoming of disruptive instabilities that occur during a
tokamak plasma discharge, my interests recently moved to investigating the High Diluted
Solutions and to the areas of Basic Physics (see an
interesting paper about the Lifter
– Asymmetric Flying Capacitor) and History of Science.
The Ultra
High Diluted Solutions have demonstrated to have physical
properties that are of much interest to the areas of Physics and to Medicine
(Homeopathy
– see some very interesting articles), in result to the natural
tendency H2O molecules have to group themselves into water clusters. An interesting paper that was published in the scientific journal “Materials
Research Innovations”, as result of a PhD thesis (in Portuguese), can be
found here (in English).
Lectures and other material that might
be of interest:
·
Electromagnetism I (in
construction) Lectures
given to the Physics students of the 3rd year.
·
Electromagnetism II Lectures given to the Physics students
of the 4th year (text and presentation formats)
·
Electricity and Magnetism II Lectures given to
the Physics students of the 2nd year.
·
Thermo-Statistics Lectures given to the Physics students
of the 3rd year.
·
Electromagnetism Lectures given to the Physics students of the 3rd
year.
·
Laboratory of Electromagnetism Lectures given to the Physics students of the 3rd
year
·
Physics
IV Lectures given to the Engineering students of the 2nd
year.
·
Physics of Heat -Thermodynamics Lectures given to
the Physics students of the 1st year.
§ Presentation about Plasma Physics, including
some animations, can be found here here.
§ Interesting site with simulations
in Physics can be accessed here.
Non-Academic Interests:
I am very much interested in studying the Spiritism philosophy as
originally proposed by Allan Kardec. The
way I understand, the spiritist (paranormal) phenomena
are produced in the very accordance to Natural Laws, which have not been
discovered or well understood yet by nowadays science. The main difficulty one
usually faces when trying to investigate this type of phenomena is that they
are not reproducible at all. This fact, however, did not prevent great
scientists as Sir William Crookes (see a very interesting book), Charles Richet (see a very interesting book) and Sir Oliver Lodge, or even
distinguished people as Arthur
Conan Doyle, (see very interesting book),
to get deeply involved with this fascinating subject.
How to contact me:
Prof. Alvaro Vannucci
Instituto de Física - Universidade de São Paulo
Rua do Matão, Travessa “R”, 187
São Paulo - CEP 05508-900 - SP
BRAZIL
Phone: (55)(11) 3091-6918 or (55)(11) 3091-7067
FAX: (55)(11)
3091-6749 or (55)(11) 3091-7014
Or by e-mail: vannucci@if.usp.br
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Last Update: January, 2016