{"id":2695,"date":"2014-10-30T14:22:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T17:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbpmat.org.br\/?p=2695"},"modified":"2014-11-04T14:33:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T17:33:01","slug":"xiii-encontro-da-sbpmat-mais-de-2-000-trabalhos-apresentados-e-interacoes-em-diversos-idiomas-e-sotaques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sbpmat.org.br\/en\/xiii-encontro-da-sbpmat-mais-de-2-000-trabalhos-apresentados-e-interacoes-em-diversos-idiomas-e-sotaques\/","title":{"rendered":"13th SBPMat Meeting: about 2,000 works presented, and interactions in various languages and accents."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Partial view of the convention center during the meeting.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

About 1,650 people connected to research in Materials Science and Engineering and other related fields were at the “Poeta Ronaldo Cunha Lima\u201d Convention Center, in the city of Jo\u00e3o Pessoa (State of Para\u00edba), between September 28th<\/sup> and October 2nd<\/sup>, participating in the intense program of the 13th<\/sup> Meeting of the Brazilian Materials Research Society (SBPMat)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The number of attendees at this year’s annual event represented an increase of approximately 15% in comparison to the previous edition. Maintaining its international nature, the event featured entries from 20 countries of the most diverse regions of the planet, with a predominance of researchers from South America and Europe. Within Brazil, the five regions of the country were represented, with attendees from 23 states of the country, among the existing 27.<\/p>\n

The opening<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Opening panel: from the reader\u00b4s left, Jackson Lima, Claudio Furtado, Ieda Garcia, Roberto Faria e Jos\u00e9 A. Varela.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was already nighttime in the city of Jo\u00e3o Pessoa on Sunday, September 28, when Professor Roberto Faria, President of SBPMat, formally opened the event. \u201cThe meeting is opened\u201d, he declared facing the nearly 1,200 people gathered in the plenary room of the convention center. In addition to Professor Faria, the opening panel was composed by the chairs of the event, Professor I\u00eada Maria Garcia dos Santos and Severino Jackson Guedes Lima, both from the Federal University of Para\u00edba; the President of the Para\u00edba Research Foundation (FAPESQ-PB), Professor\u00a0Claudio Benedito Silva Furtado, and the CEO of the\u00a0S\u00e3o Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), Jos\u00e9 Arana Varela.<\/p>\n

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Jos\u00e9 Arana Varela in the Memorial Lecture Joaquim Costa Ribeiro.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After the opening ceremony, Professor Arana Varela delivered the Memorial Lecture \u201cJoaquim Costa Ribeiro\u201d, which is a distinction bestowed annually by SBPMat on a Brazilian researcher with an outstanding career in the field of Materials. The chosen scientist receives a plaque and presents a lecture at the beginning of the annual meeting of the society. The memorial lecture also pays homage, through its name, to one of the first Brazilian researchers who dedicated themselves to studying materials, engineer Joaquim Costa Ribeiro<\/a> (1906 \u2013 1960).<\/p>\n

Among various subjects connected to the evolution of Materials Science, such as the creation of several scientific societies in the world in the field of materials, Arana Varela presented data about the quantity and impact of the articles published by Brazilian authors in Materials Science. The graphics caught the attention of the public to show that, until the late 1990s, annual production in the field was below 400 articles, but exceeds 1,000 since 2012. By analyzing the relative impact of these publications, Arana Varela showed that Brazil has traveled a path not so constant, and that currently does not go through its best moment. “Now the challenge is to raise the international impact of the research conducted in Brazil,” said the lecturer<\/p>\n

Right after the lecture, the participants went to the foyer area and the VIP room, where they enjoyed the opening cocktail. In a celebratory mood, meetings occurred in several languages and with different accents, probably leading to new collaborations, ideas and friendships by the end of the event.<\/p>\n

About 2,000 works presented<\/strong><\/p>\n

Starting on Monday, plenary lectures by internationally renowned scientists opened up the morning and afternoon periods, followed by presentations of the accepted papers in the 19 thematic simultaneous symposia.<\/p>\n

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In 14 rooms, simultaneous presentations of the 19 symposia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In addition to 105 invited lectures given by scientists from Brazil and several other countries, about 2,000 works, including oral presentations and posters, were presented and discussed at the symposia. This \u201cuniverse\u201d included topics such as organic electronics, materials for nanomedicine, hybrid interfaces, surfaces and coatings, chemical methods, sol-gel processes, magnetic materials, luminescent materials, graphene, carbon, electroceramics, advanced metals, anti-fouling materials, clays, cementitious materials, computational simulations, energy storage systems and technology transfer.<\/p>\n

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Much scientific discussion in the poster sessions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The symposia at SBPMat meetings are selected from proposals that can be submitted to the event committee by any scientist from anywhere in the world. This edition of the event registered coordinators of symposia linked to universities, research institutes and companies, such as Petrobras, from the Southern, Southeastern and Northeastern regions of Brazil, as well as Argentina, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and USA.<\/p>\n

On the last day of the event, during the closing ceremony, the winners of the Bernhard Gross Award were announced. The award is granted by SBPMat to the best works of each symposium presented by undergraduate or graduate students, which represented 67% of the total attendees in this year\u2019s meeting. The award honors another pioneer researcher in the field of Materials in Brazil, the engineer and physicist Bernhard Gross<\/a> (1905 \u2013 2002). This year, twenty young scientists received the distinction for their works, conducted within their master’s, doctoral or undergraduate researches in Brazilian universities.<\/p>\n

A varied schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Coffee break and exhibition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

During the coffee breaks, it was hard to walk through the foyer, crowded with participants that, with coffee and a muffin or a sandwich in hand, visited the stands of the 30 exhibitors that were disclosing their scientific instruments, techniques, materials, services, projects and publications.<\/p>\n

Those interested in learning more about Shimadzu\/Tescan\u2019s SEM with TOF SIMS detector, or about Sample Preparation with DualBeam\u2122 and MET analysis by FEI had the opportunity to attend, right after a quick lunch and before the afternoon\u2019s plenaries, the technical lectures of these companies, sponsors of the meeting.<\/p>\n

This SBPMat meeting was also the stage for the disclosure of two important actions undertaken in the context of the society during 2014. The first one was the creation of four units of SPBMat\u2019s University Chapters Programme\u00a0in the states of Minas Gerais, Piau\u00ed and S\u00e3o Paulo. This program, intended for undergraduate and graduate students, gathered for the first time at the meeting held in Jo\u00e3o Pessoa. The second disclosure concerned the release of a document<\/a>\u00a0produced by the Institute of Physics (IOP) for SBPMat about Materials Science in Brazil, which was distributed firsthand to each of the participants of the 13th<\/sup> Meeting.<\/p>\n

Time to wrap it up…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Applause for the chairlady at the end.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Following the ceremony of the Bernhard Gross Award, the time to close formally SBPMat\u2019s 13th<\/sup> Meeting had come. Chairlady I\u00eada Garcia dos Santos presented a few of the event\u2019s numbers and went to the acknowledgements: she thanked the participants, the organizing team, the volunteers from universities from the states of Para\u00edba and Rio Grande do Norte that helped in the organization, the committees, symposium coordinators, speakers, sponsors, supporters and exhibitors. At that moment, SBPMat\u2019s President, Roberto Faria, spoke, expressing his gratitude to the coordinators of the event.<\/p>\n

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Announcement of the next SBPMat meeting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To finish it all, Professor Marco Cremona, coordinator of the society\u2019s next event, announced that the XIV SBPMat Meeting would be held in Rio de Janeiro, from September 27 to October 1 2015, at the SulAm\u00e9rica Convention Center \u2013 a space easily and quickly accessible from any neighborhood of the \u201cWonderful City\u201d.<\/p>\n

With the double joy of taking part in a beautiful event, and the perspective of a reunion in twelve months, the participants, organizers and speakers that were still at the convention center socialized around a series of regional delicacies that left a taste of sea in the mouth, perhaps intensifying the desire of many to spend this afternoon on the beautiful beaches of Para\u00edba.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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